Perspectives, reflections, and conversations on contemporary research and emerging ideas.
In a world of constant demands and quiet strain, Breathe to Reset explores how Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) supports mental well-being across stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep. Drawing on research from diverse groups, the series highlights patterns of reduced stress levels, improved mood, better sleep quality, and shifts in physiological markers linked to resilience. It connects everyday experiences with the growing evidence around breath-based practices, offering readers practical insight into how a simple, structured breath routine can help restore balance.
Timeless Truths, Modern Proofs maps insights from Ancient Systems of Knowledge (ASK) onto contemporary scientific frameworks. Each essay places an ancient understanding beside a modern one, gives equal voice to both, and traces where two traditions of inquiry converge, describing the same truth in different languages. The essays are written in accessible language, open to every curious reader.
Molecules are often pictured as still structures - formulae and diagrams fixed on a page. In living systems, they are anything but still. Driven by energy, they move, bind, signal and respond, forming the invisible machinery that shapes how we breathe, move, sleep and adapt. The Animated Molecule explores this dynamic world of molecular life. Each essay takes one molecule as a lens, following its activity across scales and through scientific evidence to reveal how molecular processes shape the biology of human experience and contemplative practices may impact them. By tracing these processes in motion, the series offers a new way of seeing the remarkable activity unfolding within us, moment by moment.
Abstract illustration of a seated meditator surrounded by rings of slow, medium and fast breath waves, with a jagged stress line on the left turning into a smooth, calm wave on the right.
In Transforming Stress, everyday stress is broken down to its root factors and worked through, like an equation, toward calm, clarity and balance. The series brings together practical wisdom from Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, insights from scientists and thought leaders, and clear explainers on the research behind breathing practices such as Sudarshan Kriya Yoga. Short talks and stories, each offering a simple way to understand stress and turn it around, for anyone, anywhere.
