The longer story
The questions Pragya keeps asking, why this work matters now, and what it means to prepare a child for life rather than only for success.
What are we not teaching our children?
For the last seven years, Somya's enquiry has centred around a deceptively simple question.
Children spend years learning mathematics, science, geography, economics, language and technology. They are taught extensively about the world around them. But remarkably little about the human being living within them.
The questions we never ask
- How does what they eat affect their body, brain and emotions?
- How does what they watch affect their mind?
- How does what they hear influence the way they feel?
- What happens inside the body when a child is frightened, angry, jealous, anxious, excited or in love?
- How are thoughts connected to physiology?
- How are emotions connected to breathing?
- And when those emotions become overwhelming, can something as fundamental as the breath help change the way the body responds?
We live within our bodies every second of our lives, yet most of us understand surprisingly little about how they function.
We breathe approximately twenty thousand times every day, yet how many children are ever taught to understand their breath?
Humanity has transformed at extraordinary speed. Within only a few generations, we have moved from relatively simple ways of living to mechanisation, digital dependence and now artificial intelligence.
Technology has given this generation extraordinary access, opportunity and power. But power without understanding can become overwhelming.
Pragya does not reject technology, medicine, ambition, science or modernity. It asks a more important question: how do we embrace progress without allowing progress to disconnect us from ourselves?
Capable, and still human
The intention is to raise a generation that can use technology without being consumed by it.
- Technologically capableyetdeeply human
- Intellectually accomplishedyetemotionally aware
- Ambitiousyetgrounded
- Physically informedyetinwardly connected
Because technology should remain a tool, not become our master.
Preparing children for life, not only success
Modern education prepares children extensively for achievement. Pragya believes they must also be prepared for adversity.
Children will not win every time. Life was never designed to be a continuous bed of roses. Growth often arrives through challenge. In fact, human life itself begins through extraordinary physical struggle, for both mother and child.
Perhaps, then, the responsibility of adults is not to remove every difficulty from a child's life. Perhaps it is to give them the inner tools to meet difficulty.
- To understand their bodies
- To recognise their thoughts
- To name and navigate their emotions
- To understand the relationship between mind, body and breath
- To develop resilience
To create a world where progress does not come at the cost of human connection.
We envision a future where people feel more connected — to themselves, to their families, to one another, and to a deeper sense of purpose. As technology continues to transform the way we live, work and communicate, our greatest need will remain profoundly human: to feel understood, connected and emotionally grounded.
A world where we don't simply live faster — but live with greater meaning.
To create experiences, conversations and spaces that encourage people to pause, look within and reconnect with what truly matters.
Through conferences, awareness initiatives, podcasts, workshops, training programmes and meaningful collaborations, Pragya brings conversations around emotional wellbeing, human relationships, self-awareness and conscious living into everyday life.
We want to inspire individuals across generations to understand themselves better, nurture healthier relationships, and carry greater empathy into their homes, workplaces and communities.
- When an individual becomes more aware, relationships begin to change.
- When relationships change, families become stronger.
- And when families and communities become more connected, the world becomes a little more human.
There is more to hear than to read.
Forty-one films and conversations — with doctors, neuroscientists, spiritual masters and the people who have sat with Pragya.