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.
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 complete Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam from the Brahmanda Purana — a thousand names of the divine feminine as a living map of consciousness, for chanting and meditation.
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.
Bābā Śrī Chand Bhagavān Jī’s Mātrā Sāhib — the foundational composition of the Udāsī order, recited daily by the lineage. Jñāna yoga, tyāga, tapasyā, and sevā distilled into chant.
The pūrṇāhuti — the final offering that seals a Vedic ritual — chanted from the opening invocation of the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad. Audio recording with Sanskrit, chant guide, and translation.
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.
Śrī Śāṇḍilya’s hundred sūtras define bhakti as parā anurakti — supreme attachment to the Lord. A less-circulated translation; for those prepared to receive it, a door-way other editions do not open.
The foundational scripture of svara yoga — the science of the breath — given as a dialogue between Pārvatī and Śiva across 396 verses on nāḍī, tattva, time, and the rhythm of the nostrils.
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