Sadhguru Center Professional Development & Continuing Education
Furthering Our Understanding of Consciousness and Cognition
The Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet brings together experts across multiple disciplines — that include health care practitioners, contemplative scholars, experts in neuroscience and consciousness, and the public — to discuss and further our understanding of consciousness and cognition.
The Center will hold annual conferences to share its work with others and explore new ideas. Additional online events will provide a forum for discussions between contemplative scholars and experts in medicine and science. Workshops will be developed to provide support and strategies to cope with stress for patients' and their families. The effort will include training medical providers in offering patients meditative approaches to improve their physical and emotional states during critical illness, surgical procedures, and in their daily lives.
Please explore the following resources, tools and techniques to heighten consciousness, cognition and compassion:
- Earn CME: EEG Anesthesia Education for Physicians
- Research Article: Researchers test new approaches to prevent delirium in older adults (NIH National Institute on Aging)
- Breathing Technique: Yoga for Peace (Video)
- Free Guided Meditation: An Introduction to Isha Kriya by Sadhguru (Video)
Compassion Cannot Choose: Healthcare Disparities (Video)
This powerful conversation on compassion and healthcare disparities features inspiring stories from Dr. Nancy Oriol’s work with the Harvard Medical School Family Van and Dr. James O’Connell’s work directing Healthcare for the Homeless. Dr. Oriol is Associate Dean for Community Engagement in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. Also featured are influential Native American leaders: Harvard Medical School student Victor Anthony Lopez-Carmen and acclaimed radio host Tiokasin Ghosthorse.
The ancient understanding of healthcare rooted in compassion for people and planet, resonates deeply with mystic and visionary Sadhguru, who recently visited several Native American reservations. Sadhguru explains how to approach healthcare indiscriminately and offers wisdom from his groundbreaking social justice projects. Together, the panel brainstorms creative approaches to improve healthcare for Native Americans.
Leadership Dilemmas in Healthcare During COVID-19 Crisis (Video)
The COVID-19 Surge: Exploring solutions to challenges faced by health care workers during the COVID-19 Surge, with perspectives from a yogi and a mystic.
Mind & Brain: Dialogue between a Neurologist and a Yogi (Video)
Steven Laureys is one of the world's leading scientist and researcher who studies consciousness from a neurology perspective. In this Full Talk, he asks Sadhguru some penetrating questions as they push the boundaries of known science and peek into the mystical.
Memory, Consciousness, and Coma (Video)
On May 14, 2018 at Sanders Theatre, Harvard Medical School, on “Memory, Consciousness, and Coma,” Dr. Bala Subramaniam moderated a discussion seeking Sadhguru's inputs on various aspects of anesthesia, the brain and science. Panel included Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD, Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT; and Nicholas D. Schiff, MD, PhD, The Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neurosciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York.
Mental Health Pandemic (Video)
A panel discussion with Professor Murali Doraiswamy (Duke Neuroscientist, psychiatrist), Dr. David Vago (Director, Integrative Medicine, Vanderbilt University), Dr. Vijaya Appareddy (Federal government board for mental health) and Sadhguru, Jaggi Vasudev. This discussion brought out common issues that can lead to mental health pandemic and how to avoid them.
Speaker Series
Science and Challenges in Implementation of Yoga for Health Care Practitioners, Patients and Public (Video)
Yoga Scholars PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
Healing Collective Trauma
Talk@12: Harvard Medical School: Conversation with Thomas Hubl. Armenise Theater, Harvard Medical School with live webcast.
About Consciousness, Cognition, and Compassion Research (Research Topic)
Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Drawing Parallels with Meditation by Steven Laureys, MD, PhD, FEAN (Video)
Learn about the neural correlates of consciousness and how they can be paralleled with meditation.
At the Sadhguru Center, students have the incredible opportunity to engage with us in various areas, including:
- Research
- App Development
- Science Communications
- Outreach Initiatives
Our programs offer flexible durations, ranging from a few months to year-long commitments, with options for remote or in-person participation. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and levels of experience.
Qualifications
- Must be at least 16 years of age
- Current students: High school, College students, Graduate (Master's)
- Recent Master's degree graduates (within one year of graduation)
For more information, please view our flyer.
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