He taught Patanjali's Yoga-sutras first time at the early age of 9.

Impressed by his extraordinary scholarship at the early age of 13-14, several prominent scholars published articles in praise of him and that started his career as a travelling lecturer. He was known for his competency to lecture instantly, without prior notice, on any mantra of the four Vedas. At that age he lectured extensively in colleges and universities. In North India, thousands of people attended his lectures.

Since February 1947, he has been travelling and promulgating the Yogic and Vedic knowledge in numerous countries for the past 59 years.

He has access to 17 languages with varying degrees of Fluency. He leads students into meditative avenue in their own languages such as Spanish, Italian, and French. He learnt Italian in one night by fusing the language with the yoga-nidr129; state. His expertise in all philosophical and meditative traditions of the world enables him to instruct students in accordance with their own religio-philosophical background.

He guides yoga and meditation groups in 30 countries from all continents. It is not unusual for him to settle up to a hundred thousand meditators into meditation within a few minutes.

Scholars of yoga philosophy all over the world esteem his two-volume 1300 pages comprehensive commentary on the first two chapters of Patanjali's Yoga-sutras as the most authentic. Some scholars equate him with Vijn129;na-bhikshu, a famous Vedantic-Yogi commentator on the Yoga-sutras in the 16th century.

He acquired his academic degrees [B.A. (Honors) (London), M.A. (London), Dr.Litt. (Holland), F.R.A.S.] in merely two years (1965-1967) from European universities. Known as a scholar-saint, he held the post of Sanskrit Professor in a prestigious American university. As a research guide he has guided many scholars in their high level research in numerous fields.

A published poet in English, he is a prolific writer with 13 books and 30 booklets to his credit.

In 1969, he was initiated into the subtlest state of mediation by his teacher Swami Rama of the Himalayas, who is famous for his Living with the Himalayan Masters and 45 other books. That same year, he founded "The Meditation Center" in Minneapolis, USA.

In late 1981, he was appointed as the head of the Rishikesh Ashram (India), his guru's seat. Since his master's maha-samadhi (passing) in November 1996, he continues to enlighten the hearts and minds of thousands of aspirants by leading them into deep meditation.

In recent years he has been deeply involved in the neurophysiology of meditative states in a number of highly recognized research laboratories in several continents.

In 2002, he founded the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in Rishikesh, which also houses the headquarters of The Association of Himalayan Yoga Meditation Societies International ( servig as a centre for Swami Veda's global network) as well as Swami Rama Dhyana Gurukulam also known as Swami Rama Institute of Meditation and Interfaith Studies under the auspices of Dhyana Mandiram Trust.

Because of his mastery of various religions and numerous languages, he has been active in internationally established interfaith activities and conferences.

With all of the above undertakings, he has also maintained a life of giving charitable assistance to the needy in various ways.

In addition to being the Founder-guide of Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama, he has held the position of president of Swami Rama's Ashram since 1982 (except for the period of 1988-96), and as spiritual guide to the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust since 1995.

Born 17th February, 1941 (in Tibet)

The eldest child of a family of four sons and one daughter, recognized as the incarnation of previous Doboom Tulku at the age of three by Ven. Lama Phurchog Jamgon Rinpoche.

Brought to the hermitage in Tehor province, near the Dhargye Monastery in eastern Tibet where previous incarnation lived.

Formal education initiated at the age of seven, comprising reading and memorizing Buddhist scriptures under a private tutor at the hermitage and Dhargye Monastery.

At the age of twelve, went to Lhasa to enter the Drepung Monastery, the biggest in Tibet. Studied mainly Buddhist Philosophy for six years, until 1959.

Fled to India from Tibet during the uprising of 1959, lived in a transit camp for Lamas at Buxa, West Bengal, India. Continued studies there until 1969.

In 1969, joined the Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath, then under the auspices of Sanskrit University, Varanasi, studied Buddhist philosophy for three years and received Geshe-Acharya degree in 1972.

Appointed as Librarian at Tibet House, New Delhi in 1972; worked for one and half years.

