Shripur
The light opens the door. The Method teaches you to walk through it.
A secular method that trains the mind’s eye, and an instrument of light that reads your brainwaves, heart and breath through a soft sensing cap and responds to you, with a guide beside you, always.
The Shripur Instrument
Closed loop
Patent pending · IN 202611124329
A light that closes the loop.
It reads brain, heart and breath, and shapes the field to you while it is happening. As you settle, it steps aside.
- Brain, heart and breath are read together on the Instrument.
- As you settle the field recedes; it returns if needed.
- The guide watches over it, and decides.
Reads
Brain, heart and breath, from a few small sensors.
Shapes
A field of warm light: its rhythm, depth and brightness, in real time.
Steps aside
When you no longer need it, so the depth is yours.
Guided
A certified guide in every session. Design film; the prototype is built and in testing.
A brain interface for inner practice
Concept film
It reads your brainwaves. Then it steps back.
Seven small sensors in a soft cap read your brainwaves, and one more reads your heart, hundreds of times a second. Most neurofeedback rewards you with more of something when you get it right. Shripur turns that around: as your brain settles, the light gives way, so there is nothing to chase and the depth is yours.
One session, as the Instrument sees it.
Your guide sees these signals live; you see only the light. An illustration of the principle, not a recording.
Settling detected: the light steps back, over a minute or two.
If you need to come back, a separate, faster loop warms the light and alerts your guide.
Reads
Eight channels: seven on the scalp for the brain, one for the heart. Breath is taken from the heart signal, with no belt.
Rate
250 readings a second on every channel, at 24 bits, on open research-grade hardware.
Feedback
The light itself. No score, no streaks, nothing to optimise. It gives way as you go deeper.
Held
Your guide always decides. Fixed safety limits sit beneath every setting, and no AI touches the light. A practice tool, not a medical device.
Anatomy · the light head
Built, not imagined.
The prototype is built and in testing, and its sensing core already records a clean brain-wave signal. The light head mixes light in a white cavity until the field is perfectly even, driven by the loop, on its own battery.
- 01The facea diffuser: one even field, no point of light
- 02The cavitya white tray that mixes the light until it is even
- 03The emittersa warm ground with a deep-red wash, and a white layer that carries the rhythm
- 04Driver and timingthe loop runs here, as plain code
- 05The shellbronze, holding the head on its arc
- 06The batteryin the base: its own power, never the wall
Sensing
Eight channels at 24 bits, 250 samples a second, on open hardware.
Loop
Reads, shapes, steps aside. Plain auditable code on the device. No AI in the loop.
Power
Battery only, never the wall.
Status
Patent pending, IN 202611124329. Prototype built and in testing. On sale from late 2027, once independently tested for optical safety and declared CE-conformant.
Read. Respond.
Step aside.
Many devices read the mind, and many more play light and sound at it. Connecting the two is the harder part, and it is the part we build. Engineering closed this kind of loop long ago: a thermostat reads the room and adjusts the heat.
Sense, interpret, act, sense again is one of the most productive patterns in modern engineering. Shripur applies it to contemplative practice, with one rule that shapes everything: as you go deeper, the light steps back. The Instrument reads where you actually are, not where a programme assumes you are, and shapes the light to you, moment by moment.
That is closer to what a very good teacher does, and there have never been enough of those. India catalogued routes inward over thousands of years; we are rebuilding that path for the person who exists now, from the texts up, with an instrument at its centre. The Path
One path, five layers.
One map runs through all five. The texts are its source. The manuals turn it into practice. Retreats and workshops are where it is walked with a guide. The Instrument carries it into light, and the app carries it home.
One map beneath all of it.
Every layer carries the same map: nine stages, from the world at the gate to a single point at the centre, drawn from a classical Indian map of inner states and read in plain language. Nothing in Shripur places you on it. It is there to walk.
- 1The gate of the three worlds
- 2Longing, fulfilled
- 3The stirring that turns back
- 4What everyone wants
- 5Every aim, one aim
- 6The self, seen clearly
- 7Division, quieted
- 8Arising, abiding, dissolving
- 9The point
Why we start with the mind.
Light devices sell the light. We begin with the person, because the evidence says the person decides how far the light can take them.
Nearly all
Light draws shapes
Under rhythmic light almost everyone sees the same few geometric patterns, drawn by the layout of the visual cortex itself.
Allefeld 2011 · Bressloff 2001
92%
Imagination sets the depth
of people with a vivid mind’s eye saw images under flickering light, against 67% of those with little or none, and they saw richer ones.
