Rural Healthcare
Essential care delivered where access is limited.
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.
Rise and Lift Others
Dr. Ishan Shivanand
One of the leading voices shaping the global response to the mental health crisis
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.
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Peer-reviewed mental health research
82%with severe insomnia achieved a complete resolution of their clinical symptoms within 8 weeks.
79%with moderate to severe anxiety achieved significant improvement.
73%with moderately severe depression improved significantly.
“We found these techniques immensely useful to healthcare to eliminate negative effects of stress and burnout in our lives and help us improve overall well-being.”
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.
Education Scholarships
Opportunity that lasts, built through education infrastructure.
Field Medical Services
Delivery under pressure, including high-altitude environments.
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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.
About the bookIn his own words
Trusted by
Fortune 500 companies, Governments, and World Leading Academia
- Mayo Clinic
- Amazon
- MD Anderson
- UK Parliament
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Kentucky
- Rutgers University
- IIT Ropar
- Penguin Random House
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.
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Research and academic partnerships
Collaborate, co-author, and study the protocols at scale, with access to an engaged global community most labs cannot reach.
Propose a studyAdvisory and corporate programs
Workplace mental health for boards, executives, and teams, delivered as measured programs with named outcomes.
Start a conversationSpeaking and appearances
Keynotes, convenings, and media appearances across healthcare, business, and government.
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