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Spiritual Practice for the Real World

Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Everyday Life

Practical, actionable strategies from the yoga philosophy and yogic tradition.

In the yoga tradition, a householder is anyone actively engaged in the world, not secluded in a monastery or retreating to a cave. Householders navigate everyday life: work, relationships, responsibilities, and the realities of modern living. You might be an artist, activist, teacher, entrepreneur, caregiver, or simply someone figuring it out day by day. The path of a Householder is bringing spiritual practice into the heart of daily life. Householder yoga is where mess and magic meet.

A Practical Guide

About the Community

This community is not for hermits or yogis living in Himalayan caves. It is for people living full lives with work, responsibilities, and a desire to grow without having to renounce it all. We’ll take big ideas from the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, and other essential yogic texts, and break them down into real, relatable language. You don’t need to be a scholar. We’ll connect the dots and reveal how these teachings support each other, forming a powerful foundation for modern spiritual life. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to bring these teachings off the page and into your everyday choices. This is yoga for real life. No cave required.

What You'll Find Inside

✨ Clear & Rooted Teachings
Big ideas, made simple. I break down yoga philosophy so it is deeply digestible without watering it down.

🧭 Real-Life Wisdom
Learn how to bring yogic insight into the messy, beautiful reality of daily life.

🕸️ Connected Teachings
See how the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, and other sacred texts speak to one another, revealing a path that’s both timeless and relevant.

🌱 Culturally Respectful & Spiritually Grounded
These teachings are shared with care, honoring the traditions they come from, and the lives we’re living now.

Who This Is For

🌿 You’re curious about yoga beyond the poses, but traditional texts feel overwhelming or complicated to decode.

🧘🏽‍♀️ You’ve been practicing for a while and want to go deeper or bring the heart of yoga into how you live, not just how you move.

✨ You’re looking for grounded wisdom to help you navigate real life with more clarity, balance, and purpose.

Whether you're brand new to philosophy or just ready for it to feel more real and relevant, this course is for you.

How It Works

Each month, we dive into a core theme from essential yogic texts like the Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutras, Vedas, and Devi Mahatmya, exploring how these teachings apply to real life, right now.

Here’s what’s included every month:

📚 4 On-Demand Philosophy Lessons
Bite-sized, heart-centered teachings that break down the monthly theme into clear, digestible insights. A new theme is announced at the start of each month.

🧘🏾‍♀️ 1 Monthly Yoga Practice
An accessible, all-levels practice aligned with the month’s theme. Each offering may take the form of asana, pranayama, meditation, or another supportive practice. Explore at your own pace, in your own space

💬 4 Live Weekly “Yoga Wisdom” Sessions
Tuesdays at 11 AM EST on Zoom (recordings available). These live classes weave yogic philosophy with current events, personal insight, and meditative downloads from Shanna. Bring your questions, or send them in ahead of time. We make space for real-time discussion and reflection.

This structure is designed for the householder path: flexible, meaningful, and made to support you through the ups and downs of everyday life.

NOVEMBER Theme

Love In Action

Applying the Devotee’s Way

In this module we explore what real love looks like in a busy, imperfect life. We draw on verses 12:13-20 of the Bhagavad Gītā to learn the qualities of the one beloved by the Divine. These traits are not lofty ideals kept on shelves — they are daily choices: how we speak, how we respond, how we stay steady, how we forgive, how we offer without clutching.

You will learn first what the text says — in clear translation and plain meaning — about the devotee’s heart. Then we move to real-life: work, relationships, rest, emotions, conflict, influence. The goal is not perfection but alignment: slowly, steadily, love becomes your reflex, your response, your presence.

A core practice in this module is Loving Kindness. You will be guided to cultivate warmth toward yourself and others, to soften reactivity, to release resentment, and to make friendliness more habitual than withdrawal.

What You Will Find in This Module

Clear translations and unpacking of the devotee-qualities named in Gītā 12:13-20.

Real-life examples and reflection prompts to help you see how the traits show up (or fail to) in your daily life.

Practices for noticing and shifting reactivity: anger, envy, pride, clinging, criticism, blame.

Guided Loving Kindness meditations and invitations for self-and-other healing.

Tools for steadying the mind: self-control, contentment, patience, forgiveness.

Guidance on cultivating equanimity: how to stay balanced in praise and blame, honor and dishonor, gain and loss, happiness and pain.

Inner check-questions to help you: Is this response love or fear? Is this attachment or service? Is this habit or kindness?

Supportive prompts for journaling or group discussion: what shifts, what resists, what feels more possible over time.

october Theme

Controlling the Wind: The Steadying Power of Practice and Non-Attachment

Arjuna once said that controlling the mind is like trying to control the wind. Krishna’s answer was clear: the mind can be steadied through consistent practice and non-attachment. Patanjali echoes this in the Yoga Sutras, naming them as the two essentials for success in yoga.

Without these twin foundations, yoga remains scattered. With them, the mind grows clear, the heart grows steady, and life itself becomes practice.

In This Module, You Will Learn

The two essentials for success in yoga. Why practice and non-attachment are the bedrock of yoga.
How to work with thoughts. Explore Pratipaksha Bhavanam, Patanjali’s guidance on shifting the mind when harmful or unsteady thoughts arise.
A ritual for letting go. Fire or water, each offers a way to release what keeps the mind agitated.
A call to steady practice. Commit to one simple, consistent practice for 30 days and experience how it steadies your daily life.

Why This Matters

Yoga is not simply about postures. It is about learning to steady the restless wind of the mind. Abhyasa and vairagya—practice and non-attachment—are the heart of that journey. Every yogi, and especially every householder, must learn them if we want our practice to hold firm through the storms of daily life.

Who This Is For

If you live in the world with work, family, and responsibilities, and want your yoga to go deeper than shapes on a mat, this module is for you. You will be guided in simple, accessible ways to root yourself in the true essentials of yoga.

Join the Module

You cannot stop the wind. But with practice and non-attachment, you can steady the mind.

Spiritual Practice for the Real World

Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Everyday Life

I just joined at the beginning of the month, and you've given me more support and practical guidance about building a practice-centered/driven life in a week than I've been able to find in the 15 years I've been studying yoga. The space you've created is exactly what I've been missing. 💖 With d

A Practical Guide

About the Community

What You'll Find Inside

Who This Is For

How It Works

Price

One Month Access

Monthly Membership

Yearly Membership

Upcoming Yoga Philosophy Themes

NOVEMBER Theme

Love In Action

What You Will Find in This Module

october Theme

Controlling the Wind: The Steadying Power of Practice and Non-Attachment