Königsmark 2021
Trainable
Practice strengthens it
Twenty minutes of visualisation practice markedly sharpened imagery in experienced practitioners.
Kozhevnikov 2009
The light opens the door. The Method teaches you to walk through it.
La lumière ouvre la porte ; la Méthode vous apprend à la franchir.
So every guest gets the Method: a short gazing prelude in every session, the app between visits, and the full path for those who want it.
This is our hypothesis, and our trials test it with and without the Method. The studies used stronger light than our safety limits allow. What we know, and what we do not
A light that reads you, and goes with you.
It reads brain, heart and breath.
It shapes the light to you.
It is built to step aside as you settle.
Many people meet colour and shifting geometry behind closed eyes; others go somewhere stiller. Both are the path. The light goes as deep as you do, and if you need it, it returns.
Three journeys.
Each journey is a route inward drawn from a classical source, with its own geometric form and its own rhythm of light. Your guide chooses it with you; the Instrument shapes it to you.
Three paintings, gently moving. The light in a session is a soft, even field, not a picture.
And when you are ready, it brings you back.
Three ways in.
The first journeys are held by the founders. Trial runs begin in Europe in the first half of 2027, with a pilot planned in India. Certified guides and partner venues, in Europe and in India, join as they qualify.
On a spa menu
A guided journey into colour, geometry and deep rest. A short gazing prelude, then eyes closed, sensors on the scalp, a guide beside you.
For spas, studios, retreat centres, float centres and hotels.
- The Instrument, owned outright, with six months of online certification and a business toolkit.
- At three sessions a day, by our estimate it earns itself back in about three months, after VAT and staff time.
- Pay up front, in twelve instalments, or lease.
Shripur earns from the Instrument sold with certification, from journeys and retreats, and from membership. How Shripur earns.
Rebuilt from the sources.
Every journey begins in a classical text. We translate them, with commentary, in plain English, and publish them. The texts are the foundation the whole method stands on.
15
classical source texts translated for the Method
5
books published by the founders
Held with care.
Every guest is screened for epilepsy and light sensitivity with a published questionnaire before a first session, and first sessions are short and dim. A stop control stays within your reach at every moment, and your guide can end the session at once.
It will never show you a score, never run in untrained hands, and never play a fixed programme at you. When you need the light it comes back, and when you do not it stays out of the way. AI never controls the light: after a session it only summarises what happened, for your guide. Recordings are kept only with your explicit consent, under the GDPR.
Light over closed eyes is not for everyone, and some people respond very little. The practice, the stillness and your guide’s care are the heart of it. What we know, and what we do not
Shripur is not suitable if you are under 18 or pregnant. It is not suitable if you have epilepsy, seizures or sensitivity to flickering light, or if a parent, sibling or child does. It is not suitable with bipolar disorder or a history of psychosis, in you or in a parent, sibling or child. It is also not suitable with a dissociative condition, a recent trauma, a recent head injury, a pacemaker or other implanted device, or medication that acts on the brain (other than antidepressants), after recent alcohol or recreational drugs, or after less than four hours of sleep in the last day. If you are unsure about any of these, tell your guide: unsure counts as yes.
Built by people who practise what they teach.
Rajat Kumar Luthra and Neha Kumar Luthra founded Shripur together. Rajat devised the Method and its session protocol and builds the Instrument; Neha, former head of training at Ananda in the Himalayas, helps him shape it. Both are trained yoga teachers, and they hold the first journeys together.
It began with one question: could light be shaped not to dazzle but to accompany a person inward, and leave the moment it is no longer needed?
Rajat Kumar Luthra
Co-founder, guide and maker
Neha Kumar Luthra
Co-founder, guide and teacher
Join the early list.
We write only when there is something to tell, and you hear first.
- The Shripur InstrumentPrototype built and in testing
- Trial journeys, in Europe and IndiaFrom 2027
- The Academy, first cohortSecond half of 2027
- Shripur at home: the app and booksComing soon
We never ask about your health here. Safety screening happens privately, with your guide.
Shripur is not suitable if you are under 18 or pregnant. It is not suitable if you have epilepsy, seizures or sensitivity to flickering light, or if a parent, sibling or child does. It is not suitable with bipolar disorder or a history of psychosis, in you or in a parent, sibling or child. It is also not suitable with a dissociative condition, a recent trauma, a recent head injury, a pacemaker or other implanted device, or medication that acts on the brain (other than antidepressants), after recent alcohol or recreational drugs, or after less than four hours of sleep in the last day. If you are unsure about any of these, tell your guide: unsure counts as yes. Safety and suitability, in full.