Sadhana · Classical Yoga · Non-Dual Dharma

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"The arrow can never reach the target, because the target cannot be conceived. Yet we still shoot arrows in that direction."

— Amman Advaita, on the Ashtavakra Gita
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Sadhana · Goa, India · Teaching globally

The same truths.
Approached from
different paths.

The flower of wisdom opens petal by petal. Each petal a different approach to the same centre. The body. The breath. The mind. And what remains when you stop looking for it.

Classical Yoga is a system of systems. Each practice — āsana, prāṇāyāma, Kriya, mantra, meditation — addresses a different layer of human experience. Understood separately, they are techniques. Understood together, they are architecture.

The Sadhana

Five disciplines.
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01 — Earth
Haṭha Yoga

A full-spectrum practice addressing the body, the breath, and the prāṇic field. Seventy-five minutes. Daily and weekly.

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Sound & Vibration

Consciousness addressed through frequency. Singing bowls, gongs, and sacred instruments in a seventy-five minute meditation.

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03 — Water
Living Philosophy

The Ashtavakra Gita as contemplative study. The most radical non-dual text in the Vedic canon.

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04 — Wind · Wood
Mantra

The vibratory science of sound. Each syllable a map of the universe, and a map of the one chanting it.

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05 — Fire
Advanced Mentorship

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"The poison is not in the object. It is in how the object appears in your mind — and in the mind that refuses to look at that honestly."

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The Teaching

The body.
The mind.
And what precedes both.

Classical Yoga is a precise technology for understanding the nature of experience, and for changing your relationship to it at the root.

What Is Taught Here

The teaching begins with the body. Structural alignment, breath mechanics, the prāṇic field, the purification practices that prepare the nervous system for deeper work. Students arrive with back pain, stress, scattered attention. The practice addresses all of this directly.

Every technique, āsana, prāṇāyāma, Kriya, mantra, is pointing toward a single recognition: the same truth approached from different angles, like a sculptor working around a single form, until something is seen that was always present and always available.

"When you look for the one who is asking the question, you cannot find them. What you find instead is the space within which the question arose."
The Tantric Dimension

The Tantric sciences hold that reality, the body, the senses, the objects of experience, is the very substance of liberation. The relationship between the mind and reality is what changes through practice.

The image from the texts: the peacock survives on poisonous plants, and because of how it metabolises them, its plumage becomes more vivid. Fear examined closely enough always reveals something asking for attention. What appears as obstacle becomes, in the hands of someone who knows how to work with it, the substance of the path.

The Contemplative Sciences

The classical texts converge on a single answer to the most fundamental question available to a human being: what is the nature of the awareness in which all experience appears? The Ashtavakra Gita, the Yoga Sūtras, the major Upanishads all point here. The meditation practices make that answer available as direct experience.

The world is a kind of magic show. When genuine astonishment arises at the power of mind, consciousness, the universe working through us, the practice becomes wonder. That shift is available.

The Formation

Practice has been continuous since age fourteen: āsana, prāṇāyāma, Kriya, mantra, and meditation without interruption. The first Vipassana retreat at seventeen. Fifteen years of formal study of the root texts: the Amṛtasiddhi, Vāsiṣṭha Saṃhitā, Śiva Sūtras, Prajñāpāramitā, Ashtavakra Gita, the Yoga Sūtras, Haṭharatnāvalī, Gheraṇḍa Saṃhitā, and the major Upanishads. Work in energetic healing, distance healing, and direct practice with altered states long before those experiences had names.

The texts arrived as confirmation of what direct experience had already shown. The teaching comes from that order. What this produces is precision — the ability to see what a person is carrying and identify the exact point where practice can meet it.

"Look at what is already here, more carefully than you have looked before."
The Sadhana
Haṭha Classical āsana and prāṇāyāma taught with therapeutic precision: structural alignment, breath mechanics, the science of the prāṇic field
Kriya The purification practices of the classical system: Shatkarma and the yogic Kriyas that prepare the body and nervous system for sustained inner work
Mantra Mantra as technology: the vibratory mechanics of sound drawn directly from the root texts, with three levels of meaning at each syllable
Dhyāna Meditation rooted in the non-dual contemplative sciences: the direct recognition of awareness as the ground of all experience
Texts Amṛtasiddhi · Vāsiṣṭha Saṃhitā · Śiva Sūtras · Prajñāpāramitā · Ashtavakra Gita · Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali · Haṭharatnāvalī · Gheraṇḍa Saṃhitā · Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā · The major Upanishads
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Rigorous, counter-cultural, written for those who sense that what they are doing on the mat is pointing toward something larger. Essays that ask the reader to look more carefully at what is already in front of them.

