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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.

December theme

The Body is Not the Boundary

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.

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.

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

Upcoming Yoga Philosophy Themes

December theme

The Body is Not the Boundary

NOVEMBER Theme

Love In Action

What You Will Find in This Module

Price

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