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with severe insomnia achieved a complete resolution of their clinical symptoms within 8 weeks.
1,083 adults. Eight-week protocol. No medication, no dependence risk.
I envision a world free from mental and physical suffering, where every person has access to the tools that sustain their well-being. This is the destination my work moves toward.
Dr. Ishan Shivanand
Dr. Ishan Shivanand
Dr. Ishan Shivanand is an academic, philanthropist, founder of Compassion Unites, and one of the leading voices shaping the global response to the mental health crisis.
Peer-reviewed research validates his mental health protocols, now adopted at Google and Fortune 500 companies.
Shivanand advises global governments and CEOs. An award-winning author, his first book, The Practice of Immortality, is a USA Today national bestseller.
Published Research
Peer-reviewed mental health research
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with moderate to severe anxiety showed significant clinical improvement within 8 weeks.
Randomized trial of frontline healthcare workers, measured against a control group.
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with moderately severe depression saw symptoms reduced to non-clinical levels within 12 weeks.
Global population. Non-pharmacological twelve-week intervention.
We found these techniques immensely useful to eliminate negative effects of stress and burnout and to help us improve overall well-being.
Philanthropy
Mental health outcomes, advanced through community programs globally
Mental health outcomes are shaped by the conditions people live in. The community programs focus on practical, sustainable impact, strengthening health, opportunity, and stability so progress holds without dependency. Initiatives span rural healthcare, education scholarships, high-altitude medical services, and broader community support.
Rural Healthcare
Essential care delivered where access is limited.
Education Scholarships
Opportunity that lasts, built through education infrastructure.
Field Medical Services
Delivery under pressure, including high-altitude environments.
Book
The Practice of Immortality
A guide to discovering your unlimited potential. Published by Penguin Random House and Hachette. Translated into Italian, German, and Portuguese.
Award-winning book
A personal memoir of the formative years in a monastery, written as a guide to lived experience. Each chapter takes the reader from story to insight to a practice they can apply.
In his own words
Trusted by
Fortune 500 companies, Governments, and World Leading Academia
About
From the monastery to modern medicine
Ishan Shivanand’s work on mental health started long before the research or the public recognition. It was shaped in the monastery, through disciplined training within one of India’s oldest contemplative lineages, where practice was a way of life.
That formation set the standard he holds himself to: rigorous, grounded, and operating in service of humanity. Compassion Unites is the structural expression of that commitment, built to strengthen the global response to the mental health crisis.
He codified that training into protocols that modern clinical science can evaluate. They have been validated through peer-reviewed research conducted with leading US universities, and carried into the world through teaching and impact initiatives that change the realities people live with.
All of it, toward one destination: a world free from mental and physical suffering.
Work with Ishan
Research and academic partnerships
Collaborate, co-author, and study the protocols at scale, with access to an engaged global community most labs cannot reach.
Advisory and corporate programs
Workplace mental health for boards, executives, and teams, delivered as measured programs with named outcomes.
Speaking and appearances
Keynotes, convenings, and media appearances across healthcare, business, and government.
Rise and Lift Others
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For research collaborations, partnerships, speaking engagements, or media inquiries
Contact Ishan’s Team