The subtle and gross body movements as envisioned by Dhirendra Brahmachari, kept in their original form. A body that has run on opium for decades cannot be asked for an āsana on day one. Joint by joint, the body is made available again.
on this site now · 5 gross practices behind this door →2Yogic detoxBreathing Practices & ṢaṭkarmaBreathing practices developed and researched at SVYASA, alongside the six classical cleansing kriyās. This is where the measured lung improvement begins, and where the body is cleared enough for everything that follows.
on this site now · 9 breathing practices behind this door →3Strength and stillnessĀsanaNot a list of postures but nine groups, each arranged as a continuous flow. Each flow is ordered around what a body in withdrawal can actually sustain and what it needs to recover.
on this site now · nine groups behind this door →4The breath as instrumentPrāṇāyāmaCraving arrives in the breath before it arrives in the mind. A person who can find his breath under pressure has a few seconds of warning, and a few seconds is the whole difference between using and not using.
on this site now · both kinds of breath behind this door →5Concentration and meditationDhāraṇā & DhyānaAddiction is attention captured. Concentration is attention taken back, deliberately, a minute at a time. Meditation is then sitting with what the substance was covering. It is the hardest phase, and the one that decides whether any of it lasts.
Inside it now: the education of the senses. Knowing a thing exactly, refining, and five journeys, sound, touch, sight, taste and smell, each followed into silence and back.
on this site now · the education of the senses behind this door →The phase the other five exist to make possible. The trainee turns around and begins to guide the men who arrived after him. This is not a ceremony added at the end. It is the aim of the module, and the moment a person becomes Jyotirgana.
taught in the campThe first four phases have their practices on this site, free. Of the fifth, the education of the senses is here too; the rest of it, and the sixth, are taught at the camp, in person. Nothing is hidden behind a payment.
Practices for what the drug did to the body
Each complication its own practice, put together for it out of the protocol's practices. The phases above stand as they are; these take from all of them. Behind each is its educative session.
In the morning the five of phase one, as far as the body gives today, line walking first; then the subtle series; then śavāsana, until the breath and the heartbeat settle. In the evening the subtle series only, slower. After food silence, the slow walk, and bed in silence. No kapālabhāti in these days.
Morning · Evening · After the evening meal · At home · bhava →2CravingLet the picture come; give the eyes other workWhen the pull comes: sit and find it in the body; the out-breath long; if restless, move; if a picture is in front of you, the four movements of trāṭaka for the eyes. Movement in the morning, the breath four times a day.
When the pull comes · Morning · By day · Evening · At night, before sleep · At home · bhava →3SleepBuild it by day, let it in at nightThe deep layer of sleep is built by the day's work. The night's only job is to bring the body's watchfulness down.
At sunrise · By day · At night, before sleep · bhava →4The gutIn the morning, before foodThe belly massaged from within, then the group that gathers the belly in again and again every round.
Morning · bhava →5The upper gutAfter food, the belly's breath, on a slopeUdara and kapālabhāti in the morning, on an empty stomach. The midday meal slowly, then five minutes of the belly's breath, the head and chest raised on a folded blanket. A slow walk after the evening meal. At night, two or three hours after the last meal, the complete breath lying down.
Morning · The midday meal · Evening · At night, before sleep · At home · bhava →6PainEvery lift, then everything downLifts held, each followed by rest, the attention travelling the body between them. When pain flares, the breath under the hand.
Morning · When the pain flares · By day · bhava →7Strength and boneThe order from belowBone hears impact, muscle hears load. First the jumps, then the legs, then the arms.
Morning · bhava →8BoneA few jolts, then rest, then the handsBone hears the first few loads best, and in rest it begins to hear again. So five jumps in the morning, and hours later the wave on the hands.
Morning · By day · bhava →9BalanceThe line in the morning, the knee by dayIn the morning the witnesses the dark leaves him: the ankles, the neck, and the line walked out and back. By day the head moving over one knee and one foot.
