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The Art of Living Foundation
FounderSri Sri Ravi Shankar
Headquarters21st Km, Udaypura, Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru
Websitewww.artofliving.org

The Art of Living Foundation is a volunteer-based, non profit, humanitarian and educational non-governmental organisation (NGO).[1][2] It was founded in 1981 by Ravi Shankar in Bengaluru, India, which also serves as the location of its international centre.[3][4][5] The Art of Living Foundation has centres in 180 countries.[6]

Organisation

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History

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The first Art of Living course was held in Shimoga in 1982.[7]

Evolution

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The Art of Living Foundation was established primarily as an educational organisation offering stress management programmes centred on Sudarshan Kriya, along with yoga and meditation.[7] Through the 1980s and into the early 1990s, its activities were concentrated on delivering courses in India and expanding internationally through teacher training. The organisation expanded internationally in 1983, when Shankar conducted the first international course in Switzerland.[7] In 1986, he travelled to North America to hold the first courses in Apple Valley, California.[8][7]

The Art of Living Foundation has been an educational and humanitarian organisation in the U.S. since 1989.[9]

In 1996, the foundation received special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).[10][11] The following year, in 1997, the foundation co-founded the International Association for Human Values (IAHV) in Geneva, a separately registered organisation that obtained its own ECOSOC consultative status and through which many of the foundation's humanitarian and social programmes have since been implemented.[12] During this period, the foundation expanded its scope to include disaster relief, prisoner rehabilitation, and environmental initiatives. Following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the foundation deployed trauma relief programmes in affected communities in India and Sri Lanka; a subsequent peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Health Psychology found significant reduction in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among tsunami survivors who received the breathing-based intervention.[13] In 2008, the foundation launched the Mission Green Earth campaign in partnership with the United Nations Millennium Campaign, targeting the planting of 100 million trees to address climate change.[14] The foundation's Prison SMART programme, which delivers breathing and stress management techniques to incarcerated individuals, was independently reported operating in South African prisons during this period.[15]

The majority of the officers of the organisation, along with most of its teachers and staff, are volunteers.[16] Many of its programs are conducted through or in conjunction with a partner organisation, the International Association for Human Values (IAHV).[17] Its programs draw on Advaita Vedanta tradition and practices.[18] The Foundation operates as a charitable or non-profit organisation with chapters in many parts of the world.[19]

45th anniversary

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The foundation marked its 45th anniversary with a series of events held at its International Centre in Bengaluru between January and May 2026. On 10 May 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the main celebrations and launched a series of nationwide service initiatives focused on rural development, healthcare, women's empowerment, environmental sustainability, and education.[20]

Global centres

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The Art of Living Foundation maintains residential centres that serve as regional hubs for its programmes and retreats.

The foundation's primary global hub is the Art of Living International Centre, located on Kanakapura Road in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The centre was established in 1986.[21] Its principal structure is the Vishalakshi Mantap, a five-tiered meditation hall inaugurated by then Vice President of India Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on 17 January 2003.[22][5]

The foundation's European centre is located in Bad Antogast, in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the municipality of Oppenau.[23][24]

In North America, the foundation operates the Art of Living Retreat Centre in Boone, North Carolina, a 380-acre property in the Blue Ridge Mountains, offering yoga, meditation, and Ayurvedic wellness programmes.[25]

The foundation also operates a centre in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada, situated on a 232-acre property and offering retreat accommodation and an Ayurvedic medicine programme.[26][27]

Affiliated organisations

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The Art of Living Foundation operates through several affiliated and associated organisations, each with a distinct legal identity and operational mandate. In India, the foundation's programmes are implemented through its registered public charitable trust, Vyakti Vikas Kendra India (VVKI).