At the end of 1973, joined the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, H. P. as Librarian and research assistant, main responsibility was to supervise cataloguing and to evolve a proper classification system for Tibetan texts. Also, involved in translation and editing.

In 1977, joined the Private Office of H. H. the Dalai Lama as Secretary, dealing mainly with Tibetan correspondence. Worked for about five years, during which time accompanied His Holiness the Dalai Lama on visits to Japan, USSR, Mongolia, Switzerland, Greece and USA.

Since 1981 to till date, Director of Tibet House, Cultural Centre of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi. Working for promotion of Tibetan cultural heritage to a wide audience through a diverse range of programmes at Tibet House.

In 1996, appointed by His Holiness as Director of His Foundation for Universal Responsibility established with the Nobel Peace Prize money as its initial corpus fund to work for universal harmony and well-being.

On 9th May 1999, awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Buddhist Studies by the Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University (MBU) of Bangkok.

Since 1997 onwards pursued a project of World Festival of Sacred Music which ushered in the third millennium under the auspices of Tibet House and Foundation for Universal Responsibility. It became a worldwide event with festivals taking place at several venues on the different continents. In October 1999, the first festival took place in Los Angeles, the Global event at Bangalore in April 2000 and it successfully concluded in Berlin in December 2001.

As of now, engaged in various Inter Cultural and Intra Buddhist dialogue activities at a Global level.

Muzaffar Ali, essentially a painter and filmmaker deeply inspired by Sufism has developed a discerning eye and vision for aesthetics and humanity. He has established an in depth admiration for his creativity all over the world and follows his creative pursuits without compromise ~ music, fashion, craft, design.

Driven by a sense of beauty and oneness of the human race, he dreams of a world in which love becomes a reigning concern... he dreams of the human condition in relationship to nature and believes that humility in art can become a vehicle for holistic emancipation of mankind. He is constantly looking for friends in this journey to share his vision and help society and in the process bring peace and health to themselves, and thereby perpetuate a larger movement.

He has followed his heart in the journey of his life as an artist; he has been drawn towards human helplessness which became the inspiration and theme for his art. His ongoing quest for beauty has slowly drawn him towards the Sufi path of love. He has woven his way through cities and cultures and his life and art have become mirror to one another.

Known the world over by his film Umrao Jaan, the name of Muzaffar Ali to all those who know him, spells a quest for beauty and excellence, humanity and aesthetics.

Today he is instrumental in spearheading a movement in upgrading the arts, craft and culture of this fabled city with a keen sense of detailing and style, making it known to the entire world in the name of Kotwara. His house in Qaiser Bagh is a throbbing nucleus of design and a living museum of art and craft. The talent of the city gravitates here for inspiration.

Born on 21st October 1944, Muzaffar Ali is the present Raja of Kotwara, one of the oldest living civilizations in the largest district of Awadh. His father Raja Syed Sajid Husain, M.A. from Edinburgh University was a very progressive individual. He was the member of the Legislative Assembly MLA from Kotwara from 1936 to 1952, was also the Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh State Assembly for one term. He died in 1991 as Chairman of the Indian Humanist Union.

Muzaffar Ali grew up amidst an environment of turmoil and change. Partition and abolition of the Zamindari, both had a deep impact on the milieu in which he grew.

He studied in La Martinere College, Lucknow. While he underwent the upheavals of the changing social situation, he began getting involved in painting as a child. In 1966 he graduated from Aligarh Muslim University in Geology, Botany and Chemistry. The impact of the thought provoking poetry of its time in the early sixties made an indelible impact on his mind. Poets like Rahi Masoom Raza, Javed Kamal, Khalilurahman Azmi and Shahryar of Aligarh and national and sub-continental poets like Mahkdoom Mohiuddin and Faiz Ahmad Faiz formed his romantic, revolutionary and philosophical psyche.

He began his early working career in Calcutta in 1966 with Clarion Mc Cann Advertising Services, in which Satyajit Ray used to work as an Art Director. Muzaffar Ali was introduced to Calcutta by a close friend, the famous poet Subhas Mukhopadhyaya and it was here that his mind opened to the idea of using film as a medium of social comment and artistic expression. The same medium of films, which had conveyed an ethos of cultural degradation, began to be seen as a tool of cultural emancipation. In 1968 he had his one man show of paintings at the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta .

