Jyotirgana

The one who walked out of the dark knows the way back in.

Jyoti is light. Gaṇa is a host, a gathering, a constellation. One firefly is a flicker over a black field, easy to miss. A thousand turn that field into something you can walk across.

No doctor, no counsellor, no well-meaning relative understands the pull of a substance the way someone who has obeyed it does. Who has woken at 3 a.m. bargaining with it. Who has promised, and broken the promise, and promised again.

That person is not damaged goods. That person is the most qualified guide alive.

Jyotirgana is built on that single conviction. We use Integrated Yoga Training to rebuild a body that has been borrowed against and a mind that has forgotten it can choose, and then we ask the recovered one to turn around and hold out a hand.

In western Rajasthan, opium is not a foreign vice. It is culturally embedded, socially sanctioned, offered at gatherings, passed between elders. A programme that arrives condemning the culture is refused at the door. Yoga is not refused. It is already theirs.

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We tested it. Then we published the numbers.

Thirty men completed a one-month residential programme of twice-daily, instructor-led breath-based yoga. Lung function was measured by spirometry before and after, to international (ATS/ERS) standard.

No serious adverse events were reported.

Roj AR, Siddh S, Sharma H, et al. Breath restored: yoga-based training lowers estimated lung age among individuals with opium dependence in a residential pre-post study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2026. Read the paper →
Department of Yoga, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer.
Ethics approval: Institutional Human Ethics Committee, Central University of Rajasthan. Trial registration: CTRI/2025/07/089999.

What that looks like in one life.

Numbers are how we check ourselves. They are not how anybody decides to change. This man is not in the study above. He came to a later camp, and his own data belong to research still underway. But what he describes had already been measured in the men who came before him.

150+ practices. Each one chosen for a reason.

This is not a general yoga class pointed at addiction. Every practice was matched to a specific complication that opium produces in the body and mind: the breathlessness, the ruined sleep, the pain that has nowhere to go, the craving, the flattened mood, the body that has forgotten how to generate its own energy.

Each practice then passed two filters. Subject experts in yoga and in addiction medicine rated it for relevance to the complication it was meant to address. Then the participants themselves, men living with opium dependence, rated it for whether it was actually doable in the body they had. A practice that satisfied the experts but defeated the participants did not survive.

Complication first. Practice second. That is the whole design.

The reasoning is written down, and so are its limits.

Every practice in this protocol is here because of something. Not because it is traditional, and not because it sounds right. Each one is traced from the complication it addresses, through what opium does to produce that complication, through how medicine treats it now, to the place where the same effect has been obtained without a drug. Where the evidence is thin we say so on the page, in the same size type.

Both lead to the same place: āsana, phase three, which is on this site in full and free. The remaining phases will be added here in the same form.

You can start before you contact anybody.

Two parts of the protocol are on this website in full, and both are free. No account, no payment, no waiting for a camp.

Phase three · nine groups

आसन · The Body

Nine groups, from fifteen movements to seventy seven. Each done three times over: first as they come to you, with nobody correcting you; then with the breath, until movement and breath are one thing again; then slowly enough that the attention can walk the whole body. Begin at the first, which asks the least, and stay in it as long as you like.

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It is free because the people who need it most cannot pay, and because a practice nobody can reach is not a practice.

And when you want more than one practice.

The full protocol is written down. You do not have to travel to Rajasthan, and you do not have to wait for a camp. Start where you are, and add support as you need it.

You do not have to wait for any of this. Call now.

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Please read this. Yoga is powerful and it is not a substitute for medical care. In our study it was delivered within a residential de-addiction programme, alongside standard treatment, not instead of it. Withdrawal from opioids, alcohol and some sedatives can be dangerous and occasionally fatal without supervision. Do not stop a substance abruptly on your own. Call 14446 or see a doctor first.