Books
THE SPINE is the map of the discipline. MYST · MEGHA · MYTH is one woman walking it — and the record of what the walking cost.
Classical Rāja Yoga and the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, in eighteen chapters of ordinary English. Nine climb. Nine come back down.
“Every walk of any consequence begins the same way: standing still, at the edge of the terrain, while somebody tells you the truth about what is ahead.”
Paperback · Hardcover · Kindle · Audiobook on Spotify
Three books. A woman of forty who has been burning in her sleep since she was thirteen, and a girl in a garden in France in 1425. With thirty-six plates by Nicholas Roerich.
“Madam, you are not ill. You are unrelieved.”
Paperback · Hardcover · Kindle · audiobook to come
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Short teachings on Rāja Yoga, yoga psychology, and the science of un-hooking the mind. Channel: Matri Talks — Mātṛ Pravachan.
The full guided Yoga Nidra — for sleep, recovery, and trauma.
Listen
Guided meditations and Yoga Nidra for sleep, recovery, and trauma — to practise lying down, eyes closed, in your own time. New practices added now and then.
THE SPINE — the audiobook, read in full. Eighteen chapters walking the classical map of Rāja Yoga, in ordinary English. Paperback and hardcover are out now.
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Articles, translations, and teachings on yoga, ecology, Sanskrit, and native wisdom — published on the eco-yoga portal. Click any title to preview; open the full piece on the portal.
Projects
Orientation
Turn awareness inward and the body begins to heal. Turn it outward — toward soil, toward community, toward the way a household runs — and the same thing happens in the environment. The discipline is identical: observe consequence, reduce reactivity, act from what we can actually see. Left unexamined, impulse hardens into pattern. Pattern shapes environment — in a body, in a culture, on the land. Traditional cultures of Golden Age understand this. Their restraint and rhythm are not morality. They are applied intelligence.
Flux is constant. This is where Rāja Yoga begins — not as philosophy, but as protocol. Clean inputs, steady rhythm, trained attention. The physiology recovers. Clarity returns. Memory sharpens. Stamina rebuilds. And from that ground, right action stops being an effort and becomes natural.
Alignment is not belief. It is coherence we can feel — between what we see, what we think and what we do.
That is the framework Matri's teaching works to restore.
Training
Matri carries a living lineage of Rāja Yoga — the crown-jewel discipline the old texts call the king of all yogas — into the one place it was always meant to be applied: how we actually live the alignment between thought, action, and human ecology.
What follows is not learnt from books. It is transmitted teacher to student, body to body — and continues to unfold long after the teaching appears to end.
The traditions listed below are the root — the original science from which everything the modern world calls mystical, spiritual and religious was drawn and, over centuries, diluted. These are the uninterrupted lineages Matri was trained in:
Matri offers a small number of private one-to-one trainings each year for serious students. Apply or enquire via email.
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Plus permanent 20% off all sessions for every student you refer.
