Shadow School
30-Day Virtual Yoga Challenge
Shadow School is a 30-day yoga challenge designed to help you explore your inner landscape through movement, meditation, and reflection. Begin anytime and journey inward to meet your shadow, release what no longer serves, and reclaim your energy.
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung.
About the Shadow School Classes
You’ll do seven classes that repeat over four weeks.
Day 1 – Fear
A faster-paced and fiery class that builds heat and strength in the body. This class includes twists, leg balancing, hip and hamstring opening, and backbends.
Releases: Fear
Creates: Power/Strength
Emotions: Grounded
Body Part: Legs
Chakra: Root – Muladhara
Element: Earth
Day 2 – Guilt
A dynamic class with simple transitions that features side waist, hamstring, and hip opening. This class is great for runners and cyclists as it lengthens the leg muscles and chest.
Releases: Guilt
Creates: Connection
Emotions: Flow
Body Part: Hips
Chakra: Sacral – Svadhisthana
Element: Water
Day 3 – Shame
A fluid class with playful transitions that keeps you guessing as to where this sequence is headed. Focusing on the core and back muscles, this class equally strengthens and lengthens the muscles attached to the spine.
Releases: Shame
Creates: Transformation
Emotions: Strong
Body Part: Core
Chakra: Solar Plexus – Manipura
Element: Fire
Day 4 – Grief
This class creates space to move through and express grief. Open your practice by shaking the arms, legs, and entire body to release stagnancy and physical tension.
Releases: Grief
Creates: Compassion
Emotions: Flourish
Body Part: Heart
Chakra: Heart – Anahata
Element: Air
Day 5 – Heart Truth
A short class that creates space in the side body, shoulders, and chest to prepare for deep twists and backbends. The theme of this class is duplicity; what’s living in your heart may be different from what you’re communicating.
Releases: Duplicity
Creates: Inspiration
Emotions: Balanced
Body Part: Neck/Shoulders
Chakra: Throat – Vishuddha
Element: Sound
Day 6 – Maya
A playful class that moves through leg balancing poses such as eagle, half moon, and standing hand-to-foot poses builds strength and tests your balance. This class is themed for Maya, illusion, and asks that you breathe deep and call upon your divinity—your relationship to your soul.
Releases: Illusion
Creates: Illumination
Emotions: Peace
Body Part: Meditation/Visualization
Chakra: Third Eye – Ajna
Element: Light
Day 7 – Attachment
This class is great for anyone who works at a desk or commutes to work. With core and back body strengthening, you’ll release the muscles strained by sitting. Twists, heart-opening, lunges, and hamstring lengthening are featured.
Releases: Attachment
Creates: Manifestation
Emotions: Connection
Body Part: Inversions
Chakra: Crown – Sahasrara
Element: Ether
Start with a 14-day free trial, then enjoy an additional month free when you sign up.
That’s 44 days of unlimited access to Practice With Clara—on us.
Why Shadow School?
Inspired by one of her teachers, Rob Brezsny, Clara themed the latest Lila Flow Yoga Series to unearth the darker emotions we experience.
Shadow School takes this concept one step further to consider the unconscious aspects of the psyche, or as Carl Jung calls it, the Shadow.
“It is by going down into the abyss that you recover the treasures of life,” wrote Joseph Campbell. “Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
Jungian psychologists believe that you must confront your Shadow and bring it to the Light to awaken your inner divinity.
Rob Brezsny writes: “Neuroscientists at Britain’s Bristol University have concluded that playing in the dirt can make you feel really good. That’s because most soil is crawling with species of bacteria that interact favourably with the human body, strengthening the immune system and stimulating the brain in the same way antidepressants do. Let’s hypothesize that this is an apt metaphor for playing in the dirt of the shadow.”
Shadow School Yoga Challenge asks that you be open to receiving all parts of yourself; the sticky, uncomfortable, and undesirable.
You will be supported by a community AND prompted to reflect with meditation, journaling questions, and classes themed on the emotions we’d rather ignore.
Fear, Grief, Anger, Shame, Guilt, Duplicity, Illusion, Attachment; you will tenderly examine and express each emotion in a Lila Flow Yoga class featuring original music by Pete Wonder.
We must eat our own shadow—haul it up from out of the pit and develop a conscious connection with it. Doing so not only prevents our unacknowledged darkness from haunting our thoughts and distorting our relationships; it also liberates tremendous psychic energy.
— Excerpt from Rob Brezsny’s Shadow School.
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The Interlude
The interlude is your invitation to press pause with us for one month.
Create a moment of pause for yourself every day – this is your reminder to slow down and revel in the simple things!
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