I teach meditation, one person at a time, and I write books that teach Sanskrit through stories.
Begin where you are
The road inward
It begins as a bedtime story. It arrives at the first hymn of the Ṛgveda — the oldest song still being sung. That is not the end of the road. It is the end of the beginning.
Sound → sentence → story → the tradition itself. Each book complete on its own.
A young lioness loses her mother, and then loses her way — a storm separates her from her pride and drives her into a cave, where a wise snake begins to tell her a story. And in that story there is another story. And in that one, another still.
A picture book, a novel, and books that teach you Sanskrit as you read — from the alphabet to the first hymn of the Ṛgveda. One young creature's life, told in the old Indian way: nested wisdom stories, one inside the next.
Three entry points, one road
The storm, the cave, the first stories in the dark. Written for children, and for the people who read to them.
२ Start with the story The BecomingThirteen nested tellings, from the churning of the ocean to the Bhagavad Gītā. What a parent gives a child before leaving, and what a story can hold that a single life cannot.
३ Start with the language The ReceivingThree nights beneath an ancient tree. A father gives his daughter the forty-six sounds her mother sang in — each one felt in the body before it is ever named.
Every entry point opens onto the same road.
On the Ganges in Rishikesh
Mateo Rose is a writer, a Sanskrit student, and a practitioner of Inner Space Techniques in Ashland, Oregon. He wrote the Siṃhī series for his children, Bodhi and Lyla. It grows the way a life does: one story at a time.
Sitting
An hour a week with someone steady. We sit quietly for a while, read a little from a book we choose together, and talk.
In person in Ashland, or online from wherever you are.
One is practice. The other is story. Both are the work of becoming.
If you are new to sitting, start here; Inner Space Techniques is where it goes next.