After a short spell in Delhi, at Advertising and Sales Promotion Co. where he handled tourism publicity, he moved to Mumbai, to work with Air India as no. 2 in the Publicity Department.

In Air - India, Muzaffar Ali had a very successful term of 10 years. It broadened his vision, promoted India abroad through its arts, crafts and culture, set up a department promoting international conferences in India. This included conceptualizing and setting up of an international conference centre and hotel in Srinagar in Kashmir. This is the present Centaur Lake View Hotel and the government owned Sher-e-Kashmir Conference Centre, of which he is on the Board of Governors.

In 1972, Muzaffar Ali exhibited his collages at Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai.

His first feature film Gaman was made in 1978 which received the special award of the jury, a Silver Peacock at the 7th International Film Festival, New Delhi.

In 1981 he resigned from Air India to complete his most acclaimed film Umrao Jaan and to fully devote his time to films and art. Umrao Jaan received several awards at the 29th National Film Festival including Best Music, Best Actress, and Best Female Playback Singer. Along with this it received the prestigious Filmfare Award for Best Director and Music. Umrao Jaan continues to evoke interest in international film circles as a land mark film and has been invited to open and be part of retrospectives at Locarno, Pompidou and Izola. From July to September 2005, it will be screened at the "Indian Visions" , Museum Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome.

In 1982 Muzaffar Ali entered the field of documentary and short films, mainly centered on Awadh, craft, culture, exploitation of women and Sufism.

Having left Air - India, Muzaffar Ali realized that painting expressed a more intimate form of aesthetics and in 1983 he exhibited a series of collages at the Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai.

In 1983, the then Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi appointed Muzaffar Ali on a National Committee for software development for the newly opened satellite TV in India.

In 1986 he made Anjuman, a feature film on the chikan craftswomen of Lucknow. The film was shown in the Indian panorama, at the National Film Festival, New Delhi. It was invited to International Film Festivals in Vancouver, Teheran, Cairo and Mauritius. Most recently it was screened at the Lincoln Centre Festival, New York in 2002.

In 1988, waiting to complete Zooni (one of his major films), shot both in English and Hindi, he set up a studio in Delhi and began painting a series of collages that were reminiscent of the valley. These were exhibited in 1990 in Gallery Carma, New Delhi along with craft he had designed in his studio in Kashmir. His works of art, collages, craft design and fashion were exhibited in May 1991 at the Gallery La Fayatte in Paris as part of the Festival of India.

After creating an international impact with his work, in 1991 Muzaffar Ali turned back to his roots in Kotwara and Lucknow, where most of his films were shot. He came back with a different motivation. This time it was not only film but to realize in life what most of his films were all about, to return the inspiration of the people in the form of development and livelihood .

Based on the inspiration and message of his first film Gaman migration from rural to urban centres, Muzaffar Ali began a movement Dwar Pe Rozi to provide employment at doorstep through craft with a special emphasis on silk plantation of mulberry, rearing of worms, reeling and weaving , embroidery and styling. DPR as a registered society also runs a charitable school in Kotwara for the children of that area with an emphasis on rural employment.

Furthermore, his interest in craft and clothes, through his mother and the way he used them in Umrao Jaan, Anjuman and Zooni, motivated him to design clothes with the help of his architect wife Meera. The collection is known all over the country and the world as Kotwara which evokes a bygone era known for its finesse in style and craftsmanship. Acceptance of his work in a contemporary setting gives him strength to perpetuate this movement.

Jashn e Awadh was Muzaffar Ali's tribute to Awadh’s unique traditional attire, cuisine, tehzeeb- the Ganga Jammuni culture of Awadh for Taj Mahal Group of Hotels. This slide and live show with the music and poetry of Awadh was held at Taj Mahal Hotels at Lucknow, Mumbai and Delhi between October to November 1996.

Muzaffar Ali is actively involved in the promotion and conservation of the culture and craft of Awadh, individually as an artist and as active member of INTACH , Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, of which he was also member of the Governing Council.

