Your Stars Within

Something I feel passionate about is helping people understand astrology for themselves. Not as a prediction someone else makes, or that an app generates, but as a living language you can begin to read. When an astrologer says something about your chart, or an app tells you Mercury is retrograde, I want you to understand the energy behind it. What is actually moving, and why. What that energy is asking of you. That shift, from receiving astrology passively to understanding th

Sri Shyamji moved among some of the most recognized names in yoga and spiritual teaching of the last century, playing music with Ravi Shankar, teaching alongside Harish Johari. But he was never famous the way they were. I don't think that was an accident. He told me himself that his own Guru instructed him never to build a big following around himself, that it can spoil the ego. Sri Shyamji was a Nada and Svar Yoga Master, and his focus was on completion, unity with divine tr

This weekend wasn't about mantras or teachings. It was about something much less glamorous, and much harder to explain: the constant, small decisions that make me stop and question which direction to move in next. Not every choice is this hard. Starting with the Neela Srsvati series felt like a clear, intuitive pull, I just knew that was the right place to begin sharing, it came to me in multiple avenues and accidentally through a senior student as well looking for an old tap

1992 Brussels - Neela Srsvati (Blue Saraswati), Tape 3, Side 1 The mantras in this one are incredibly powerful. Wow. I love how he says “from the perspective of sound.” In other tapes he says “from the 6th perspective.” It makes me realize you can really look at life through different lenses, and see different truths. In fact, we are probably drawn toward the philosophies and information that speak to the lens, mind, or chakra we view the world from. So when he says “from the

1992 Brussels - Neela Srsvati (Blue Saraswati), Tape 2, Side 1 *Sri Shyamji taught this correct spelling of Saraswati as Srsvati, which will be used throughout this blog. The current work I am moving through is a 5-cassette tape series entitled Neela Srsvati (Blue Srsvati). This was a workshop he did in Brussels in 1992. It is full of so many gems and beautiful, powerful mantras. I have a deep love for Srsvati because of Sri Shyamji opening that possibility in my world. I am

Welcome to my blog, where I will share with you the adventure it is to archive 50+ years of a great master's life's work! My beloved teacher, Sri Shyamji Bhatnagar, was a Nada and Swar Yogi (science of sound and breath). He left his body in April 2025, leaving behind many dedicated students and decades of sacred sounds and knowledge. In January 2026 I accepted the role of President and Lead Archivist of the Chakra Institute, and the most important task I see before me is prot

Lunar Eclipse Aug 27/28, 2026 Lunar eclipses carry a deep, internal, psychic and spiritual potential. This is the mysterious realm of the feminine which receives all in its womb and offers its healing nectar calling us deeper into her waters. This particular Lunar eclipse occurs the night of Aug 27, 2026 in Az time zone. While it is considered a partial eclipse, though it is about 96% covered, leaving a sliver that creates a reddening effect reminiscent of the divine feminine

Summer 2026 Astrological Outlook Hi, and thanks for reading this astrological update — I hope it helps you navigate this summer’s intense energies. Upcoming Moons Let’s start with the upcoming moons. In Western astrology, we have a Full Moon at 8° Capricorn on June 29th, followed by a New Moon at 21° Cancer on July 14th. These two moons will impact anyone with significant placements in the Cardinal signs (Cancer-Capricorn, Libra-Aries). July 29th shifts our focus to the fix

The Gift of True Knowledge There is a kind of knowledge that cannot be purchased or consumed. It can only be received and only when we arrive with a certain quality of openness. Karmic healing and true knowledge are aspects of spiritual truth. Everything else, however useful and well-intentioned, exists only at the level of the physical world. The deep tendencies, the karmas and samskaras, will continue. After all the therapy and all the practices and tools, the deeply ingra

Astro Update: May 2025 Saturn enters Aries and Dances with Neptune There’s a lot of info out there about this or that planetary movement. While astrologers can certainly have different takes, it’s important to pay attention to whom you listen to for information. Knowledge is a seed that guides, and the quality and accuracy of knowledge can guide you closer or farther from truth. Everything we ingest, everything the mind inputs, is present in each decisive moment, playing its

Can You Sense The Universal Consciousness? I want you to take a moment and close your eyes (after reading this part), imagine what it feels like for the tree to take in cardon dioxide as its life sustaining force, releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. Can you feel being a bull frog, making the deep croaking sound from your throat, feeling the way that would protrude outward? Can you feel like a hummingbird and how it would feel to move through the air so adeptly? How about to

Artwork By: Pieter Weltevrede The phrase “compassion fatigue” is a commonly used term to express the burn out many helping professionals experience at some point in their career. However, it’s really a misleading term from the Chakra Psychology perspective as the answer is embedded within this common phrase. There is a huge difference between compassion and empathy, and what most people are experiencing would be more aptly termed “empathy fatigue”. Empathy is a function of th

How Identity Causes Separation and Suffering The confusion of identity is a primary source of human suffering. We seek different identities throughout our lives, always seeking to define ourselves, as if we could rest when we find just the right names to give ourselves. Why do we care to identify so much? Why is this such a core facet of human beings and what are its consequences? Our confusion is not just that we identify with incorrect attributes, it is that we identify wit

Sympathy and empathy are quite different from the state of loving compassion. In sympathy, we are often feeling bad for the other, seeing their struggle and not accounting for their strength and their ability to overcome. This is the beginning stage of caring for others and understanding their experience. In sympathy, we’re somewhat pitying the person in their struggle, maybe even grateful we are not in that struggle ourselves and feeling a sense of unfairness at their plight

Often, psychology as a field, gets bogged down in its focus on the sickness in human beings. In its attempt to help heal the world, it has created model after model of human understanding that accounts more for our dysfunction than for our potential. The myopic view of human sickness has led to the expectation of a healthy baseline as simply not suffering with extreme symptoms. Yet, humans are wandering, looking for something more, something that will truly fulfil them. As we

Awakening is a process of realizing ourselves as a consciousness, it is a natural development inherent in human beings. As consciousness, we reside here in our physical, emotional and mental bodies. There is a tendency to become identified with the physical body because it is the densest or “realest” material. Yet, the body is temporal, limited in time. What animates this body? Who is it that witnesses this life? In traditional Chakra Psychology, there are 3 bodies, the physi

Yoga, Mindfulness, Psychedelics, Transcendental Meditation and many other alternative modalities have entered the scene in a way that hasn’t been seen since the sixties. Many of our clients are participating in practices aimed to change or raise consciousness. I am not suggesting we offer anything we are not specifically trained in, however, our client’s engagement in such practices create the need for a language and systematic understanding of these states of mind. This can

Our concept of intelligence (IQ) is severely limited, it essentially values logic above all else. Logic has its place and it’s use; it is the understanding of how the materials of the 3D world function. From a chakra perspective, logic is a third chakra mentation- way of using the mind. It is focused on understanding the physical world, such that we can impact it- to force our will upon it. It allows us to understand causal relationships and thus act according to the results