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River Orion

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 from the place that produced it.

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Books and Texts
River Orion

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 transition between states is an opportunity for awareness. Situates yoga as an ecological practice, not a fitness regime.

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Eco-Yoga TV
Matri

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 reflection on the relationship between how we relate to the women and girls in our lives and how we relate to the earth — the barren soil that feeds no one, the open ear that hears the Mother Earth, the practice that begins at home before it reaches the world.

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Philosophy and Mithya
Matri

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 (without knowing she is the Mother). Civilisation. Hoarding. Pure opposition. And, in the rare cases — bound service to the dance that holds everything.

The yogi reads these stories as inner cartography. Which arm is rising, in me, right now? Whose dance is it drumming for? Has the corruption already entered the city, or is it still a city of gold? Am I Hiraṇyakaśipu drafting another loophole, or Prahlāda content with nothing, or — most honestly, for most of us — Bāṇāsura, with too many arms, playing for a Lord whose dance I can only partly see?

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Tend the flame

Slow letters on yoga, ecology, and the old ways. Arrives like monsoon — rare, full, alive.

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