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Contemplative study for modern life. A live meditation every week, a lecture every month, and seasonal workshops. With Wisdom School Plus, add every learning pathway, our certificate programs and continuing-education certificates.

Join Wisdom School — from $297/yrJust the meditations — $9.99/mo
The year’s theme

One idea explored from many perspectives.

2026 · This year

The Pilgrimage Project

Every tradition knows the journey: the call, the threshold, the descent, the return.

A year-long journey through the stages of pilgrimage, inner and outer, as the world’s wisdom traditions have mapped them. Each month’s lecture takes one stage of the path, with a question to carry into practice.

  1. Jan The Call to Depth“Something in me has stirred”
  2. Feb Refusal and Resistance“Surely not me, not this, not now”
  3. Mar Crossing the Threshold“There’s no turning back now”
  4. Apr Sacred Companions and Guides“You don’t walk alone”
  5. May The Descent into the Shadow“To know light is to experience darkness”
  6. Jun Sacrifice and Letting Go“What must die for me to live?”
  7. Jul Revelation“Everything I thought I knew is dissolving”
  8. Aug The Trials of Integration“How do I carry this light through darkness?”
  9. Sep The Gift of the Real“Not transcendence, but intimacy”
  10. Oct The Return with Wisdom“I must share what I have seen”
  11. Nov The Circle Reopens“The journey begins again, but deeper”
  12. Dec Sanctifying the World“Everywhere is the center”

Book club: Pilgrimage: Past and Present in the World Religions

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2027 · Coming next

The Attention Project

What you attend to, you become.

A year on the faculty every contemplative tradition begins with: attention. How it scatters, how it is captured, how it can be trained, and how, held fully, it becomes a form of love and a doorway to awareness itself. Each month pairs a teaching with a practice of attention to carry into daily life.

  1. Jan The Scattered Mind“Where did my attention go?”
  2. Feb The Attention Economy“Who is harvesting my attention?”
  3. Mar Dhāraṇā: Learning to Hold“Can I stay with one thing?”
  4. Apr The Wandering Mind“What does the mind find when it strays?”
  5. May Attention as Love“What does it mean to truly attend to another?”
  6. Jun Returning to the Senses“What is actually here?”
  7. Jul Deep Listening“What do I hear when I stop speaking?”
  8. Aug Attention Between Us“How do we attend together?”
  9. Sep Attending to the World“What is the world asking of my attention?”
  10. Oct Awareness of Awareness“Who is paying attention?”
  11. Nov Distraction as Doorway“What if every distraction leads home?”
  12. Dec The Attentive Life“How do I live what I have learned?”
The live rhythm

What’s happening in Wisdom School

Three live threads run through the year. Every session is recorded, so you can join live or catch up when it suits you.

Meditation Mondays

Every week
  • Mon, Oct 12 · 12pm ET
    Meditation Mondays
    With Floss Harry
  • Mon, Oct 19 · 12pm ET
    Meditation Mondays
    With Mary Reilly Nichols
  • Mon, Oct 26 · 12pm ET
    Meditation Mondays
    With Abha Rajbhandari
  • Mon, Nov 2 · 12pm ET
    Meditation Mondays
Drop in or get the Meditation Pass →

Monthly lecture

Once a month
  • Tue, Nov 3 · 6pm ET
    The Circle Reopens: “The journey begins again — but deeper.”
    With Ryan LeMere
  • Tue, Dec 1 · 6pm ET
    Sanctifying the World: “Everywhere is the center.”
    With Nataraj Chaitanya & Mary Reilly Nichols & Abha Rajbhandari

Workshops & book club

Each season
  • Sat, Nov 7
    WS Quarterly — Weekend Seminar
  • Sat, Feb 6
    WS Quarterly — Weekend Seminar
Learning pathways

Start with your question

Wisdom School Plus opens the archive of every learning pathway we’ve developed: 650+ hours of teaching gathered over a decade. Pathways turn it into a guided route: pick the question you’re living with, and follow a sequence of courses chosen to answer it.

56 CE hours
“What does yoga actually teach?”

Classical Yoga & the Yoga Sūtras

The classical sources, read with leading scholars, so you know what the texts say rather than what we’ve been told they say.

  1. Origins and Hidden History
  2. Classical Yoga
  3. The Five Vṛttis
  4. The Eight Limbs
  5. The Cause of Suffering
  6. The Yoga Canon
19.5 CE hours
“Is there more to the body than anatomy?”

The Subtle Body: Chakras, Prāṇa & Breath

How the yogic traditions map the body’s inner life, and how to work with it in practice and teaching.

  1. Subtle Body Anatomy
  2. Neuroecopsychology of the Subtle Body
  3. Chakras Illuminated
  4. Breath Mechanics
  5. Are the Chakras Real or Imaginary?
3.5 CE hours
“Why does sound heal, and mantra work?”

Sound, Mantra & Sacred Speech

The science and philosophy of mantra and chant, from the Vedas to Tantra, with practices you can bring into class.

  1. The Science of Mantras
  2. The Sound Bath Experience
  3. Yoga of Sound
  4. Sanskrit Chanting
  5. Om Namah Shivaya: Why Mantra Matters
14 CE hours
“How do I build a practice that lasts?”

Meditation for Real Life

Start with Meditation Mondays, then add the teachings that explain why practice works and how to keep going.

