The Bhagavad Gita sits on a lot of shelves. Perhaps yours.
You opened it. You met a battlefield. You closed it again.
Completely reasonable.
The Gita was never meant to be read — it was meant to be entered.
Slowly. Seasonally.
Like a garden.
This workshop gives you a way in.
A seasonal self-inquiry for women
Finally,
The Bhagavad Gita:
A Way In
A complete orientation in three parts
You might be in the right place if…
The Gita is not difficult because you are missing something.
It is difficult because it was written to meet you exactly where you are— and most of
us haven’t been shown the door.
The Workshop — a 75-minute prerecorded lecture — I’ll take you inside the
Gita’s structure, introduce you to Arjuna and Krishna, and give you the seasonal
framework I call the Garden of Yogas — a map of the Gita’s four paths that finally makes
sense of why the text moves the way it does. You’ll leave with a working understanding of
what each yoga is, which one you’re likely already living, and where to go next. Yours to
watch at your own pace, pause, and return to.
The Garden Map — a designed one-page PDF — The four yogas as four seasons,
with their Sanskrit names, chapter references, and a one-line essence for each. Suitable
for a desk or a journal. A reference you’ll come back to long after the lecture ends. This is
bāvanam — cultivation — made visible.
Which Season Are You In? — a self-inquiry guide — Four reflective questions,
one for each yoga, designed not to test your knowledge but to locate you in the map.
Where are you being asked to see clearly before you move? What is yours to do right
now, and what belongs to someone else? Where do you already feel held by something larger than your own effort? What do you already know that you
haven’t yet let yourself fully know?
This is the work of the Gita — not mastery, but honest looking.
You do not need to know Sanskrit. You do not need prior Gita knowledge. You do not need to have figured out what you believe about God.
What you need is curiosity and a willingness to sit still for an hour.
✓ You've been practicing yoga for years and feel ready for the philosophy beneath the
postures
✓ You're the kind of person who reads, thinks, gardens, and wants your spiritual life
to have intellectual weight
✓ Someone handed you the Gita and the battlefield felt immediately alienating — all
that war, all that hierarchy
✓ You're a yoga teacher who was trained in the asana but want the lineage to go with
it
✓ You're in a season of change — a transition, a loss, a questioning — and you sense
the Gita has something to say to you but can't get traction in the text
✓ You've tried other Gita interpretations and found them either too devotional, too masculine, or too abstract to be of any actual use
I spent more than thirty years living in contemplative community — studying the yoga
philosophical texts not as a scholar, but as a practitioner for whom they were the
organizing architecture of daily life. I hold a 200-hour certification through the Srivatsa
Ramaswami School of Yoga, in the direct lineage of T. Krishnamacharya. I co-host A
Woman’s Gita, a podcast exploring the Bhagavad Gita through a feminist lens, with the
beloved teacher and author Nischala Joy Devi.
I teach the Gita the way I learned to tend a garden: with patience, with attention to
season, and with deep respect for the living tradition that produced it. My father was a
Fulbright scholar who studied the Upanishads. I grew up at the edge of this conversation.
I have spent my adult life walking further into it.
My deepest commitment as a teacher is to hand you tools for self-inquiry — not
conclusions, but instruments. The Gita is not something I translate for you. It is
something I help you read for yourself.
Meet Kamala
