08/08/2026
Welcome email goes out tomorrow, only a little time left to register!
We’ve all heard about the chakras and seen the cute rainbow graphics. Open Instagram and you’ll easily find offerings for chakra tuning or activation. You can just as easily find videos of people dramatically shaking, presented as the awakening of kuṇḍalinī. And phrases like “the subtle body” can easily start to feel like another yoga buzzword.
In this three-week virtual course, we’ll explore traditional understandings and practices of the subtle body, cakras, and kuṇḍalinī, drawing especially from the Śaiva Ta***ic and Haṭha Yoga traditions in which these teachings were developed.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with approaching the cakras as rainbow-colored energetic organs that can be opened, activated, or tuned. But that familiar system is largely modern, shaped by Western esotericism and especially popularized through books and teachers in the twentieth century.
We’ll look further back, exploring teachings and practices found in texts dating from as early as the ninth century.
Personally, I’ve found that these older practices still offer tremendous value not merely as historical curiosities, but as living ways of experiencing ourselves, consciousness, and the sacred.
Over three sessions, we’ll explore:
• subtle body, prāṇa, and nāḍīs
• history and practice of traditional cakra systems
• Kuṇḍalinī, bindu and more
This course is open to everyone.
My hope is that it will be accessible to those completely new to these ideas while also opening new possibilities for those who have worked with the subtle body for decades.
Through teaching, discussion, mantra, meditation, and visualization, we’ll explore how to connect with the subtle body, how to meditate with the cakras, and how these traditions might invite us into a deeper, and perhaps very different, understanding of kuṇḍalinī.
Wednesdays, August 11, 18 & 25
7:30–9:00pm Central
Live on Zoom
Registration is open—visit the link in our bio or send me a DM for details.
