Session One introduces the Bhagavad Gita and lays the groundwork for beginning to clarify your true calling. Through Cope’s engaging storytelling, the tale of Arjuna and Krishna comes to life in a way that’s immediately relevant to our modern-day quest for meaning. Highlights include:

• The five paths of yoga—breathwork and postures, knowledge, meditation, action, and devotion
• The Bhagavad Gita as an archetypal map for finding your purpose
• Coming to a crossroads—making moral decisions in a complex world
• The revolutionary nature of action in the world as a spiritual path

In Session Two, we explore the “Four Pillars of Dharma,” essential teachings in yoga that outline the stages of discovering and fulfilling your true calling. You’ll learn important practices that begin to shed light on your gifts and how to best express them in the world. Highlights include:

• Three powerful exercises for clarifying your calling
• Looking for clues—big and small—that point you in the direction of your purpose
• Exploring connections between your own calling and the needs of the greater good
• “The Romance of Dharma”—understanding what a true calling is not

Session Three explores doubt as the central, invisible, and paralyzing obstacle to living out your dharma in the world. Doubt slips into your life when you’re divided or pulled in conflicting directions and unable to take action. Here we explore the antidote. Highlights include:

• The Five Hindrances on the path—grasping, aversion, restlessness, sloth, and doubt
• Identifying where the self is split and beginning to bring yourself into wholeness
• Explore connections between your own calling and the needs of the greater good
• Two major exercises for uncovering doubt and its roots

Session Four helps us investigate how our external world provides us with guidance for pursuing a life of meaning, purpose, and direction. How does your everyday experience reflect what you need to know? Highlights include:

• How our relationships guide us—explore tales of Krishna and Arjuna, Bach and Beethoven, and more
• If the world is a Rorschach test (inkblot test), what do you see?
• The four ways our relationships transform us, and how to identify important relationships in our own lives

In Session Five, we learn how Krishna teaches Arjuna to listen to the wise voice within. Along with Arjuna, you’ll learn to see life with greater clarity and hear your own internal guidance. Highlights include:

• A classic meditation for clearing the mind
• Cultivating “witness consciousness” from Eastern and Western perspectives
• Removing obstacles to discernment—take action without becoming overly biased or reactive
• Awakening the part of you that can see the truth of your purpose

By Session Six, your purpose has likely become clearer. Now, you’re asked to commit to it more fully. You’ll learn practical ways to accomplish unified action—the alignment of all you do with your calling. Highlights include:

• Peeling away anything that distracts you from your true calling
• Exploring history’s exemplars of unified action at work—Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and more
• The miracles that occur when you allow your dharma to guide every part of your life

In Session Seven, we explore one of the most challenging parts of living our true calling—how can we unify our actions around our purpose, commit to expressing it fully, and still let go of the outcome? Highlights include:

• The ways in which grasping for outcomes interferes with our performance
• Why it’s better to “fail” at your own purpose than “succeed” at the purpose of another
• The unfolding of possibilities much greater than those we can imagine for ourselves

In Session Eight, all of our explorations come together. Over the past sessions, we’ve identified our purpose and learned to fulfill it in the world. Now, you’ll explore how to continue living out your own true calling—and to embrace the deep joy it brings. Highlights include:

• Flow states—key components and how to systematically promote them
• The beautiful paradox of effortless effort
• Freedom from bondage to the self—allowing something bigger to work through you
• How does the Bhagavad Gita end? What, ultimately, does Krishna choose?