One on one guidance for spiritual seekers looking to process old pains, align with inner values, and return to an integrated way of life.
"It is your choice to study yoga, but it is your destiny to become it."
— Lila Lolling
Remember those books that once spoke to your heart and changed your life for the better? Between teaching, family duties, and simply living, maybe they landed on a shelf and began collecting dust.
The Yoga Book Club is an invitation back to sangha, the power of sitting together in Truth, while studying the timeless wisdom of the classics with fresh eyes.
Together, we'll explore how these ancient teachings illuminate the messy, beautiful work of being a human. Our conversations will uncover what these teachings reveal when they meet our daily lives.
CLASSICAL SACRED TEXT
Why the Bhagavad Gita
Tradition holds that as Krishna left this world, the Kali Yuga began — a time of spiritual confusion, moral complexity, and the forgetting of our own divine nature. The Bhagavad Gita is not only a spiritual text with timeless teachings, it is a medicine for the era we are living.
For yoga teachers and practitioners, its teachings are a guide for us to learn how to move through life with ease, grace, and intention. A reminder that you are, beneath everything, a spiritual being having a human experience.
This is continuing education of the most essential kind. Not just for the classes you teach — but for the life you are called to live.
What's Inside the Yoga Book Club
Weekly Monday Night Gatherings
We gather online each week to move through the text together. We meet on Monday nights 7pm CST, so that you can carry the teachings with you throughout the week. We move slowly, intentionally, and with plenty of space for questions, reflection, and real conversation. Sessions are edited and recorded if you are unable to attend live.
Monthly Yoga Philosophy Workshops
Monthly deep-dives into a theme that emerges from our study or from the group — exploring the broader view of yoga philosophy as an embodied practice and soul medicine.
Member Community
Yoga Book Club members receive a $20 credit towards a single Yoga Therapy session, Yoga Therapy monthly membership, or a Business Consulting session with Lila.
Member Perk : Yoga Therapy Savings
A dedicated thread in our online community where the conversation continues between gatherings. A sangha that travels with you through the week.
$49 / month
$499 / year (save $89)
LAUNCHES
SEPTEMBER 21st
SWAMI SIVANANDA (PICTURED)
The Wisdom Tradition
We will use the teachings of the Saraswati lineage in our interpretation and understanding of the Bhagavad Gita commentary.
The lineage that informs this path:
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Saraswati lineage of Advaita Vedanta established by Adi Shankaracharya of Kerala, India (8th century CE)
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Teachings influenced by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, India (1887-1963).
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Direct teacher: Prem Sadasivananda, Sanskrit Scholar
ABOUT YOUR HOST : LILA LOLLING | E-RYT500, C-IAYT
My Journey
For 25 years, I have been a yoga aspirant and spiritual seeker. An ordinary midwestern farm girl at heart who has had the privilege of studying ancient wisdom with some of the tradition's great teachers.
Much of that learning happened in residence, on ashrams around the world, including India. I have lived inside the classical tradition with "one foot in, one foot out" as I like to say.
I have been welcomed and guided by swamis, monks, and Indian women who have devoted their lives to the path of liberation.
There's an analogy that is taught at the ashram — when looking for water, it is best to stay in one place and dig until you uncover it. The same is true with Yoga's rich and vast philosophical teachings. It's best to stay within one lineage to be able to decode the subtle and hidden messages within the scriptures. I listened to their recommendation and did just that.
Yoga isn't a physical practice for me. It is an aspiration of how to show up in the world, for myself, and my highest evolution.