Isha Foundation’s ‘Inner Engineering’ Program.
A Life-empowering Tool

By Mahadev Desai

Atlanta community is fortunate to avail of the life- enriching and empowering ‘Inner Engineering’ programs offered by the Isha Foundation, a non-profit, non-political and non-religious Organization, founded by world renowned visionary humanitarian,

	Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

yogi and mystic Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, who is also an author, poet and compelling speaker with wit and piercing logic. He has been a delegate to the United Nations Millennium Peace Summit and is also a member of the World Council of Religious Leaders. The basic purpose of Isha Foundation is to inspire, to stoke and to nurture the innate search in every being to tap and realize the ultimate potential within. The Foundation has over 150 centers worldwide and over a quarter million volunteers. The Isha Yoga Center is located on 150 acres of lush land at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, India. It houses Spanda Hall and gardens, and a 64,000 Sq.feet Meditation Hall. Also located at the Center are the Isha Rejuvenation Center, Isha Home School and a Yogic hospital. The residential facilities house an international community of full- time volunteers, guests and visitors. Through Action for Rural Rejuvenation, a social outreach program, it offers free Mobile Health clinics, libraries, computer centers, Yoga classes, gymnasiums, playgrounds, and herbal gardens and also stages ‘Rural Olympics’. Through The Vanashree-Eco-Center and Project Green Hands, it conducts mass tree plantation programs and cleaning campaigns and as well as promotes wildlife preservation.

One of the three dedicated and committed teachers of ‘Inner Engineering ‘program, 26 year old Sheela Rajdev will be conducting the next Program in Atlanta in January 2008. She was born in

Sheela Rajdev

Portland, Oregon. Her parents, also deeply committed to Isha Foundation, dad, an Engineer and mom, a physician are from Detroit, MI and are currently residing in Tennessee, fully engaged in the activity at the ashram. Soft spoken, composed and articulate Sheela graduated with a degree in Biology and like her parents immersed herself fully in Isha Yoga. She underwent three years of intensive, full-time, residential training at the Isha Yoga Center in India and is a qualified teacher who can impart authentic training of the highest standard in its full depth and dimension. In the U.S. there are 17 centers and over 3,000 volunteers. Sheela travels widely in the U.S. as well as in India and neighboring countries, teaching Yoga, lecturing at hospitals, Universities and schools, and supporting the social initiatives undertaken by Isha Foundation. She waxes eloquently on the benefits of yoga. “With yoga and meditation, so many things have changed within me that I just want to share this possibility with everyone.”
Speaking about the upcoming program, she quoted Sadhguru, “As we have a physical science to create external well being, there is a whole inner dimension of science to create inner well being. I call it Inner Engineering” The approach is a modern antidote to stress, and presents simple but powerful processes from yogic science to purify the system and increase health and inner well being. Program components include guided meditations and transmission of the sacred Shambhavi Maha Mudra. When practiced on a regular basis, these tools have the potential to enhance one's experience of life on many levels.
The three main benefits can be summarized as below:
Health
· Optimize health and vitality
· Reduce stress
· Promote mental clarity and emotional balance
· Increase and maintain high energy levels throughout the day
· Reduce sleep & rest quota
· Prevent chronic diseases like Asthma, Allergies, Sinusitis, Hypertension, Diabetes, Obesity, Rheumatism, Arthritis, Epilepsy, Back pain, Skin and eye ailments, Migraine
Performance
· Increase ability to handle stressful situations
· Enhance focus, concentration & memory
· Raise productivity and efficiency
· Improve communication & inter-human relationships
· Maintain optimum levels of performance throughout the day
Experience
· Establish a positive & open approach towards life
· Evaluate personal values and life goals
· Generate inner peace and fulfillment
· Transcend limitations and fears
· Live & experience each moment to the fullest
In fostering understanding of their interiority, participants gain powerful tools to cope with the hectic pace of modern life and move into a new plane for living and working. Inner Engineering empowers participants to begin experiencing their lives to the fullest potential.
The Program includes the transmission of a simple but powerful daily practice called “Shambhavi Maha Mudra”. Shambhavi is an ancient yogic kriya (internal energy process), offered at the Program. The program is open to anyone over 16, and is tailored to suit individuals from every social and cultural background . The next seven day program, from Wednesday, January 9 to Tuesday 15, 2008 will be at the Holiday Inn, Doraville, 2001 Clearview Av., Atlanta, GA 30340. The fees for the program will be $260.
Those interested are requested to contact ritvaporter@aol.com.  For more information on the Isha Foundation, please go to www.ishafoundation.org