A systematic approach to bringing yoga practice off the mat and into the rhythms of ordinary days — morning protocols, breath practice integrated with work, evening wind-down, and the understanding that every transition between states is an opportunity for awareness. Situates yoga as an ecological practice, not a fitness regime.
A practitioner’s guide to milam — dream yoga as transmitted through the Six Yogas of Nāropa. Covers the preparatory practices (recognition of the dream state, stabilisation, transformation), the relationship between milam and tummo, and the view that the dream state is an intermediate training ground for the bardo. For serious practitioners of Tibetan Buddhist tantra.
The makhan-chor cycle — Kṛṣṇa’s childhood thefts of butter in Braj — as a sustained text of Vaiṣṇava theology. The butter is śakti in its most condensed, most nourishing form; the theft is the divine’s refusal to be bound by propriety. Includes Sūrdās’s pada tradition, Yaśodā’s vision of the cosmos in Kṛṣṇa’s mouth, and the bhakti understanding that divine love exceeds all rule.
Osho’s discourses on the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad — eighteen verses that open with the declaration that the entire universe is pervaded by the divine (īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvaṃ). Osho reads the Upaniṣad as a teaching on renunciation without asceticism: possess nothing, enjoy everything. Copyright: Osho International Foundation. Routed to river_orion.
The peace invocation of the Kena, Katha, Śvetāśvatara, and Taittirīya Upaniṣads — chanted before and after every teaching session in the Vedic tradition. With syllable-by-syllable stress marking, Devanāgarī, and translation.
The complete Śānti Path — four prayers from different Vedic currents held together: the Bṛhadāraṇyaka passage from unreal to real, the prayer for the welfare of all beings, the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya, and the declaration of total refuge. With full transliteration and translation.
The fifty mātṝkā seed syllables of the Sanskrit alphabet distributed across the six primary cakras — Mūlādhāra through Ājñā — chanted twenty times in full sequence. A preparatory practice before mantra sādhana or meditation, drawn from the Śākta tantric tradition.
The Saṅkaṭanāśana Gaṇeśa Stotram — thirteen stanzas naming the twelve primary epithets of Gaṇeśa, as narrated by Nārada. Recited at the three daily junctures for the dissolution of obstacles. Complete with transliteration and translation.
A 77-page bilingual edition of the Bhagavad Gītā presenting the complete Sanskrit Devanāgarī text alongside an English translation. All 18 adhyāyas — from Arjuna’s crisis on Kurukṣetra through Kṛṣṇa’s final teaching on action without attachment to fruit.
Two verses for the lighting of a lamp — the first invoking the flame’s power to bring auspiciousness and dissolve enmity, the second naming the lamp as parabrahma itself. With Devanāgarī, transliteration, and full translation. For use at any altar, lamp, or candle.
Two verses from the Śrī Guru Stotram (Guru Vandanam) — the first establishing the guru’s identity with Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Maheśvara, the second giving the fourfold map of how the guru-principle operates in practice: in meditation, worship, mantra, and liberation.
The Tantrokta Devī Suktam in full — thirty verses recited at the close of the Devī Māhātmya, addressing the Goddess as she manifests in consciousness, wisdom, sleep, hunger, shadow, compassion, confusion, and every other quality of experience. With complete transliteration and Devanāgarī.
The complete Hanumān Chālīsā — Tulsīdāsa’s 16th-century Awadhi devotional poem, forty verses and two dohās, with full transliteration. The most widely recited devotional text in the Hindu tradition.
Peer-reviewed paper (J. Hum. Ecol. 17(4), 2005) by Padhy, Dash, and Padmavati examining the astrological basis of human character from an ethno-biological perspective — a scholarly engagement with the Jyotiṣa framework and its claim that celestial rhythms shape biological life.
The Liṅgāṣṭakam in eight stanzas — each ending with the same declaration of prostration before Sadāśiva’s liṅga. With full transliteration. A complete practice in the Śaiva devotional tradition.
The one-verse śloka given by Śiva to Pārvatī — chanting Rāma’s name three times is equal in sanctity to reciting the Viṣṇu Sahasranāma in full. Nine rounds of recitation with Devanāgarī, transliteration, and translation.
A 38-page guide from the Sound Yoga Academy mapping the cakra bīja seed syllables (LAM, VAM, RAM, YAM, HAM, OM) and the mātr̥kā — the fifty Sanskrit phonemes as goddess forms distributed across the tantric body. Reference material for any cakra-based or tantric practice.
A 21-verse stotra to Mahātripurasundarī Lalitāmbikā with Sanskrit and English — each verse invoking a different aspect of the Goddess — followed by a reading on the Divine Mother and a video of the Lalitā Sahasranāma prayer by Craig Pruess and Ananda.
Eight-canto hymn to Mahātripurasundarī Lalitāmbikā, attributed to Ādi Śaṅkarācārya. Full text in IAST and Devanagari with English translation. Sung by Lalitha Sagari.
Every Friday 6–8pm, the Ecology Yoga community gathers at Mata’s for two hours of devotional singing — call and response, Sanskrit bhajans, mantras from the Śaiva and Śākta traditions. Recording from a recent gathering.
Oscar Wilde’s dark fairy tale about one-sided friendship — and what it reveals about the extraction that calls itself devotion. Full text, with ecological framing.
Every Saturday, the Ecology Yoga community gathers for a havan centred on the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya mantra — the ancient Vedic fire ritual with offering, stotra, kirtan, and saṅkalpa. For healing, transformation, and the cultivation of what the fire does that fire alone can do.
What the Gītā actually asks — and why its answer through karma yoga and dharmic action remains the most practical teaching for ecological and relational life.
Lama Thubten Yeshe on śūnyatā (emptiness) as the single most important realisation — why all saṃsāric suffering traces back to the wrong concept of a real I, and how bodhicitta arises from the kindness of every sentient being.
The tradition does not separate the welfare of women from the welfare of the earth. Both are the Goddess in her most immediate form. What we practise toward one, we practise toward the other.
Matri’s reflection on the relationship between how we relate to the women and girls in our lives and how we relate to the earth — the barren soil that feeds no one, the open ear that hears the Mother Earth, the practice that begins at home before it reaches the world.
The Purāṇic narrative of the three demon brothers who obtained three indestructible cities aligned once every thousand years, and Śiva’s single arrow that destroyed all three simultaneously at the moment of alignment. The theological reading: the three malas, perfect timing, and action without new bondage.
The Kurumba people of the Nilgiri Hills — five clans, ancient Pallava roots, and a living cosmology that holds the human community in relationship with land, ancestors, and invisible forces.
A classical manual on kuṇḍalinī practice — the preparation of body and nervous system (śarīra-śuddhi, nāḍī-śodhana, kriyā sequence), the cakra system as integrated map, and the understanding that the śakti is already present and the practice creates conditions for its movement.
A survey of yantra — the geometric support for meditation, mantra, and śakti — across the three major Hindu tantric currents. Covers the Śrī Yantra in detail (nine-triangle matrix, pañcadaśī encoding), Śaiva maṇḍala structures, and Vaiṣṇava diagrams. Situates yantra as sacred technology, not decorative art.
A careful, evidence-informed yoga therapy guide for women during and after breast cancer treatment — fatigue management, lymphedema precautions, gentle restorative sequences, and the psychological territory of healing a body that has been through medical intervention. Neither clinical nor sentimental; deeply respectful of the whole person.
Please confirm you want to block this member.
You will no longer be able to:
Please note: This action will also remove this member from your connections and send a report to the site admin. Please allow a few minutes for this process to complete.
