River Orion
Senior Educator15 shakti
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River Orion posted a new post. 2 weeks ago
The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath - RamamcharakaAn 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 3 weeks ago
Chandas — Basics of Veda Svaras and Vedic RecitalAn 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 3 weeks ago
The Inner Sky — Steven ForrestSteven 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 3 weeks ago
The Complete Book of Herbal TeasA 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 3 weeks ago
Self-Discipline in 10 Days — Theodore BryantTheodore 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,…
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River Orion posted a new post. 3 weeks ago
Yoga in Daily LifeA 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 3 weeks ago
Tibetan Dream Yoga — Milam, Six Yogas of NāropaA 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 4 weeks ago
The Butter Thief — Kṛṣṇa's Makhan-Chor CycleThe 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 4 weeks ago
The Heartbeat of the Absolute — Osho on the Īśāvāsya UpaniṣadOsho’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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 5 weeks ago
Shrimad Bhagavad Gītā — Bilingual Sanskrit and English EditionA 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 6 weeks ago
Astro-Ethnobiology — Jyotiṣa, Human Character, and the Ecology of the CosmosPeer-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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 7 weeks ago
Friday Kirtan at Mata'sEvery 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.
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River Orion posted a new post. 7 weeks ago
Healing Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Havan at Mata's on SaturdaysEvery 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 2 months ago
Yoga Kuṇḍalinī — A Classical ManualA classical manual on kuṇḍalinī practice — the preparation of body and nervous system (śarīra-śuddhi, nāḍī-śodhana, kriyā sequence), the cakra system as integrated map, and the understanding that the śakti is…
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River Orion posted a new post. 2 months ago
Yantra — Sacred Geometry across Śaiva/Śākta/Vaiṣṇava TraditionsA survey of yantra — the geometric support for meditation, mantra, and śakti — across the three major Hindu tantric currents. Covers the Śrī Yantra in detail (nine-triangle matrix, pañcadaśī encoding), Śaiva…
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