Aham Shoonyam

Aham Shoonyam is a meditation teaching project run by the Aham Shoonyam Foundation Trust, based in Gethia, near Nainital in Uttarakhand, India. It describes its purpose as creating a happier society that is more in sync with life and nature.

The teaching centres on meditation and self enquiry, the question of who or what we really are. Its foundational offering is the Self Realisation Guide, an audio of about two and a half hours that explains the layers of mind and the nature of the true self. It also describes the four major paths of yoga and uses dreaming and sleep as analogies for concepts such as maya and awareness. It ends with a guided self enquiry.

Alongside this are guided meditations, including Maha Rudra Kriya, Effortlessness, Completeness, Go Deeper and Deep Sleep & Cleansing of the Mind. Maha Rudra Kriya combines pranayama, Nada Yoga and breath witnessing. The online version includes a self enquiry technique. The fuller version, with intense Kriya Yoga techniques, is shared only in person, where proper guidance and support are possible.

Aham Shoonyam also offers online workshops, video discourses and personal spiritual guidance. It holds meditation camps and retreats in the Himalayan belt near Nainital, where the focus is on self enquiry and handling the mind so that outer situations do not disturb inner peace. The retreats are delivered with its partner Mighty Himalayas, using content from the Foundation and teachers it has trained.