Focus for Study
A student's reset: steady the body, balance on one leg, then sit and give the mind one thing.
In the simplest words
Before homework: sit like a thunderbolt, stand like a mountain, balance like a tree, then breathe through one nostril at a time. Your brain gets quiet and ready — like cleaning your desk, but inside your head.
Practise along
Step through the postures at your own pace with the arrows, or press play and let each posture time itself. Arrow keys work too.
Thunderbolt seat
Breathe naturally
Kneel back on the heels, hands on thighs, and take eight slow breaths — arriving.
Learn this pose →Posture 1 of 4
What it is
Curated for before homework, revision or any work that needs a gathered mind. Movement first — the thunderbolt seat, a tall mountain, the tree's one-pointed balance — because stillness lands better in a body that has done something. It ends seated, flowing straight into nadi shodhana; on days of heavy study, trataka afterwards is the classical companion.
Where it comes from: Curated by Dharamkira from the classical poses on this page — a sequence, not a scripture.
Rounds & rhythm
Once through before sitting down to work; the breathing may repeat as long as it helps.
What it is kept for
Exam season, scattered afternoons, settling in before japa or trataka.
Before you practise — health first
Take the tree near a wall if balance is new; skip vajrasana with knee pain and sit cross-legged instead. All else is gentle.
Every posture, in order
Thunderbolt seat
natural breath
Kneel back on the heels, hands on thighs, and take eight slow breaths — arriving.
Mountain
natural breath
Stand and grow tall, arms overhead, three tiptoe rises with the breath.
Tree — both sides
natural breath
Root one foot, rest the other on thigh or calf, gaze at one point. Five breaths a side.
Sit & alternate-nostril breathe
natural breath
Take your seat and move straight into 6–9 rounds of nadi shodhana. Then begin your work.