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…

MATRI Online Community Launch

Join us for the official launch of the MATRI Eco-Yoga Portal. This is a one-hour online gathering to welcome our founding members, meet the community,…

With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet — Alexandra David-Néel and the Trained Mind of the Himalayas

The first European woman to reach Lhasa watched hermits dry frozen sheets on their bare backs — and refused to call it a miracle. She called it a trained mind.

Beloved Maa — The Song, and the Sanctum Women Are Allowed Into

At Melmaruvathur women perform the rituals inside the sanctum, and are not barred while menstruating. The shrine says why in four words: one mother, one humanity.

Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: Rāma's Monologue of Despondency

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 Boy Who Never Stopped Looking — Sir David Attenborough and the Discipline of Attention

Before the famous voice there was a boy on a Leicestershire embankment, chipping at rock for an ammonite. What he did was never photography. It was attention — and attention is where protection starts.

The Cosmic Mother Speaks in the First Person — Devī Sūkta, Ṛg Veda 10.125

The oldest hymn of the Divine Feminine contains no praise of her by anyone else. Seven of its eight verses open with aham — I. She is not being described. She is talking.

The Ordered Road — Satyananda's Systematic Course in Yoga and Kriya

Thirty-six lessons from Munger: the book teachers keep within arm’s reach, where the scattered inheritance of yoga is laid out in an order a beginner can actually walk.