Sādhanā: Tools for the Revolution

A liberation-oriented series for healing professionals

October 23 - 25 | Starting at $450 (CAD)

What is Sādhanā?

Sādhanā is a liberation-oriented offering for healing professionals. 

This 10-hour workshop, offered over one weekend or three days, is designed for therapists, yoga teachers, chaplains, coaches, and others who identify as healing professionals. Drawing from Buddhist frameworks, this series offers concrete tools, practices, and perspectives that support practitioners in their own ongoing work while strengthening their capacity to accompany the communities they serve.

We often talk about decolonization. This series explores the how. It creates space to examine inherited frameworks, cultivate new ways of understanding healing, and imagine possibilities beyond the limitations of individualism.

This series is open to wellness professionals of all ethnicities and religious backgrounds as long as they are open to learning from this lens. Buddhism is a non-theistic framework - it does not require one to believe in god or any particular figure.

What to expect?

❋ Intentional Structure

An interactive and contemplative series with space for quiet reflection, engaged discussion and case-studies

❋ Frameworks and Tools

A practical curriculum that will offer THREE concrete tools based on the Buddhist liberatory framework

A culturally-rooted series that rejects the Western model of training and certification and inviting ongoing engagement and practice

❋ Decolonized Mindfulness

An opportunity and community that encourages active shadow work of how we uphold white supremacy and colonialism

❋ Safer and Braver Space

Details

October 23 to 25 (Fri to Sun) | 12PM to 3.30PM | On Zoom

EARLY BIRD PRICING: CAD449 (ends September 1)

Use code: SADHANAEB1

Regular Price: CAD 599

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Liberation-orientation is a lens through which we unlearn sociopolitical conditioning. It asks us to look beyond individual healing and consider the social, cultural, historical, and systemic conditions that shape our suffering. It invites us to develop practices that support greater freedom, agency, connection, and collective transformation.

  • World over, communities are rising up to resist the systems that exploit humans and natural resources for money and so-called progress. Our healing practices are situated in a sociopolitical context that reinforces status quo. But it does not have to be this way. The practices from Buddhism support inner and outer work using the same strategies and principles. The revolution is as much inside, as it is outside.

  • The three tools will be drawn from the different Buddhist schools. They will offer a holistic perspective on the body and mind. They will also help deconstruct popular approaches in mindfulness and compassion-based practices. And lastly, resourcing will be looked at as building morale and courage to look beyond one’s personal safety and work towards collective liberation.

  • You will go away with a distinct perspective on your role as a wellness professional. The hope is that it will infuse energy into our personal practice, and you will build new skills that will offer a glow-up to your current toolkit.

  • No. Sādhana is an experiential and educational workshop, not a clinical training or certification program.

  • If you attend all three sessions live, you will receive a certificate of attendance. If you peruse a recording, an essay style assignment will be given (optional) and you will receive a certificate of attendance. The assignment will be due on Nov. 15th.

  • This offering is for psychotherapists, school counsellors, community social workers, life coaches, yoga and meditation teachers, as well as any allied health professional like Speech and Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and so on.

  • Yes, there will be a limited time playback available for a period of 60 days after the last sessiom.

  • Sliding scale options besides the Early Bird offerings are available for disabled and/or trans wellness professionals only. A special pricing of CAD108 is offered to those from countries that do not use any dollar, Euro or Pound currency.

  • Yes. You are able to pay by PayPal or e-transfer. Please email me via the contact page or at ekta@theliberationtherapist.com for further details.

Testimonials

  • "I gained more awareness on how colonization shows up in western wellness spaces. It's a lot of unlearning and then relearning. I had a lot of contemplation afterwards. I thought it was interesting to see the intersection between modern science and ancient practices. Definitely got me fired up, in a good way."

    Participant, Embodying Tattva, Co-facilitated by Ekta

  • "I'm grateful to you for curating these sessions. The amount of knowledge and awareness which these sessions have brought to me is not only enlightening, but it has had a profound impact on how I approach life as a whole. The best 2 hours I've spent on a Zoom call, ever!"

    Participant, Mindfulness Series