Befriend the Mind. Transcend the Mind.
MetaMind Mastery
There is a threshold most of us never cross: the one where the mind stops being something we fight and becomes something we move through. MetaMind Mastery is a journey into that threshold to consciously create the life that is yours to live.
Enter the Chrysalis
A caterpillar doesn't grow wings. Inside the chrysalis, it completely liquifies and only then does the new form arise. Most of us spend a lifetime fighting our way through change instead of allowing the dissolution that makes real transformation possible. MetaMind Mastery is the practice of entering the chrysalis on purpose: befriending the mind, mastering the nervous system that drives it, and emerging into the high-functioning, joyfully creative life you were built for.
With MetaMind Mastery you will:
- Dissolve the chronic anxiety running beneath your days — transforming a nervous system stuck on alert into a body that finally remembers safety, no matter the chaos around you.
- Harness sankalpa, the held intention, to move through every density of life without collapse — and bring your deepest desires into form.
- Emerge into clarity, focus, and creative flow — and step into the manifestation and abundance that arise naturally from a life in coherence with itself.
MetaMind Mastery empowers you to let the old form dissolve and the new take shape. Learn to live from the mastery, joy, and creative power that have been forming inside you all along. The chrysalis is calling. Will you enter?
Cross the threshold on purpose. Step into the extraordinary life that has been waiting to emerge.
The old form doesn't dissolve easily.
Crossing the threshold is no easy feat
Every transformation meets resistance and most of us hit the same forces holding the old form together:
- A nervous system stuck on alert. Chronic stress and anxiety keep the body bracing and the mind scanning making it nearly impossible to drop into the presence that real transformation requires.
- No structured path through the dissolution. Without a holistic framework that integrates discipline, presence, and intention, even our best efforts at change tend to scatter or stall.
- The pull of long-held patterns. Entrenched habits don't dissolve on their own. They carry momentum, history, and identity and loosening their grip takes more than willpower.
- Walking the threshold alone. The chrysalis is a private process, but it was never meant to be a lonely one. Community, lineage, and guided practice are what make the dissolution survivable.
- Unseen root patterns. Without understanding why the old form has held, change stays cosmetic. Lasting transformation requires meeting what we cannot yet see.
Don't let chronic anxiety, a turbid mind, or control keep you on this side of the threshold.
The chrysalis is yours to enter!
With the right guidance and lineage, you can dissolve the patterns holding you back and emerge into the high-functioning, joyfully creative life you were intended for. Through the structured, holistic path of MetaMind Mastery, you'll wield the disciplined contentment of tapas and santosha, the clarity of sankalpa, and the art of conscious creation. You will learn practices that address every layer of the chrysalis, from the body to the breath to the deepest patterns of mind. You won't walk the threshold alone but with support at every stage of the dissolution, and every step of what emerges.
"A human being is an island of excellence. We are born to excel."
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD (Panditji)
Mastering the mind isn't a fight. It's a friendship.
MetaMind Mastery
Befriend the mind that has been at war with itself and discover what becomes possible on the other side. Soften the chronic anxiety of daily life into a steady, present calm that holds. Cross the threshold into the joyfully creative, high-functioning life you were intended for.
Specialized Studies
The wisdom and lineage of Ayurveda Yoga Psychology gives you a clear map of the mind, the nervous system, and the patterns that hold them in place. Align body, mind, and spirit so the work of befriending the mind has somewhere to land.
Masterclass Satsang &
Sangha Sessions
Live teachings and community gatherings rooted in lineage. The chrysalis is a private process, but it was never meant to be a lonely one. Satsang and sangha are how the dissolution becomes survivable, even sacred.
Hybrid Learning Experience
The flexibility of an online platform combined with the richness of in-person sessions. Learn at your own rhythm, and experience live transmission, embodied practice, and direct guidance from teacher and sangha.
Waves of Integration
Structured practice challenges designed to enliven your meditation and root the teachings in your bones. Waves of Integration is where tapas meets santosha day after day, building the steady inner fire that makes everything else possible.
Emerge into the Life You Were Intended For
Your life after MetaMind
Mastery...
