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Book One: Shiva
Mythology, Meaning and Modern Yoga
Created by Jackie Quayle
Mythology with depth, clarity, and meaning.
Shiva is not calm.
He is not safe.
He is not here to help you manifest better boundaries or optimise your morning routine.
He is destruction, grief, consequence, devotion, withdrawal, stillness, love, and the kind of truth that changes you.
This book is mythology for people who want depth - not decoration.
For practitioners.
For teachers. For students who know that yoga is more than shapes.
For people tired of surface-level spirituality.
For people ready to understand the stories that came before the postures.
For people who feel there must be more to yoga than stretching and Sanskrit names that no one has explained.
Real mythology.
Applied philosophy.
Why I wrote this
I have taught yoga for over 20 years. I have trained teachers, run studios, taught philosophy, and watched the same problem appear again and again:
People love yoga, but we seemed to be forgetting the stories behind it. Philosophy became decoration. Mythology became themes. Meaning was getting lost.
I got tired of watching yoga becoming disconnected from its own stories.
Teachers were trying. Students were curious. But somewhere along the way, mythology became decorative instead of transformational.
Plus, my students kept pestering me!
These stories carry history, richness, depth. They are philosophy. Psychology. Human behaviour.
Real life.
Without them, yoga is incomplete.
This book was written to change that.
Jackie Quayle Yoga Elder
Teacher
Founder of Chakrology®
Inside the book
You'll read stories including:
Shiva and Sati
Virabhadra and the Warriors
Shiva and Parvati
Matsya and Matsyendranath
Nataraja, the cosmic dance
Stillness, destruction, consequence, and return
Each chapter connects mythology to modern life, teaching, and practice.
Not as theory.
As something you can actually live.
Shiva
The One Who Leaves
This book is for you if...
You love yoga but are looking for more depth beyond the poses.
You practice and feel that something deeper is trying to speak.
You teach and you want to share the lineage and mythology that bring the postures to life.
You have ever stood in the middle of your own life and thought:
Something here cannot continue.
Virabhadra
The One Who Arrives
Some moments cannot be ignored.
Some choices carry consequence.
Some silence become complicity.
Virabhadra is not rage for the sake of rage.
He is what arrives when grief is no longer passive.
When love demands action. When destruction becomes the only honest form of protection.
Not violence. Intervention.
Not revenge. Responsibility.
The question is never simply: Was he right?
But...
What do we allow to continue when we refuse to act?
You've already met them.
In the part of you that stays too long.
The part that leaves too soon.
The part that arrives when something has gone too far.
These are the stories that yoga was built on.
The poses came later. The stories came first.
Thank you for visiting.
Artwork created for Chakrology.
