The Threshold, Grown Large — Śauca, and the Purity That Cannot Stop at the Skin
In a village at first light, someone sweeps the threshold — not housework but reverence, an offering of order to the world. That gesture has a name:…
Category: Mindfulness
The Vessel and the Six Cleansings — Ṣaṭkarma, and the Body as a Temple to Be Swept
Before the sun is up, a yogi cleans the vessel of the body the way a priest sweeps the sanctum before the god is invited in. The six purifications —…
A 25-Minute Yoga Nidra Script — The Tree at Rest (With a 20-Minute Short Read)
A complete twenty-five minute yoga nidra script, written out in full and ready to read aloud, with a marked twenty-minute path through it for a shorte…
A Yoga Nidra Script for Sleep — The House at Night, to Read Aloud
A complete forty-minute yoga nidra script for sleep, written out in full and ready to read aloud — seven stages, every pause marked, in plain Englis…
A Full-Length Yoga Nidra Script — The Garden at Dusk, to Read Aloud
A complete forty-minute yoga nidra script, written out in full and ready to read aloud — seven stages, every pause marked, in plain English.
Gaslighting and the Wheels of Light — How Manipulation Jams the Chakras, and How to Re-Tune the Truth
A husband turns the gaslights lower each evening and tells his wife she is imagining it. The tradition can show us exactly where in the subtle body th…
I Am Still Here — Yoga, Sovereignty, and the Undoing of Coercive Control
Coercive control captures the inner narrator; yoga was designed, from the beginning, to restore it. The reclaiming of a single breath that belongs to …
Saṃskāra as Algorithm — The Bound Code Running in All Conscious Systems
A child in a kitchen in Pondicherry watches her grandmother grind ginger. The grandmother does not look at her hands. She is reading a letter on the c…
The Six Enemies of the Mind — Ariṣaḍvarga, and the Two Small Words They Grow From
Arjuna asks: by what force is a man driven to harm even against his will? Kṛṣṇa answers — it is desire, it is anger; know this to be the enemy…
The Supreme Yoga (Yoga Vāsiṣṭha) — Vol. 1: Vasiṣṭha’s Counsel to a Disillusioned Prince
Prince Rāma returns from his travels and stops eating. The sage Vasiṣṭha is called to counsel him. From that hush rose the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha —…
The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali — An Interpretive Edition
One Sanskrit word — atha, 'now' — opens the most precise statement of the inner science of yoga ever written. A companion piece to Patañjali's 19…
The Citta Is Ours Together — Shared Memory, Collective Awakening, and the Door That Closes on No One
A bandit who could not say Rāma sat repeating marā, marā until the syllables turned holy and the anthill rose over him. The grooves of mind can be …
The Hours That Hold — Sandhyā, the Daily Rule, and the Rhythm the Earth Never Breaks
Sandhyā means 'the juncture' — showing up, on purpose, at the seams of the day, every day, for a life. The yogi's daily rule and the earth's circad…
The Inner Sky — Steven Forrest
Steven Forrest's foundational text of evolutionary psychological astrology (1984) — the birth chart as a portrait of psychological terrain, not a pr…
Yoga Nidra in a Nutshell
An accessible introduction to yoga nidrā — its tantric roots in nyāsa practice, the layered structure of the mind it works with, and the eight sta…
The Yamas and Niyamas: Patañjali’s Foundation for Practice
Patañjali's eight-limbed path begins with ten ethical commitments — five yamas turned outward to the world, five niyamas turned inward to the self.…