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…

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…

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…

Yoga Kuṇḍalinī — A Classical Manual

A 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…

Yantra — Sacred Geometry across Śaiva/Śākta/Vaiṣṇava Traditions

A 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…

Yoga for Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors

A careful, evidence-informed yoga therapy guide for women during and after breast cancer treatment — fatigue management, lymphedema precautions, gentle restorative sequences, and the psychological territory of…

Yoga Stretches

A practical guide to yoga-based stretching — distinguishing the held, breath-integrated āsana from the ballistic stretch, addressing the role of the fascia, and organising sequences by joint group and daily…

Vedic Planner — Science of Light Pañcāṅga 2017

A practical pañcāṅga (Vedic almanac) covering the 2017 solar year, calculated for Sacramento CA by Science of Light. Includes retrograde cycles, nakṣatra transits, Vedic festivals with astronomical basis, and…

The Bhagavad Gītā's Enduring Question

What the Gītā actually asks — and why its answer through karma yoga and dharmic action remains the most practical teaching for ecological and relational life.

The Ancient Roots of Eco-Conscious Business and Why It MAtters Now More Than Ever

When Artha was inseparable from Dharma — how indigenous craft and land traditions held the oldest form of ecological economics, and why the thread was cut.

The Great Liberation — the Mahānirvāṇa Tantra and Tantra as a Science of Energy

A Calcutta judge published this Tantra as The Great Liberation in 1913 to prove it a science, not a scandal — the Mahānirvāṇa Tantra as a discipline that wastes no energy.

The Way Under Many Names — Lao-tzu, Bhogar, and the Tao Te Ching

A Tamil Siddha alchemist who forged a Murugan idol from nine poisons — and, the tradition says, once taught in China as Lao-tzu. What the story of Bhogar knows about the one Way.

Poison Made Medicine — Bhogar's 7000 and the Alchemy of the Breath

The little dark image of Murugan at Palani was cast, the tradition says, from nine poisons made whole. That is the whole of Bhogar’s teaching — and it begins with the breath.

The Tamil Plutarch — Simon Casie Chitty's 1859 Book of the Lives of the Poets and Poetesses

In 1859 a Ceylon Tamil scholar gathered the lives of southern India’s poets and poetesses into one book, so their names would not fall silent. A doorway into the earliest Tamil verse.

Tamil Proverbs — Herman Jensen's 1897 Collection of a People Thinking Out Loud

A Danish missionary spent years in the Tamil country writing down 3,644 sayings — a whole people thinking out loud across centuries, forever turning from the kitchen to the cosmos.

The Sacred Root — Tirumūlar and the Tirumantiram, Tamil Yoga's First Voice

A wandering yogi kept a cowherd’s body out of love and stayed three thousand years — one verse each. Enter the Tirumantiram, the tenth Tirumurai and Tamil yoga’s founding scripture.

The Body Kept as a Temple — Tirumūlar and the Yoga of the Tirumandiram

A wandering yogi took up a cowherd’s body and never left it — and from that borrowed flesh came the Tirumandiram, the Tamil Siddha classic that teaches the body is the Lord’s temple.

Śiva Mahimna Stotram — The Hymn of a Man Who Was Caught

Puṣpadanta took flowers that were not his, lost his invisibility, and made forty-three verses. The tradition kept his fault and his hymn together — and recites both.

The Bhagavad Gītā — The Song That Steadied Gandhi's Hand (Gita Press, Full Text)

The book Gandhi called his eternal mother, in Sanskrit and English — and the one verse that turns paralysis into clean action. The full Gita Press edition to read.

The Kurumba of the Nilgiris — Belief, Memory, and the Living Tradition

The Kurumba people of the Nilgiri Hills — five clans, ancient Pallava roots, and a living cosmology that holds the human community in relationship with land, ancestors, and invisible forces.

The Fly — Why the Sword Makes the Buzzing Louder

A swordsman, a fly, and eight syllables from Patañjali: what you fight is what you feed. The same rule governs a mind at 3am and a sprayed field.

Karma Yoga — The Path of Union, and the Grip That Turns Work into Suffering

In a cold New York room in 1895, Vivekananda told an audience that the office, the kitchen, the street is the path — if you can learn the one nearly impossible thing: how to act without grasping the fruit.

