Monthly Yoga & Philosophy Clinic
Monthly gathering • 75 minutes • Live conversation

Monthly Yoga & Philosophy Clinic

Participants meet once a month for approximately 75 minutes. During each session, participants are invited to bring any yoga- or philosophy-related questions they wish to explore.

What it is

Dr. Shyam’s role is to facilitate the conversation and respond thoughtfully to what participants bring. Questions may also extend to personal matters involved in integrating yoga practice with the realities of life—work, money, relationships, health, and other demands or expectations.

This space can be used as a monthly accountability check-in, or simply as a place to think something through with care, rigor, and philosophical depth.

How the Sessions Work

Part of each session is open and unstructured. If participants arrive with specific concerns or questions, they can raise them directly, and Dr. Shyam provides a Yoga-philosophy-based response.

This format is often beneficial not only for the individual asking the question, but for the group as a whole. The challenges people raise are rarely unique, and the insights and solutions tend to have wide relevance and application.

What This Space Is

  • A place where participants can bring an issue and have it broken down into manageable components
  • A space for ethically grounded guidance, rooted in Yoga’s ancient moral philosophy
  • An environment that takes each participant and their concerns seriously as an agent
  • Not a space where others project their own issues onto participants
  • Not a space where concerns are dismissed as unfounded
  • Not a space where individuals are blamed for every difficulty
  • Not a space where spirituality is used to pressure acceptance of life “as it is”

What Makes This Space Safe and Effective

This clinic is grounded in Yoga’s original moral philosophy, as taught by its earliest teachers and texts, including Patañjali.

While life circumstances differ, people share a fundamental interest in being autonomous agents capable of living well. Good advice supports effective autonomy across all areas of life.

Without this philosophical foundation, even well-intentioned support often falls short. This clinic opens Yoga-philosophy-based support beyond ordinary class settings.

Community, Themes, and Ongoing Support

Members receive access to a Yoga & Philosophy Clinic community space, where they can interact with others between sessions.

Optional monthly themes may be introduced to focus attention on areas of life that are often overlooked.

Members also receive access to a Knowledge Vault with on-demand Yoga philosophy resources.

What You Get

  • Live monthly clinic sessions (two time options)
  • Membership in the Yoga Philosophy Clinic Community
  • Access to the On-Demand Knowledge Vault
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Meet your Yoga Philosophy Clinician

Dr. Shyam, Founder of the Yoga Philosophy Institute

Dr. Shyam Ranganathan is a scholar-practitioner of philosophy and the founder of the Yoga Philosophy Institute. Unlike many teachers in the yoga world—whether traditional gurus or Western academics—Dr. Ranganathan combines rigorous academic training with a lifelong personal practice of Yoga grounded in its original moral and ethical foundations.


He is a field-shaping researcher, author, translator, and teacher, specializing in Indian moral philosophy and the philosophy of Yoga—traditions that address practical questions about how to live, what to value, and how to act well in the world.

His expertise spans:

  • Ethics, moral and political philosophy
  • Philosophy of language and thought
  • Philosophy of religion
  • Asian and South Asian philosophy

Drawing from Indian, Chinese, and Western philosophical traditions, Dr. Ranganathan has spent decades studying how philosophy functions when it is treated not as abstraction, but as a disciplined practice of agency and judgment.

Through thousands of hours of teaching, he has found that when Yoga philosophy is approached in this way, it becomes a powerful resource for clarity, autonomy, and effective action. This clinic is an extension of that work—offering philosophical support that takes people seriously as agents navigating real lives.

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