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Asana & the Nervous System
Eight weeks of physical practice taught alongside what each posture does to the body.
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Neuroscience of Meditation
What centuries of sitting practice look like under a scanner, module by module.
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Swar Yoga, properly
Read your swara, change it on purpose, and learn which of Shiva Swarodaya's claims survive testing — taught from The Respiratory Codex.
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The Respiratory Codex
All 313 verses of the Śiva Svarodaya, each translated and graded against current physiology: what the text got right, what it got wrong, and what is still worth doing.
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Breath & Brain
Pranayama read through respiratory physiology. 148 pages, PDF + EPUB.
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The Ancestral Mind
Where the old texts and current research agree — and where they don't.
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Aṇūṭṭara · Issue 02
Our free magazine. Issue 02: eleven articles on the Śiva Svarodaya, the nasal cycle, how meditation research measures what it claims, and Abhinavagupta.
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Aṇūṭṭara · Issue 01
Our free magazine. Issue 01: the breath's clock in the Śiva Svarodaya, six recent studies, an essay and two practices.
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Recommended Reading
Books by other authors that we return to, and recommend to anyone serious about practice.
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Abhinavagupta's Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (Gītārtha Saṃgraha)
Translated from Sanskrit, with introduction and notes, by Boris Marjanovic
The great Kashmiri master of the 10th–11th century reads the Gita as a guide to the inner life: the mind, the senses, and how stillness is found in the middle of action. A careful translation with the Sanskrit alongside, and a good companion to any meditation practice.
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Kuṇḍalinī Śakti (कुण्डलिनीशक्ति)
Arun Kumar Sharma · in Hindi
A Hindi study of kuṇḍalinī: the coiled energy described in the yoga and tantra traditions, the cakras it is said to rise through, and the practices built around it.
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Layayoga: The Definitive Guide to the Chakras and Kundalini
Shyam Sundar Goswami
A detailed classic on the cakras and kuṇḍalinī as the traditional texts describe them, drawing closely on the Sanskrit sources. Dense, but one of the most thorough books on the subject.
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Light on Tantra in Kashmir Shaivism: Abhinavagupta's Tantrāloka, Chapter One
Revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo · Lakshmanjoo Academy
Swami Lakshmanjoo, a modern master of the Kashmir Shaiva tradition, explains the opening chapter of Abhinavagupta's great Tantrāloka verse by verse. A natural next step after the Gita commentary above.
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Principles of Tantra (in two volumes)
Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon)
One of the early works that introduced tantra to English readers, explaining its philosophy and outlook from the inside. A historical classic of the field.
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Mahākāla Saṃhitā: Guhyakālī Khaṇḍa (महाकाल संहिता, गुह्यकाली खण्ड)
Dr. Kishor Nath Jha · Ganganatha Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Allahabad
A scholarly edition of the Guhyakālī section of the Mahākāla Saṃhitā, a tantric text devoted to the goddess Kālī. For readers who want to go to the sources themselves.
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The Ayurveda Encyclopedia: Natural Secrets to Healing, Prevention, and Longevity
Swami Sada Shiva Tirtha · revised 2nd edition
A wide-ranging reference to Ayurveda as it is traditionally taught, from herbs, diet and pañcakarma to yoga, prāṇāyāma and meditation. Useful for understanding the Ayurvedic view of the body that runs through yogic texts.
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