A journey rooted in Mother India, weaving together two of my deepest passions: the practice of Yoga and the living sounds of community.

From Tamil folk ceremonies in temples and studios, to the iconic Purple Valley Ashtanga Yoga Shala, practicing alongside John Scott, this episode moves between pulse and count, instinct and discipline.

Field recordings, mantra, rhythm, and ambient textures merge into a single listening experience, an invitation to travel through sound, breath, and place.

This new episode is a slow drift into the textures of South India: the restless pulse of Chennai’s streets, the stillness of a yoga shala at dawn, and the vast orchestration of a tropical night storm. These layers are touched gently with electronica—like glimmers of memory, like the way technology sits side by side with tradition in India. And, punctuating the journey, come the voices of teachers: fragments of WhatsApp messages that carry not just words but intention, care, and a lineage of practice in the simplest of forms.

The episode is structured as a weave.

• Streets: density, rhythm, surrender to chaos.

• Shala: stillness, breath, intimacy with silence.

• Storm: scale, power, surrender to nature.

• Messages: guidance, lineage, the human voice carried across time and technology.

Electronica acts as a thread, never dominating, but stitching the worlds together. A filtered bass line might echo the rumble of a bus or a thundercloud. A synth pad might stretch like the silence of a shala breath. Digital glitches mirror raindrops striking metal roofs.

The weave is intentional but not forced. India itself is a weave: tradition and technology, chaos and stillness, ritual and improvisation. The episode mirrors this reality.

The practice of this episode is the practice of listening. Not just passive listening, but active, embodied listening. In yoga, we speak of shravanam—the act of hearing as a form of learning. This is not entertainment. It is presence.

In this episode I take you with me to the opening ceremony

of Utsava Yoga festival. opening speeches of Swami Muktidananda ji, Prof. H. V. Nagaraja Rao, Sri Subodh Tiwari, to the background soundscapes of Coorg coffee plantation.

I share some of the insights and mainly invite you to listen.

listening is always a direct gateway to a more subtle experience.