That piece took him down the path of ‘neo sanyas’ shaping up around Osho, dropping out of college, and taking sanyas in 1971, when the guru was operating out of a Bombay apartment. he asked me ‘What brought you here?’ It took me a while to answer that, but I said, ‘I want to be with you’. he explains, “Osho felt that people suppress so much, unless they detox, meditation cannot happen. So you have to get rid of it with catharsis.” The steps involve breathing vigorously , releasing pent-up emotion through open expression, followed by a phase of yelling ‘hoo’ to activate the root chakra. The last two steps, 15 minutes each, involve freezing in position and expressing joy.

Source: Indian Express January 05, 2026 14:00 UTC