On 12th February 2000 he concluded his ninth one-man show of sketches and collages at Art Today, New Delhi. This was followed by Jaam e Ishq, a dance ballet as an inaugural event for the World Presidents Organization. He is presently working on an exhibition of Quranic calligraphy collages and sketches for the Middle East in 2001.

On 7th November 2000 he presented Tajjalli, an Indo Iranian Sufi Music Concert in collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This concert was a blend of Indian dancers, singers and musicians with singers and musicians from Iran, one complimenting the other highlighting their similarities and differences. This concert was a creative effort to synthesize and present three diverse yet similar genres of musical expression namely the Kashmiri, the Awadhi, and the Iranian Sufi renditions of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi and Hazrat Amir Khusrau. The concert was presented as a light spectacle, moving through various Maqaams (stations) of the soul and ending in a dance of surrender.

To commemorate 50 years of Independence and the partition he created music album entitled Paigham e Mohabbat, The Message of Love with Abida Parveen singing Indian poets and Indian singers singing the verses of poets from across the border. Spiritual poetry of submission and surrender began to attract him. He created an album of Sufi Ghazal with Abida Parveen, entitled Raqs e Bismil, the Dance of the Wounded.

From 2001 he initiated an annual international Sufi Music Festival, Jahan e Khusaru, in Delhi, dedicated to the 13th century mystic poet Hazrat Amir Khusrau. In this festival singers and musicians from different parts of the world and India participate creating a new genre of world Sufi music.

In 2004 he created a Rumi Foundation with a vision to promote Global Oneness, bridging the east west divide.

Swami Chidatmananda is presently Aacharya (Teacher in Charge) of Chinmaya Mission Hyderabad and Regional Head of Andhra Pradesh, India. Inspired by Pujya Gurudev, H.H.Swami Chinmayanandaji, he joined Sandeepany Sadhanalaya in Mumbai in 1989 under the tutelage of H.H Swami Purushottamanandaji.

In 1991 he was posted as the Acharya to the mission center at Hyderabad, and was initiated into Brahmacharya Deeksha by Pujya GURUDEV SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA JI in 1993,and was initiated into Sannyasa Diksha in 1999 by H.H Swami Tejomayanandaji (the present Spiritual Head of Chinmaya Mission worldwide). Swami Chidatmananda is a Law graduate from Osmania University.

Swamiji has toured widely internationally for the past several years - USA, Canada, UK, France, Oman - and has endeared himself to a variety of audiences with his philosophy lectures and meditation sessions.

Janet Attwood combines a unique blend of spirituality and practical, useful knowledge that can be put to use immediately. Her passion and focus is supporting people, in every part of the world, in knowing their personal greatness.

Janet is the co-founder of the online transformational magazine in the world, Healthy Wealthy nWise. Twice a month, Janet hosts Healthy Wealthy n Wise's Passions of Real Life Legends series and interviews people who are at the top of their field on what it takes to live a passionate, fulfilling life.  Her guests have included such legendary names as Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey, Byron Katie, and Rhonda Byrne creator of The Secret.

Janet is the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Passion Test- The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Destiny, and co-author of From Sad to Glad: 7 Steps to Facing Change with Love and Power.

As an expert on what it takes to live a passionate life, she has presented her programs as a featured speaker to thousands of people at events like T. Harv Eker's Wealth and Wisdom conference, The Kaballah Center, Jack Canfields Success Programs, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen's Enlightened Millionaire conferences, the International Festival of Yoga, in Rishikesh, India, and others.

Janet is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of world class trainers, authors, coaches and speakers that Jack Canfield, the co-author of the Chicken Soup Series, put together after taking Janet's Passion Test.

Janet's latest passion is working with homeless women in transition and youth in detention Centers.

Just recently she created a dvd series titled, The Empowered Women Series that is being distributed to homeless shelters across the U.S. The series features such luminaries as, Byron Katie, Lynne Twist, Marci Shimoff, Lisa Nichols, and others. Her Empowered Teen Series for youth in detention centers, is almost completed, which includes, John Assaraff, Byron Katie, and others.

