Beyond its educational initiatives, the foundation engages in various humanitarian efforts, including disaster relief, poverty alleviation, prisoner rehabilitation, women's empowerment, campaigns against female feticide, and environmental sustainability.

[16] Its areas of work cover disaster relief,[8] poverty alleviation,[17] prisoner rehabilitation,[16] empowerment of women, campaigns against female feticide,[18] and environmental sustainability.

[19] 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.

2.2 million under the guidance of 262 doctors to over 20,000 slum dwellers in Delhi through 108 free health camps organized in collaboration with the Indian Medical Association.

[36][37] 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.

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.

After the organization's yoga center in Islamabad, Pakistan was burned down by armed men in March 2014,[45][46] the Foundation reported receiving threats from the Taliban.