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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.

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,…

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…

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.…

One Charge She Would Not Deny: The Daughter of Fire Speaks

For five thousand years the heroes discussed her. Sutapa Bhattacharya’s poem finally lets Draupadī speak. The truest Draupadī we have met.
“a heaven that small was never worth the lie”

Raising Up Women and Girls in Society

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…

One cannot legislate their way to immortality

The pedagogy of the eighteen Purāṇas is not a tale of monsters defeated. It is a graded description of what consciousness wants when it forgets the source. Territory. Legal immortality. Recognition. The Mother…

The Yamas and Niyamas: Patañjali's Foundation for Practice

Patañjali’s eight-limbed path begins with ten ethical commitments — five yamas turned outward to the world, five niyamas turned inward to the self. Across the wider yogic tradition these appear in many forms;…

Sanskrit and Avestan languages in parallel

Sanskrit and Avestan are not cousins — they are siblings. Two voices from one root, still recognisable in each other’s faces across four thousand years of separation.

Grant

Receiving the Yoga For Good grant felt like a quiet wind finally catching my sails. After years of dreaming and sketching, this support allowed the…

Brahma Vidyā — The Knowledge of the Vast, and the Lineage Born of a Mind

A young man named Bhṛgu walks up to his father Varuṇa and asks the only question that matters. From that hunger rises brahma-vidyā — the knowledge of the vast, and the line of seers that carries it.

The Healing Fire — Havan, the Science of Sacred Smoke, and the Wheel That Feeds the World

Every Saturday a valley in New South Wales fills with Vedic mantra around a small fire. Havan looks like the oldest thing on earth — and the microscope is beginning to confirm what the ancestors always knew.

Kumbha Mela — The City That Gives the River Back Its Ground

A city of 23.5 square kilometres rises on a riverbed, holds millions, and comes down before the monsoon. What the great bathing actually teaches about flow.

The Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Mantra, Said Correctly — Why Accent Is Not Decoration

One tone in the wrong place turned a father’s blessing into his son’s death sentence. Ṛgveda 7.59.12, the ripened gourd loosed from its stem, and why Sanskrit phonetics is a discipline, not a preference.

The Uncracked Syllable — Flawless Vedic Chanting and the Six Elements of Sound

A teacher stops the boy on one syllable — not the word, the pitch. How śikṣā, the science of sound, keeps a chant crossing whole from mouth to mouth.

Kāla Bhairava, the Black Dog, and the Child at the Gate — The Guardian of the Eternal City

Before you may meet Śiva at Kāśī, you must first seek the permission of the one who guards the gate — Kāla Bhairava, the Kotwāl of Vārāṇasī, and the black dogs who see what humans cannot.

Mother, Forgive Me — Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, the Crocodile, and the Fire He Promised

The greatest non-dualist who ever lived taught that the world is a dream — then crossed all of India to hold his dying mother, defied his own order to give her the fire, and wept: O Mother, forgive me.