Complete beginner
You have never meditated consistently. You want to understand what you are getting into before you begin. Start with the Base Programme.
Where do you start?
Choose your path
Every practitioner is different. Here is how to find your starting point — without guessing, without overwhelm. Then discover where the practice can take you.
Your starting point
Three entry points
Where you enter the practice depends on where you are, not where you think you should be.
Some experience
You have tried meditation before — apps, courses, retreats — but never settled into a consistent practice. The Base Programme covers fundamentals you may have missed.
Advanced practitioner
You have an established daily practice and are drawn to deepening via self-inquiry, lineage study, or ashram residency. Write to us directly.
Advanced practice
Stages of the journey
Each stage builds on the previous. You do not choose — the practice reveals where you are. Begin with SMS Meditation and the path unfolds naturally.
Dark Meditation
As we practice SMS meditation in the light of the sun, moon, and stars, that light fills both inner and outer selves. Dark Meditation preserves that inner bliss — like the darkroom where a film is developed before it is experienced on screen.
Siddhi Yoga
Through Siddhi Yoga we begin to realize that the secret of the universe is as small as a mustard seed, yet its dimensions are infinite. We can experience all 14 dimensions of this universe — planets, subtle worlds, and beyond what the naked eye can see.
Samadhi
When we fully train our bodies to sit in a certain way, we enter a state where the universe takes control — Samadhi. In this state a person begins to merge with cosmic consciousness, experiencing other dimensions. Ardhasamadhi, Jeevasamadhi, and Mahasamadhi are its forms.
Jnana Yoga
When we truly experience knowledge, we realize that we are knowledge itself — not just the body — and we begin to live based on this understanding. Reading is only information. True knowledge comes from experience. Jnana Yoga is that journey from self-experience to self-knowledge.
The five layers
Panchakosha — layers of the self
Ancient Indian sages described five layers — Koshas — that surround our sense of self. As we progress through Jnana Yoga, we move through each layer until we transcend them all and reach Brahma Njanam: pure self-knowledge.
01
Annamaya Kosha
The physical body — sustained by food (Annam). The feeling of hunger is the knowledge we derive from this layer.
02
Pranamaya Kosha
The vital/sensory body. Recognises form, colour, smell. The senses through which we perceive the world.
03
Manomaya Kosha
The mental body. Desire, emotion, and feeling arise here — the layer where the mind forms wishes and reactions.
04
Vijnanamaya Kosha
The intellect body. Evaluation, discernment, decision-making. The layer that asks: Is this right? Is this safe?
05
Anandamaya Kosha
The bliss body. The deep satisfaction and joy that arises when all other layers are fulfilled and united.
Spirituality is not something to be read, but to be experienced.
The answers to "Who am I? Where did this world come from? What is my goal?"
come not from books — but from sitting in silence.