The Examined Path Through Depression — across cultures and traditions

Depression manifests as a particular contraction of prāṇa — a withdrawal of vital energy that dims perception, motivation, and connection. Across traditions it has been named differently: melancholia, acedia, kapha imbalance, the dark night — yet each tradition points toward the same phenomenon of citta losing its natural luminosity. Treatment requires attending to energy, not merely to thought.

The course sequence, in order.

Each step builds on the last.