Sutra to Self is a way of meeting Yoga's wisdom tradition that honors both the profound wisdom of its ancient roots and the voices of women today. This is a space where your intuition is respected as much as the text itself.
Through years of guiding wise, heart-centered yoga teachers and practitioners, I’ve witnessed a beautiful truth: when we’re encouraged to bring our whole selves—our lived experience, questions, and inner guidance—into relationship with sacred teachings, those teachings transform. They become alive, intimate, and truly ours.
Sutra to Self was shaped by these realizations and refined alongside a community of seekers craving authenticity and depth with ancient wisdom.
Transform Your Teaching. Transform Your Life.
You’re a woman called to more—deeper wisdom, true authority, and the freedom to teach yoga philosophy not as performance, but as lived, embodied truth.
Sutra to Self
Where Ancient Wisdom Meets
Your Inner Voice
Clarity, Confidence, and Authentic Teaching from the Roots of Yoga
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If any of these thoughts feel familiar, you're not alone. For too long, women have been taught to approach sacred texts through interpretations that were created without us, for contexts that don't include our perspectives or experiences.
“I’ve done the teacher trainings, the retreats, the study groups. I love this stuff. But when I try to explain the Gita in class—or even journal about it—I freeze. I’m afraid I’ll misrepresent something sacred. I just want to feel like the teachings live in me, not like I’m borrowing someone else’s language.”
"I second-guess myself constantly when teaching philosophy. What if I'm getting it wrong? I feel like an impostor trying to share wisdom that doesn't feel like mine."
“I used to defer to teachers and texts I didn’t quite understand. Now, in this quieter season of life, I want yoga philosophy to meet me where I am. I don’t want to just study it—I want to walk with it. But I still need help trusting my own voice.”
"I know there's profound wisdom in Yoga philosophy but the traditional approaches don't speak to my experience as a woman. I want to understand these teachings in a way that honors my intuition and lived experience."
"Every time I try to connect with the Bhagavad Gita, I hit a wall. The commentaries feel so male-centered, and I can't find myself in these interpretations. Where is the feminine voice in all of this ancient wisdom?"
"I love teaching yoga, but when it comes to philosophy, I feel like I'm just repeating what I learned in teacher training. I want to share deeper wisdom, but I'm afraid I don't have the authority to interpret these ancient texts."
Does this sound familiar?
I've been studying Eastern Wisdom for most of my life — drawn to its beauty, challenged by its contradictions. As a former monastic and longtime yoga educator, I created this course because I've seen how often women feel like outsiders in yoga philosophy. I wanted a space where our voices, questions, and lived experiences could shape the conversation.
My teaching draws from multiple wisdom traditions and approaches, creating space for both scholarly exploration and personal integration. I believe in honoring the richness of these teachings while trusting each student's capacity for direct understanding. This course is everything I wish I'd had: a poetic, rigorous, deeply personal journey into the heart of yoga philosophy — one that honors complexity, welcomes diverse perspectives, and supports your authentic engagement with these timeless teachings.
My Story &
Why I Created This
Meditation Experience meditation as a living dialogue between silence and presence. These guided practices become your compass, inviting stillness, insight, and a deep sense of belonging—both to yourself and the tradition.
Mantra Explore mantra as a bridge between mind and heart. You’ll learn to work with sound not just as repetition, but as living wisdom—tools for clarity, focus, and subtle transformation.
Ritual Immerse yourself in shared ceremony to ground, open, and honor every session. Ritual helps you connect with intention, weaving the sacred into your everyday life.
Establishing Practice as a Sacred Container for Inquiry
In Sutra to Self, we move through each week held by rhythm and sacred structure. Rituals anchor our learning, while space for integration lets the teachings truly land. Here, ancient practices become living guides—ways of tending both inner and outer life as you step into authentic teaching.
Rhythm & Ritual
Create Meaningful Ritual Craft personal rites that reflect your season of life, lineage of heart, and inner truth. Whether lighting a candle or invoking Devi, let your practice be a mirror—not a performance.
Honor Cyclical Rhythms Move beyond linear models of progress and perfection. Embrace the spiral path of rest, renewal, and return as a legitimate and holy expression of yoga.
Reclaim the Ethic of Care Center relational intelligence, intuition, and inner listening as sacred tools—not sentimental distractions. Let care—of self, others, and the world—become your sadhana.
Together, we identify and question interpretations that diminish women's spiritual authority or reduce our complex experiences to oversimplified concepts. You'll learn to distinguish between the essential teachings and the cultural overlays that don't serve your development as a complete spiritual being.
