Coercive control captures the inner narrator; yoga was designed, from the beginning, to restore it. The reclaiming of a single breath that belongs to no one else is where the deep work of freedom begins.

Ramana Maharshi’s direct path: the question ‘Who am I?’ not as philosophy but as a redirection of attention. His teachings on happiness, mind, surrender, and self-realisation in his own words.

Mātā bhūmiḥ putro ahaṃ pṛthivyāḥ — the Earth is my mother, and I am her child. To protect her body and to protect the child, the mother, the elder is one vow, spoken in four places.

An introduction to the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — the vast Sanskrit dialogue between sage Vāsiṣṭha and Rāma on the nature of mind, the illusory world, and the path to self-knowledge — with extended passages from the text.

A first-person pilgrimage account from May 1979 — Swami Satyananda's walk from Badrinath across Mana Pass into Tibet, the circumambulation of Kailash, and the bath at Mānasarovar. Narrated during satsang at Bihar School of Yoga.

A child in a kitchen in Pondicherry watches her grandmother grind ginger. The grandmother does not look at her hands. She is reading a letter on the counter while the mortar moves in a small, perfect circle, six strokes one way, six the other, the same rhythm her own mother used.

A Chicago lawyer, writing under the name Yogi Ramacharaka, laid down in 1904 the first plain-English manual of prāṇāyāma — the breath-discipline at the heart of yoga.

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 you was not carved. It was made — moulded — from a substance called navapāṣāṇa, nine herbal-mineral compounds bound together in proportions known only to the siddhar who designed it.

Count to ten in Romani and you are counting in a cousin of Sanskrit. A people treated as strangers everywhere carried, the whole time, the unbroken evidence that they were kin.

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.

You are wholeheartedly invited into my world of writing. Yoga in simple language for all ages and genders. Enjoy reading THE SPINE, MYST MEGHA MYTH…

Arjuna asks: by what force is a man driven to harm even against his will? Kṛṣṇa answers — it is desire, it is anger; know this to be the enemy here. The six thieves that rob us of our own peace.