Our guides
Short practices for the everyday weight of life.
Some weeks pile up. These are small, structured exercises you can do in five to twelve minutes, when you need a frame for the day.
What a guide is
Not a quiz, not a lecture, not a meditation app
A guide is a shaped pause. You open one, tap through a few soft questions or visuals, and leave with a small reflection that belongs to the moment you are in.
Shaped
Each one has a specific moment it is built for. Something sitting heavy, a mind that will not slow, a fork in the road.
Short
Five to ten minutes. Long enough to change how the next hour feels, short enough to fit into a real day.
Quiet
No streaks, no badges, no push notifications asking if you forgot us. Come back when you need to, not because an app is nagging.
The shape of a session
Three screens, a few taps, a small reflection
Every guide follows the same quiet rhythm. You open it, tap through a few short prompts, and leave with a reflection that belongs to the moment you are in.
A 90-second taste
A small sample of what a guide feels like
Three quiet questions. One small reflection at the end. Nothing is saved. Nothing is measured.
How guides are made
Hand-written, grounded in research, shaped by Indian texture
Every guide is written by the team at ManaSmurti. Each one starts with a real moment we have heard described in conversations and reflections. We read the research on that moment, sit with how an Indian reader would describe it in their own words, and build a short practice that holds the moment without trying to fix it in one sitting.
Some guides sit on top of validated reflection frameworks from clinical psychology. Others draw from Indian contemplative traditions that have thought about the mind for a very long time. None of them are generated in the background. The words you see have been written, read aloud, and revised by a person.
What we draw from
Peer-reviewed psychology research
Contemporary work on reflective practice, grounding, breathing, and emotional labelling informs the structure of most guides.
Indian idioms of how distress is lived
Academic work on how Indians actually describe heavy days (the weight sits in the chest, in the gut, in the head) shapes the voice of every question.
Contemplative traditions across regions
Shared threads from reflective practices across South and South-East Asia. We borrow stance, not vocabulary, and never name a specific teacher or school.
Our own listening
Conversations with the first hundred users of ManaSmurti have shaped what a guide needs to be gentle, useful, and not performative.
The library
What is in the library right now
Sign in to try any of these. The first guide is free, no card needed.
More guides are on the way. Each one takes time to build well.
Safety and privacy
The quiet promises under each guide
Encrypted before it is stored
What you write in any guide is encrypted before it reaches our database, using the same standard banks use. Nobody on our team can read your reflections.
Never sold, never trained on
Your words do not go to advertisers, not to other companies, not to any model we use. Aggregate patterns may inform product decisions, never individual content.
Helplines are always one tap away
If a moment feels heavier than a guide can hold, every screen shows a quiet path to real people you can call, free and in your language.
ManaSmurti is for adults 18 and above. Guides are reflective practices, not medical advice. For clinical concerns, please reach out to a qualified professional.
Building something for a team?
Organisations can enable a curated subset of guides for their employees, with aggregate wellbeing signals for HR and full privacy for individuals. Nothing about any person is ever visible to the company.