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Spirituality in Practice

You've been on a spiritual path. You just don't have anyone to walk it with.

A small-group class where your real life becomes the practice. Every week. In person.

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What this is

This is a space for serious spiritual inquiry.

Not yoga as exercise. Not meditation as stress relief. Not spirituality as a way to feel better.

This class is for people who sense that what the great traditions are pointing at is real, and who are ready to stop circling it and start living from it.

That means bringing your whole life into the room. The places you're stuck. The experiences you haven't been able to explain. The questions that don't fit anywhere else. We work with all of it, directly and honestly, without spiritual performance.

The problem

You've had real experiences. You just don't have anywhere to bring them.

Maybe something shifted in you and you don't have words for it yet. Maybe you've had moments of real stillness, or clarity, or something that felt like recognition, and then ordinary life closed back over it and you couldn't find your way back.

Maybe you've been meditating, reading, sitting with teachers. You understand more than you used to. But understanding and living it are two different things, and the gap between them is where most people get stuck.

What's missing isn't more information. It's a place where your actual experience, the confusion, the glimpses, the questions that don't fit neatly into any tradition, is taken seriously and worked with directly.

That's what this class is for.

Not sure where to start?

If life feels heavy right now, anxiety, patterns you can't break, relationships that keep pulling you under, Healing Foundations may be the better first step. It works at the root of what drives suffering, and many students find it clears the ground for deeper spiritual work.

Learn about Healing Foundations →
What happens

Your own experience is the curriculum.

You bring what's alive for you. A glimpse you can't explain. A question that keeps returning. A moment of stillness that opened something and then closed. Something you read or heard that landed differently than anything has before.

This is not a class where you listen and take notes. We go deep into direct inquiry, and when your experience opens something unfamiliar, disorienting, or hard to hold alone, you won't be navigating it by yourself. That's the point of the container.

A small group in seated meditation at The Mind-Body Connection in Upland, California
What we work with

Five territories. One inquiry.

Discernment

Seeing clearly

Most of the time we aren't seeing clearly, we're seeing through the filter of fear, habit, or old identity. We work on developing the capacity to see what's actually there.

Direct experience

The territory, not the map

Philosophy points at something. We work with what it's pointing at, not the map, but the territory itself. What have you actually encountered, and what is it asking of you?

The body as feedback

What the body registers

Spiritual experience doesn't happen outside the body. We learn to read what the body is registering, where it opens, where it contracts, and what that's telling you.

No spiritual bypassing

Going toward what's hard

If you've been using your practice to stay comfortable rather than go further, we'll catch it. Gently, but clearly. Real inquiry goes toward what's hard, not around it.

Living it

Closing the gap

The gap between insight and how you actually live is where the real work happens. We work on closing that gap, not as a project, but as a practice.

The questions that don't fit

Let them teach

Some experiences don't fit neatly into any tradition. We don't force them to. We sit with them directly and let them teach.

In their words

What students have said.

"You were naming these experiences. I did not find anyone who could do that. And so I wrote poetry. But physically, in the world, I didn't have people I could talk to about this."

Pragalbha

"Something that stuck tremendously well was that surrender isn't something you do, it just happens. And if that's the case for surrender, then that's just the case for everything."

Sabrina

"Kevala showed up to show me that where I was was actually valid and can be named."

Pragalbha

"We broke down a lot of things I've experienced or gone through and just didn't know how to think about it. I can't wait to keep going with it."

Niti

Who this is for

You don't need a tradition. You need a place to go deeper.

This class is for people who are serious about the inner life, not as a hobby, not as self-improvement, but as the thing that matters most.

You've had experiences you can't explain and haven't found anyone who can meet you there.

You've been on a path for a while, meditation, yoga, reading, sitting with teachers, and you're ready for something that goes further.

You've had glimpses of something real and you want to understand what they're pointing at.

You feel the gap between what you've seen and how you actually live, and you want to close it.

You're done with spiritual performance. You want the real thing.

The details

Small. Intentional. In person.

Format

Small group, weekly

Location

In studio, Upland CA

Session length

60 minutes

Class time

Tuesdays, 6 to 7pm

Instruction

Kevala, personally

Experience required

None

Your guide

Kevala

Kevala, spiritual teacher and founder of The Mind-Body Connection in Upland, California

C-IAYT · E-RYT500 · YACEP

Kevala teaches from lived experience. In 2019 she went through a profound and unexpected spiritual awakening, one that preceded her formal study and became the foundation everything else was built on. What she brings to this class is not a philosophy she learned and now repeats. It is a direct, ongoing encounter with what these traditions are actually pointing at.

Because of that, she draws freely across traditions: Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Zen, not as a scholar collecting frameworks, but as someone who has encountered what they all describe. The teaching is shaped by what is true, not by which lineage said it first.

She is also a Certified Yoga Therapist, a human behavior expert, and is currently pursuing her MS and PhD in Yoga Science. The credentials matter. But they are not why she can do this work.

This is not philosophical theory delivered from a safe distance. Kevala has been through the territory she teaches: the dissolution, the disorientation, the return, and the slow work of learning to live from a different ground.

She knows what it is to have your entire sense of self come apart. And she knows what it takes to build a life that actually reflects what you've seen.

That's what she's here to help you do.

Membership

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Program Only

Spirituality in Practice, weekly.
$149
Per month · cancel anytime
  • One class per week, in studio
  • Small group, maximum five students
  • Taught by Kevala personally
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Full Practice

Spirituality in Practice plus unlimited studio access.
$349
Per month · cancel anytime
  • Everything in the program
  • Unlimited yoga, Pilates, Barre, and sound healing
  • Every group class under one roof
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Month to month with automatic renewal. Cancel anytime. Unlimited access excludes prenatal, Healing Foundations, and other courses.

Your life is the practice.

A small group, in person, with Kevala. Begin when you are ready, or reach out first and we will help you find the right starting point.

Ask us anything

Frequently asked questions

Our friendly team would love to answer your questions.

Do I need experience or a background in a tradition?

No. No experience is required, and you do not need to belong to any tradition. You only need to be serious about going deeper.

How is this different from Healing Foundations?

Healing Foundations works at the root of what drives suffering, anxiety, patterns, and stress, and is often the better first step if life feels heavy right now. Spirituality in Practice is for deeper spiritual inquiry. Healing Foundations is a separate program and is not included.

When and where does it meet?

It is a weekly, in-person class at our studio in Upland, California, on Tuesdays from 6 to 7pm, with Kevala.

How large is the group?

Small and intentional, with a maximum of five students, so there is room for real inquiry.

What does it cost, and can I cancel?

Program Only is $149 per month for the weekly class. Full Practice is $349 per month and adds unlimited studio access. Both are month to month, and you can cancel anytime.

Who teaches the class?

Kevala teaches every session personally. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT, E-RYT500, YACEP) who teaches from lived experience.

Still have questions?

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