"For about a 3 year period, I was being hospitalized every couple of weeks. I was being sent to the hospital by ambulance in intense pain - so much so, that I was completely debilitated. It has been 3 years since I took Inner Engineering. And the week I left the program is the same week that all my health problems left. I've never once been back to the hospital for the chronic stomach pain and nausea that I was experiencing. I'm in a completely different place now. I've never been healthier. I've never been happier. I've had the most successful year of my career ever."

"I'm a writer and I worked for 16 years in network TV and around the US, in Europe and in Canada. Then I became a professional journalist for 12 years. I began to pursue my passion after I started working in marketing with the filmmakers of "What the bleep do we know". I wanted to have a more creative outlook and orientation so I started writing screenplays and working with one of the filmmakers.

I've always had a very good capacity for focused mental work being a writer but in the last year my work has gone into a highly creative level, much more creative level than ever before and it's becoming more and more effortless. I don't even feel like I write, it almost like I'm being written... and so that's just plain fun.

I'm doing a lot of work 8,10,12, sometimes 14 hours a day and I'm never tired. It just flows so I found a really amazing steadiness in my energy. There's no longer that 3 o'clock fatigue where you just want to sink into a latte, there's none of that, there's just a steady stream of energy that's totally supportive all the time.

In regards to relationships- I'm much less emotionally reactive than I used to be and I have found that in my interaction with people, I'm much more present, I'm much more capable of truly listening. As a writer, communication and the ability to listen and truly grasp is essential and I found again, like much of my life, that it is becoming much more simple to absorb information at a more profound level and being able to engage other people to a more profound level, it's like tunneling in and making connections on a whole different level."

This came into our life when we were just going into the empty nester phase. It was literally the month that our last child went away to college.

I had just said to my closest friend that my life was going to have to get a lot bigger and more alive now that the kids were gone. I didn't want to become an older couple who just worked around the house on weekends and went out to dinner with a few friends on weekends. I needed to be involved in something bigger than myself. And it certainly has been the case. I've been able to help with so many projects the Foundation is involved in. It's been so enriching and I've traveled more, met many new and wonderfully committed friends. It is exactly what I needed but that is just the outside stuff. The effect on the inside is quite amazing.

Bruce-- "Primarily through what he (Sadhguru) teaches, the profound recipe for inner peace and inner joy has been a huge shift.

His approach and his life have given me inspiration about how to live in a boundless way."

Kathy-- "I agree, I'm doing things I never thought I'd be able to do, Sadhguru talks and trainings have shown me I don't have the limits to my energy that I was starting to tell myself I had. I can keep up with people half my age and live to tell the story, haha.

Living in Detroit and both owning our own small businesses, life's challenges have been intense in the last few years.

Both our businesses have dropped to half of what they were and some months even below that.

We are in the process of selling our home which is worth a fraction of what it once was and was going to be a part of our retirement, we've lost a lot of what we had in the stock market are now sharing one car and paying bills piecemeal at times."

Bruce -- "After the process I've learned there is a distance between my life and my negative emotions."

Kathy-- "Had this happened before I started to do the Isha practices I would be extremely worried and anxious. I am still of course concerned, but like Bruce says, there is some distance from the fear within me. Now it just seems like life happening and there is a distance between the real me and the circumstances. I am quite amazed."

We are actually freer in some way and have enough energy to look into new possibilities."

With all this going on, Bruce is finding time to pursue his art and one of his sculptures was just accepted in the Michigan Fine Arts Competition.

Bruce --"Struggling with a terrible economy and a business that's barely supporting me at age 56 and my body not being able to do what it used to do."

Bruce -- It's been an internal change mostly. I'm far less worried I feel more connected to everything, more expanded. I'm very different inside."

Kathy -- "I'm way less reactive in my relationships. I feel I can handle so much more because I'm not so reactive. My vitality is better than it was 10 years ago and I realize it's because so much of my energy was being usurped by inner tension. I feel so much more alive inside. I can sit quietly and feel a sense of lightness and grace that I don't think I've ever had to this degree.

I certainly feel some sadness at leaving this house where we had holidays and raised our kids etc. but with the sense of inner ease and a greater view of life in a certain way it doesn't really matter where I live. I know this all sounds kind of Pollyannaish and believe me I wouldn't buy it if someone else had told me this because I am very much a pragmatist.