  1. The Benefits of a Meditation Practice
  2. Spiritual Microdosing
  3. Working with Metaphor, Mantra & Meditation
  4. Healing Stress
12 CE hours
“What happens when we die, dream or dissolve?”

Death, Dreams & the Luminous Mind

How the contemplative traditions prepare us to meet loss, and to live more fully because of it.

  1. Study the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Stages of Dissolution
  2. Emptiness and Luminosity
  3. Dream Yoga
10 CE hours
“How do I find my way through change?”

Myth, Shadow & the Inner Journey

The hero’s journey through the world’s wisdom traditions: thresholds, descent, revelation and return.

  1. The Call to Depth
  2. Crossing the Threshold
  3. The Descent into the Shadow
  4. Revelation
  5. The Alchemy of Longing

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Yoga teachers: pathways earn continuing education hours. How CE works →

Two ways to join

Wisdom School and Wisdom School Plus

Both include the full live rhythm of the year. Plus adds the archive: every learning pathway we’ve developed, plus our certificate programs.

Wisdom School

$297/year · or $27/month
  • Meditation Mondays, live every week, with replays
  • The monthly lecture and seasonal workshops
  • This year’s programming, on demand
  • A starter learning pathway

Wisdom School Plus

$497/year · or $49/month
  • Everything in Wisdom School
  • Every learning pathway (650+ hours)
  • Certificate programs: Yoga Philosophy, Embodied Therapy, Buddhist Psychology and more
  • Past years of programming
  • Continuing-education certificates for yoga teachers

You can upgrade from Wisdom School to Plus at any time.

Faculty

Who you’ll learn with

Core Faculty

Mary Reilly Nichols

Mary Reilly Nichols

Senior yoga and meditation teacher

Nondual, Hatha yoga, and contemplative wisdom traditions

Yoga teacher and contemplative guide with decades of experience in the Bhagavad Gītā, Tantra and cross-traditional mysticism. Leads the Mystical Meditations on Meditation Mondays.

Oneika Mays

Oneika Mays

Dharma teacher, mindfulness coach and author

Therapeutic, trauma-conscious, justice-centered

Leads the Metta Meditations on Meditation Mondays, cultivating unconditional friendliness toward ourselves, those we love, those unfamiliar and those who challenge us.

Nataraj Chaitanya

Nataraj Chaitanya

Meditation teacher (Bhagavan Nityananda lineage)

Devotional practice, mantra, and embodied presence

Has led retreats, kīrtans and teacher trainings for more than twenty years. A formal initiate and custodian of the meditation tradition of Bhagavan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri; based in Melbourne.

Floss Harry

Floss Harry

Yoga teacher and embodied philosophy facilitator

Embodiment, enquiry, and curiosity

Approaches philosophy as lived practice and a way of life, drawing on the wisdom traditions of East and West.

Dr. Abha Rajbhandari

Dr. Abha Rajbhandari

Neuroscientist and contemplative educator

Neuroscience, yoga, and mind-body integration

Brings neuroscience and yoga together in practice, leading the Neuroscience & Yoga Meditations on Meditation Mondays.

Dr. Athena Potari

Dr. Athena Potari

Hellenic philosopher and spiritual teacher

Embodied meditation, sacred philosophy, and devotional inquiry

Philosopher and teacher of the Hellenic wisdom traditions, leading a Wisdom School learning pathway on Greek esoteric thought.

Guest Faculty

Jacob Kyle

Jacob Kyle

Founding Director

Contemplative pedagogy and aesthetic reasoning

Andrew Holecek

Andrew Holecek

Author and meditation teacher

Dream yoga, death awareness, and integrative contemplative practice

Edwin Bryant

Edwin Bryant

Scholar of Indian religions and philosophy

Classical yoga, Sanskrit texts, and Hindu traditions

James Bae

James Bae

Buddhist teacher and contemplative educator

Presence, inquiry, and embodied awareness in daily life

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Plans and pricing

Just interested in weekly meditations with our faculty? Scroll down to the Meditation Pass ↓

Wisdom School

$297 / year
Save $27.00 a year (8% off)

The live rhythm of the year: weekly meditations, monthly lectures, workshops and this year’s recordings.

Join Wisdom School
  • A live Meditation Monday session (included)
  • Every Meditation Monday, every week (included)
  • Replays of Meditation Mondays (included)
  • Monthly lectures and seasonal workshops (included)
  • This year’s programming, on demand (included)
  • A starter learning pathway (included)
  • All learning pathways (650+ hours) (not included)
  • Certificate programs (not included)
  • CE certificates for yoga teachers (not included)
For serious students

Wisdom School Plus

$497 / year
Save $91.00 a year (15% off)

Everything in Wisdom School, plus the archive of every learning pathway, our certificate programs and CE certificates.

Join Wisdom School Plus
  • A live Meditation Monday session (included)
  • Every Meditation Monday, every week (included)
  • Replays of Meditation Mondays (included)
  • Monthly lectures and seasonal workshops (included)
  • This year’s programming, on demand (included)
  • A starter learning pathway (included)
  • All learning pathways (650+ hours) (included)
  • Certificate programs (included)
  • CE certificates for yoga teachers (included)
Just the meditations

Meditation Pass

Every Meditation Monday, live with our faculty, plus replays of every session. $9.99/month with a free first week, or $99/year. Prefer a single session? Drop in for $9.99.

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