International Association for Human Values

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The International Association for Human Values (IAHV) is a separately registered humanitarian organisation co-founded by Ravi Shankar in Geneva in 1997.[12] It holds its own special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), independently of the Art of Living Foundation.[12] Through its country chapters and partners, IAHV conducts humanitarian relief, trauma rehabilitation, and rural development programmes. In 2014, IAHV deployed yoga and trauma relief programmes to Yazidi refugees and displaced communities in Erbil, northern Iraq.[28]

Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir schools

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The Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir (SSRVM) Trust operates a network of schools across India affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The foundation has been independently reported constructing school facilities for underserved communities, including a school built for children affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Tamil Nadu.[29]

Sri Sri University

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Sri Sri University is a private university established in Cuttack, Odisha, India, under the aegis of the SSRVM Trust. It was notified as a legal entity by the Higher Education Department of the Government of Odisha on 22 February 2012, following scrutiny by a High Power Committee, with the notification published in an extraordinary issue of the Odisha Government Gazette. The university is listed among private universities recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India[30] and holds approvals from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), along with an 'A' grade accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

Sri Sri College of Ayurvedic Science and Research

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The Sri Sri College of Ayurvedic Science and Research, located in Bangalore, Karnataka, is approved by the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) under the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, and is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.[31]

Sri Sri School of Yoga

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The Sri Sri School of Yoga is a yoga teacher training institution founded by Ravi Shankar. It has been registered as a Registered Yoga School (RYS 200) with Yoga Alliance, USA since 2010.[32] The school is a member of the Indian Yoga Association, a self-regulatory body established in 2008 and approved by the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India.[33]

Courses and programmes

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The Art of Living Foundation offers programmes in breathing techniques, yoga, and meditation aimed at stress reduction and personal development. Its introductory course, the Happiness Program, teaches Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY), which has been examined in independent peer-reviewed research, including randomised controlled trials published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress (2014),[34] BMJ Open (2022),[35] Frontiers in Psychiatry (2020),[36] and JAMA Network Open (2024).[37] The foundation also offers Sahaj Samadhi, a mantra-based meditation course; Sri Sri Yoga; and advanced programmes including Art of Living Part 2 and Sanyam, a silence-based retreat. Adapted versions are offered to specific groups, including the Prison Program for incarcerated populations and the Youth Empowerment Seminar (YES!) for adolescents, run through the International Association for Human Values (IAHV).

A registered randomised controlled trial examining Sahaj Samadhi's effects on late-life depression published its protocol in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine in 2014.[38] Two subsequent papers reporting results from this trial — published in BJPsych Open (2016) and The British Journal of Psychiatry (2019) — were retracted by their respective journals in 2021 for failure to report the trial's pre-registered primary outcome measure.[39][40] A study on the Youth Empowerment Seminar, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2013, found that high school students who completed the programme reported reduced impulsive behaviour compared to a control group.[41]

Social service

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Its areas of work cover disaster relief,[18] poverty alleviation,[42] prisoner rehabilitation,[43] empowerment of women, campaigns against female feticide,[44] and environmental sustainability.[45]

Disaster and emergency relief

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The foundation has conducted disaster relief operations following earthquakes, floods, and other emergencies in several countries. After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China, the foundation provided trauma counselling and meditation sessions, which it said had reached more than 15,000 survivors.[46]

During the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the Karnataka state government authorised the foundation's International Centre on Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru, to function as a COVID Care Centre for asymptomatic patients.[47] The foundation also launched "Mission Zindagi," a volunteer-driven relief initiative during the pandemic's second wave in 2021, with which actress Bhumi Pednekar collaborated.[48]

According to the foundation, its volunteers and the affiliated International Association for Human Values have conducted breathing and meditation programs for soldiers, displaced civilians, and children from occupied territories in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022.[49]

Following floods and cloudbursts in Mandi district, Himachal Pradesh, in late June 2025, foundation volunteers, working with the International Association for Human Values, distributed solar lamps, tarpaulin sheets, drinking water, food, and school supplies to affected villages in the district.[50]