Offerings

Five disciplines.
One direction.

Each offering addresses a different layer of human experience. Each points toward the same recognition.

01 — Earth · Daily & Weekly · In-person & Online

Haṭha Yoga

A full-spectrum classical practice. The body as the first instrument of inquiry.

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02 — Metal · Space · Immersive · Group & Private

Sound & Vibration

Consciousness addressed through frequency. Ancient instruments, measurable effects.

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03 — Water · Study · The Ashtavakra Gita

Living Philosophy

The most radical non-dual text in the Vedic canon. Studied as a contemplative practice.

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04 — Wind · Wood · Chanting · Group & Individual

Mantra

The vibratory science of sound. Each syllable a map of the universe, and a map of the one chanting it.

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05 — Fire · 1-on-1 · By Application

Advanced Mentorship

For those ready to go further than a class can take them. By application only.

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A multi-day immersion at The Lighthouse, Uttan — a luxury resort on the outskirts of Mumbai. All five disciplines in sequence over several days. Limited places. The body is worked hard. The mind is given space to settle.

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The Lighthouse, Uttan, Mumbai outskirts
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What brings you here?
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Working the the body - alignment, breath, physical practice
Sound healing and meditation
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One-on-one mentorship and deeper guidance
I'm open to whatever is right for where I am
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01 · Earth · Daily & Weekly

Haṭha Yoga

The body as the first instrument of inquiry. Classical practice, therapeutic precision, ancient texts.

The Practice

A seventy-five minute class moves through the full classical sequence: mantra to open, Kriyas to purify, Sūrya Namaskār with breath synchronisation, long-held therapeutic āsanas across seven movement planes, prāṇāyāma, and a closing period of resting in natural awareness. Each element prepares the ground for the next.

Structural alignment, breath mechanics, the prāṇic field — these are the actual architecture of the body, addressed with therapeutic precision. Props are tools for depth. The practice is suitable for all levels. The level of internal engagement deepens with time.

WhereIn-person: Siolim, Aldona, Anjuna, North Goa · Online: all time zones
Format75-minute classes · group and private options
LevelAll levels. No prior experience required.
The Research

A 2019 meta-analysis found yoga interventions produced significant reductions in chronic lower back pain — comparable to physical therapy, with additional effects on psychological wellbeing.1

Sama Vṛtti prāṇāyāma activates the parasympathetic nervous system through vagus nerve stimulation, measurably reducing cortisol within a single session.2

Long-held āsana combined with breath regulation increases interoceptive accuracy — a measurable predictor of emotional regulation and resilience.3

1 Wieland et al. (2019). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2 Zaccaro et al. (2018). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 3 Farb et al. (2013). Frontiers in Psychology.
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02 · Metal · Space · Immersive

Sound & Vibration

Consciousness addressed through frequency. Ancient instruments, measurable effects, brainwave entrainment.

The Practice

A seventy-five minute sound meditation draws from crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, the storm drum, rain stick, and gongs. The instruments are selected and sequenced to move the listener through increasingly deep states of internal quiet, arriving at a quality of attention the texts describe as the witness: awareness observing without being moved.

The Vedic understanding of OM as the primordial vibration finds its parallel in modern physics. String theory posits that the fundamental constituents of matter are vibrating strings of energy. At the atomic level, protons and neutrons are in constant oscillation. The instruments work at this level of reality.

Certain instruments invoke specific qualities of awareness associated with the natural forces the ancient tradition named and recognised: the rain stick calls the quality of releasing, the gong calls the quality of dissolving.

Format75-minute lying meditation · group and private sessions
WhereIn-person, Goa · available for corporate and retreat bookings across India
LevelNo experience necessary
The Research

Singing bowls produce binaural beats. Delta and theta binaural beats (0.5–7 Hz) are associated with deep rest, creativity, and reduced anxiety.4

A 2014 study found sound meditation significantly reduced tension, anger, fatigue, and depressed mood — effects measurable after a single session.5

EEG studies show sustained sound bath exposure produces measurable shifts from beta to alpha and theta states: the brainwave signatures of deep meditative absorption.7

4 Wahbeh et al. (2007). Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 5 Goldsby et al. (2017). Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine. 7 Hinterberger et al. (2014). Journal of Neurotherapy.
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03 · Water · Contemplative Study

Living Philosophy

The Ashtavakra Gita — the most radical non-dual text in the Vedic canon. Studied as a contemplative practice.

