THE ART OF LIVING
FOUNDATION
Founded in 1981 by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar, The Art of Living Foundation is an educational and humanitarian movement engaged in stress-management and service initiatives. The Art of Living is a multi-faceted organisation that propagates love, peace, and compassion, and is one of the largest volunteer bases in the world. The international headquarters is located in Bangalore, India. The organisation operates globally in 155 countries and has touched the lives of over 370 million people.
"Unless we have a stress-free mind and a violence-free society, we cannot achieve world peace." – Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar.
The Art of Living Foundation runs several programs that are guided by Gurudev's philosophy of peace. To help individuals get rid of stress and experience inner peace, The Art of Living Foundation offers stress-elimination programmes which include breathing techniques, meditation, and yoga. These programmes have helped millions around the world to overcome stress, depression and violent tendencies.
Gurudev Sri Sri |
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a humanitarian and spiritual leader, an ambassador of peace and human values, and founder of The Art of Living Foundation. Through his life and work, Sri Sri has inspired millions around the world with a vision of a stress-free, violence-free world. He has founded courses that provide techniques and tools to live a deeper, more joyous life and has established nonprofit organisations that recognise a common human identity above the boundaries of race, nationality, and religion.
SSRVM Schools are promoted by Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir (SSRVM) Trust (www.ssrvm.org), a non-profit charitable educational trust, which is the educational wing of The Art of Living Foundation, an international non-profit organisation established by the world-renowned spiritual leader, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar (www.artofliving.org).
Sri Sri Academy, the best CBSE boarding school in Siliguri, West Bengal, comes under the aegis of the Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir (SSRVM) Trust. The SSRVM Trust has been in the field of education for over two decades and has set up schools across the education wing of The Art of Living Foundation. The SSRVM Trust has established about 700 educational institutions, the best in India, starting from Pre-Primary to P.G. studies in diverse fields, and operates a network of schools across the globe.
The schools under SSRVM Trust are Bal Mandir, Vidya Mandir & Sri Sri Academy, that fall under the top CBSE schools of the country, spread over 36 states across the country, providing education to more than 175000 students and employing 3000 teachers. The vision of these schools is:
- To provide holistic education that enhances cognitive, emotional, physical, social and spiritual learning.
- To make students academically competent, emotionally balanced, physically fit, socially responsible and spiritually awakening.
- To develop human values in students and to make them learn that 'light through our unique methodology which instills an appreciation of our culture & values and those of other regions, in them.
- Enhance human values like love, friendliness, compassion, enthusiasm, and sharing, while offering the regular curriculum in a cheerful, fun-loving environment.
- To provide students with modern tools as well as the moral and spiritual strength needed to face the challenges of the modern world and become happy, confident, global citizens.
Higher Education Institutions under SSRVM Trust are:
Sri Sri Ravishankar Junior College in Guwahati (Maharashtra)
Sri Sri College of Ayurvedic Science and Research in Bangalore
Sri Sri Institute of Agricultural Sciences & Technology Trust
Sri Sri Institute of Management Studies
Sri Sri Centre of Professional Excellence
Sri Sri School of Architecture
Sri Sri Institute of Computer Science at Dwarka (Maharashtra)
Sri Sri University in Cuttack (Odisha)