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40 Days of Fearless Heart

A Practice to Steady the Mind & Restore the Fearless Heart

Live Online Fridays
10-11am US PST / 12-1pm US CST
May 15 – June 26, 2026

What becomes possible when you recognize support as your ancestral inheritance – not something you have to earn alone?

40 Days of Fearless Heart is a donation-based group practice & study rooted in one ancient mantra from the Devi Mahatmyam — the Sarva Swarupe Sarveshe, a sacred Durga mantra chanted for centuries to steady the mind, dissolve fear and anger, and invoke the protection of the supreme power.

For 40 days, we chant this one mantra. Not to acquire fearlessness — but to remember it. The fearless heart — the fearless hridaya — is something you uncover. A light that has always been present, waiting to be recognized.

Through sound and steady practice, we'll explore how to steady the mind when fear and anger arise, recognize the invincible light that fear cannot extinguish, return again and again to the unshakeable nature you already carry, and tend that light as a daily practice of devotion.

This practice is led by Steph Chee and is offered by donation. 60% of all proceeds go directly to support the Healing Turtle Island ceremony this July at LandPeace Foundation — an indigenous-led organization in Monroe, Maine dedicated to restoring ancestral relationship with the land.

    • You sense there is something in you that difficulty has never actually touched — and you want to know it more fully

    • Fear or anger regularly destabilizes your mind and you're ready for a practice that works at the level of vibration

    • You want a contemplative practice rooted in ancient tradition, not modern wellness

    • You lead, guide, or hold space for others and need to resource yourself from a deeper place

    • You are new to mantra and want a genuine, lineage-rooted entry point — or you are experienced and ready to go deeper with a single practice

  • 7 Live Weekly Gatherings

    Join online each Friday, 10–11am Pacific, to chant, learn, and deepen. These are living transmissions — not lectures. Space for questions, shared practice, and collective exploration of the mantra's teachings and each week's Sanskrit theme.

    Complete Mantra Instruction

    Full instruction in the Sarva Swarupe Sarveshe — pronunciation, melody, meaning, and context — with call-and-response learning in each live session. You'll also receive an introduction to the broader Durga Saptashati, the source text from which this mantra comes. No prior Sanskrit experience required.

    Daily Contemplative Prompts

    Receive inspired self-inquiry questions to your inbox throughout the 40 days — invitations to explore how fear moves through you, what steadiness actually feels like in the body, and what it means to remember rather than achieve.

    Complete Learning Library

    All sessions recorded and available through your private portal. Includes audio practice recordings of the mantra, printable PDFs with transliteration and translation, and memorization support. Learn in the way that serves you best.

    Private Online Portal

    Your hub for all course resources, recordings, and connection with fellow practitioners.

    60% Direct Community Impact

    60% of all proceeds from this practice go directly to support the Healing Turtle Island ceremony this July at LandPeace Foundation in Monroe, Maine — an organization dedicated to restoring ancestral relationship with the land and the living web of all beings. Your enrollment is both a personal practice and an offering outward.

  • Online Fridays 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST

    May 15 – June 26, 2026

    * All sessions approx. 60 min, hosted live online with Steph Chee

    Week 1 — Analātmikām: She Whose Intrinsic Nature Is Fire

    May 15

    Meet the mantra and its source: the Devi Mahatmyam, the 700 verses of Durga. Explore hridaya — the heart as cosmic force that receives, gives, and circulates. Understand fearlessness as something revealed, not created. Establish the daily practice container.

    Week 2 — Sarva Swarupe: You Who Exist in All Forms

    May 22

    Durga is not outside you — she is the intelligence that moves through all of it. This week we explore the practice as a remembering of your own nature, and work with what arises in the first week: resistance, distraction, the mind that says it doesn't have time.

    Week 3 — Sarva Shakti: Possessor of All Powers

    May 29

    The mantra begins to move. What does it mean to hold all powers — not as dominance, but as wholeness? We explore the practice of meeting fear and anger with something equal or greater, and what steadiness actually feels like from the inside.

    Week 4 — Live Q&A Gathering

    June 5

    Bring your questions, your resistance, your breakthroughs. Share your experience of the practice at the midpoint. Collective wisdom deepens what individual practice opens.

    Week 5 — Bhaye Bhyastraahi: Protect Us from All Forms of Fear

    June 12

    We turn directly toward what the mantra is actually doing: not eliminating fear, but revealing the light that is stronger than it. Work with specific fears and the places where anger and reactivity arise — and practice meeting them with the mantra.

    Week 6 — Durge Devi: The One Who Is Difficult to Reach

    June 19

    Durga's name means the one who is hard to approach — the innermost, most invincible part of you. This week the mantra moves toward fluency and the practice becomes more interior: chanting from memory, chanting in silence, chanting as breath.


    Week 7 — Namostute: I Bow to You

    June 26

    Closing ceremony. The bow is not submission — it is recognition. We honor 40 days of returning. The practice does not end; it roots. How to carry the fearless heart forward as a living, daily remembering

  • Om Sarva Swarupe Sarveshe, Sarva Shakti Samanvite

    Bhaye Bhyastraahi No Devi, Durge Devi Namostute


    The Sarva Swarupe Sarveshe is a single verse from the Devi Mahatmyam — the 700 verses of Durga, one of the most revered texts of the Sri Vidya Tantric tradition. Its meaning moves across a remarkable arc:

    • Om: the supreme sound, the ground of all

    • Sarva Swarupe: you who exist in all forms

    • Sarveshe: goddess of all — the supreme power

    • Sarva Shakti Samanvite: you who hold all powers

    • Bhaye Bhyastraahi No Devi: O Goddess, protect us from all forms of fear

    • Durge Devi Namostute: salutations to you, O Durga

    Chanted for centuries to remove instability of mind due to fear and anger, this mantra does not ask you to suppress what you feel. It reminds you of what you are made of — something invincible, something luminous, something that fear moves through but cannot inhabit.

