Some of the most useful ideas humanity has ever had (how to steady the mind, live with integrity, and meet a difficult life with clarity) sit locked away, behind the sense that they're only for monks and scholars. YogoLogo takes that wisdom off the high shelf. It draws the shared insight of Yoga, Stoicism and Buddhism into one modern framework, organised through Patanjali's eight limbs and the Layered Self: clear enough for someone new, deep enough to last a lifetime.
YogoLogo isn't another app, and it won't replace the tools and teachers you already trust: your meditation app, your yoga studio. Those are the tools; YogoLogo is the map above them, showing how they fit together. Where a tradition has a master, you'll be pointed to the master: every teacher and text is credited openly. One honest catch: a map is not the territory. It can make the path visible, but it can't walk it for you. The reading is free; the work is yours.
There is one deeper honesty, about the practice itself. The yoga most of us know is largely modern, drawn barely a century ago from older roots, wrestling and gymnastics, and the physical culture of its day. That is no embarrassment, only worth saying plainly. The good it does is real: a stronger body, a quieter mind. So is the older purpose underneath it, the clear seeing the practice was first built to serve. You don't have to want both. You only have to be honest about which you are after, because a practice gets clearer the moment you can name it. YogoLogo holds the deeper aim open as a door, never a gate.
Why "YogoLogo"?
The name combines Logos (the Stoic idea of living according to nature and reason) with Yoga, the path to living it. The Stoics named the destination; yoga maps the road. Two traditions joined in a single word: an intentional, examined life.
How I got here
My path didn't begin on a mat. It began with a meditation app and ten minutes a day, a small daily sit, kept up now for more than six years. Buddhism and meditation had drawn me since my late teens: the mind, consciousness, what a life is for. I was inspired by Alan Watts and Sam Harris, and thinkers like Carl Jung. Yoga I'd tried and bounced off: it left me stiff and self-conscious.
Then Laura talked me into a 200-hour teacher training with Madan Yoga in Pokhara, Nepal (2023). I went for the stretching and a steadier posture for sitting meditation, but the philosophy is what stayed with me. It added depth and colour, and a structure I'd felt was missing from Buddhism. Stoicism sharpened it further, defining rules and systems to live fully, without regrets.
Laura and I spent six months in India: Tiruvannamalai, where Ramana Maharshi taught a single question, Who am I?, then Auroville and the Isha Yoga Center. I won't dress it up as discipleship: just learning the way travellers do. The formal study ran alongside and after: a yin yoga course in Rishikesh, a 300-hour training with Santosh Kumar in Mysore (2024), then yoga anatomy with Jason Crandell, all Yoga Alliance curriculum, though I never registered; the learning was the point, not the letters. In Kyoto, a different lineage: Jikiden Reiki (a traditional Japanese healing practice) to its second level (Okuden) with Tadao Yamaguchi. I'm no guru, I haven't taught in studios, and so far I've shared these practices only with friends and family.
Why I made it
The more I studied, the more I saw the same truth surfacing from different directions (yoga, Stoicism, Buddhism, modern psychology) each naming in its own language what a clear mind makes possible. YogoLogo is the map I wish I'd had: the whole path in plain English, in one place. If a page here sparks a moment of introspection, or the quiet interest to discover your own path, it's done its job: not to make you believe anything, but to look closer, and begin. I'd love to hear how it lands for you.
The path is the goal. Start where you are.