Chana Mason | Illuminated
Ready to get there on purpose? Join a 12-week journey for women craving more joy, love, and aliveness in their relationship with life, others, and the Divine.
People keep asking me how I get to bliss so easily. Honestly, I wasn't born this way. It's a skill, and this is the course where I teach it.
TuesdaysBeginning October 2024 womenLive on Zoom
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For years I struggled with anxiety and depression, worthlessness and fear, and my relationship with prayer was so bad, I couldn't even open my mouth to talk to God. I was uncomfortable just thinking the word “God.” To me He was a guy up in the clouds ready to punish me, and “prayer” involved me reading the words as fast as I could just to check off the box.
If you'd told the woman I was two decades ago that one day she'd stand in the presence of the Divine and feel so much aliveness, intimacy, and love — like immersing in a blissful 4D experience — she would've said you were nuts. But that's my life now, and not just on rare, lucky days.
What changed me wasn't one magical moment, and it definitely wasn't a personality transplant. Over many years of study, I gathered skills. I learned to listen to my body, work with my thinking, shift my emotional state, and point my consciousness anywhere I wanted it to go.
In Illuminated, you'll learn those same skills, and we build them from the ground up. We start with the body, because that's the most solid, material place to stand, and from there we rise into your thinking, your emotional world, and into consciousness itself. Once you have all four working together, you can relish in your own vivid 4D experience and point your consciousness at anything you choose.
What You'll Master
This course builds toward one thing: an inner life that delights you. And that rests on mastering three relationships.
You'll build fluency in the language your body speaks. It's been sending you signals all along, and you'll learn to catch them early and treat them as important information instead of noise. The tightness in your chest, the ease in your shoulders, the pit in your stomach: each one is telling you something, and you'll learn how to listen.
You'll become a real student of the thinking mind. You'll learn to spot the beliefs underlying an upset and become skilled at shifting the beliefs that cause you distress into ones that bring you more joy, love, and connection. This isn't positive thinking. It's honest inquiry, and there's compassion and freedom on the other side of it.
You'll learn to recognize the emotional state you're in while you're still in it, and then to shift, on purpose, into the state you want to be in. Not by suppressing what's real, but by knowing how to navigate it. This is the skill people ask me about the most, and it's the one I'm giddy to hand you. It's how I transform from an early morning grouch to a blissfully cackling meditator in minutes.
From That Place
Once those three relationships are yours, we go higher, while staying grounded. Dinner still gets on the stove, the project gets completed, and meanwhile your inner life bubbles with richness:
There's one more thing I want to say about this, and I want to say it carefully. A woman who's living from joy and connection magnetizes incredible experiences toward her. People and opportunities are drawn to her. But that's the overflow, not the point. The point is that you feel wonderful, and from that place, circumstances become more manageable, interesting, even exciting. Challenges start to feel like an adventure instead of an ambush.
Your emotional state is what you learn to call up. Never outcomes. Outcomes are in God's hands. How you meet them is what becomes yours.
Recently I was on the facilitation team at a retreat. One morning I sat down to meditate, and within a few minutes, as usual, a huge grin spread across my face. A few minutes after that I started laughing, and I spent the rest of the hour that way, cackling and bursting with joy, trying to keep my voice and my face quiet so I wouldn't disturb the women sharing my tent.
Afterwards I apologized to my roommate for being strange. She stopped me. “Are you kidding? I was sitting there the whole time wondering, ‘how do I get what she's having?’”
I'll tell you why that moment stayed with me. If the Chana of five years ago had seen a woman laughing through an hour of meditation, she would've thought exactly the same thing: how do I get a piece of that? I have been on both sides of that question. And the distance between the two sides isn't luck, magic, or a special soul. It's a set of skills, and every one of them can be learned.
I'm often told that most people don't pray the way I do. That no one feels their ancestors surrounding them while they face a loving, benevolent endless light, or use their imagination and their emotions to nurture vivid and rich encounters with the Divine. My answer to that is: not yet.