    You don't need prior experience with chanting, mantra, or Vedic texts. Everything is taught from the ground up, in accessible language, with full transliteration, translation, and audio support.

What To Expect

This is more than a course. It’s……

Complete Mantra Instruction

Time commitment: 10–25 minutes daily

You'll work primarily with the 9th mantra of Sri Sukta throughout the 40 days, while also building fluency with the complete 16-mantra practice. Through daily repetition with mantra 9, you'll attune to the Sacred Feminine as the unconquerable source of support—the eternal nourishment that flows through generations, the patient foundation that holds both what flourished and what struggled in your lineage.

During live sessions, you'll learn all 16 mantras through call-and-response practice, giving you the option to expand your daily practice to include the full Sri Sukta as you become comfortable with each mantra.

The mantras are taught in Sanskrit with transliteration, translation, and deep contextual exploration—no previous experience required.

Contemplative Prompts & Self-Inquiry

Receive inspired self-inquiry questions to your inbox throughout the 40 days — invitations to explore how fear moves through you, what steadiness actually feels like in the body, and what it means to remember rather than achieve.

Private Online Portal

All sessions recorded and available through your private portal. Includes audio practice recordings of the mantra, printable PDFs with transliteration and translation, and memorization support. Learn in the way that serves you best.

7 Live Weekly Gatherings

Join online each Friday, 10–11am Pacific, to chant, learn, and deepen. These are living transmissions — not lectures. Space for questions, shared practice, and collective exploration of the mantra's teachings and each week's Sanskrit theme.

60% Direct Community Impact

60% of all proceeds from this practice go directly to support the Healing Turtle Island ceremony this July at LandPeace Foundation in Monroe, Maine — an organization dedicated to restoring ancestral relationship with the land and the living web of all beings. Your enrollment is both a personal practice and an offering outward.

If you're ready to meet your own fearless heart…

this practice is here.

LIVE Online every FRIDAY
10-11am US PST / 12-1pm US CST
May 15 – June 26, 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

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  • No. This practice is designed for both beginners and experienced practitioners. Everything is guided and explained in accessible language. The mantra includes full transliteration, translation, rhythm, and melody to support your learning from the ground up.

  • This mantra comes from the Devi Mahatmyam, composed between 400 and 600 CE — one of the oldest intact bodies of sacred sound still in living transmission. You do not need to hold any particular belief to practice. Mantra works at the level of vibration. The sound does what it does. What you bring is your attention.

  • Most daily practices take 10–25 minutes, depending on your pace. Weekly live gatherings are approximately 60 minutes. Total time commitment: roughly 2–3 hours per week. Consistency matters more than perfection — meeting the practice most days is enough.

  • All weekly gatherings are recorded and available in your private portal. Miss a day of practice? Simply begin again. The container holds you whether you show up perfectly or imperfectly.

  • Offer what feels honest and sustainable for you. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Suggested donation ranges are provided during enrollment.

  • 60% of all proceeds go directly to support the Healing Turtle Island ceremony this July at LandPeace Foundation in Monroe, Maine. Your enrollment is both a personal practice and an offering into something larger.

  • Yes — and return students often find these containers deepen in unexpected ways. Each mantra opens different territory.  This one is its own complete practice.

  • Memorization is encouraged but not required. We provide recordings, transliteration guides, and support for your learning process. Many students find that the mantra naturally settles into memory through daily repetition—and there's something powerful about carrying it in your body without needing to reference the page.

What Students say

  • “Before beginning my studies with Stephanie, I wasn’t even aware there was a reality of the Divine Feminine. I love mantra, and am in awe of the mysterious way it is creating a sense of ‘enoughness’ in me that I’ve only hoped for over many years. The depth of knowledge, the language, and perfect word choice that Stephanie somehow always seems to find opens me. I begin to melt into who I truly am. I feel such gratitude to have somehow been guided to this ongoing course and to Stephanie as a teacher.”

    —Sue C., E-RYT 200

  • “Stephanie’s mantra courses are powerful offerings, beautifully presented! I can feel Stephanie's dharmic alignment pulsing through; authentic and with integrity. When shadow comes up on the seeker's path, as we know it will, there is no doubt the fire and the mantra and will transform it.”

    Sarah H., RN, E-RYT 500

  • “Mantra tends to and strengthens my connection to the highest source of wisdom that is deeply embedded in my being. Thank you, Stephanie, for creating this container of support that focuses on illuminating the power of my soul and spirit. I feel blessed to have Stephanie as a guide and teacher in my life!”

    Barbara S., RN, E-RYT 500

Awaken the Sound Within You

There is a part of you that already knows how to return to calm…
to clarity…
to power.

It doesn’t need more noise.
It needs resonance.

Sacred Sound Body is your guide to reconnecting with that inner frequency— through simple, grounding sound practices you can return to daily.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or searching for something deeper—this is your starting point.