What OMJOOMSUH Offers
There is one programme. Everything else comes after it, and only if you want it.
The Hundred Days
Two practices, one programme. A batch starts on the first of every month and runs a hundred days.
The morning mantra. Six to six twenty, Monday to Friday, live on a video call. Three mantras, chanted together, one repetition on each long out-breath. The Mahamrityunjaya for the body. The Gayatri for the mind. The thirty-two names of Durga to clear what sits underneath. Before the mantras, a short resolve. After them, a few minutes of watching the mind. You do not need to know the mantras. You chant along and get them right over time. Your camera is off. Nobody sees you. If you cannot make six, the recording is in the WhatsApp group the moment the session ends, and many people chant with it later, when the house is quiet.
The evening sleep practice. From eight at night, recorded. Eight minutes lying down, reviewing your day. Seven minutes of a humming breath called Bhramari. Nothing to write, nothing to join. This is the part that brings the sleep, and most people find it the easier of the two to keep.
What it costs. The first thirty days are free. No card is taken. After that, if you want to stay, it is seven hundred rupees once for the rest of the hundred days, or three hundred rupees a month. Nothing renews on its own. When the hundred days end, they end.
Who is on the call. Arjun leads every morning himself. If you miss two mornings, someone messages you. A person sends it, by hand.
Who it is for. Anyone. People of several faiths sit in the circle. The mantras are chanted as sound, for the body and the mind. You are not asked to believe anything.
After the hundred days
These are for people who have settled into the daily practice. Some run by season, so ask when you are ready.
Weekend yoga. Asana taught in person, Saturday and Sunday mornings, eight to nine thirty, in a small studio in Vasant Kunj, Delhi. It runs as a syllabus of nine stages rather than a class you drop into. You learn to sit and to breathe before you learn anything strenuous, and you move to the next stage when your body is ready for it. You do not need to be flexible and you do not need to have done yoga before. The room is small and women only. Runs between seasons.
NEEV. Neev means foundation. A sixteen week practice for women whose bodies are moving through hormonal change: perimenopause, menopause, or thyroid trouble. Live on Sunday evenings, online from anywhere in India or in the Vasant Kunj studio, every session recorded. Each week adds a short home routine. The cohort is small, around fifteen women, and a welcome kit reaches the house before the first Sunday. It begins with a reading of where a woman actually is, so the practice answers her body rather than a general idea of a body. Runs between batches.
The readings
These read something back to you. They are mirrors. None of them scores you against another person, and none of them is ever sold or shared.
The Health Balance Score Card. A report card of your energy system. It draws on Samkhya, the oldest of the classical Indian accounts of how body, mind and constitution fit together, and reads that alongside your own blood work. Your reports show the effect. This looks for the cause underneath them. It is done in person, over a long sitting with a lot of back and forth, because there is no other way to understand what it is telling you. The people who have taken it will tell you how closely it matched what they later learned about their health. It arrives as a printed document you can hold and as the same reading on your phone.
The Annamaya Index. The opposite pole of counting calories, and a way to get out from under the nutritionists by looking at what your own body actually needs. It leads back to food that is grown near you, in season, and cooked the way it has always been cooked where you live. One reading out of a hundred on how well a meal fed the body you have. It reads four things: how many different plants reach your plate across a week, how whole the food is, how it was cooked and in what vessel and with which spices, and whether it suits your own reading. It counts up, it forgives, and it never shames.
The Niranjan Index. What the evening review produces, over weeks. Reviewing the day before sleep lets you step back from the stress you live inside, and the sleep that follows is deeper for it. You will not need a more scientific mattress. The Index follows the serenity of a day and sets its steadiness beside it. Steadiness is never averaged in, because a steady hard day is still a hard day. The reading is yours alone.
Swasthya Kosha. A paper journal, kept by hand, a few lines each morning across sixteen weeks. What forms is a record in your own handwriting that no app can give you. It arrives inside the NEEV welcome kit and is also available on its own.
Swasthya Yatra. For members carrying a long-running condition. It gathers the markers you are already tracking in a notebook, with your weight, onto one screen, so you can see how they have moved over months. From it you can print a one page note to carry into your next doctor’s appointment. It states what the numbers are and what has happened. It never advises. Your doctor decides.
Where the words live
This site. A reference for every idea the practice touches, with the sources named.
The newsletter. A long essay by email, on the body, the self, the household and the tradition. The essays are collected at The Essays.
The app. app.omjoomsuh.com. The morning session, the recordings, the evening practice, and your own space where nothing is shared or compared.
What this is not
There is no weighing. There are no calories and no leaderboards. Nothing here is medical advice, and nothing here replaces your own doctor. If a number on a scale is the only measure of health you want, this will frustrate you.
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