Foundations in Eco-Yoga (in development – do not purchase)
Most yoga education hands you a snippet. We don’t. A weekend on alignment. A module on breath. A workshop on “mindfulness”. Each one real, each…
Module 9 — The Altar Within (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
bhakti , gratitude, devotion, ritual, nāma-rūpa ; the dahara-vidyā (the space within the heart); “I am That” (jñāna/belonging) and “I am Thine” (bhakti/reverence) held together;…
Module 8 — Stages and Seasons (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
the āśramas (life’s four seasons), the puruṣārthas , life transitions, ṛtusandhi (the junction), sacred/cyclical time, and rites of passage. Re-angled to life-transitions : the wound…
Module 7 — The Breath Between the Breaths (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
prāṇāyāma and pratyāhāra — the exhale as lever, prāṇa/interoception, ajapa (the mantra already being said), the tortoise/sense-withdrawal, the arriving pause, the still lake. Re-angled to…
Module 6 — Action Without Trace (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
karma yoga — the right to the work and never the fruit; non-doership; samatva ; rest; agency; flow; service; offering; the lotus leaf. Re-angled to…
Module 5 — The Composting Fire (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
agni · tapas · ojas · composting · transformation — “healing as tending.” A fire does not store the log. It transforms it. This module…
Module 4 — The Six Weeds (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
kāma · krodha · lobha · moha · mada · mātsarya — the six ancient energies every mind carries. The old teachers described six strings…
Module 3 — The Five Thorns (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
the five kleśas (avidyā · asmitā · rāga · dveṣa · abhiniveśa) — “the mind does not want truth, it wants relief, and it will…
Module 2 — The Garden of the Mind (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
Three weeks · 90 hours · Module Award on completion. The day is japa (morning) · nidra (day) · meditation (night) · diary. Narrated by…
Module 18 — The Gardener Returns (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
full circle, integration, myth and meaning, the cycle and freedom. The gardener who set out at Module 1 returns, changed, at Module 18 — the…
Module 17 — Cosmic Grammar (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
the cosmic grammar — Ṛta / Aṣ̌a, the navagraha, the yugas, Śani, the great wheel of time : the deep order that runs beneath all…
Module 16 — The Unbroken Thread (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
the unbroken thread — guru, paramparā, dīkṣā, sannyāsa, surrender : the sūtra (thread) of living teaching passed hand to hand across the generations; the marks…
Module 15 — The Hidden Sciences (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
the hidden sciences — Kashmir Śaivism / Trika (the 36 tattvas, the Map of Creation, svātantrya , pratyabhijñā ); tantra rightly understood (the world-affirming weave,…
Module 14 — Seven Stages of Knowing (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
the seven jñāna bhūmikās (śubhecchā → vicāraṇā → tanumānasā → sattvāpatti → asaṃsakti → padārthābhāvanī → turyagā; Yoga Vāsiṣṭha tradition; Patañjali’s OWN sevenfold prajñā, YS…
Module 13 — The Eight Limbs (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
Patañjali’s aṣṭāṅga — the eight limbs from yama through samādhi (YS 2.29), set inside the four branches of yoga (Bhakti/heart · Karma/hands · Rāja/breath-mind ·…
Module 12 — Purification (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
purification as śauca’s deeper body-limb — the ṣaṭkarma as the tradition’s MAP (teacher-gated), the nāḍīs and prāṇa-purification, the panchakosha (five sheaths), and chakra psychology (the…
Module 11 — The Five Observances (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
the niyama deep dive — śauca · santoṣa · tapas · svādhyāya · īśvara-praṇidhāna (YS 2.32); the observances as the SECOND limb, turned INWARD toward…
Module 10 — The Five Restraints (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
the yama deep dive — ahiṃsā · satya · asteya · brahmacarya · aparigraha (YS 2.30); Patañjali’s five as the distillation of the tradition’s ten;…
Module 1 — Waking and Sleeping (The Gardener’s Path) (in development – do not purchase)
Three weeks · 90 hours · Module Award on completion. The day is japa (morning) · nidra (day) · meditation (night) · diary. Narrated by…
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