Feminine Reclamation
Journaling as Integration Use guided prompts to weave the teachings into your life story. Trace how the Gita echoes through your questions, patterns, and daily choices.
Meditation as Conversation Enter into silent dialogue with the text. Let your stillness become a listening space where clarity, guidance, and insight can arise from within.
Chanting as Intimacy Learn to chant key verses in Sanskrit—not for performance, but as a way of attuning your breath, voice, and heart to the Gita’s sacred pulse.
Philosophy becomes lived wisdom through daily practices that honor your rhythms and responsibilities. We establish sustainable rituals of chanting, meditation, and reflection that create an ongoing relationship with the text rather than just intellectual understanding.
Embodied Practice
When you enter into a living relationship with sacred texts—and truly honor your wisdom as a woman—everything begins to shift. Approaching ancient teachings through your own lens isn’t just permission; it’s power. Your felt insights matter. Your spiritual voice belongs in this lineage.
Impostor syndrome falls away. Teaching philosophy no longer feels like reciting someone else’s truths. Instead, your unique perspective becomes a gift, one that enriches and deepens the tradition itself.
The texts themselves change, too. What once felt distant or academic becomes a trusted companion, meeting you in the real questions and rhythms of your life. Rooted in both tradition and your own inner knowing, you cultivate an authentic authority—one that allows you to share, teach, and live these teachings with deep confidence and grace.
Once you find your voice,
everything changes
— Sarah, Yoga Teacher & Mother
"Kamala's approach to the Gita completely transformed how I understand sacred texts. Instead of feeling like I needed to accept interpretations that didn't resonate with my experience as a woman, I learned to engage with the teachings through my own wisdom. The dharma mapping process helped me see my life story as sacred, and now I teach philosophy with genuine confidence rather than borrowed authority."
"For the first time, I felt like I had permission to trust my own spiritual insights."
Imagine your life looking like this...
Envision moving through your daily challenges with the Yoga's wisdom as your companion, its insights accessible and relevant to your experience as a woman navigating the complexities of modern life.
Picture yourself preparing to teach a philosophy class and feeling excited rather than anxious.
Imagine beginning each day with a practice that feels like coming home to yourself. Your morning ritual with the Gita isn't another item on your to-do list, but a conversation with wisdom that knows your life intimately.
See yourself as someone who no longer apologizes for your perspective or diminishes your spiritual authority.
When you chant Sanskrit phrases, they resonate in your body as expressions of your own spiritual authority rather than foreign words you're borrowing.
THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED
Sutra to Self isn’t about memorizing what to think about yoga philosophy. It’s an invitation to listen—to truly sense the wisdom of these teachings in your bones. Here, you’ll discover how to teach from a deep well of authority, the kind that arises naturally when ancient truth meets your authentic feminine insight.
Sutra to Self
LET'S BREAK DOWN WHAT'S INCLUDED
Over eight immersive weeks, you’ll cultivate a personal relationship with yoga philosophy that honors both its timeless wisdom and your lived experience as a spiritually mature woman. This is an intimate journey for those ready to move beyond borrowed interpretations—into your own grounded confidence and authentic voice as a teacher and practitioner.
Sutra to Self:
An 8-Week Immersion
Anchor in Sacred Practice & Yogic Roots
Begin with the heartbeat of yoga—its rhythms, rituals, and the Vedic worldview that shapes everything. We’ll explore the origins, guiding principles, and an ethic of care, showing you how ancient practices can become rituals of belonging in your daily life.
Root yourself not just in knowledge, but in an enduring sense of connection and accountability to lineage, self, and community.
Rhythm & Ritual – Foundations and History
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See Through New Eyes
Step into the original questions of “Why Yoga?” by exploring Samkhya—the framework of mind, matter, spirit—and the core philosophies that give yoga its uniquely integrative view.
Understand both the map and the mystery, so you can teach philosophy with true clarity and confidence, from a place of personal conviction.
Why Yoga? Philosophical Foundations
02
Wisdom in Conversation
Journey into the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita to witness the dynamic evolution of yoga’s core insights. You’ll learn to listen for the deep questions of self, duty, and spiritual freedom—relating them directly to your own contemporary experience.
Move past rote learning and awaken to the transformative, personal nature of these texts as living guides.
The Evolution of Thought
03
Embodiment for Today
Trace the development from classical Hatha to modern yoga, understanding how these threads weave into our current practices and lives. We’ll bridge tradition with innovation, empowering you to bring new relevance, creativity, and care to your teaching space.
