How do we stay steady when life keeps changing?
Explore how the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita can help us meet life’s ups and downs with greater clarity and balance.
Life brings change, uncertainty and unexpected challenges. At times, even a small setback or a difficult conversation can leave us unsettled. How can we find steadiness when the world around us does not stand still?
In Chapter 2, verses 54–72 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna describes the sthitaprajna, a person of steady wisdom. This steadiness does not mean becoming emotionally hard or withdrawing from life. It is the ability to remain engaged without being constantly shaken by pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, gain and loss.
In this two-hour workshop, Dr. Shubha Chetan will explore how viveka (discernment), vairagya (non-attachment) and sakshi bhava (the witnessing attitude) can help us cultivate greater inner steadiness in everyday life.
Workshop Curriculum:
Understanding Sthitaprajna
Steady wisdom in the Bhagavad Gita
Explore the qualities of a person of steady wisdom described in Chapter 2, verses 54–72.
What Disturbs the Mind?
Attachment and expectation
Recognise how expectations, attachments and reactions can unsettle us in everyday situations.
Viveka
Learning to discern
Explore how clear seeing and thoughtful reflection can guide our choices when life feels uncertain.
Vairagya
Letting go of our grip on outcomes
Understand how non-attachment can help us engage with life while remaining less dependent on particular results.
Sakshi Bhava
Cultivating the witnessing attitude
Practise observing thoughts and emotions with awareness, making space for greater balance in our responses.
What the session includes
- Understanding sthitaprajna through the Bhagavad Gita
- Recognising what unsettles the mind
- Exploring how attachment and expectation shape our responses
- Applying viveka and vairagya to everyday situations
- Developing the witnessing attitude through sakshi bhava
- Reflecting on pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, gain and loss
- Building practical habits of self-awareness, discernment and equanimity
Suitable for anyone interested in understanding the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita and exploring practical ways to remain steady through life’s challenges. Previous knowledge of yogic philosophy is not necessary.
Life will keep changing. Learn to meet it with greater steadiness.
Facilitator
Dr. Shubha Chetan
With a heart rooted deeply in yogic learning and inner growth, Shubha brings a balanced and sincere presence into every class she teaches.
Shubha enjoys teaching all age groups, finding joy simply in the act of teaching itself. She describes her motivation humbly — she teaches because it makes her feel happy, and that happiness inspires her to give her very best each time.
Outside her formal practice, she finds joy in reading, both fiction and subjects close to her heart, and singing, which adds a gentle creative rhythm to her life.
Grounded, sincere, and always learning, she brings authenticity and depth to her teaching — creating a space where students feel supported, inspired, and gently guided towards their own inner journey.
Shubha is a certified Ayurvedic doctor and that adds another dimension to her persona. She has been supporting the institute since its inception and brings vast experience and knowledge in the space of Yoga and Ayurveda.
Shubha facilitates the Teacher training programs, Ayurveda workshops, Balavidya and Navaratri Sadhana courses at BYK.