But, we all have a hope in our heart that someday we'll meet a true holy person, or sage, or saint, or someone who will guide us and teach us how to develop the inner peace that they have. There are so many fakes out there and just a few who are for real, but Sadhguru is definitely the real deal. My life is living proof."

Four years ago, the day after I gave birth to my first daughter, I was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer with metastasis throughout my neck. When my daughter was 2 months old, I went through a right neck dissection and 29 tumors were removed from my neck, the largest was the size of a golf ball. The doctor, from Stanford, told me that this cancer grows slowly and he was shocked that I never had felt anything strange in my neck. After the surgery, I went through radiation, but within a couple of months the cancer came back again and I had to go through radiation once again.

Early this year, the same cancer came back and I went through a second surgery, and within two months this cancer started growing back yet again. After this trend, my doctor reluctantly said that my problem may be related to my mind and he suggested me to take some kind of meditation where I could keep my body and mind relaxed for some time. Somehow, the same day, I received an e-mail about "a meditation technique" (Inner Engineering program) that was starting the following day in the San Francisco Bay area.

Obviously, when I went to the class I had no idea or knowledge of Isha Yoga or Sadhguru. I just went as a hardcore catholic, working mother of two, and with a lot of enthusiasm to learn something that could help me to relax and eventually could stop this cancer.

Two weeks after I initiated my practice, I had a blood test that showed that my thyroid globulin levels, which in my case indicated cancer cells, had dropped for the first time in 4 years! In addition to that, I was able to tell my doctor where in my neck I felt something was wrong. He tried to feel it with his hands but could not feel any lump or tumor so he requested a sonogram on my neck. That sonogram showed a very small tumor (7mm) exactly where I could "feel" it within me. My doctors are now so intrigued by this sudden health improvement and awareness of my body that they want to know more about this meditation and Sadhguru.

This practice has brought me not only health improvements, but also happiness and harmony in my life.

"Last year I was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia. It's often called "Suicide Disease" because there is no relief from the searing pain. After 8 months of Isha Yoga practice, I have been left pain-free. My medical doctor said, 'Whatever has been taught to you, please continue it. I cannot explain your results, but nor can I argue with them.' I've also lost 45 pounds, participating in no other exercise or weight loss program."

All my life I feel I've been searching for something. I never received sufficient answers from the people who were supposed to know things about life. This frustrated me a great deal. And then everything changed after this Inner Engineering class that was presented to me. I began to find answers and through those answers fulfillment and happiness. In just over one year my life has changed dramatically for the better, to the point where things that usually bother most people, I am unaffected by. There has never been anything in my life that has had this much meaning and substance than what I have discovered through the Isha Foundation and Inner Engineering.

Since the age of 4, playing music has always been such a part of my life, but so much has changed for me since I took Inner Engineering. The way I experienced sound shifted in a subtle, yet profound way and somehow, there was a new depth in everything that I experienced. Instead of just a melody in my head being translated through the violin, the music was brought to life as I began to actually feel the vibrations inside my body, leaving me energized and vibrant. The struggle I would go through to play the right notes and to play in tune dissolved as I started connecting with a source of creativity that had been lying dormant, and had fortunately awakened since the program. Instead of playing the music, the music has started singing through the instrument; it has become a meditation in itself.

"One thing that stands out is how I relate and communicate with friends, co-workers and new acquaintances. I was introverted to the point where sometimes I would dread having to talk with people, and 'not talking' created even greater anxiety. Now, I am much more comfortable with myself and others. If there is something to talk about, we can talk, no problem-it's actually fun. Life is much richer this way! Thank you Inner Engineering! "

"I feel like as if I am an onion, all these layers, with all the search and quest I've been on for so many years, so many workshops, so many different paths, so many programs and still it was not happening for me. And now, Inner Engineering has peeled all the layers to touch my very essence at my core. I've practiced "Yoga" (western style) for about 12 years now. For the last 2 years, and in the last 3 months, I began to feel a little lost in my Yoga practice, I got caught up into mainstream westernized yoga and I felt I was losing my center. Inner Engineering has brought me back to the roots of why I came to Yoga 12 years ago. The way I've been teaching, I realize now, was a disservice to all those who come in to my class. I feel now I can teach from a different place, and not perform any more.

