A Living Lineage
Every practice shared in this space flows from an unbroken line of transmission — from the first yogi, through the sages who carried it across the world, to the classical form preserved today at the Sadhguru Gurukulam. This is the source of what is taught here.
Adiyogi & the Seven Sages
In the yogic tradition, yoga did not begin as exercise. Over fifteen thousand years ago — as Sadhguru tells it — Shiva, known not as a god but as Adiyogi, the first yogi, attained his full enlightenment and danced in ecstasy across the Himalayas. On the banks of Kanti Sarovar, a lake above Kedarnath, he turned south and began pouring the science of yoga into seven devoted seekers.
Over many years the transmission was complete, and those seven became fully realised beings — the Sapta Rishis, the seven celebrated sages. Into each one Adiyogi placed a different dimension of yoga, and sent them in seven directions to carry this inner science to the world. Every genuine school of yoga alive today traces back to that first transmission.
Sadhguru
Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic and founder of the Isha Foundation — a human-service organisation supported by millions of volunteers worldwide. For him, yoga is not a belief or a workout, but a precise technology for human wellbeing, offered in its full depth.
Through Isha he has made it his mission to bring classical yoga — in its pure, original form — within reach of the modern seeker, and to train a generation of teachers who can carry it faithfully, exactly as it has been handed down.
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Classical Hatha Yoga — Sadhguru Gurukulam
The Sadhguru Gurukulam is the residential school where classical Hatha Yoga is preserved and transmitted in its traditional, undiluted form. Its Hatha Yoga Teacher Training is an extraordinary immersion: 21 weeks of residential practice — over 1,750 hours — at the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, India.
Here Hatha Yoga is taught not as a set of postures but as a precise inner science — Surya Kriya, Surya Shakti, Angamardana, Yogasanas, Bhuta Shuddhi and more — each practice offered exactly as it has been handed down, so that it can be passed on with the same integrity and safety.
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The 2017 Batch — 148 Teachers
From 9 July to 3 December 2017, 148 seekers from around the world completed the 21-week Hatha Yoga Teacher Training at the Sadhguru Gurukulam. I was one of them.
Those months of pre-dawn sadhana, silence and relentless practice are the ground beneath everything I teach today. What I offer here is not my interpretation of yoga — it is this lineage, carried carefully from Coimbatore to Mississauga, and shared with you exactly as it was given to me.
The same practices. The same lineage. Shared here, in Mississauga.
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