Adi Yogi: The Abode of Yoga

The Abode of Yoga is a powerful energy source designed for anyone to enhance their wellbeing on all aspects of life. Simply sitting within the Abode allows one to reach an elevated state of consciousness and know yoga as an inner experience beyond mere knowledge, philosophy, or technique.

Sadhguru, a realized yogi and mystic, consecrated the Abode through a powerful yogic process – Prana Pratishtha (consecrating using life energies) – on September 23rd, 2015.

The Abode is also an expression of gratitude to Adi Yogi, the first yogi, who offered the yogic sciences to the world over 15,000 years ago. The profound methods offered at the Abode are in consonance with Adi Yogi’s work.

The Abode is available – beyond race, religion, or culture – to bring fulfillment and wellbeing to all. Visitors may become receptive to the energies and grace of the Abode through various offerings, processes and spending time meditating within the space.

Open year round from 8 AM – 8 PM, the Abode is the main feature of the Isha Institute, a leading center for inner exploration and complete wellbeing for the past 20 years.

“Adiyogi has been brought into your life to see that a dimension which has no boundaries becomes a living reality in your life.” – Sadhguru

The Abode is also an expression of gratitude to Adi Yogi, the first yogi, who offered the yogic sciences to the world over 15,000 years ago. He brought technology and methods, not as a philosophy or teaching, as to how one can raise their energies and transform their lives into a great possibility. The profound methods offered at the Abode are in consonance with Adi Yogi’s work.

▵ Originator of Yoga
Sadhguru: In the yogic culture, Adi Yogi is the originator of yoga. He was the one who first put this seed into the human mind. According to the yogic lore, over 15,000 years ago, Adi Yogi attained to his full enlightenment and abandoned himself in an intense ecstatic dance upon the Himalayas. When his ecstasy allowed him some movement, he danced wildly. When it became beyond movement, he became utterly still.

People saw that he was experiencing something that nobody had known before, something that they were unable to fathom. Interest developed and people came wanting to know what this was. They came, they waited and they left because the man was oblivious to other people’s presence. He was either in intense dance or absolute stillness, completely uncaring of what was happening around him. Soon, everyone left, except for seven men.

These seven people were insistent that they must learn what this man had in him, but Adi Yogi ignored them. They pleaded and begged him, “Please, we want to know what you know.” Adi Yogi dismissed them and said, “You fools. The way you are, you are not going to know in a million years. There is a tremendous amount of preparation needed for this. This is not entertainment.”

So they started preparing. Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, they prepared. Adi Yogi just chose to ignore them. On a full moon day, after eighty-four years of sadhana, when the solstice had shifted from the summer solstice to the winter solstice – which is known as Dakshinayana –Adi Yogi looked at these seven people and saw that they had become shining receptacles of knowing. They were absolutely ripe to receive. He could not ignore them anymore. They grabbed his attention.

He watched them closely for the next few days and when the next full moon rose, he decided to become a Guru. The Adi Yogi transformed himself into the Adi Guru. The first Guru was born on that day which is today known as Guru Pournami. On the banks of Kanti Sarovar, a lake that lies a few kilometers above Kedarnath, he turned South to shed his grace upon these seven people and shared the yogic science. The yogic science is not about a yoga class that you go through about how to bend your body – which every new-born infant knows – or how to hold your breath – which every unborn infant knows. This is the science of understanding the mechanics of the entire human system.

After many years, when the transmission was complete, it produced seven fully enlightened beings – the seven celebrated sages who are today known as the Saptarishis. Adi Yogi shared different aspects of yoga with each of these seven people, and these aspects became the seven basic forms of yoga. Even today, yoga has maintained these seven distinct forms.

The Saptarishis were sent in seven different directions to different parts of the world to carry this yoga with which a human being can evolve beyond his present limitations and compulsions. They became the limbs of Adi Yogi, taking the knowing and technology of yogic sciences to the world. Time has ravaged many things, but when the cultures of those lands are carefully looked at, small strands of these people’s work can be seen, still alive. It has taken on various colors and forms, and has changed its complexion in a million different ways, but these strands can still be seen.