The Ayurvedic Plate — Six Tastes, Three Doshas, and the Border We Cross Every Day

On a Kerala banana leaf, every one of the six tastes touches the tongue by a design older than any cookbook. Ayurveda’s dietary intelligence, where nutrition crosses quietly into yoga.

The Cow Who Fed Them — Petrov's Korova and the Animal We Are Asked Not to Forget

Aleksandr Petrov painted a boy’s grief for his family’s cow onto glass, frame by frame. What he shows is what the Veda already named: the animal called ‘not to be slain.’

Sanskrit Baby Names — The Word You Hand a Child on the Tenth Day

Fifty-four names, and almost none of them are ornaments. They are rivers, winds, stars and the sun. Manu fixes the day; the Upaniṣad explains why a name is not a label.

The Scarecrow — What We Stopped Seeing When Food Left the Field

A three-minute animated film about a world where food has no name, held against the Vedic accounting of the cow — where reverence and arithmetic turn out to be one thing.

Bear Story — The Machine He Built to Hold What Was Taken

An old bear cranks a tin theatre on a street corner, and the same family is taken every morning. Gabriel Osorio built it for his grandfather, imprisoned and exiled after 1973.

Hokusai Says by Roger Keyes — The Old Man Mad About Painting, and the Discipline of Looking

At seventy-five Hokusai wrote that nothing he had made before seventy was worth counting. Roger Keyes’ poem, and the sūtra that explains why he was right.

Tzadik — Six Minutes Underwater, and the Nine Things That Stand in the Way

A six-minute film with no dialogue, made about depression by a student in Jerusalem — and Patañjali’s list of nine obstacles, which turns out to describe the same water.

The Ladder of Craving — What Yoga Understands About Addiction

Underneath almost every addiction there is a wound and a longing — a reaching for wholeness in the one place it can never be found. More than two thousand years ago the Gītā mapped the exact machinery:…

Sweeping Away the Dust — The Monk Who Could Not Learn One Verse

Four months in the order and he had not memorised a single line. They gave him a cloth and one word to say while he rubbed it. The cloth went dark, and the dirt had come from his own hand.

Gaslighting and the Wheels of Light — How Manipulation Jams the Chakras, and How to Re-Tune the Truth

A husband turns the gaslights lower each evening and tells his wife she is imagining it. The tradition can show us exactly where in the subtle body that wound lands — and how to sound it back into tune.

The Love That Binds and the Love That Frees — Yoga Psychology and the Cutting of the Cord

A secure base sends the child out; a suffocating cord holds it back. Attachment science and the yogīs’ knots of the heart meet in one law — nothing living thrives on what is only held.

The Power of Love and Sacrifice — The Offering That Comes Back

In 1730 Amrita Devi put her head against a khejri tree. Sacrifice does not mean giving up — sacer facere means to make sacred, and yajña names a circuit with a return leg.

The Sage Who Carries the Name — Nārada, the Nārada Purāṇa, and the Discipline of Mantra

Nārada is never sitting still — he walks in from another world with his vīṇā and a single word on his breath. A doorway into his Mahāpurāṇa and the path of the Name.

The Elder in the Dry Country — Guggulu, Ayurveda, and a Medicine Being Harvested to Death

A thorny shrub in Kachchh has been tapped for its healing resin for three thousand years. It is now Critically Endangered. A remedy for excess, taken to excess — the same imbalance at two scales.

The Fire That Was Brought — The Vedic Prometheus, and the One Flame Behind All Fires

Prometheus stole it in a fennel stalk; Mātariśvan bore it down on the wind to the Bhṛgus. Every tradition remembers the same astonishing fact: the fire was not ours to begin with. Someone crossed a great distance to bring it.

The Vedas Were Never a Book — Vedas, Vedāṅgas, Purāṇas and the Siddhāntas

Four collections, four layers inside each, six auxiliary limbs built to stop the sound drifting. What the Vedic corpus actually is — and why the method matters more than the information.

Arise, Awake — What Death Taught a Boy at the Threshold (Kaṭha Upaniṣad)

A boy waited three nights at the door of Death and refused every treasure but one. The verse that answer became — arise, awake — and why waking to yourself is waking to the earth.