Why Yoga Actually Works: Beyond Flexibility

The Western reduction of yoga to stretching misses the point entirely. Tantric yoga bypasses conscious defenses and reaches the autonomic nervous system, trauma, and unconscious patterns. Miska Käppi reveals the real technology behind asanas — and why what you find in most yoga studios is a distortion.

Tapas and Mitochondria: The Fire the Yogis Described

Tapas — the internal heat generated through disciplined practice — maps directly onto mitochondrial hormesis. The Vedic practitioners encoded the mechanism five thousand years before we had the language for it.