10-Week Live Series with Ja Cole
Mental Yoga: The Yamas & Niyamas
Ten weeks of honest conversation about how you are being in your relationships, work, family, and inner life.
Study one ethical principle each week, notice where it is already showing up, and practice meeting your life with greater awareness and choice.
Begins
October 1, 2026
Early registration
$195
Standard tuition
$225
Community or
returning student
$150
Drop-in
$30 per class
What class is actually like
A guided conversation, not a philosophy lecture.
We begin by grounding and checking in with the previous week’s practice. Then we explore one chapter together and bring it into real situations: communication, anxiety, boundaries, relationships, work, family, and the stories we tell ourselves.
You can share what came up, listen to how others are working with the same principle, ask questions, and notice the blind spots that are difficult to see alone.
The point is not to master an idea. It is to recognize how the idea is already living in you.
Real-life practice
Bring what is present
Weekly homework becomes the starting point for honest discussion about what happened in your actual life.
Clearer seeing
Separate truth from judgment
Learn to speak from what you know while noticing projection, assumption, and the ego’s need to be right.
Connected learning
Let the principles build
Nonviolence supports truthfulness. Truthfulness changes how we understand nonstealing. Each week deepens the last.
What we study
Ten practices for seeing yourself and your life more clearly.
The Yamas help us examine how we meet the world. The Niyamas turn that same attention inward.
The Yamas | Restraints
How we meet the world
- AhimsaNonviolence
- SatyaTruthfulness
- AsteyaNonstealing
- BrahmacharyaRight use of energy
- AparigrahaNonattachment
The Niyamas | Observances
How we meet ourselves
- SauchaClarity and purity
- SantoshaContentment
- TapasDiscipline
- SvadhyayaSelf-study
- Ishvara PranidhanaSurrender
The practices do not exist in isolation. They build on one another and reveal different parts of the same pattern.
The weekly rhythm
Read it. Talk about it. Find it in your life. Practice again.
The series is designed to move each principle out of the book and into the way you live.
01
Ground
Arrive, breathe, and make room for what is present.
02
Share
Reflect on what came up from the previous week’s homework and practice.
03
Study
Explore the next chapter through guided teaching, questions, and group discussion.
04
Practice
Carry a journal prompt and intentional experiment into the week ahead.
What you need
Zoom access
A quiet place where you can listen and participate.
The book
The Yamas & Niyamas by Deborah Adele.
A journal
For weekly prompts, homework, questions, and insights.
Fall 2026 enrollment
Join the full journey or begin with one class.
The complete series gives you the continuity to see how all ten principles work together. Drop-ins are available when space allows.
Begins
Thursday, October 1
Time
6:30 PM PT
Format
Live on Zoom
Length
90 minutes weekly
First class: The opening orientation may run 2 to 2.5 hours.
Recommended
Mental Yoga: The Yamas & Niyamas
Early registration$195
Standard tuition$225
Community or
returning student$150
Weekly reading, live discussion, journaling homework, and the full progression from Ahimsa through surrender.
Flexible entry
Drop-In Class
$30 per class
Join one weekly discussion when space is available.
Learn with Ja
Mental Yoga is yoga for the life you are actually living.
Ja Cole is a 500-hour E-RYT yoga teacher, trainer, coach, author, and founder of Maat Wellness.
With 20 years of personal yoga practice, 15 years teaching asana, and 8 years teaching Mental Yoga, Ja brings philosophy, embodiment, and real-life application together in one grounded method.
The Mental Yoga Method brings yoga philosophy, self-inquiry, somatic awareness, lived experience, and practical action together. Mental Yoga: The Yamas & Niyamas is the group foundation.
Want more personal application?
If the series introduces the principles, Mental Yoga Coaching helps you live them one-on-one.