Everything around me seems to be moving for me and with me so effortlessly. Without me saying a word, I notice my family and people close to me doing things that in another time I would have to ask, beg, or simply get upset because things were not getting done. It seems like even time slows down for me, this is a very strange sensation and at the same time is such a blessing, makes me happy, calmer. Even my voice has changed. It feels like I have moved to a different dimension, everything is the same, but is not."

I did commercial and private lending for a bank but when I lost my voice due to chronic illness, I wasn't able to work anymore. I met my ENT/ Voice Doctor. and from the moment he met me he wanted me to take Inner Engineering. I was really resistant at first because it wasn't in my realm of understanding, but eventually I understood that I don't have to understand everything and bit the bullet and went to California for the IEI (Inner Engineering Intensive.)

The program with Sadhguru, was the most amazing thing I have ever experienced. I don't even know what to say. Simply, it changed my life. I have never been more uncomfortable, nervous, anxious, and out of my element than I was the first few hours/day but after that, something changed in me and I really welcomed the change. The experience has touched me deeply and got better and better as the hours and days passed. I feel really energized and just happy. I can't wipe this smile off of my face. It was just....amazing. That word doesn't do it justice, that's for sure. I have learned more in the past few days than all of my education combined. The sense of being perfect that I always carried with me just dropped away and I just can't wait to see what awesome things await me in the future!!!

Isha and Inner Engineering changed my life...it got me out of my little comfortable box and made me realize what I should be doing. Was never much of a writer...more into numbers and my customers at work, that has all changed now! I'm actually going for my masters right now for Psychology specifically for children with chronic illnesses.

Four months ago, at 28 years old, I was anxious and depressed because all the roads seemed to end up at the same, unhappy place. I couldn't figure out anyway to change myself. Now I find myself looking forward to what life will bring next and using words like thankful and grateful to describe my experiences with Inner Engineering and Isha."

I sleep soundly now after years of interrupted sleep. I find I need less sleep but am more energetic throughout the day. I had some problems with gastrointestinal discomfort, which has completely disappeared. In the past several years since practices, I rarely get sick. I'm in the best shape of my life."

"Inner Engineering has given me the tools to re-engineer the way that I think, feel and exist in the world. I am more focused, energetic and intuitive. When I am invigorated and enjoying what I am doing, life becomes worthwhile. This joy is contagious in the best possible way. Inner Engineering has also given me the tools to open doors to spiritual dimensions that I never could have imagined. What I have experienced has deepened my love of life, reduced my fears of death and shown me what an unlimited possibility I am."

"Most of my adult life has been shaped by muscle and joint pain, and emotional distress associated with hormonal variances. I totally got identified with pain. I came across this yoga of wellbeing. I went with my instincts and enrolled in the program. It not only disengaged me from this pain mechanism, it changed my outlook on life. Now I wake up each day to see how I can live life to the fullest. The program and the practice is a gift that keeps on giving and asks for nothing in return."

"The Inner Engineering program was fun, interesting, and informative. More importantly, the results I have been achieving from the Isha practice have been nothing less, than phenomenal. Incredibly my severe allergies and acid reflux I suffered since childhood completely vanished, my cholesterol dropped 35 points, and my blood pressure significantly reduced. From August 2009 to March 2010, I lost 45 pounds, stopped using caffeine, artificial sweetener, and alcohol. I wasn't necessarily trying to do any of these things. Inner Engineering has such a positive impact on my entire system that I no longer needed external substances to feel great. My racing mind wet to low gear, my anxious multi-tasking turned into a calm laser focus. I highly recommend it for people of all ages and physical health. I have introduced it to many of my friends and family. They have been receiving similar benefits as well."

I took Inner Engineering in July of 2009. At the time I was in school full-time, working part-time, and playing music and doing volunteer work in my spare time. My life was exhilarating, but the stress of being so busy all the time was definitely taking its toll. The way I was living, and the way I saw others living, didn't always make sense to me, but I never knew there was any other way. I was never consciously searching for any kind of self-help or spiritual guide. Then, through a series of strange and fortunate coincidences, Isha Yoga just fell into my lap. After the very first class, I felt as if I had been wearing a mask over my eyes my whole life and someone had finally pulled it away. I could see myself and my life so clearly, and many things I was doing no longer made any sense. My stress evaporated; I would get up at 5, work through the day, see friends, sit through three-hour orchestra rehearsals, write papers well into the night, and still get up the next day without any struggle. Every activity I did became so much easier, and I performed it so much better without the added baggage of anxiety and fatigue. Inner Engineering was not about changing what I do in my life, just how I am within myself while I am doing it.

