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A working record of what was built, by how many people, and in what order — from a payroll of fifty-four to five properties on three stacks, rebuilt single-handed. Appended as the work proceeds.

Four Things a Life Is Allowed to Want — The Puruṣārthas, and the End of the Apology

The same civilisation that produced the Yoga Sūtra wrote a manual on running a treasury — and filed money among the legitimate aims of a human life. Permission, precisely bounded.

The Householder Is Not the Lesser Path — Karma Sannyāsa and the Life You Already Have

Sannyāsa does not mean giving up. It means holding the whole estate in trust — which a person with children, debts and a job can do without leaving the house.

The Four Seasons of a Life — What the Āśramas Actually Divide

Four stages, two legal routes through them, and a structure that is younger than it looks. Most suffering about age turns out to be an argument with which season it is.

THE SPINE - Book Launch

Join us for the launch of THE SPINE. This is a one-hour online gathering to mark the book going out into the world — and…

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 — waiting for you.

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 circadian rhythm turn out to be one instruction in two languages.

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 darśana of Sāṃkhya-Yoga presented for a general educated…

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 (gāyatrī, triṣṭubh, jagatī, anuṣṭubh) with examples from the…

Bihar School of Yoga — Ganga Darshan, Munger: The Karma Bhumi of Sri Swami Satyananda

At four-thirty at Ganga Darshan the Ganges is visible from anywhere on the grounds and the akhand jyoti has been burning since Satyananda lit it in 1963. The founding story, the Bihar Yoga synthesis,…

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 prediction. For practitioners working at the intersection of…

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 the ecological understanding that medicine cannot be separated…

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 psychological companion to the tradition’s own analysis of vāsanā,…

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 with work, evening wind-down, and the understanding that every…

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 dream state, stabilisation, transformation), the relationship…

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 its most condensed, most nourishing form; the theft is the divine’s…

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 (īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvaṃ). Osho reads the Upaniṣad as a teaching on…

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 adhyāyas — from Arjuna’s crisis on Kurukṣetra through…

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-biological perspective — a scholarly engagement with the Jyotiṣa…

The Plants That Held a Brain Together

They called it treatment-resistant schizophrenia. It was untreated trauma, untreated addiction, and a brain injured by the pharmaceuticals meant to fix it. A mother’s account of bringing her son back…

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 Sanskrit phonemes as goddess forms distributed across the tantric…

Friday Kirtan at Mata's

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.

Healing Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Havan at Mata's on Saturdays

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…

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 concept of a real I, and how bodhicitta arises from the kindness of every…

Where Is the Gāṇḍīva? Draupadī's Rage in the Locked-Mouthed Hall

In a hall full of the powerful, every mouth stayed locked while Draupadī was dragged by her hair. Satish Srijan’s poem, performed by Vaishnavi Sharma, gives the enraged queen her interrogation — and her cry.…