The goal is to shine our essence through our intellect, our emotions and our bodies. Chana Mason not only does this, but enables everyone who merits to be in her orbit to do the same.
Mandi Kauffman
Coach, Beit Shemesh
She brings an upbeat, vibrant, soul-led energy to every space she leads, helping you become a vessel for positive change. Working with her has been profoundly life-changing, and I'm so grateful for the clarity, growth, and joy she's helped me access.
C. Smith
Therapist, New York
When you leave a session with Chana, you carry with you a peace and calmness that does not disappear. It becomes something you can access within yourself, long after the session ends.
Sara
Florida
How It Runs
We'll meet live for two hours a week for twelve weeks. Every session is packed with exercises that will inspire and challenge you to integrate the tools I'm teaching.
Between sessions you'll be given an Illumination assignment, and you'll have an accountability partner to practice with during the week so that what happens on Tuesday keeps living through the other six days.
Most importantly, you'll be part of a community of 24 women moving in the same direction for twelve weeks. That's a very different experience from watching twelve videos alone.
Starts
Tuesday, October 20
Meets
Tuesdays, weekly
for 12 weeks
Time
4:00–6:00 PM Israel
9:00–11:00 AM US Eastern
Where
Live on Zoom
Sessions recorded
A note on the clock: Israel's clocks go back on October 25 and America's on November 1, so for one session — Tuesday, October 27 — the US time shifts to 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Eastern. Israel time is the anchor, 4:00–6:00 PM here, always, and every other week runs exactly as above. I'll remind the group before that week.
Your Teacher
I've spent over a decade as a somatic therapist, coach, author, and meditation and breathwork facilitator. And long before any of that, I was a woman carrying anxiety and depression, with prayer so dead she couldn't open her mouth. Everything I teach, I needed first.
These days my meditations on Insight Timer are rated 4.8 by hundreds of listeners, and so many of the notes I receive say some version of the same thing: this made my inner life feel rich again. That's the thread that runs through my books (Hold That Thought, The Size of Your Dreams, The Cash Machine, and Inner Voices) and through all of my work with clients. I believe with everything in me that a vivid inner world is not a gift some women are born with and others simply aren't. It's a skill. Illuminated is me handing you the map I wish someone had handed me.
She uses a somatic, body based approach which I found very helpful. She was able to give me real tools that I'm able to take with me now and use as processing and grounding tools.
Tali Menachemi
Therapist, Beit Shemesh
What I love about working with Chana is her directness, her courage to say what needs to be said, while at the same time being so nurturing and supportive. I find this to be such a rare combination.
Faigy Pollock
Intimacy Coach, Beit Shemesh
Chana has been a mentor and guide to me through her books, teachings and meditations. She is wise, direct, strategic and compassionate. I don't know another person who combines these qualities so masterfully.
Shoshana Helfenbaum
Therapist, Toronto
Chana facilitates connection — with community and within yourself: mind, body, and soul.
Jo Bakal
Body Worker, Tampa
Chana holds a space that is both deeply compassionate and skillfully guided. I would wholeheartedly recommend Chana to anyone who feels called to do deep, intentional inner work.
Alexa Eden
Jerusalem
She was reassuring when I was afraid, unwaveringly steady and gentle; her prompts are intuitive and insightful. She creates an experience for her clients that I imagine is rare and exceptional.
Vanessa
Educator, Beit Shemesh
From the meditations
Chana's guided meditations have been played 40K+ times across platforms, and are rated 4.8 out of 5 on Insight Timer.
I have not felt so much Simcha for a very long time as I did listening to this meditation. Thank you for this divine message and reminder. How blessed are we as Jews to have this teaching — that Simcha is not just our birthright, but our way to serve the Divine.
