Two Rishis walked in one morning carrying something wrapped in red cloth. What they placed on our altar has been sitting in the yoga hall ever since — waiting for you.
Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ — a complete and unreceived sacrifice. The full story, with ecological commentary on giving without condition.
An early 20th-century survey of yoga within the Hindu religious and philosophical framework — āsana, prāṇāyāma, mantra, and the classical darśana of Sāṃkhya-Yoga presented for a general educated readership. A document of the moment when Indian yoga began to translate itself for the West, before the translation became the primary version.
An 18-page introduction to Vedic chandas (metrical feet) and svara (pitch-accent system) — one of the six Vedāṅgas. Covers the major meters (gāyatrī, triṣṭubh, jagatī, anuṣṭubh) with examples from the Viṣṇu-sahasranāma and Lalitā-sahasranāma.
Steven Forrest’s foundational text of evolutionary psychological astrology (1984) — the birth chart as a portrait of psychological terrain, not a prediction. For practitioners working at the intersection of self-inquiry and astrological symbolism.
A comprehensive handbook on herbal teas for health, pleasure, and daily ritual — organised by both plant and purpose. Situates the practice within the ecological understanding that medicine cannot be separated from the place that produced it.
Theodore Bryant’s 153-page practical guide to building self-discipline as a learnable skill — structured in ten daily chapters. A Western psychological companion to the tradition’s own analysis of vāsanā, saṃskāra, and the development of the stable mind that sustains practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The Durga Saptasati — 700 verses mapping the Goddess’s defeat of cosmic delusion — with Swami Sivananda’s introduction and the complete PDF for reading and practice.
A practical guide to yoga-based stretching — distinguishing the held, breath-integrated āsana from the ballistic stretch, addressing the role of the fascia, and organising sequences by joint group and daily need. For students and teachers who want a biomechanically grounded somatic entry point.
The Puranic story of Sati’s confrontation with Daksha and the emergence of the ten Dasa Mahavidyas — the complete map of divine feminine power in the Indian tradition.
A practical pañcāṅga (Vedic almanac) covering the 2017 solar year, calculated for Sacramento CA by Science of Light. Includes retrograde cycles, nakṣatra transits, Vedic festivals with astronomical basis, and a section on muhūrta — the science of auspicious timing.
The Agni Purāṇa — one of the most encyclopaedic of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas — as a study resource in Brahma Vidyā, the direct knowledge of the ultimate reality.
How a child from coastal Kerala became the philosopher who systematised Advaita Vedānta and established four living monastic institutions across India — a life that reshaped the spiritual geography of a civilisation in thirty-two years.
The opening of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — Rāma’s great dispassion — and why his ancient crisis of meaning is the tradition’s model for genuine enquiry.
The foundational text of eco-yoga: 63 verses of the Atharva Veda addressed directly to Earth as living, conscious Mother. “I am the son of Earth, Earth is my Mother.” The thesis of ecology.yoga, sung in 1200 BCE.
Trika Shaivism’s 36-tattva architecture, in unbroken lineage and brief touches on Chinese alchemy and physics, a note on the four-thousand-year westward transmission, and a guided contemplation walking the 36 in a single sit.
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