Step away from dogma. Claim both your roots and your evolution, shaping a practice (and life) that honors ancient truth and contemporary potential.
Practice in Action
04
Implementation &Support
Beautifully Designed Materials Receive thoughtfully crafted workbooks, audio teachings, and video tutorials to guide your study and practice. These aren’t just resources—they’re companions on your path of inner transformation.
Journaling for Integration Each module includes reflection prompts that invite you to trace your own story through Yoga's wisdom teachings. This is where the magic happens—where philosophy becomes personal and healing.
Weekly Zoom Dharma Dialogues Meet live each week for Q&A, discussion, and embodied integration. Whether you come with questions or simply to be held in sacred space, these calls are the heartbeat of the program.
Community Connection You don’t have to walk this path alone.
Join a private forum where you can ask questions, share insights, and connect with fellow yoga teachers on the journey. Think of it as your virtual satsang—supportive, soulful, and always welcoming.
Comprehensive audio and written materials to help you develop confidence with Sanskrit as sacred sound, including personal practice recordings and phonetic guides designed specifically for this program. Whether you are new to Sanskrit or chanting, this guide is designed to help you make accessible the sound and voice aspect of yoga's wisdom. Value: $150
Sanskrit Pronunciation & Chanting Guides
Personal 1:1 Sessions with Kamala Two 30-minute individual sessions, one at the beginning of your journey and one at completion, to ensure the work lands personally and to support your integration of the teachings into your life and teaching practice. Value: $600
Personal 1:1 Sessions
with Kamala
you get these incredible BONUSES!
Guided Templates & Inquiry Journal
Gain immediate access to a beautifully designed workbook featuring guided templates and reflective prompts. This practical resource helps you weave your yoga philosophy insights directly into your classes, workshops, and personal practice. You’ll find frameworks for lesson planning and self-inquiry pages for deeper personal growth. Value: $125
Plus!
Self Inquiry & Teacher Integration Workbook
We gather for a live, guided meditation sessions designed to ground you in the teachings and reconnect you with your inner knowing. These aren’t just silent sits—they’re spaces of shared ritual, chanting, pranayama and contemplative presence.
Whether you’re brand new to meditation or returning home to it, these sessions offer a supportive rhythm to help you embody what you’re learning—one breath, one moment at a time. Value: $125
Weekly Live Meditation Practice Sessions
Her knowledge is immense, but it’s her heart that makes the biggest impact.”
— David, Studio Owner
“Kamala is one of the most well-educated and beloved teachers we’ve had in over 25 years of running yoga studios.
She sees each student clearly, and responds with rare sensitivity, wisdom, and warmth. She’s more than a teacher—she’s a guide, a coach, and a true friend.”
— Chelsea, Artist
“Kamala’s understanding of yoga runs deep—it’s not just something she teaches, it’s who she is.
Kamala showed me that wisdom lives in relationship and experience, not just in books. The way she guided us to question interpretations that don't serve women was revolutionary for me. I now approach all sacred texts with this same discerning, feminine intelligence." — Jennifer, Meditation Teacher & Therapist
"Before this program, I thought I needed to know more facts about Yoga to teach it well.
What my students are saying about working with me:
Your Peace of Mind Guarantee
30-Day Resonance Guarantee
I believe this work will transform your relationship with sacred wisdom, but I also know that spiritual paths are deeply personal. If after 30 days of genuine engagement with the materials and practices, you feel this approach doesn't align with your spiritual journey, I'll work with you to find a more suitable direction for your development, including a full
refund if no alternative feels right.
This guarantee is built on mutual respect and commitment to your authentic spiritual growth.
I believe that access to authentic education should not be limited by circumstance. Each round, a few scholarships are reserved for those experiencing financial hardship and for members of underrepresented communities. If this speaks to you, please explore the details and application process below—I am committed to supporting teachers and seekers from all walks of life. Apply here.
Limited Scholarships Available
Community of Spiritual Peers You'll learn alongside other spiritually mature women who bring depth, wisdom, and authentic spiritual questioning to our shared exploration. This isn't beginner spirituality, but advanced practice in accessible forms.
Sustainable, Life-Honoring Practices Every ritual and practice is designed to nourish rather than deplete, to fit into real women's lives rather than requiring you to become someone else. This is spirituality that supports your wholeness, not just your seeking.
