Poise Meditation Space - A.P. Colony

Guided Meditation, Drop-In Session

Forty-five minutes, talked through the whole way. Come once and never again and that is a complete thing to do.

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A single session that is complete on its own, taught in plain language with no religion in it, and no ladder of courses waiting above it.

Come once and never again. There is nothing above this and nothing to join
No chanting, no mantra, no initiation, no lineage, no donation box
Capped at 14, chairs at the back, no experience assumed
Taught in plain Hindi and English, with any Sanskrit word explained

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Forty-five minutes in a quiet room with someone talking you through it. Breath, body, attention, and what to do when your mind goes somewhere else, which it will, repeatedly, and which is not a mistake. Come once. There is no course to join, no sequence you are partway through, no group you become part of and no follow-up call. Drop-in means drop-in. If you attend one session and never come back, nothing is unfinished and nobody will ring you. That matters because meditation in India is very often sold as a ladder: a free session, then a course, then an advanced course, then a residential, then a lifetime membership, each one implying the last was incomplete. This is a room with a teacher in it for forty-five minutes at Rs 249 and there is nothing above it. Nothing here is religious. Nothing is chanted at you. There is no mantra to be given, no initiation, no lineage, no photograph on the wall and no donation box. What is taught is attention, and it is taught in plain Hindi and English without a Sanskrit word that is not explained the first time it is used. The A.P. Colony room is being stood up and the timetable is not running yet. We are stating the room and the cap we have, not a facility that is already busy.

45 minutes: settling 5, guided practice 30, sitting without guidance 5, questions 5
Capped at fourteen, on cushions, with chairs at the back for anyone who cannot sit on the floor
No experience assumed. Roughly half the room on any given day has not done this before
Phones in the box by the door
Honest trade-off: forty-five minutes will not change anything by itself. What changes things is doing it most days, which is what Beginners Meditation Course at Rs 2,400 over six evenings is actually for

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What happens, and the room it happens in

Total: 45 minutes. Doors open 10 minutes ahead and close when it starts.
0 to 5 min: Settling. Finding a position you can actually hold for half an hour, which for most people is a chair or a cushion against a wall rather than a cross-legged posture off a poster.
5 to 35 min: Guided practice. Breath, then body, then attention, with the teacher talking the whole way. When your mind wanders you are told what to do about it, which is the only instruction that actually matters and the one most people never get.
35 to 40 min: Five minutes without any guidance, so you find out what it is like when nobody is talking.
40 to 45 min: Questions, out loud or not at all. Nobody is asked to share anything about themselves and there is no circle.
Cap: Fourteen. Beyond that the room stops being quiet and starts being a hall.
The room, honestly: One room of about 340 square feet, roughly 22 ft by 15 ft 6 in, on the ground floor in A.P. Colony. Twelve mats at 6 ft by 2 ft is 144 square feet of mat and the rest is space to walk between them. There is one toilet, a shoe rack and a water filter. There is no changing room, no shower, no lockers and no cafe. It is a room, not a facility.
Getting in: Ground floor, one step at the entrance, so a wheelchair needs a hand over that step. Street parking for two-wheelers outside; a car parks on the lane. Tell us before you book if the step is a problem and we will meet you at it.
What the struck price is: Rs 299 is the standing rate. Rs 249 is the opening rate while the A.P. Colony room fills up. Teaching four people in a room built for twelve costs the same as teaching twelve, and the opening rate is us carrying that rather than the first few people carrying it.

What this is not, and what it does not claim

No religion, no ritual, no guru: Nothing is chanted at you. There is no mantra to be given, no initiation, no lineage claimed, no photograph of a teacher on the wall and no donation box. Nobody will ask you to come back on a schedule or join anything. You may sit in the room and never speak to anyone, and that is a complete way to use it.
No ladder: There is no advanced session, no residential retreat, no teacher training and no lifetime membership. The most expensive meditation thing we sell is a six-evening beginners course at Rs 2,400, and its stated aim is that you stop needing us.
No medical claims: This is not a treatment for anxiety, depression, panic, insomnia, blood pressure or pain. Some people find it helps; that is not the same sentence and we will not blur them. If you are being treated for something, keep being treated for it.
If you have a psychiatric condition: Extended silent practice can be difficult for some people with psychosis, bipolar disorder or severe trauma, and that is worth a word with your doctor first. Tell the teacher before the session and she will keep the practice short and grounded, and you can leave at any point.
No sharing circle: Nobody is asked to talk about their week, their feelings or their reasons for being there. You can attend six of these and speak to no one.
If you cannot come: Cancel more than 4 hours before and it is refunded in full. Inside 4 hours there is no refund, and the reason is the cap: the seat was held and somebody else was turned away from it. If you simply do not turn up, it is the same. This is stated here rather than discovered afterwards.
The membership: Meditation Membership, Monthly at Rs 1,200 covers this, Sunday Silent Sitting and Breathwork. Six guided sessions at Rs 249 is Rs 1,494, so the membership pays for itself from about the fifth visit in a month.

Who teaches, and if something goes wrong

The teacher named on the timetable is the teacher in the room: Whoever is listed teaches. If a substitute is unavoidable, the change is on the door and in a message before the session, and you can turn round and leave with a full refund without saying anything to anybody. The advertised teacher not being the one who teaches is the standing complaint about Indian classes and it is a fixable one.
Who teaches: A teacher with formal meditation training and a current first aid certificate. India has no statutory registration for teaching meditation, so there is no licence to display and no council to check. Saying that plainly is more use to you than a certificate from a body nobody can verify.
The premises: Ground floor room in A.P. Colony, Gaya, on a municipal trade licence, registered under the Bihar Shops and Establishments Act.
If the session was poor: If the teacher did not turn up, the session ran short, or a substitute you were not told about took it, it is refunded in full. Tell us within seven days.
The honest gap: The A.P. Colony room is being stood up and the timetable is not running yet. We are stating the room and the cap we have, not a facility that is already busy.

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