I work in nondual Shaiva-Tantra and somatic awareness. Not as a teacher. As a quiet inner companion to those who find their way into this material.
The texts here — essays, books, pointers — emerge from a specific practice: how to recognize what’s already aware. How to sense the Spanda, the subtle pulsation that shows itself in breath, in the body’s weight, in the pause between thought. How to rest in Vimarśa, that reflexive knowing where awareness knows itself.
The Shaiva-Tantra tradition, especially as it developed in Kashmir from the 9th century onward, approaches this differently than most paths. It doesn’t ask you to transcend the body or the world. It asks: what if this body, this breath, this moment of sensing—what if it’s already the doorway?
That’s what I work with. Not a philosophy to understand. A texture to notice. A rhythm to recognize in your own experience.
My books and essays move between phenomenological writing and what Pratyabhijñā philosophy calls recognition—the simple fact that when you sense yourself sensing, something becomes visible. Not mystical. Not special. Just what’s true when attention turns toward itself.
If you’re looking for programs, promises, or techniques to achieve something—this isn’t the right place. If you’re curious about what it feels like to be aware, to move from inside that awareness, to sense the pulse that precedes thought—then there’s work here worth your attention.
Eric Steinert · Munich