Mary
Evanston, Illinois
I appreciated the Hebrew and Kabbalistic references to the energy centers, which brought alive the knowing that there is one body of Truth that crosses traditions, and that can be accessed in multiple ways. This way spoke to me, and it is a meditation I have saved and will be returning to.
Jude Smith
Rhinebeck, New York
This meditation has been so comforting to me through my fertility journey and now in early pregnancy. I feel completely wrapped up in support from generation to generation, l'dor v'dor. Chana's words help me feel more confident that I will make it through this journey.
Shelby
Denver
I really love this meditation — the teaching at the beginning, this way of breathing and being in the world and being with others. I will carry this practice with me today and in the future. I'm so glad that I found Chana Mason's meditations. They are my favorites, and I'm so grateful.
Cathy
Hedgesville, West Virginia
What You Get
Two live hours every week with your incredible cohort of women, moving in the same direction for twelve weeks.
Practice on your own and with your study buddy, so the learnings from each session integrate into the six days that follow.
My online course taking you deeper into exploring and shifting the beliefs bringing you down.
Taking your personal growth journey even further, wherever you go.
After the course, we'll meet, just the two of us, to work through how you carry this material forward into your life.
Access to the course materials and the community chat for a year, so the twelve weeks keep working on you long after they end.
This is the first time I'm running Illuminated. The group is capped at 24 women, and enrollment closes when we begin on October 20. I honestly don't know when I'll run this course again.
Full Journey
Illuminated — 12 Weeks
The complete arc, live, with the group and the practice between sessions.
$1,800
or three payments of $600 — no extra cost
A Supported Spot
For the woman who's all in, when the price isn't possible this season.
A number we find together
Apply anyway, name the number you could say a wholehearted yes to, and we'll take it from there — quietly, between us.
Apply to JoinPay It Forward
Your seat at its true cost, plus a hand on the door for another woman.
$2,200
happy to split this into payments too
The next step isn't payment, it's a few questions. They take about four minutes, they tell me where you are, and most women find they learn something about themselves on the way through.
No. Some women arrive having never sat for five minutes, and others have been practicing for years. The course is built as a progression, so it meets you where you are. And the early weeks are about the body, not the cushion. Remember, this course is being taught by someone who used to be petrified of meditation, terrified of being alone, and couldn't open her mouth to speak with God.
Every session is recorded, so you can catch up. That said, this is a live experience with a group that builds week over week, so think of the recordings as a safety net rather than the plan.
Expect a practice each week, plus a check-in with your accountability partner. Fifteen to twenty minutes a day is a realistic picture. This is a doing course, not just a listening course.
Deeply, and gently. The tools I teach come from the best of modern personal growth work, and I interweave them with the riches of the Judaic ancestral, mystical tradition. You don't need any particular level of learning or observance to belong here. What you need is curiosity, and a wish for your relationship to the Divine, to others, and to life itself to feel vibrant.
This round is a women's group. Holding it that way lets us go somewhere in twelve weeks that a mixed group would take much longer to reach.
Then I still want you in the room. Every cohort holds a few supported spots, funded in part by women who choose the Pay It Forward rate. You won't need to prove anything or explain your finances — just say in your application that the price is the thing in the way, and we'll find a number together that honors both your reality and this work.
Then start with the questions. The application walks you through where you actually are with your body, your mind, and your practice, and most women find they learn something about themselves just by answering it.
I'm not interested in you admiring my inner world. I want you to relish in your own evolving beauty. I want you to be able to point yourself toward love, peace, aliveness, or Divinity, and actually arrive there. As a soul having a human experience, you were born for this, designed for this, and are capable of learning how to reach beyond the limitations of the physical into the gorgeousness of the metaphysical. My goal is to support you in elevating your body, mind, and emotions in service of beauty. You'll learn skills to radiate more love and illuminate the world around you.
This is the first time I'm teaching Illuminated, and the 24 women who join me are going to get me at my most devoted. Come find out what's waiting on the other side.
— Chana
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