Introducing the Joy Lab
A new experiment in weekly meditation practice—where the practices work for you—not the other way around.
Most meditation practices make you work for them.
Hour-long commitments. Daily discipline. A payoff promised somewhere in the future—if you just stick with it long enough.
But here’s the reality: in an Instagram world with hyper-short attention spans, that doesn’t work for most people. Even people desperately seeking peace, joy, relief from stress.
What if the practices worked for you instead?
That’s what happened in February.
I ran a small cohort—and watched people discover things I didn’t expect.
Someone who’d never stuck with meditation found “sudden stillness, calm take over as if time stood still.”
Another blended techniques (which speaks to the beauty of this approach) and came to a place so deep in flow that they lost track of time and surroundings. Only presence and the now moment.
One person said the emotional release practice was “magical. Never experienced anything like this.”
Not because they forced themselves. Because something finally clicked.
What I’ve Learned
For the last 12 months, I’ve been living in “go with the flow” mode. No grand plans. Just experiments—following what feels right, seeing where it leads.
Over the years, I’ve run gratitude meditation courses, guided sessions for seniors, live cohorts. Each one taught me something about what people actually need versus what meditation traditionally demands.
This February’s journey—Being Joyful—moved through one practice per day, building from calm to presence to flow.
I loved watching different practices click for different people. Seeing what resonated.
But I also noticed something.
The Insight
Some people didn’t want to rush through a new practice every day. They wanted to linger. Immerse themselves for a few days, really feel it, integrate it before moving to the next one.
That’s when the flow nudged me toward something different.
Introducing The Joy Lab
A weekly practice community where you explore one practice at a time—at your own pace.
Here’s how it works:
I pick one practice to explore for the week (Week 1 might be breath awareness. Week 2 could be gratitude. Week 3, sound meditation. You get time to actually feel each one.)
We chat about it on WhatsApp—what’s working, what’s not, what you’re noticing
Saturday mornings at 8:30am PT, we sync up over virtual coffee or tea to share experiences before exploring something new
Just like a lab, this is about experimentation. You try a practice and see what works for you. What brings you to a quality of being where life feels lighter—where you find joy, happiness, and most importantly, peace.
Real change happens by cultivating inner state—like peeling an onion or opening the petals of a lotus. One practice at a time. Not by forcing it.
No lifelong commitments. The practices work for you instead of making you work for them.
The Details
$11/month. Capped at 25 members—small enough to stay intimate, large enough for rich conversations.
I’m starting small. If it’s just you and me for a few weeks, that’s fine—we’ll figure it out together. You’re coming in on the ground floor of an experiment.
You’ll also get access to the full library of cohorts—today that includes Being Joyful. And you can join the next cohorts for free.
When we hit 25 members? We’ll see where that takes us.
This is my lab too. I’m not sure where it goes, but right now, this is the next immediate flow.
PS: Last week, the flow took me to this analysis of Guru Granth Sahib. I’m quite proud of it—it brought me a lot of joy. Not every answer to happiness has to be sit down and meditate for a few hours. :-)
— Harpreet