Awaken your inner protector

Embody sacred strength through dynamic daily practice

40 Days of Inner Protection:

Transforming Daily Life Through Sacred Sound

Online in the Virtual Temple
10:00 AM Pacific Time
October 24, 31 | November 7, 14, 21 | December 5

The Call of Inner Protection.

Why This Practice?

Six Friday mornings starting October 24th, we'll work with the opening verse of Rudra Sukta – an ancient song of protection whose syllables have been precisely calibrated for millennia to awaken cellular vitality. Through mantra and meditation practices that honor both intellectual rigor and embodied wisdom, we'll engage with what the tradition calls "self-revealing technologies" – contemplative methods grounded in Yogic and Tantric source wisdom.

These practices are designed to awaken the divine life force that embodies what we might call the sacred masculine qualities: fearless wisdom, loving conviction, and protective strength. Not the brittle armor of defensiveness, but vibrational frequencies that arise from an ultimate foundation of wholeness and peace.

Join us for a dedicated 40-day journey to awaken and amplify your inner protector. Discover how to invoke the forces of change so they bear peaceful, transformative fruit, using an embodied approach that honors both traditional transmission and your authentic expression.

50% of all contributions directly support the Land Peace Foundation in Monroe, Maine – because authentic protection extends beyond the boundaries of self.

The sacred masculine we seek to awaken brings wisdom without violence, conviction without hatred, and fearless protection rooted in compassion.

Your Weekly Practice Journey

This is more than a course—it’s a living, breathing relationship with sacred sound that grows stronger every day you return to it.

Chanting & Study

Learn the opening verses of the Rudra Sukta, with careful guidance in sound, rhythm, and pronunciation. Beyond repetition, you’ll explore how these mantras become alive in your own voice, honoring both the traditional transmission and your authentic expression.

Embodied Approach

Sacred sound is not only heard but felt. Through rhythm, melody, and movement, you’ll discover how mantra resonates through your body, awakening a deeper presence and flow. Think of it as prayer through the whole being.

Breath & Meditation

Each week introduces progressive pranayama and meditation practices, gently adapted to meet your nervous system where it is. These tools help you steady your inner rhythms, dissolve tension, and create space for the sacred sound to take root

Community Support

You won’t walk this 40-day path alone. Our group becomes a field of mutual accountability and encouragement, helping you move through resistance and sustain the practice. Many find the shared energy to be one of the most transformative aspects of the journey.

Sacred Masculine Teachings

Together we’ll explore the qualities of Rudra Shakti—fearless wisdom, protective strength, and compassionate clarity. These teachings aren’t abstract; they’ll be woven into your lived experience, showing you how protection can feel both powerful and tender.

Personalized Daily Practice

Each week, you’ll receive simple practices tailored to your life—so the Rudra Sukta and its teachings become part of your daily rhythm. Over time, these practices anchor a sense of protection and clarity that you carry into all aspects of your life.

A Living Approach to Ancient Protection

This practice builds on the foundations of dynamic mantra work – where sacred sound becomes a living relationship rather than mechanical repetition. Whether you're new to contemplative practice or have studied sacred sound for years, you'll discover how rhythm, devotion, melody, and embodiment serve the awakening of inner protection.

Learn to:

  • Move with the rhythm of protection, allowing your nervous system to entrain to the steady pulse of your inner guardian

  • Express devotion as fierce compassion, using your emotions as fuel for awakening fearless wisdom

  • Find your unique melodic expression that allows these ancient protective sounds to come alive through your authentic voice

  • Embody the Rudra Shakti flowing through every mitochondria, feeling sacred masculine energy move through your entire being

6-Week Thematic Outline:

40 Days of Inner Protection

Each week builds the capacity to embody sacred masculine qualities that serve both personal protection and planetary healing, moving from basic nervous system regulation to mastery of contemplative technologies for fearless wisdom.

From Reactive Patterns to Sacred Sacred Rhythm

Week 1 (Oct 24)

  • Introduction to Rudra Sukta and its protective power

  • Mind-body coherence and connecting to inner equanimity through breath

  • Unpacking the sacred masculine vs. distorted masculine

  • Establishing heartbeat rhythm as nervous system regulation

Week 2 (Oct 31)

Connecting to Your Inner Fires

  • Makarasana and deep relaxation techniques

  • Exploring devotion as fierce compassion

  • How emotions become fuel for fearless wisdom

  • Sandbag breathing for cellular nourishment

Week 3 (Nov 7):

Harmonizing Your Inner Fires

Week 4 (Nov 14):

Resolving Conditions of Imbalance

Establishing Unshakeable Inner Refuge

Week 5 (Nov 21):

Week 6 (Dec 5):

 Tending to the Inner Protector

  • Alternate nostril breathing techniques

  • Finding your unique mantric expression

  • Working with the rhythm of protection

  • Understanding abhaya - fearless wisdom

  • Aharana and Samikarana advanced techniques

  • "As long as light resents darkness there will be no peace" - working with paradox

  • Transforming fear, doubt, anger, worry into wisdom

  • The role of nature in our daily practice

  • The four points of Vishoka Meditation for lasting joy

  • Uniting individual shakti with infinite protective force

  • Cultivating conviction without hatred

  • Wisdom without violence in daily leadership

  • Integration of all techniques for embodied transformation

  • Creating authentic relationships with ancient mantras

  • Supporting peaceful change in the world

  • Establishing sustainable daily practice beyond the 40 days

The Power of Consistent Group Practice

The transformative power of this work emerges through sustained engagement. When we gather around these ancient sounds, we create a field of mutual accountability that supports us through the inevitable resistance our conditioned patterns will offer. Real change happens not through intensity, but through the gentle, persistent flow of consciousness that allows new neural pathways to stabilize. Together, we hold space for each other's emergence into abhaya – the fearless wisdom that the Vedic tradition describes as our natural state.

Joyful Words from Past Participants

  • Sue C., E-RYT 200

    “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.”

  • Sarah H., RN, E-RYT 500

    “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.”

  • Barbara S., 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!”

Meet Steph

Greetings! My name is Stephanie Chee Barea, founder of The Rangeley Hideaway, Her Festival, and mela.yoga. I am a spiritual guide and lifelong educator with over 24 years of experience teaching embodied healing practices in the oral tradition of the Himalayan Sages. I work with conscious professionals and visionaries to strengthen and upskill their capacity to tap into internal wisdom, establish space, create flow, and make decisions with greater clarity and ease.

I have a B.A. in Biology from Columbia University and am both a practitioner and teacher of the science and philosophy of Tantric Hatha Yoga in the Sri Vidya tradition – a 5,000 year-old oral tradition of the Himalayan Sages. Always learning, I continue to study with my mentors: Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Jean Mazzei, Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset, and always – the Natural World.

The mantras I hold express the language of Nature – sacred streams of timeless wisdom that first emerged from the Himalayan Mountains. 

I published my first mantra album, Igniting Protection, in 2019, and I’ve also been featured on Thrive Global, Omnes.live, The Cosmic Business Podcast, The Himalayan Institute, and Down East Magazine. My 1000+ hours of formal training certifications include EYRT-5oo, YCEP, Yoga Sutras, Vishoka Meditation, and Relational Life Therapy.

My highest aspiration? To know and be in concert with the intelligent power of my heart. A such, I choose to live my life as if it were a grand ritual – weaving the sacred and mundane into a truly rich experience of beauty, creativity and joy.✨

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