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A seated meditating figure with the chakras marked

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 th…

Matri Matarishvan 2026-10-30

A single wind-shaped pine growing from a bare rock pinnacle at dusk, its roots gripping split boulders, with a valley of cloud and distant ridges behind it under a streaked violet sky.

I Am Still Here — Yoga, Sovereignty, and the Undoing of Coercive Control

Coercive control captures the inner narrator; yoga was designed, from the beginning, to restore it. The reclaiming of a single breath that belongs to …

Matri Matarishvan 2026-10-20

Flaming Dresses of Draupadi by Onkar Fondekar

One Charge She Would Not Deny: The Daughter of Fire Speaks

For five thousand years the heroes discussed her. Sutapa Bhattacharya's poem finally lets Draupadī speak. The truest Draupadī we have met. "a heav…

Matri Matarishvan 2026-06-03