No, but because the advanced courses build directly on the skills you learn here, I recommend you know:
• How to detect prana
• How to track its movement
• How to feel subtle internal shifts with reliability.

Most people — even experienced meditators — have gaps in this kind of training. 

Before we explore subtle channels, higher winds, or advanced internal techniques, it’s essential that we’re speaking the same energetic “language.”

Discovering Prana ensures that everyone, regardless of background, engages the more advanced courses with the same calibrated sensitivity. Without that foundation, the higher-level practices are much more difficult.

No — breath is simply the instrument, not the music.

Most breath-based approaches focus on shaping the inhale and exhale, as if breath itself were the goal. But breath is only the visible movement of something far more subtle flowing within it.

In this course, we focus on the prana that breath carries.

Once you learn to sense that directly, breath becomes a gateway — not the destination.

No.

You don’t need to adopt any religious or philosophical beliefs.

Learning to detect prana is completely experiential.

There are Sanskrit words used in the course, simply because they describe things for which there are no English equivalents, but these terms don’t have any religious affiliations with Buddhism or Hinduism. These words are more like scientific descriptions than anything else, much the same way that science and medicine use Latin words to be able to communicate with greater precision.

Discovering Prana is a self-paced course that includes many concentrated lessons and guided meditations.

I recommend spending about 30-60 minutes a week with the lessons and using the guided meditations for your daily practice while you are in the course.

At that pace, module 1 of the course — The Foundations — becomes about a 1 month journey that gradually transforms the way you experience the living energy within the breath.

If you finish The Foundations and decide to progress to the second module of the course, that usually takes 3-4 months to go through thoroughly, though again, the pacing is entirely up to you.

No prior background in yoga, asana or pranayama is required.

You don’t need to know any Sanskrit, and you don’t need a long meditation history.

You don’t need to embrace any belief system either; it’s all experiential.

All you need is curiosity, and a willingness to explore your inner landscape.

Everything else is taught step-by-step inside the course.

Each lesson is short and concentrated — designed to give you the full teaching of a longer talk, distilled into its clearest form.

The material is not complex, but it is precise.

You’ll know exactly what to pay attention to, and exactly how to practice it.

Most students find it refreshingly clear and surprisingly accessible.

Repeating lessons can be incredibly helpful, and I encourage everyone to do so often.

Each time you revisit a teaching, you’ll notice new details emerging in your perception.

The guided meditations are designed to be used repeatedly, and many students return to them long after the course is complete.

From the time you begin your course you will always have access for at least 12 months.
Courses offering ‘lifetime’ access seldom stand behind that promise if they ever have to move the website - you’re left in the dust.
In contrast, I’ll make sure your first year is solid and - as long as the course is on this server - your access will continue.

Discovering Prana is delivered in full the moment you enroll, and for that reason the course is non-refundable.

To support your clarity in making the decision, I invite you to try the prana sensitivity meditation before enrolling — and I mean really try it, not just press Continue. It takes only a few minutes and will tell you something genuinely useful about your readiness for this material. You can also get a sense of my teaching style by listening to some of the video podcasts in Seeds of Awakening.

Feel into whether my style of teaching resonates with you before stepping in.

You’re not on your own with this material.

I personally answer every question that comes in about the course.

Contact me with questions

If your question is something others may benefit from, I’ll make it anonymous and create a short video response for future students.

If it’s private or specific to your situation, I’ll write back to you directly.

And if you ever want deeper support, I’m available for private sessions as well.

(Learn more about private sessions→)

That is up to you and how fast you’d like to master this material.

You can use these meditations to supplement whatever style of meditation you are currently doing, peppering them in as you see fit.

Or you can take this time you are in the course to really dive in and use these meditations exclusively. They work beautifully as the focal point for you daily sit. In fact , while studying this material the members of my private sangha used these meditations twice a day as their sole practice.