For her ongoing work with homeless women and youth in detention centers, Janet recently received the highest award for volunteer service in the U.S., The Presidents Volunteer Service Award.

You can learn more about Janet by going to:
www.thepassiontest.com
www.janetattwood.com
www.healthywealthynwise.com
www.enlightenedalliances.com

An young boy dreamed to become Anthony Robins who is the World's Peak Performance Coach and started training people. When he reached 12 years age he obtained the degree of Microsoft Certificate Professional. Sneh is an expert motivator and the leader for businessman, employees, student etc. He authored many Self- Development books and cds which he teaches in a weekend workshops. Sneh talks about activating the hidden potential of human beings. He also talks about angels and invisible guides who assist us in every phase of our life. Solving one's problems, uplifting oneself spiritually are important advantages of trusting our Sub-Conscious Mind.

To use every spare moment available in leveraging the acquired and researched skills and knowledge in Accupressure and other alternate therapies ( Foot Reflexology,Auricular Therapy, Reiki, Meditation, Oil Therapy, Honey Therapy, Body Balancing Techniques, Pyramid Healing etc.) for the benefit of humankind through treatments, training and talks, and perpetuate the process by establishing a unique health farm institution for the posterity.This is his mission.He treated more than 65,000 patients suffering from various ailments in more than 23 countries.

Swami Smaranananda Giri is the General Secretary of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, founded by Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda in 1917.  The Society is involved in various spiritual, humanitarian, and charitable activities, but primarily involved in the spread of Kriya Yoga teachings of Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda in the Indian sub-continent.

  A Post-Doctoral Fellow from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a Ph. D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from I.I.T., Kharagpur, Swamiji joined the Yogoda Satsanga Society as a sannyasi in 1985.  Working under the guidance of Sri Sri Daya Mata (the President and Sanghmata of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship), Swamiji has spent over twenty years, serving and meditating, in the Ashrams of Paramahansa Yoganandaji. 

Dr. H.T. Gangal is an ex. Hon.Surgeon to the President of India. He is also former Hon. Professor of Surgery Kasturba Medical College, Hubli. He is a Post Doctral fellow in the Cardio-Vascular surgery, Baylor College of Medicine , Texas U.S.A. He is also a Member of policy development of Science and Technology, Govt. of Karnataka, Bangalore. His innovations in the fields of Surgery, Regenerative and Reconstructive Medicine and Surgery is remarkable. Here he is going to enlighten us about the neuro hormonal changes in the body due to disturbances of the mind. By changing the Psychological and Emotional attitudes and adopting a Holistic approach to health will actually cause reversal process of the disease process and the regeneration of the damaged parts of the body. Let us all rejuvenate and regenerate our bodies.

Dr.Yugandhar is a General Surgeon, a Psycho-Spiritual therapist and a Work Shop Trainer.TRANSFORMATIONAL MEDICINE under which banner he included and devised many methods actually cause Transformation of Mind and Life leading to Self-Realization thus putting an end to all diseases and suffering. He is the originator of workshop culture called CMSE's {Continued Medico-Spiritual Education} in which Pioneers of Medico-Spiritual world are invited to train the people in different aspects of Medical and Spiritual Science. He is Founder Editor of a Bi-Monthly Transformational Magazine named NEW WORLD which is available Online at www.newworldmag.com. He is also Founder Secretary of a New Age Doctors Association (NADA). In this Session he is going to enlighten us on the secrets behind the DHARMA CHAKRA existing in the Indian National Flag. The 24 spokes of the Dharma Chakra stand for the 24 Qualities of the Wiseman.

Since many centuries Medical and Spiritual Sciences have been contradicting and quarrelling with each other. The persistent cold war is coming to an end with the wise initiatives taken by many Spiritualised Medical Men across the world. As a part of the Synergy and Synthesis that is going on we have a joined in the activity of kindling the love affair between these two sciences, like cupids holding the caduceus, to transform the age long hatred into an ever lasting love finally culminating into a marriage between the Medical and Spiritual Sciences termed as CMSE (Continued Medico-Spiritual Education) programme.