- Unshakable Inner Peace: A nervous system that remembers safety even in the middle of the storm. The same circumstances that used to spike you now arrive and pass, and you move through life with a steady, present calm.
- Enhanced Mental Clarity: A mind that has become a friend rather than a fight. Decisions arrive from clarity, not fear. The same intelligence that once spun against you now moves with you.
- Deep Emotional Resilience: The held intention of sankalpa carrying you through life's emotions without collapse. Stress, adversity, and the unexpected all arrive, and you stay rooted, compassionate, and intact.
- Stronger Connections: When the war within ends, every other relationship benefits. You meet yourself with kindness and meet others without armor. Belonging stops being something you reach for and becomes something you carry.
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Ready to cross the threshold?
Meet your teacher
Padma Shakti
Padma Shakti is Founder and Director of Rasa Yoga School of Ayurveda Yoga and Bay Area Yoga Collective.
Padma holds a firm commitment that Yoga and Ayurveda are on the cutting edge for success and leadership development. Through her ability to effectively assimilate and disseminate the teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda she enables people to craft a life beyond just getting by, to live a full life - thriving and healthy - toward the absolute highest quality possible.
Padma Shakti is committed to the power of community and seeks to demonstrate that through functional relationships, you strengthen and empower not only yourself, but the whole of humanity.
Her ability and clarity to empower others is made possible by her study, training and love of these great beings: Dr. David Hoch, Lex Gillian, Reverend Karen Tudor, Sandra Summerfield-Kozak of International Yoga Studies, Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Dr. David Frawley, Dr. Stephen Phillips, Swami Atma, Master Jason Campbell and Yogarupa Rod Stryker.
There are many other masters and teachers to pay homage to as well, whether by lineage living now or before.
Padma's current studies and training are influenced primarily by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait.
Padma walks the threshold she teaches
Padma's journey is marked by her own thresholds: the shadows of depression, the entanglements of co-dependent relationships, and physical injuries that ranged from a severe IT Band and hip injury to a dislocated elbow. Each was met with the transformative tools of Ayurveda Yoga, befriended rather than fought, and slowly became ground for what came next. Through the unprecedented challenges of running a business during the pandemic, she lived the path of devotion in real time, turning every density of life into material for conscious creation.
Padma's story is a testament to what becomes possible when the mind is befriended rather than fought. She has lived the dissolution and the emergence, and she now teaches from the other side of the threshold. Through her lived experience, she embodies the essence of the teachings she imparts, inspiring others to enter their own chrysalis on purpose and emerge into the wholeness that has been forming inside them all along.
"The journey to mastering Yoga's challenging postures empowers you to journey through life's challenges with mastery."
Padma Shakti
MetaMind Mastery is for you if:
- You're ready to stop fighting your own mind and discover the steady, present calm waiting underneath.
- You sense there is a high-functioning, joyfully creative life forming inside you, and you're ready to step into it.
- You want a structured, holistic path that addresses every layer of the chrysalis, from body to breath to the deepest patterns of mind.
- You're tired of out-disciplining the noise and ready to befriend the source.
- You're done with chronic anxiety and ready for a nervous system that finally gets to rest.
- You sense the life on the other side of the threshold and you're ready to cross.
MetaMind Mastery isn't for you if:
- You'd rather hack the symptoms than enter the chrysalis.
- You're unwilling to befriend what you have been avoiding inside yourself.
- You'd rather rearrange the old form than let it dissolve.
Real talk from Padma
It's time to know your Excellence.
MetaMind Mastery is from my heart to yours, and I am here to walk the threshold with you, every step of the way.
Here's what's waiting for you on the other side:
- A nervous system that finally remembers safety. Sleep returns, focus sharpens, decisions arrive cleaner, and the high-functioning version of you becomes available.
- Meaningful connections with yourself and others, where belonging stops being something you chase after and transforms to something you are.
- The art of conscious creation lived in the everyday, where manifestation flows effortlessly and abundance follows joy.
Join me on this transformative journey and step into the life of purpose, fulfillment, and intrinsic excellence you were born for. The divinity at your core is calling. Let's do this together.
Love,
Padma
