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Choose a Path
Mārga — the path
Vipassana, Tantra, Vedanta, Bhakti, Stoic, and a Path for children. Each one names its tradition, its source text and its era, so you always know whose practice you are sitting. See the Paths
how it works
How it works
Practice opens the door, not payment.
Every course unlocks the way a retreat does: one sitting at a time, in order, each only after the one before has been sat.
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Sit, and the next sitting opens
Abhyāsa — steady practice
Talks are open whenever you like. The guided sittings open in order, each one only after the one before has really been sat. The server checks the time, so you can't skip to the end. It's how a retreat works.
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Pass a Dīkṣā Gate
Dīkṣā — the gate
Before a deeper stage you're asked to put your practice into your own words. A teacher reads the reflection; software doesn't score it. It's the point where a curious listener becomes a sādhaka, someone who practises.
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Give after practice, never before
Dāna — giving
No paywall on the first steps: the first three tracks of every course are open to anyone. Money comes later, if at all, and practice lowers it. Every price on one page
What a course looks like as it opens
A sample from the first days of a course, as the app shows it.
- Introduction — how to sita talk, always open
- Sitting 1 · 15 minsat on Monday
- Sitting 2 · 15 minopen now
- Sitting 3 · 17 minopens after Sitting 2
- Dīkṣā Gate — a short reflectionread by a teacher
Talks and introductions are never locked. Only the guided sittings wait their turn.
Sit one for real, and the next opens. Scrub to the end and it doesn't, because the server counts the time you actually spent, not the position of the slider.
It sounds strict. In practice it's a relief: there is only ever one thing to do today.
What is free, and what isn't
The same three tiers the pricing page uses. Nothing here costs money before you have practised.
anyone
Free
The 15-minute Anapanasati taster and the first three tracks of every course are open to anyone, with no account.
with a free account
Free
With a free account, both Vipassana Part 1 courses open in full, by donation, and several other courses open their first sittings.
membership
$11 / month
Membership opens every course: Student at $11 a month or $88 a year; Sādhaka at $33 a month, with a seat in the guided circle; Founding at $108 once, for life.
Ten courses can also be bought on their own, once, for €19–€59 depending on length, and are yours to keep whether or not you ever subscribe.
Practice lowers the price: sit on 20 days in a month and the next month costs 25% less; 25 days, half; every day, and the next month is free. See pricing
One Path at a time, depth earned by practice, and guidance as the thing worth paying for.
That shape is older than any app. It is how a gurukula taught: the student lived the practice, and the next teaching came when they were ready for it. The methodology
Start with fifteen minutes
Three short sittings of breath awareness, free, no account. The practice every Path rests on.