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…
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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.
The Science of Breath — Yogi Ramacharaka (William Walker Atkinson, 1904)
A Chicago lawyer, writing under the name Yogi Ramacharaka, laid down in 1904 the first plain-English manual of prāṇāyāma — the breath-disciplin…
Kāya Kalpa — The Siddhar Science of Body Transmutation
In the temple town of Palani in Tamil Nadu, on a hill above the Vaiyai River, there is a small black-stone deity of Murugan that the priests will tell…
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 Five Prāṇas — The Breath in the Body Is the Breath of the World
Six seekers came to the sage Pippalāda, and one asked the question everything rests on: what powers hold this body together? The answer was the fivef…
Shivambu Shastra — The Water of Śiva: An Ancient Practice
Śivāmbu — the water of Śiva — is the traditional name for amaroli, the tantric practice the Ḍāmara Tantra traces to Śiva himself. A window …
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…
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga — Yogi Ramacharaka (1907)
An American autodidact in 1907, a forest dialogue three thousand years older, and the discipline both were trying to name: neti neti, the yoga of know…
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 Hindu Yogi Science of Breath – Ramamcharaka
An early 20th-century survey of yoga within the Hindu religious and philosophical framework — āsana, prāṇāyāma, mantra, and the classical dar…
Yoga in Daily Life
A systematic approach to bringing yoga practice off the mat and into the rhythms of ordinary days — morning protocols, breath practice integrated wi…
Tibetan Dream Yoga — Milam, Six Yogas of Nāropa
A practitioner's guide to milam — dream yoga as transmitted through the Six Yogas of Nāropa. Covers the preparatory practices (recognition of the d…
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…
Yoga Kuṇḍalinī — A Classical Manual
A classical manual on kuṇḍalinī practice — the preparation of body and nervous system (śarīra-śuddhi, nāḍī-śodhana, kriyā sequence), t…
Yoga Stretches
A practical guide to yoga-based stretching — distinguishing the held, breath-integrated āsana from the ballistic stretch, addressing the role of th…
The Śiva Svarodaya — Alchemy of Sun and Moon
The foundational scripture of svara yoga — the science of the breath — given as a dialogue between Pārvatī and Śiva across 396 verses on nāḍ…