The Nondual Wisdom of the Yogasūtra

A 6-week online program

Integrate the profound wisdom and logical consistency of yoga psychology into your life

“Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.”

— Parmahansa Yogananda

Yoga means union.

The term “Yoga” is derived from the root ‘yuj’, which means to unite, to join, to integrate. While the term emphasizes the union of all things, the yogic practices oftentimes focus on discrete phenomena.

Since we live in the realm of multiplicity, we’re meant to differentiate between things. Without differentiation, there would be no colors of the rainbow or sounds of the orchestra—it’s what allows this realm to have its texture, color and varieties of experience. However, when we lose the underlying linkage between all things, we fall into the delusion that we are separate, and we feel isolated, ill-at-ease and, sometimes, in states of extreme suffering.

Yoga teaches us how to clear our lens of perception so we can differentiate but remain connected to an embodied, experiential unity and nondual Reality. Through yoga, we return to the wholeness that was never really divided in the first place.

Join me for this in-depth, online, 6-week program as we explore the ancient wisdom of yoga psychology and yoga practice and why it is still relevant today.

Whatever form of yoga you practice, understanding Classical Yoga psychology and philosophy will awaken deeper insights and support your efforts towards alignment and authenticity.

Here is what you’ll discover:

  • Heal from separation. Underlying, innate wholeness is always and already here— it doesn’t go anywhere and never abandons us. 

  • Clear the lens of perception. Remove the distorted knowledge and delusions in the way of clear seeing and experiencing reality. 

  • Learn what Yoga psychology teaches about synchronicity and psychic phenomena.

  • Explore techniques to master your emotions and lead a life filled with joy, love, and peaceful equanimity.

  • Gain greater understanding of the mindbody unity and embark on a deeper exploration of feelings and sensations, as well as an understanding of the wisdom they carry. 

  • Increase your capacity to sit at the window of tolerance. Learn how to work on, live at, and gain insight at that edge of intense sensation and emotion so you can heal from any inherited family or cultural trauma or distress and heal from the delusion of separation.

“Self-realization is yoga or ‘oneness’ with truth—
the direct perception or experience of truth by
the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.”

— Parmahansa Yogananda

This program is for you if you're:

  • New to Patañjali’s Classical Yoga or if you have a small to moderate amount of experience with the text and practices

  • A beginning and intermediate practitioner who wants to deepen your understanding of te sutras

  • Interested in self-help, healing, wisdom practices and liberatory psychology

  • Wanting to deepen your spiritual practice 

  • Suffering from anxiety, sorrow, isolation, depression, or a sense of disenfranchisement 

  • Wanting to increase self-knowledge and self-knowing awareness 

  • A psychologist or mental health practitioner interested in learning how Yoga psychology applies to some of the most pressing mental health challenges of our time, including addiction, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, narcissism, predatory capitalism, and ecocide.

Here’s what the program includes:

  • 6 prerecorded video modules 

  • 6 live interactive Q&A sessions 

  • Weekly readings 

  • Facebook group

  • Weekly journal prompts

  • Breathwork practices

  • Specific meditations

Course Dates and Pricing

2025 Dates Coming Soon! Please sign up below to be notified when enrollment opens.

All live classes will be recorded. If you are unable to make the classes live, replays will be available.

Investment: $395

Scholarships are also available. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. Please reach out to me at info@leannewhitney.com for more information.

FAQs

  • No, you do not need to be a teacher to take this course. Psychologists, coaches, wellness practitioners and keen students, this training is for you too.

    The only enrollment requirement is a desire to transform and integrate mind, body and spirit.

    If you are a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance you will be able to use this training towards 30 hours of your continuing education credits and you will receive a 50-hour Embodied Yoga certificate at the end; but you do not have to be a teacher to learn about these things.

  • YES! If you are a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance you will be able to use this training towards 30 hours of your continuing education credits.

    The training has 21 contact hours and 9 non-contact hours eligible—this meets your 3 year requirement for continuing education credits through Yoga Alliance.

  • This training is done through our Ruzuku learning platform, a professional educational tool that allows us to have an interactive experience as a group anywhere in the world. We have used it for multiple courses in the past and were able to create deep and meaningful connections as a group.

    We also do 3-hour weekend live sessions.

  • This 50-hour training (30 hour of Yoga Alliance CE for teachers) is priced at $595. We do our best to price these trainings at an incredibly competitive rate and accommodate as many as we can.

    We realize that in these challenging times the desire for personal growth is strong and funding may not be, so we are happy to support you however we can. If you need a payment plan please reach out and we will work with you.

    If you are able to pay in full we appreciate that as it allows us to support those who can not.

  • If you are a graduate of one of the Embodied Yoga School's past trainings or one of my colleagues, students, or clients you do have a discount code available to use—please reach out if you need it.

  • The live sessions will be recorded, so you can miss it if needed. For those wanting YA credits you will need to be present for the 21 contact hours to achieve those contact hours. The rest of the hours can be be done on your time.

    I will be co-facilitating this course with my colleague Shilah Sarkissian, the lead instructor for the yoga alliance accredited Yoga School Embodied Yoga Teacher Training who holds the designations of ERYT500 and is a Certified Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Practitioner. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher and a Certified Spiritual Healer.