Buddhism · a path of awakening
Forty-seven guides: Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Zen, Pure Land, metta, compassion, Buddhist history, scriptures and ten guided practices.
House of AnandaMovement · Stillness · Wisdom · JourneyLiving Wisdom · connected study
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a living path.
Search across the House, follow related ideas, meet key terms in context and continue without losing the distinctions between traditions.
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across traditions.
Bindu · the moon centre
Bindu Visarga: moon symbolism, amrita nectar, location maps, mantra, history, frequency claims and a gentle meditation.
The three guṇas
Three gunas: sattva rajas tamas, sattvic rajasic tamasic, clarity activity inertia, rest, Patanjali and Bhagavad Gita.
Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras
Patanjali Yoga Sutras: history, four padas, Samadhi Sadhana Vibhuti Kaivalya, eight limbs, five kleshas, yamas niyamas, Om mantra, illustrated study and liberation.
Four pillars of yogic living
Illustrated Achara Achar Vichara Vichar Ahara Ahar Vihara Vihar guide: conduct, thoughts, nourishment, recreation, daily habits, reflection, origins and evidence.
What is yoga?
Daniel’s study notes: consciousness, atman paramatman, moksha liberation, nirvana, doshas vata pitta kapha, gunas sattva rajas tamas, wellbeing and Pawanmuktasana I II III.
Lessons of the Vedas
Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda, ten teachings, generosity, truth, karma, self-inquiry, historical layers, the chariot analogy and daily reflections.
Emotions, Muscles & the Body
An illustrated thesis on emotion, muscle tension, trauma, Reich, somatic approaches, interoception, anatomy and twelve gentle practices, with evidence boundaries and sources.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
TCM definitions, qi, yin yang, Five Phases, meridians, acupuncture, herbs, cupping, moxa, tui na, tai chi, qigong, history and evidence.
Medicine across traditions
Sixteen dimensions compare TCM, modern medicine, Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Sowa-Rigpa, with examples and infographics.
Japa meditation with Oṃ
A richly illustrated guide to mantra repetition, the 108-bead mālā, the three guṇas, five elements and Daniel’s 3 + 5 + 100 lesson-note interpretation.
Meditation traditions
Nine learning rooms compare aims, methods, sources and lineages without treating meditation as one universal technique.
Hindu traditions
Connected rooms for deities, sacred stories, scriptures, history, yoga, temples, sacred art, symbols and Sanskrit, with sources and careful distinctions.
The long history of yoga
A careful timeline from South Asian ascetic traditions and textual yoga through haṭha and global modernity.
Seven-centre chakra map
How older subtle-body maps developed into the widely taught seven-chakra model.
Mantra and sacred sound
Meaning, pronunciation, living use and the difference between listening, recitation and initiation.
Jyotiṣa foundations
Grahas, rāśis, bhāvas, nakṣatras, daśās and ethical chart study without fixed-fate claims.
Numerology compared
Indian, Pythagorean and Chaldean calculations shown side by side with historical care.
Eastern Pathways
Buddhism, Daoism, qi and yin–yang explored without collapsing Indian and Chinese traditions together.
Symptom & stretch finder
Search muscle tightness and injury-related symptoms, with gentle yoga adaptations and assessment guidance.
Anatomy for yoga
A whole-body visual atlas: labelled skeleton and muscles, head-to-toe regions, trapezius, body systems and movement vocabulary.
Personal Wisdom Studio
A transparent numerology comparison and grounded introduction to graha and nakṣatra study.
Ayurveda: treatments, history and ideas
Five elements, three doshas, treatment families, twelve therapy definitions, a historical timeline, evidence and informed-choice guidance.
Panchakarma & Ayurvedic treatments
Nasya, Snehapan Snehapana, Abhyang Abhyanga, Swedan Swedana, Vaman Vamana, Virechan Virechana, Vasti Basti and Shirodhara, with preparation, recovery, evidence, safety and booking questions.
Alignment & adjustments
Verbal, visual and hands-on adjustments, consent, props, feet, palms and hand-and-foot bone counts.
Pelvic position & standing poses
Anterior posterior neutral pelvic tilt, Tadasana Samasthiti Urdhva Hastasana Uttanasana and comfortable breathing.
Body organisation & systems
Cells tissues organs body systems muscular skeletal digestive respiratory nervous endocrine cardiovascular and the spleen.
Bones, limbs & girdles
Osteology 206 bones axial 80 appendicular 126, upper lower limbs, hands feet, shoulder girdle pelvic girdle and bone functions.
Sun Salutation · class notes
Surya Namaskara twelve positions, two sets, 24 counts, Sanskrit English breath cues, uncertain eight-point salute and history.
Sanskrit glossary
Terms need
their context.
Select a term anywhere in the library. Translations are starting points, not exact one-word substitutions.
yoga
A broad family of South Asian disciplines; context determines whether the emphasis is liberation, meditation, devotion, ethics or posture.
Teachers and lineages
Influence with
historical care.
These concise profiles are orientation points, not endorsements or complete biographies.
Patañjali
Traditionally associated with the Yoga Sūtra. Historical identity and dating remain debated; the text systematises an eight-limbed path oriented towards liberation.
Gorakṣanātha
A formative figure in Nātha memory and haṭha yoga history. Accounts blend history, hagiography and regional lineage traditions.
Swami Vivekananda
Presented Rāja Yoga internationally in the 1890s, emphasising philosophy and meditation rather than the posture-led studio model familiar today.
T. Krishnamacharya
Influential teacher whose students helped shape several global yoga schools. His teaching changed across people, periods and contexts.
B. K. S. Iyengar
Known for precision, sequencing, props and sustained therapeutic inquiry, within a lineage connected to Krishnamacharya.
K. Pattabhi Jois
Popularised fixed-series Aṣṭāṅga Vinyāsa. Study should include both the method’s influence and documented ethical concerns around harmful adjustments.
Historical timeline
Ideas move
through time.
- 01
Vedic and early ascetic worlds
Ritual, breath, contemplation and renunciant currents develop across South Asia.
- 02
Systematic yoga texts
The Bhagavad Gītā, Yoga Sūtra and related traditions articulate distinct paths and practices.
- 03
Tantra and haṭha
Subtle-body maps, mantra and embodied methods develop across varied Śaiva, Buddhist and other settings.
- 04
Colonial modernity
Reform, translation, physical culture and global exchange reshape how yoga is presented.
- 05
Global lineages
Teachers and students establish influential modern schools across India and internationally.
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Plural living practice
Religious, contemplative, therapeutic, athletic and commercial yogas coexist—and should not be treated as one thing.
Continue your study
A thoughtful place to begin.
Begin with history, then follow one practice tradition and one comparative perspective.
Sources and reading lists