"I was diagnosed with systemic lupus over 20 years ago, but was not treated for my illness for 9 years. This was a due to an oversight from a doctor. Nevertheless, when they saw obvious signs of my lupus, they started treating me. For the last 20 years, I had been on the highest dose of prednisone, on 8-10 painkillers per day, and a plethora of other medications. My lupus ran my life, and finally to the degree that I have not been able to work as an esthetician for the last two years. Within the last year, I have had a wrist surgery and a difficult back surgery for a herniated disc. When I would take a painkiller, it would minimize my pain, but it would also make me sleepy...so my life became about taking naps, alternating with being the best housewife I could be. The only thing left that I could do besides lay in bed, was cook for my husband, and even then I would turn a pot upside down as use that to put one leg up on top of, because of my pain. I am a very social person, but could no longer put on the get-togethers that I once used to, nor attend those of others. I got to a point where I didn't really want to live anymore, because I was incapable of doing anything. I was just wasting away in bed.

Let me tell you what happened after I took this class: a miracle that I want everyone to know about. I would even be willing to come and share with others that have lost hope, so that those that are skeptical of taking this class would know of how amazing it truly is. The miracle that happened was that I was healed from head to toe. Prior to this class, I had constant pain in every joint and muscle in my entire body. Sometimes, the doctors would do nerve blockers in the base of my skull to minimize the pain, and I was even supposed to have a 5-disc surgery prior to class, that I was so apprehensive about. Now, if I am a new person! I can enjoy the rest of my life with my husband and friends rather than just sleeping in bed. I don't feel pain in any part of my body. It is truly a miracle from God, and I am glad that He brought me to this class. Now, I look forward to bringing my daughter, who deals with fibromyalgia pain, and many others around me that deal with various pains. I never imagined I would even have a day without pain....now it has been over a week! I can't explain to you the joy in my heart, because sorrow has been replaced with hope, weeping has been replaced with rejoicing and dancing. I am a new person. I am so thankful for all that this class, has done for me. I hope to be able to share my experience with all those around me, and throughout the nation. My testimony is proof that this class is truly revolutionary. I can't thank you enough for allowing me to live, because I was dead, but now I am alive!!!!

Inner transformation in less than 30 hours!

After being in an enormous amount of pain and a heavy depression for over two years, I was guided by a friend to the Isha Foundation and attended the Inner Engineering program a few weeks ago. Special arrangements had been made for me, as I could not sit on the floor for any length of time due to severe sciatic pain.

Even after 3 back surgeries in a period of a year, I was worse off than when I started and could see no end to my physical condition. This became my existence and along with that came a dark cloud of severe depression. There were moments that I did not want to live anymore-not like this anyway! I had been extremely active all my life until I was rear-ended in July of 2006. From there my life and my spirit spiraled downwards.

The first day of Inner Engineering commenced and I entered the room with an open mind and an open heart, not knowing what to expect. By the end of day two I was so excited and alive, I could not wait to return for the third day of teachings. I felt as though somehow, magically there was hope for me. I could not explain the joy and excitement I felt in my heart, but I did not care to question it. I was once again alive and optimistic!!!

I was not afraid of my limitations. The initiation ceremony was the most wonderful experience I can remember since I gave birth to my daughter seventeen years ago! I felt overwhelmed with happiness and love for everyone and everything around me. I felt overwhelmed with happiness and love for everyone and everything around me.

And here is the best part of all of this - by day seven, I could sit on the floor and do my practice like everyone else and not be in pain. It was like a miracle. My special chair was no longer needed. I wanted to scream out with joy. Everyone in the room could see the dramatic transformation in me. We danced together and the light in my spirit glowed brighter and brighter.

Inner Engineering was a very new experience for me. First of all, I would never think that something like yoga and meditation would grasp my attention. I would never bother with it though my mom was always into those types of things. Class itself left me with a new sense of understanding, freedom, and happiness that I had never known in my life. So much sense, so much clarity, so much love - something I cannot ignore I thought.

Today, after over 4 years, I'm still continuing Inner Engineering and Isha Yoga Practice and I'm very clear that it was the right step in my life. I wish more people could benefit in the beautiful way, I have.