Project Vidarbha

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In 2007, with the support of the state government, volunteers from the foundation provided training to farmers in six Vidarbha districts in organic and zero-budget farming, rainwater harvesting, and multiple cropping, as well as teaching them the Art of Living course. The next year, the foundation said it had to reduce the scale of its work after the state government announced loan waiver for farmers and pulled back funding for the foundation's project[42]

In 2008, Ravi Shankar announced the extension of the program to Andhra Pradesh to end farmer suicides from financial stress in that state.[51]

Mission Green Earth

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In 2008, the foundation launched 'Mission Green Earth Stand Up Take Action' campaign to plant 100 million trees to help reduce global warming and protect the environment, in partnership with United Nations Millennium Campaign and United Nations Environment Programme.[45][52][53]

River Rejuvenation Projects

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In February 2013, the foundation launched a three-year program to rejuvenate the Kumudavathi River (in Bangalore) under its 'Volunteer for Better India' campaign along with civic authorities and environmentalists to address water shortage problems.[54][55] Ravi Shankar led a walkathon in Bangalore to create awareness about the program.[56][57] The project had revived five water-recharge wells, constructed 74 boulder checks, cleaned up 18 step wells and planted 2,350 saplings in seven villages by June 2014.[58]

Similar efforts were held to revive Pallar River in Andhra Pradesh, Manjra river in Maharashtra,[59] and Vedavathi River in Karnataka.[60]

Rural electrification

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In October 2016, the Sri Sri Rural Development Program, in partnership with Rupantar Training and Consultancy, installed a 2.5-kilowatt solar microgrid system in the villages of Dapurmal and Khorgardwadi in Thane district, providing electricity to around 285 residents for the first time.[61]

Volunteer For a Better India

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The Art of Living, along with UN agencies, NGOs and civil society, launched Volunteer For a Better India (VFABI) on 5 December 2012.

VFABI protested against the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case.[62] In May 2013, 1,634 volunteers distributed medicines worth Rs. 2.2 million under the guidance of 262 doctors to over 20,000 slum dwellers in Delhi through 108 free health camps organised in collaboration with the Indian Medical Association.[63]

In September 2013, the 'I vote for better India' initiative was launched to increase awareness of the importance of voting as a responsibility towards the nation.[64][65][66]

Controversies

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Settlement with anonymous bloggers

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In 2010, Art of Living sued two anonymous bloggers for defamation, trade libel, copyright infringement and disclosing trade secrets. The two claimed to be former teachers/followers of Art of Living and had written posts critical of the foundation. The Foundation's request to unmask the bloggers' identities was denied, and the judge allowed only the trade secrets claim to go to trial.[67]

In a 2012 settlement, the bloggers agreed to freeze their existing blogs with no restriction on starting up new blogs critical of Art of Living.[68][69]

Land encroachment

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In 2011, a public-interest litigation petition filed in the Karnataka High Court alleged that Art of Living had constructed structures on the Udipalya tank. The government of Karnataka found on inspection that the foundation had encroached upon 6.53 hectares (16.1 acres) of the tank area and issued a show cause notice.[70][71]

World Culture Festival on Yamuna flood plains

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Art of Living Foundation organised the World Culture Festival on the Yamuna Flood plains in March 2016. A committee appointed by the National Green Tribunal recommended a fine of Rs 1,200 million on Art of Living Foundation for damaging the ecology of the flood plains.[72] The fine was later reduced to Rs 50 million, with no further events to be allowed at that location.[73] After initially disputing the fine,[74] with Ravi Shankar declaring that he would rather go to prison,[75] the foundation paid on 3 June 2016.[76] The Supreme Court overturn order of NGT, citing no wrong doing by Art of Living and ordered to refund deposit of 5 crore.[77]

Burning of the Islamabad center in Pakistan

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After the organisation's yoga center in Islamabad, Pakistan was burned down by armed men in March 2014,[78][79] the Foundation reported receiving threats from the Taliban.[80] The center has since been rebuilt and is functioning.

References

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