"NEVER GIVE UP"

An activity is taken up by an individual when his aims and objectives are fuelled by his sincerity and enthusiasm.

An ordinary person stops his activity at the incipient stages when the initial threats are met.

A stronger man pursues it, crossing over the initial hurdles and moves forward. But, unfortunately, many a time he becomes blind either with the progress which comes as a blessing or with the obstacles that come across on the way which appear to be too big to cross over. So as a sequel, he weakens his intent and stops continuing it further.

A Master however reaches his goal with unbending intent, witnessing all the crests and troughs and understanding that they are very, very natural in any activity that is taken up.

So,the principle is "keep hitting on the same nail-to until the nail goes in totally" "One should be as careful in the end as in the beginning" says Lao tzu. Many people, most of the times, fail at the 99th step. A little patience, a little change in attitude makes the whole difference. 

"Never give up" is the slogan of any Master

Former Director of Central Bureau of Investigation A man of magnanimous personality, D. R. Kaarthikeyan, is well known for his amazing Life List; of accomplishments. He has held many prestigious positions in the democratic framework of our country. He was the Chief of Investigation of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Director-General of Central Reserve Police Force, Director of the prestigious Central Bureau of Investigation and Director General of National Human Rights Commission. In addition to his professional achievements he has also authored a bestseller "Triumph of Truth-Rajiv Gandhi Assassination-The investigation". He says, Spirituality, after all, is not just about rituals and visits to places of worship, but about character building, imparting of values, responsibility, caring and sharing.;

A spiritual mentor for some, A Yoga Guru to others... Bharat Thakur is an internationally renowned spiritual master.

Bharat Thakur has conducted numerous meditation workshops, yoga training sessions for groups and individuals, corporate yoga workshops all over the world. He is also the founder of Artistic Yoga which has opened yoga studios or yoga centres and conducts workshops, group classes and private classes in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Moscow and Dubai.

He was chosen by his master, Sukhdev Brahmachari at the age of four and taken to the Himalayas. For16 years, he experienced life under tne watchful eyes of his guru. Under the guidance of his master, he studied yoga intensively - the various forms of yoga Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Karma Yoga, Kundalini Yoga and the various other elements like Pranayama (breathing techniques), Asanas (yoga postures) and Dhyana (meditation).

Along with this, he learnt related areas such as Ayurveda, Tantra, and Mantra. He also studied Sufism, Jainism, and Buddhism, and then returned from the Himalayas to step into normal education.

He finished his graduation and subsequently his post-graduation in Exercise Physiology and Yoga from the Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education, Gwalior. He is the author of 7 books, Yoga For All, Yoga For Stress Relief, Yoga For Weight Loss, Yoga For Family, Yoga for Flat Abs, Yoga for BackAche Relief and a collection of poetry, Truth: The Art of The Mystics;.

Adapting ancient yoga techniques and yoga postures to suit contemporary lifestyle requirements, Bharat Thakur founded Artistic Yoga. This form of yoga is an experimental yet extremely powerful system of Yoga that requires no beliefs. It has already improved and changed people's lives in powerful, subtle and unexpected ways.

Bharat Thakur's Artistic Yoga runs yoga studios, workshops, group and private classes in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Moscow and Dubai.

Dr. P.S.R Murthy fondly known to his admirers and followers as Swami Maitreya belongs to a lineage of many spiritual masters of India. He had almost 21 Gurus from various fields like Hathayoga , Buddhism, Zen, Sufism, Tantra, Hassidism, Vipassana etc. and has taken the essence of these systems and established his own methodology. He made significant contributions in the fields of Yoga Philosophy, Psychology and Therapy. He adopts a combination of both Ancient and Western systems in achieving human excellence. In this session Swami Maitreya is going to talk on What and Whatnots , Why and Whynots , How & Hownots of Mediation. The process of Meditation, the Meditative state of mind & the benefits of Meditation etc. are going to be described elaborately.

People try to create an outwardly perfect life but quality of life is based on the inward;-Sadhguru

Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serve as a reminder that yoga is not an esoteric discipline from an outdated past, but a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Probing, passionate and provocative, deeply insightful, devastatingly logical and unfailingly witty, Sadhguru's talks have earned him the reputation of a speaker and opinion-maker of international renown.