Personal Transformation as Sacred Practice
Your own life and experience aren’t separate from the teachings -they are at the heart of this journey. Here, your personal story is woven into the fabric of our curriculum through daily practice and guided integration. We move beyond abstract philosophy to living wisdom that meets you exactly where you are. This approach honors your lived experience as a vital, embodied source of spiritual insight, allowing your journey to become a sacred text in itself.
Feminist Spiritual Scholarship This isn't just yoga philosophy with a feminine spin. It's a rigorous approach that applies feminist theological principles to sacred text study, giving you tools to engage with ancient wisdom through contemporary feminine intelligence.
What makes this program different?
I've been immersed in yoga philosophy for most of my life — not because it offers easy answers, but because it holds complex, sometimes contradictory truths that mirror our own human experience. I've studied these texts as a former monastic, lived them through decades of practice, and explored them as a feminist and scholar. This course grew from those inquiries — from my love of Sanskrit and ancient wisdom, my curiosity about different interpretations, and my deep respect for women's spiritual authority.
I created Sutra to Self as a response to everything I've witnessed in the yoga world and within myself: the longing for a more intimate, embodied relationship with yoga's foundational texts, and the need for spaces where women's voices are not only welcomed, but centered. While I have a particularly long relationship with the Bhagavad Gita, this course offers a comprehensive journey through yoga's essential philosophical teachings.
As a longtime, contemplative practitioner, I value interdisciplinary inquiry — weaving history, spirituality, art, science, and critical thinking into how I approach the Yoga Sutras, the Gita, and other classical texts. My teaching draws from multiple wisdom traditions while honoring my own direct experience and discernment. I believe in the living wisdom of the body and trust each student's capacity for authentic understanding.
If you've ever felt like yoga philosophy wasn't written for you, or that your lived experience didn't quite fit traditional presentations — this course is for you. Here, your questions and insights are not just welcome; they're essential to how these ancient teachings come alive in our contemporary world.
Hi! I'm Kamala
You'll have lifetime access to all recorded content and materials, plus six months of community access beyond the program completion. This ensures you can revisit and deepen your relationship with the teachings as your understanding evolves.
How long will I have access to the materials?
Absolutely. The philosophical insights and teaching approaches you'll develop are applicable across all styles of yoga practice. This work is about developing authentic spiritual authority, which enhances teaching in any context where you're sharing wisdom rather than just physical practice.
Is this appropriate for teachers of different yoga styles?
The program structure includes integration weeks specifically to allow for different paces of processing and learning. You'll have ongoing access to materials and community support, plus two personal sessions with me to ensure the work lands well for you personally.
What if I fall behind or need extra support?
The program is designed to honor your real life and multiple responsibilities. Plan for about 2-3 hours per week including the content, daily practices, and integration exercises. The practices are flexible and can be adapted to busy schedules while still creating meaningful transformation.
How much time will I need to dedicate each week?
Absolutely! Sutra to Self is intentionally designed to welcome you exactly as you are. Whether you’re brand new to yoga philosophy or have years of experience with traditional study, you’ll find practices and pathways that meet you where you are. The curriculum honors both fresh eyes and seasoned hearts, guiding every participant toward meaningful, personally relevant insight—no prior expertise required.
Is this course suitable if I’ve never read yoga texts before?
Frequently Asked Questions
Can men and non-binary yogis join this program?
While future iterations of Sutra to Self will be open to all genders, this first cohort is a sacred space for women-identifying participants. We’re beginning here to honor the unique ways women experience spiritual authority—and to create a container rooted in shared experience, trust, and transformation. Catch you next time!
This is a mutual commitment.
This program is for spiritually mature yoga teachers and practitioners who are ready to move beyond surface-level approaches to sacred wisdom. It's for teachers who want to share philosophy from embodied understanding rather than borrowed authority. It's for seekers who are willing to question traditional interpretations while honoring the profound truths that make ancient texts eternally relevant.
I'm committed to providing you with tools, support, and guidance that honor both your intelligence and your spiritual development. I'll bring scholarly depth alongside practical wisdom, creating a container that's both rigorous and nourishing. I'll support you in developing trust in your spiritual insights while maintaining respect for the text's traditional significance.
What I need from you is genuine engagement with the practices and materials, willingness to question assumptions that may not serve your development, and commitment to showing up authentically rather than perfectly. This work requires both intellectual engagement and embodied practice, both individual reflection and community participation.
If you're ready to develop a living relationship with Yoga's Wisdom that honors your feminine wisdom and supports your spiritual authority, I'm here to guide that transformation with warmth, clarity, and deep respect for your journey.