Study Advaita Vedanta, the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and the Four Yogas within a living spiritual lineage.
Acharya Shunya’s Vedic teachings arise from the Sarayu Parampara of Ayodhya, India, where she began studying with her guru and grandfather from childhood.
Here, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Upasana Yoga, and Jnana Yoga are not treated as separate techniques. They unfold together as one path of devotion, sacred action, meditation, and liberating Self-knowledge.
The aim is not merely to learn more about spirituality. It is to discover a steadiness and freedom that do not depend upon life always going our way.
Begin with a Four-Sunday Trial
No Application Required
Sundays, 7:00–8:00 AM Pacific Time, live on Zoom
Recordings are available during the trial and for two additional weeks.
Enter the living rhythm of the Inner Mandala through four consecutive Sunday gatherings with Acharya Shunya. You will encounter Vedic scripture, contemplation, meditation, mantra, and spiritual practice as they are being unfolded within the community.
Your trial includes:
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Four consecutive live Sunday gatherings on Zoom
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Direct teaching and guided practice with Acharya Shunya
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Access to the recordings during the trial and for two additional weeks
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A genuine experience of the Inner Mandala before considering full membership
$75 one-time introductory offer
No application is required.
This trial is available once per participant and does not include the member portal, complete teaching archives, XP materials, student forum, or companion-study support.
Why Study the Vedic Path?
A person can have a meaningful, successful, even spiritually rich life and still carry an underlying sense of restlessness.
We may become better at managing life without ever asking the deeper question:
Who am I beneath my body, mind, history, roles, achievements, fears, and changing circumstances?
The Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta turn our attention toward this inquiry.
They teach that our deepest nature is not fundamentally lacking, isolated, or incomplete. Beneath the changing personality is the Self, whole and limitless consciousness, inseparable from the sacred reality of existence.
This understanding does not ask us to withdraw from life. It changes the place from which we live it.
Relationships continue. Work continues. Loss and change continue. But slowly, the compulsion to derive our worth, security, and completeness from changing circumstances begins to loosen.
This inner freedom is called moksha.
What Students Say
"Being part of the Inner Mandala has given me a profound sense of belonging—to a sincere and deeply devotional spiritual community, to the 2000+ year old, unbroken, living lineage of the Sarayu Parampara, and, most importantly, to myself and to Divine Mother. It has given me a sacred space in which to deepen into self acceptance, self trust, and self compassion."
Monica Montefiore, Santa Cruz, California
Study with Acharya Shunya
Lineage Head · Advaita Vedanta Teacher · Author of Three Books · Nearly Three Decades of Teaching
To study with Acharya Shunya is to learn from a female head of a traditional Advaita Vedanta lineage who is also a householder. She understands the demands of relationships, family, work, responsibility, aging, and change, while remaining firmly anchored in shastra and the living wisdom of her Sarayu Parampara.
These teachings do not arise from a personally created spiritual system. Students study the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Adi Shankaracharya, and the Four Yogas at their source. Scripture is accompanied by contemplation, intelligent inquiry, chanting, kirtan, mantra, and meditation, allowing timeless wisdom to become a living path toward inner freedom.
The Inner Mandala
The Heart of Acharya Shunya’s Vedic Teaching Community
Inner Mandala is for students who want more than occasional inspiration. It offers an ongoing relationship with the Vedic path through live teaching, scripture, meditation, contemplation, practice, and spiritual community.
A Complete Journey of the Four Yogas
Students move through Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Upasana Yoga, and Jnana Yoga in a continuing curriculum taught directly by Acharya Shunya.
Each Yoga develops a different dimension of spiritual maturity: the heart learns devotion, action becomes more conscious, the mind becomes inwardly steady, and Self-knowledge gradually becomes clear.
Study the Yoga Scriptures at Their Source
Teachings draw directly from the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Adi Shankaracharya, and the oral wisdom preserved within Acharya Shunya’s lineage. Rather than collecting ideas, students learn to listen, contemplate, meditate, question, and allow the teachings to enter their everyday lives.
A Community That Deepens With You
Some students have studied with Acharya Shunya for many years, while others are newly entering the path.
What matters is not how much Sanskrit you know or how long you have been spiritual. What matters is the willingness to return, inquire sincerely, and let the teachings deepen over time.
Membership: $108 monthly or $1,080 annually
Choose How You Would Like to Begin
Whether you wish to experience the teachings first or feel ready for sustained study, choose the doorway that meets you where you are now.
Four-Sunday Trial
Experience four consecutive live Sundays before considering membership.
Full Membership
For students ready for sustained teaching, practice, recordings, study support, and spiritual community.
Not ready to enter the Inner Mandala? Explore our free public teachings through the Monthly Veda Sangha and Open Mandala archive.
Before discovering Acharya Shunya’s teachings, I felt emotionally entangled in life’s dramas, unable to see my own inner light. Slowly, the veil lifted.
I have moved from attachment to a state of peaceful observation, watching life unfold without being consumed by it.
Tuere Anderson, Oakland, California