With speaking engagements that take him around the world, he is widely sought after by prestigious global forums to address issues as diverse as human rights, business values, social, environmental and existential issues. He has been a delegate to the United Nations Millennium Peace Summit, a member of the World Council of Religious Leaders, as well as a special invitee to the Australian Leadership Retreat, Tallberg Forum and the World Economic Forum at Davos in 2006 and 2007. Listeners have been ubiquitously impressed by his astute and incisive grasp of current issues and world affairs, as well as his unerringly scientific approach to the question of human well being.

Sadhguru is also the founder of Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the well-being of the individual and the world. Isha Foundation does not promote any particular ideology, religion, or race, but transmits inner sciences of universal appeal.

Following Sadhguru's vision, the Foundation is engaged in initiating multitudes into the science of inner well-being, helping them to realize their ultimate potential within. The Foundation has also set up several outreach projects for the socially disadvantaged, serving as models for rural upliftment, education reform, holistic and healthy living, and environmental stewardship, such as Action for Rural Rejuvenation, Isha Vidhya, Project Green Hands, Isha AIDS Awareness Campaign and Inner Freedom for the Imprisoned. In addition, it has pioneered several renowned initiatives for world peace.

Under his guidance and vision, Isha Foundation works in over 3,500 villages setting a role model for rural reform. A 100 % voluntary organization, Isha volunteers also set the world Guinness Record  last year for planting the maximum number of saplings in a single day by planting more than 8.5 lacs saplings under the Project Green Hands.

For more information on Isha Foundation and its social outreach projects please visit www.ishafoundation.org, www.ruralrejuvenation.org , www.projectgreenhands.org

Dr.Cosima-Klinger Paul, who was born in Salzburg, Austria in the year 1958, studied Psychology and the Western Astrology for a period of 25 years. During her spiritual journey she was initiated into Shamanism by a Shaman Don Eduardo de Cauldron in 1984 and became a Shamanistic Counsellor by 2003. She also undertook kriya Yoga at Vienna and also researched in Dreams, Symbolism & Trance. She had been to many Power Places of the world. Oracle lake of Tibet, Ayers Rock of Australia and Sahara Desert of the Northern Africa are a few to mention. Shaman is a person who enters into an altered state of Consciousness by using monotonous sounds like Drumming, Rattling or Singing to access the hidden information. Travelling out of Time & Space is possible to reach the so-called Non-Ordinary Realities through their Visualisation methods. Personal Energisation and solving one's day to day problems, Astral Travel experiences are some of the various benefits of Shamanistic Practices. In this session she is actually going to take audience into the Shamanistic Journey.

John Andrews M.D.fondly called as Dr.Amrito is an English-trained physician who specialized originally in internal medicine before studying meditation as a basis for exploring holistic approaches to well being.

He has spent many years in India and the United States working and learning in an environment where awareness was understood to be an essential ingredient of a healthy lifestyle. Where the focus was not on illness but on health in all its many different aspects. He served as Director of the Academy of Healing Arts at the Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune, India, for many years, and where he remains part of the management team. This campus is currently one of the world's largest personal growth and meditation centers in the world. In this environment work is approached as an opportunity for the individual to grow, with the understanding that this approach supports the kind of creativity, imagination and above all, innovation that the modern company depends on for long term growth.

He is currently applying hypnotherapy in this setting as a means of helping to free up the natural creative abilities that so often remain stuck in an individual, allowing us all to appreciate that our so called problems; are really just misunderstandings. He has studied with several of America's leading figures in this field.

In addition he has written widely on the application of meditation to both the health of the individual and the health of companies and the wider society in general. In particular, he wrote, The Choice is Ours, an extension of this same approach to holistic living that also include the ecological aspects of planetary health. He has coordinated a multilingual website on meditation for the last twelve years.

He is also director of Osho International Foundation in Zurich, which takes care of making its vast archive of books, audio books, and videos available in dozens of languages around the world, working with a large number of the major publishers worldwide. He also coordinates the Foundation's multilingual website. including the religions, as are the individuals living here.