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…
Category: Books and Texts
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 …
Siddhas in Malaysia — The Tamil Lineage That Crossed the Bay of Bengal
Climb the 272 steps at Batu Caves on Thaipusam morning, and you meet the Tamil Siddhar tradition still alive on the Malay peninsula — temple, vaidya…
Kāmadeva — The Hindu God of Desire, the Flower-Arrowed, the Bodiless
Kāmadeva — the god of desire incinerated by Śiva's third eye and restored as Anañga, the bodiless. His sugarcane bow and five flower arrows, the …
Yoga Darśana — Gaṅgānātha Jhā (1907)
Gaṅgānātha Jhā's 1907 English rendering of the Yoga Sūtras with Vyāsa's Bhāṣya — one of the earliest rigorous Sanskrit-to-English translat…
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…
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…
Tamil Studies — M. Srinivasa Aiyangar (1914)
M. Srinivasa Aiyangar's 1914 doorway into one of the oldest continuously spoken classical languages on earth — the Saṅgam academies, the five ti…
The Book of Books — Rāmacaritamānasa of Tulsīdās: A Living Text for a World in Exile
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 …
The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's 'The Nightingale and the Rose' — a complete and unreceived sacrifice. The full story, with ecological commentary on giving without con…
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…
Chandas — Basics of Veda Svaras and Vedic Recital
An 18-page introduction to Vedic chandas (metrical feet) and svara (pitch-accent system) — one of the six Vedāṅgas. Covers the major meters (gāy…
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…
The Complete Book of Herbal Teas
A comprehensive handbook on herbal teas for health, pleasure, and daily ritual — organised by both plant and purpose. Situates the practice within t…
Self-Discipline in 10 Days — Theodore Bryant
Theodore Bryant's 153-page practical guide to building self-discipline as a learnable skill — structured in ten daily chapters. A Western psychologi…
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…
The Butter Thief — Kṛṣṇa’s Makhan-Chor Cycle
The makhan-chor cycle — Kṛṣṇa's childhood thefts of butter in Braj — as a sustained text of Vaiṣṇava theology. The butter is śakti in i…
The Heartbeat of the Absolute — Osho on the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad
Osho's discourses on the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad — eighteen verses that open with the declaration that the entire universe is pervaded by the divine…
Shrimad Bhagavad Gītā — Bilingual Sanskrit and English Edition
A 77-page bilingual edition of the Bhagavad Gītā presenting the complete Sanskrit Devanāgarī text alongside an English translation. All 18 adhyāy…
Astro-Ethnobiology — Jyotiṣa, Human Character, and the Ecology of the Cosmos
Peer-reviewed paper (J. Hum. Ecol. 17(4), 2005) by Padhy, Dash, and Padmavati examining the astrological basis of human character from an ethno-biolog…
Guide to Chakra Bīja and Mātr̥kā — The Seed Syllables and the Alphabet Goddesses
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 Sans…
The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's dark fairy tale about one-sided friendship — and what it reveals about the extraction that calls itself devotion. Full text, with ecol…
The Bhagavad Gītā’s Enduring Question
What the Gītā actually asks — and why its answer through karma yoga and dharmic action remains the most practical teaching for ecological and rela…
Cutting the Root of Suffering — Lama Yeshe
Lama Thubten Yeshe on śūnyatā (emptiness) as the single most important realisation — why all saṃsāric suffering traces back to the wrong conce…
Tripurasura and Śiva — The Three Cities and the Single Arrow
The Purāṇic narrative of the three demon brothers who obtained three indestructible cities aligned once every thousand years, and Śiva's single ar…
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…
Yantra — Sacred Geometry across Śaiva/Śākta/Vaiṣṇava Traditions
A survey of yantra — the geometric support for meditation, mantra, and śakti — across the three major Hindu tantric currents. Covers the Śrī Ya…
Yoga for Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
A careful, evidence-informed yoga therapy guide for women during and after breast cancer treatment — fatigue management, lymphedema precautions, gen…