Morning · By day · bhava →10Sexual lifeFive and five, morning and eveningIn the morning Hṛd-gati to move the blood, then the root held and let go ten times, the root rising with the hips in setubandhāsana, and the three locks. By day the ninth group, the root with every lift. In the evening the slow breath from the belly, and the ten again.
Morning · By day · Evening · bhava →11The bladderNot by pushing, by the breathIn the morning the floor sinking and rising with the breath, and a light mūla bandha. By day the first group. When passing water, squatting, a slow breath, and one squeeze afterwards; at a sudden urge, stillness. In the evening the complete breath, lying.
Morning · By day · When passing water · At a sudden urge · Evening · bhava →12ImmunityThe round by day, the post by nightIn the morning as much effort as the nose can breathe for, and straight after it, without sitting down, the third group. A mantra in the evening. At night the breath lying down, and sleep.
Morning · Evening · At night, before sleep · When a cold comes · bhava →13The mouth and the teethCheeks, lips, and a mantra said aloudKapola and Karṇa in the morning. By day the Gāyatrī, aloud and whispered, the breath through the nose between. A stotra in the evening. And the dentist once.
Morning · By day · Evening · At home · bhava →14The skinFrom beneath: the gut, the breath, sleep, the handsFirst, one day of śaṅkha prakṣālana in the camp, and khichdi with ghee after it. Every morning sweat, Udara, the slow breath and Kapola. In the evening the hands' work, and the same when the itch comes. At night the breath lying down, and a full sleep.
First, one day in the camp · Morning · When the itch comes · Evening · At night, before sleep · When the sweat breaks at night · At home · bhava →15Pressure and sugarThe legs held, the breath moving, and a walk after foodJaṅghā 2 in the morning on an empty stomach, a held squat with the breath moving; the arms held; uḍḍiyāna. The complete breath at six a minute, thirty breaths, four times a day. A slow walk as the evening meal ends. Yoga Nidra at night.
Morning · By day · Evening · At night, before sleep · At home · bhava →16Dizziness on standingTighten, the side, then slowly up; and when the room turns, tighten and stayOn waking, IRT, tightening from the toes to the face lying down; onto the left side; then slowly up, the legs, buttocks and belly tightened until the head is clear. In the morning Jaṅghā 2 and Piṇḍalī, rising tightened from every squat. Water through the day. And when the room turns as you stand, tighten and stay.
On waking · Morning · By day · When the room turns as you stand · If you rise in the night · At home · bhava →17The long greyDo the day; the colour comes after itNo single practice, the whole day, made smaller: in the morning the five of phase one, Sarvāṅga-puṣṭi the slowest, and the rest after it; the breath by day; a few verses in the evening, from where you stopped yesterday; the breath lying down at night. And all of it before feeling like it.
Morning · By day · Evening · At night, before sleep · On a day nothing seems worth doing · At home · bhava →18The heavy mindMovement first, then the breath, then the soundThe mood follows movement, so the morning begins with the body: the five of phase one, then the seventh group, the chest rising with the breath. Then the even breath, morning and evening; a mantra from aloud to silent; lying rest. And when the fear comes, wherever you are, the long out-breath.
At sunrise · Morning · By day · Evening · At night, before sleep · When the fear or the weight comes · At home · bhava →19Nothing feels goodEffort first, then stayingFull effort, and in the rest after it one task only: find what feels good, and stay with it.
By day · bhava →20Attention and memoryAn edge on what is still newThe breath in the morning, then the group not yet mastered, as if for the first time, then a mantra.
Morning · Evening · bhava →21WindThe breath has roomThe three parts of the breath every day, then the group nearly every step of which is on a breath.
Morning · Evening · bhava →22The breath at nightThe nose by morning, the throat by evening, the long breath at nightThe stopping at night is not mended at night. The practice is spread through the day, so the night has less left to do.
Morning · Evening · At night, before sleep · bhava →23Shame, and being aloneTogether, before talkA group that opens and closes on a prayer, one hum at the end, and then a mantra aloud. Nobody has to tell his story.
By day · At home · bhava →