Spiritual Practice for the Real World

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.

The Gita’s Wisdom on Consciousness and Creation

In this module, we journey beyond the surface of identity to rediscover the vast awareness that lives through the body but is not confined by it. The Body is Not the Boundary reveals how consciousness moves through matter and how remembering this truth dissolves the illusion of separation. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we begin to experience a steady kind of peace—the kind that comes from knowing ourselves as more than the body or the mind, yet fully present within them.

In this module, we will explore:

• A grounding affirmation practice:  to strengthen awareness of the Knower within.
• The Journey to Kailash meditation, a guided inner pilgrimage to the sacred mountain home of Shiva and Parvati, where stillness (Purusha) and movement (Prakriti) unite as light.
• The I AM meditation technique, a method for resting in direct awareness and returning to the simple experience of being itself.
• The Gita’s teaching on the Knower and the Field, uncovering how awareness and action can coexist in harmony rather than in conflict.
• The Samkhya map of reality, which explains how consciousness (Purusha, the Seer) interacts with nature (Prakriti, the seen world)—so we can trace the path of return from matter back to pure knowing.
• How identification with body and mind clouds perception and sustains suffering.
• The dangers of body-identification—attachment, comparison, fear, and self-limitation—and the way back to freedom through understanding, practice, and lived awareness.