The protocol, counted, and what it does not claim
Every number on this page is computed from the deployed practice modules at the moment the page is built, not typed in by hand. If a movement is added tomorrow these figures change tomorrow.
What the protocol is, counted
| group | movements | one round | across the three stages |
|---|---|---|---|
| group 1 | 15 | 23 | 138 |
| group 2 | 21 | 55 | 330 |
| group 3 | 32 | 92 | 552 |
| group 4 | 44 | 44 | 264 |
| group 5 | 63 | 63 | 378 |
| group 6 | 33 | 33 | 198 |
| group 7 | 40 | 40 | 240 |
| group 8 | 41 | 41 | 246 |
| group 9 | 77 | 77 | 462 |
| all nine | 366 | 468 | 2808 |
A group is performed three times over at three speeds. The movements are identical in all three and only the pace changes, which is why one round is the whole content and three stages are the whole dose.
60 educative sessions, 80 distinct figures with none repeated, 16 ten minute practices.
Why dose is a criterion and not a detail
Across the three stages the nine groups deliver between 138 and 552 movements. Most of the mechanisms this protocol argues from are dose dependent, and the dose varies more than fourfold between the lightest group and the heaviest. A claim that holds for one group at its dose may not hold for another at a quarter of it, and any rationale that makes one claim uniformly across all nine is overreaching.
How the evidence was assembled
Each of the 60 educative sessions is built on the same six link chain: the complication, how it is produced at receptor level, how it is treated now, what that drug actually does, where the same effect has been obtained without a drug, and where this practice sits in that.
Analogues are drawn from any field that has measured the thing: exercise science, rehabilitation, respiratory medicine, bone biology, psychiatry, space medicine. The point is convergence across independent lines rather than one trial, because a compound behavioural intervention graded on a drug trial ladder scores artificially low for reasons that have nothing to do with whether it works.
The yoga literature is cited alongside everyone else's rather than omitted. Omitting it while citing the rest is bias, not rigour.
What this does not claim
No result from our own site is claimed anywhere on this website. Data has been collected. It is going to a peer reviewed journal first, and it will appear here after it is published and not before. A site that claimed its own unpublished numbers would deserve exactly the scepticism it got.
Every प्रमाण layer names the cheapest measurement that would prove it wrong, and where a figure argues against the practice it is drawn anyway. The dose comparison in the prāṇāyāma session shows our own ladder sitting outside the range the evidence was built at. That figure was not flattering and it is on the page.
What this cannot do, and where it must hand over
This is not detoxification. A man in moderate or severe withdrawal needs medical management, and in India that ordinarily means buprenorphine at a de-addiction centre. Nothing on this site replaces that, delays it, or is a reason to attempt withdrawal without it.
This does not treat an overdose. Opioid overdose is a respiratory emergency and it is reversed with naloxone by somebody trained to give it. A practice hall is not a place to manage one.
This does not diagnose and it does not screen. Identification stays with the medical officer and the Community Health Officer, who already have both the training and the register for it.
It has no way of its own to notice a man who is deteriorating. A hall sees him for one hour, three mornings a week. Any programme built on this needs a referral path written on the wall and known to whoever leads the practice, with the free number behind it for the nights in between.
A protocol that cannot say where it stops is not safe to hand to a village, however good the practice inside it is.
Where each of these comes from
- Yoga for Opioid Withdrawal and Autonomic Regulation: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry, 7 January 2026. PMID 41499110. 59 men with opioid use disorder on an inpatient ward in India, all on buprenorphine, half also given yoga: median time to withdrawal stabilisation 5 days against 9, large effects on heart rate variability, and 23 per cent of the effect mediated by the rise in parasympathetic activity.