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A Season of Turning Inward
The air dries first, then the light lowers, then the mind begins to move in ways we did not ask for. Autumn is not…
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Tapovan: The Art of Being Small
The road ends before the mountain does. That is the first thing anyone learns at Tapovan, above Gangotri, where the Bhagirathi comes down hard and cold…
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After Diwali, Still Lit
The lamps are still burning along the ghat. By morning some of them will be ash and rainwater, and the dark will come back as it…
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Pitru Paksha: The Fortnight of the Ancestors
Who came before you? Not only your parents. Not only your grandparents. The whole long line — the ones who carried the same names and never…
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Every Step a Mantra
The road to Gaumukh is walked, not driven. Somewhere on the last stretch, the walking stops being travel and becomes the practice itself.
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Rest While Staying Awake
Yoga Nidra is not sleep and it is not an exercise. It is deliberate rest — the body lying still while the attention stays awake, and…
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One Day Is Only a Beginning
Every year the world sets aside one day to remember yoga. It is a good day. It is also only the first page, and the morning…
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Cooling the Fire
By May the pitta has risen with the sun. The body runs hot, the mind runs faster, and everything asks for more. The answer is not…
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The Breath Comes First
Most of us step onto a mat and go straight for the pose. The old teachers start somewhere else. They start with the breath, and they…
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Spring Arrives as a Subtraction
Somewhere between the last of the cold nights and the first hot afternoon, the air changes. Ayurveda calls this kapha. Holi answers it with colour, laughter,…
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The Sea Teaches the Breath to Return
The sea breathes. It goes out, it comes back, unhurried and without instructions. On the shore at first light, we find we have been taught the…
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