Adi Yogi brought this possibility that a human being need not be contained in the defined limitations of our species. There is a way to be contained in physicality, but not to belong to it. There is a way to inhabit the body, but never become the body. There is a way to use your mind in the highest possible way, but still never know the miseries of the mind. Whatever dimension of existence you are in right now, you can go beyond that – there is another way to live.

He said, “You can evolve beyond your present limitations if you do the necessary work upon yourself.” That is the significance of Adi Yogi.

Accessible within a few hours via international airports in Atlanta, Nashville and Chattanooga, and a few hours drive from major cities in the South.

Hours and General Information

Main Office Open 8:30 AM – 9 PM daily.

All visitors are welcome including families.

Accommodation and Meals

Two wholesome vegetarian meals are served daily at the Isha Institute: 10 AM (brunch) and 7 PM (dinner). Those visiting the Abode are welcome to make a donation and join for the meals.
Those wishing to spend more time at the Abode can book an overnight stay by calling the office at 931-668-1900 For more information visit: www.ishausa.org

Abode of Yoga is open from 8 AM – 8 PM daily.

Throughout the day visitors can make an offering of water to the linga and join Guru Pooja at 11:50 AM and 6:20 PM. On weekends, there is a special aarti at 6pm. There is no prayer or worship required at The Abode. Visitors may instead make various offerings to connect with the energies of the space and benefit from it. More details…

Special processes are also established to bring wellbeing to all aspects of life, including klesha nashana kriya, purifying the 5 elements, anniversaries, weddings and for children.More details…

Anyone can benefit from the energies of the Abode regardless of race, religion, age or physical ability.

Upon entering, one can simply sit silently with palms facing upward to connect with the energy of the Abode.

Science of Yoga

It is estimated close to two billion people are using some kind of yogic system today in different forms that are not necessarily referred to as ‘yoga.’ The beauty of yoga is that it is an elaborate expression of human mechanics – whichever way you sit, stand, breathe, think or feel, for every aspect of your life, there is a type of yoga. Knowingly or unknowingly, millions of people across the planet are practicing some form of yoga because the process is simple, empowering, and effective.

Channelizing Modern Science and Technology

“This yogic science is of utmost importance now, like never before, because today we have tremendous power in our hands. With modern science and technology, tomorrow if we want, we can flatten a mountain or city. When we have this much power in our hands, it is very, very important that we have an inner sense, an awareness of life, and that we experience life and everyone as part of ourselves. Otherwise, we can create a calamity for ourselves and the world around us—which right now we are doing to some extent. This has happened only because we have attended only to the external science. We have never looked at the inner science within us. Just as there is an external science to create external wellbeing, there is an inner science to create inner wellbeing.” – Sadhguru

Transcend Life’s Struggles

Today many people perceive yoga as challenging postures, a trend for weight loss or merely a stress reliever, without realizing its depth and dimension. Sadhguru’s vision is to revive this ancient science in its purity and profoundness, and offer it to every individual.

He says, “If you are willing to strive, you can transcend all your limitations. We want this one message, which is over 15,000 years old, to reverberate across the planet. Whether everybody actually gets there or not, they should at least know that if they have the necessary focus, they can. I want this one message to reach every human being. No matter what they are going through in their lives – their struggles, frustrations, madness, longing – that if they are willing to strive, they can transcend all of this.” – Sadhguru

A visually striking 30,000 square foot space, the Abode is a two-level structure housing a 21-foot statue depicting the meditative image of the Adi Yogi alongside a consecrated linga.

ADIYOGI: THE ABODE OF YOGA
Open 8 AM – 8 PM year-round
951 Isha Lane,
McMinnville, TN 37110

Welcome Center: 931-668-1900

Email: info@adiyogi.org

“I closed my eyes and immediately felt myself radiating with a different kind of energy. The beauty and aesthetics of the space is remarkable too!”– Bill Frosty

“This is an amazing space. I was never into religion but when I went there they were patiently explained to me how it was not religious but there was a scientific explanation of why everything is created and maintained the way it is. I felt very calm and meditative in this space.”– Evan Stevens

▵ Adi Yogi: The Abode of Yoga (Isha)