A place to learn, practice, and stay in association.
Teaching is the center of this work, not a category beneath it. Everything else — guidance, ceremony, coaching — grows out of the same study and practice described here.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, every day.
Daily Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is the center of my own study and teaching, kept through SMYHL, the community whose daily life of yajña includes Agnihotra, Bhāgavatam, and japa each day, rising into one shared offering monthly on Sankranti.
Around that daily anchor, teaching continues through Bhagavad-gītā, Nectar of Instruction, Krishna Book, japa, kīrtan, questions from real conversations, T.H.E.10, pilgrimage, and whatever the moment in front of me actually calls for.
Receive. Understand. Apply. Realize. Share. Deepen.
Teaching is not meant to stop at information. A principle is taken from scripture, made practical enough to actually try, lived with until it becomes experience, and only then does it start to become realization rather than something merely memorized.
Understand
A real principle from scripture, explained in language that doesn't require prior study to follow.
Apply
Made concrete through an ordinary human example, until it touches something in your own life.
Deepen
Lived with, returned to, and shared — the way understanding actually becomes your own.
Nourish Your Devotion
My own Bhagavad-gītā teaching continues through Cowherd Village, in a series called Nourish Your Devotion — the Gītā's teaching on dharma explored the way it moves naturally: a principle, an ordinary example, a practical recognition, and a return to relationship with the Lord.
"The Bhagavad-gītā is, at its heart, a teaching on dharma: understanding who you are, what is truly yours to carry, and how to act rightly in relationship with the Lord and the life placed before you."
A teaching and devotional community, and the seed of a future village.
Cowherd Village is where the teaching becomes shared life: reading together, chanting, singing, asking real questions, and helping one another live with the Lord more consciously.
It is also the seed of something larger: an actual future village where work has its proper place but does not consume the whole person, where people study, chant, sing, create, serve, raise children, welcome guests, and share meals together, centered on the Lord. That future begins now, in the culture we are already practicing together.
You don't need to already understand the whole framework to belong here. Come as you are, with whatever brought you.
Two channels, one ongoing study.
Daily Śrīmad Bhāgavatam continues through SMYHL, a shared community project I participate in rather than own. My own Bhagavad-gītā teaching and reflections continue through Cowherd Village. The two are often shared between each other, so either channel can lead you to the fuller picture.