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? Between teaching, family, and simply living, maybe they landed on a shelf and began collecting dust.
The Yoga Book Club is a place to open them again and sit with the teachings, ask questions, and discover what they reveal when brought into our daily lives. Here, we study together in sangha, letting the wisdom of these texts meet the complicated work of being human.
The intention is simple: to move slowly and casually through the text, giving you space to fit into your busy life while also offering you time to be with the teachings during your week. That's one reason the sessions are offered on Mondays, the start of your week. This book club is created in a way where you can pop in and out without feeling behind or lost.
WHO THIS IS FOR
For Yoga Teachers & Practitioners Who:
• Want to go beyond asana and spend meaningful time with yogic scripture
• Are teaching and want greater philosophical grounding
• Aren't teaching anymore but still feel connected to the path
• Miss having people to study and explore the teachings with
• Want to understand the Bhagavad Gita from a lens of everyday life
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.
Its questions are remarkably human: How do we know what is ours to do? How do we act when the right choice isn't clear? How do we live with purpose without becoming attached to the outcome?
For yoga teachers and practitioners, 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
We begin October 12th
Weekly Live Gatherings
We gather online each Monday at 7pm Central to move through the text together, with plenty of space for questions, reflection, and real conversation. If you can't make every Monday, that's okay. This was created to be a low pressure, casual reading, designed for you to be able to pop in and out when you have space and time.
Member Community
A private online community where the conversation continues between gatherings. Dedicated threads keep our questions & reflections organized by chapter. There's even an ASL channel where you can post your comments and questions in ASL if you choose.
Replay Library
Never lose your place. Every session is recorded and organized by chapter, so if you can't make Mondays, or miss one, you can easily pick up where you left off. Plus, the group thread will help you feel connected through community.
Yoga Philosophy Workshops
Pop-up workshops on topics that need a little extra room for exploration.
$49/month, $490/year *
* Annual membership includes 2 months free. Plus annual members join as Founding Members, with monthly live Office Hour calls with me as we go through the Gita.
SWAMI SIVANANDA (PICTURED)
The Wisdom Tradition
We will use the teachings of the Saraswati lineage in our interpretation and understanding of the Bhagavad Gita.
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.
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.