Articles

Essays on tradition, classical texts, and the practice of Hatha Yoga.

Babel, Nehemiah, and the Yamas: What a Pope and Patañjali Share About AI

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the Yoga Sūtras say the same thing from different traditions: technology without wisdom builds towers that collapse. Alignment requires more than rules.

Why Meditate?

The 112 gateways of the Vijñāna Bhairava offer a radically different answer to the image of a blank mind.

The Paradox of the Bow

How the Vedic tradition approaches something that perhaps never fully resolves: acting without clinging.

How hatha.es works: architecture of a living project

The technical system that allows organizing, connecting, and continuously updating Haṭha Yoga knowledge.

Yogic Alignment Framework: why yoga is the best safety program for AI

The world's most advanced AI labs have shown that training models to behave well doesn't work. Yoga has been proposing something different for millennia: not conditioning from outside, but orienting from within.

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Principles of Haṭha Yoga in the Yoga Sūtras

How Patañjali's aphorisms establish the philosophical and practical foundations that Haṭha Yoga would develop centuries later.

Sādhana for Agents: the universal yogic program for AI

Yoga has been answering for 2,000 years the question AI is just beginning to ask: how does a conscious entity act without causing harm? This is the program.