Isha Foundation to host leadership yoga program in Coimbatore

Isha Foundation is set to bring its Human Is NOT a Resource program back to the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore from June 19 to 21, 2026, pushing a very specific message into the leadership conversation: people are not assets to be optimized, but possibilities to be cultivated. The three-day immersive program lands squarely in the burnout-era debate over how companies talk about performance, culture and decision-making.

Isha describes the program as a three-day interactive offering envisioned by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev to unpack human potential in business. Its core framing is a direct challenge to standard corporate wellness language, with the foundation saying the goal is to move participants away from seeing human beings as resources and toward seeing them as possibilities. That argument is paired with Sadhguru Academy’s broader leadership philosophy, which presents leadership as an innate, intuitive process that begins with managing one’s own mind, body and energies.

The event is part of a recurring annual series that has steadily built a business-facing following at Isha’s headquarters on the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains outside Coimbatore. Isha said the 2025 edition was the ninth and took place from June 13 to 15, 2025, while a report on that residential gathering said 80 participants attended. Earlier editions drew similar interest: the 2018 conclave was held on June 8, 2018, with 77 participants, and the 2021 online edition ran from June 11 to 13 with a panel of more than 20 Resource Leaders from India Inc.

The speaker and facilitator roster shows how firmly the program is aimed at managers, HR professionals and business leaders rather than a general wellness audience. Isha has listed past names including Harish Bhat of the Tata Group, Ramesh Iyer of Mahindra Finance, Lt General Santosh Kumar Upadhya, Jasmine Suri and Ashutosh Pandey of Mahindra Holidays, along with facilitators and resource leaders such as Moumita Sen Sarma, Swami Ullasa, Saurabh Jain and Swami Sukhada.

Isha’s own language around the program hinges on a familiar corporate pain point, but the solution it offers is different from usual wellness programming. Instead of stress relief, the emphasis is on leadership from the inside out, starting with the manager’s own mind, body and energies. In a culture fixated on productivity metrics, Human Is NOT a Resource is pitching something more radical: better teams begin with a different view of what a human being is.