The Text

The Ashtavakra Gita predates the Bhagavad Gita and shares its directness. Where the Bhagavad Gita walks the seeker along the path, the Ashtavakra Gita points directly at the destination. It is a dialogue between the sage Ashtavakra and King Janaka: a king who has arrived at the threshold of understanding and needs only a single pointing-out to recognise what has always been present.

The text states, without qualification, that liberation is available in this moment, to this awareness, as it is. The body, ethics, and mind are the three foundations it establishes. From that foundation it dives into the nature of pure consciousness. In twenty chapters, it offers a complete description of the non-dual recognition that all other practices prepare for.

Studying this text is itself a contemplative practice. Each verse is a pointer. The study sessions combine mantra, contemplation of the Sanskrit, discussion, and periods of silent inquiry, so that the philosophy moves from concept into direct experience.

FormatWeekly study sessions · online and in-person
LevelOpen to all. Prior philosophy study welcomed but not required.
CurrentOngoing cohort. Contact to enquire about joining.
Why This Text Now

The Ashtavakra Gita's central claim — that the sense of being a separate bounded self is a cognitive construction — is now supported by research in predictive processing and default mode network neuroscience.

Studies using fMRI show that experienced meditators demonstrate measurably reduced activity in the default mode network during meditation. This reduction correlates with reported states of non-dual awareness.8

The text's method of direct self-inquiry corresponds to what contemporary researchers call "decentering" — now a primary clinical tool in the treatment of anxiety and depression.9

8 Brewer et al. (2011). PNAS. 9 Fresco et al. (2007). Behavior Therapy.
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04 · Wind · Wood · Chanting

Mantra

The vibratory science of sound. Each syllable a map of the universe, and a map of the one chanting it.

The Practice

Mantra practice is offered here as a group chanting meditation: a practice of recognising the forces of the natural world as present within the one chanting. The sun, the rain, the intelligence moving through ecosystems and bodies alike. These are what the ancient mantras name. Chanting is the act of recognising those qualities within oneself.

The Vedic understanding of mantra is that each syllable operates at three levels simultaneously: the outer level of meaning, the inner level of energetic resonance, and the secret level of direct transmission. The Guru Mantra begins this way — Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu — recognising that the forces of creation, preservation, and dissolution in the universe are qualities of one's own awareness.

In Sanskrit, the word mantra contains two roots: manas (mind) and tra (to cross). A mantra is a vehicle for crossing the mind, for moving attention from object-orientation into its own nature as the ground of all objects.

FormatGroup sessions in Goa as seva · private sessions available
LevelNo prior knowledge of Sanskrit required
The Research

Mantra chanting synchronises respiratory rhythm, heart rate variability, and baroreflex sensitivity — producing measurable cardiovascular benefits comparable to slow pranayamic breathing.10

Studies on the OM vibration show it produces a specific pattern of vagal stimulation corresponding to the electrical vagal stimulation used in epilepsy treatment.12

Group chanting synchronises brainwaves between participants through neural entrainment, producing shared states of coherence that individual practice does not replicate.13

10 Bernardi et al. (2001). BMJ. 12 Srinivasan (2015). International Journal of Yoga. 13 Bhattacharya et al. (2019). Frontiers in Psychology.
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05 · Fire · By Application Only

Advanced Mentorship

For those ready to go further than a class can take them. Transformative, demanding, precise.

The Work

One-on-one guidance built around the specific constitution, history, and aims of the practitioner. The scope of this work is wider than any class: therapeutic application for chronic conditions, advanced prāṇāyāma, the Tantric sciences, philosophy as contemplative practice, and the direct mechanics of recognising the nature of awareness.

Each session is directed by where the practitioner actually is. The techniques are many. Each person requires a different sequence, a different emphasis, a different pace. This calibration is what group settings cannot provide.

This is for committed practitioners and yoga teachers seeking depth beyond technique. The commitment expected is serious. The results are in proportion to it.

FormatIn-person in Goa or online
EntryBy application. Write briefly about your practice and what you are seeking.
On Transmission

The Yoga Sūtras describe the highest form of learning as śruti: direct hearing, transmission from teacher to student in direct contact.

Studies on expert-to-novice transmission show that physical co-presence produces neural synchrony between teacher and student that remote learning does not replicate.14

Long-term one-on-one practice with a single teacher produces significantly greater changes in default mode network activity than group or self-directed practice.15

14 Pérez et al. (2019). npj Science of Learning. 15 Tang et al. (2015). Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
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