Holy Work Challenge: Foundations for Embodied Awakening

Online Program | July 14 - August 14, 2025




What if presence wasn’t just something you touched in meditation—but the ground of your daily living?

There is a way of living that flows from the center of your being—tender, clear, grounded, and real. It can permeate your voice, your actions and your relating.

You may sense it: a deeper current of truth within you that longs to meet life with wisdom and love.

But even with deep spiritual openings, daily life can pull you back into old patterns of reactivity, collapse, and confusion.

You long to live from presence, and sense it is possible. To respond instead of react. To stay with what rises. To radiate your essence into the world. But how?

The Holy Work Challenge is an invitation to root in that deeper possibility

To shift from fleeting moments of presence into a steady way of being, anchored here, now– grounded in your body, breath, and heart.

Through Jeannie Zandi’s practice of The Holy Work—a simple yet powerful form of felt inquiry—you’ll learn to partner with your inner experience to deepen in presence, meet what rises moment to moment, and live from your true nature in the midst of life.

You’ll grow in your capacity to meet what rises with ground and simplicity, to unwind the grip of conditioning, and to live more truly as love and wisdom in action.

Held in a safe, integrous and committed container and field of presence and kindness, you’ll be supported for 30 days with weekly live teachings, a private online community, and optional small groups—all designed to help you land in Being, explore and root there, and grow in your capacity to stay.

Whether this is your first encounter with Jeannie or you’re an experienced student, this course offers a collective deepening, remembering, and return to your deepest self.




This exploration is for you if...

  • You long to live from presence and heart but don’t know how

  • You’ve tasted awakening but struggle to stay rooted in it

  • You’re ready to meet emotional intensity with mercy instead of resistance

  • You seek real transformation — not just more concepts

  • You want to live with more integrity and love every day




Through Jeannie’s practice of felt inquiry, you'll be gently guided to:

  • Drop beneath thought into direct experience

  • Ground in the simplicity of presence

  • Meet what lives in the body with tenderness and mercy

  • Soften the grip of control and taste the freedom of surrender

  • Unwind conditioned patterns of disconnection

  • Support the embodiment of your true nature

  • Live from presence, clarity, and love




The Container

This immersive 30-day exploration includes:

  • Five two-hour online live gatherings with Jeannie
     July 14, 21, 28, August 4, and a closing session on August 14

  • Optional small practice groups (face-to-face via Zoom)

  • Private online forum for daily sharing, encouragement, and guidance

  • Resource library with guided meditations, teaching videos, and supportive articles

  • Daily inspiration from Jeannie to support your practice and integration

  • A field of commitment and support from fellow practitioners


“I noticed that I slowly had a deeper connection with Being in my daily life. My heart seemed to swallow my mind some days! Thoughts that used to disturb me couldn't penetrate my bliss. I feel more committed than ever to Spirit and making Being central to my daily life. I feel more devotion more deeply than ever. I feel more grace. :) Thank you!!!”

- Bethany (Past Participant of HWC)


Hear from Jeannie and past participants about the Holy Work Challenge in this short video:



Free Preview of the Holy Work Course May 16 and June 8!

Want to learn more about the Holy Work? Join us for one of the free live course gatherings with Jeannie: The Holy Work: A Doorway to Embodied Presence - A Free Introduction

Friday, May 16 | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. MDT

Sunday, June 8, 2025 | 6 - 8 p.m. MDT

Jeannie will share the essential principles of embodied awakening, showing how presence can become our natural ground of being rather than an occasional experience.




Course Details


Online Gatherings with Jeannie (attend live, join the group recording watch, or watch on your own)

  • Monday, July 14, 2025, 6-8 pm MST
  • Monday, July 21, 2025, 6-8 pm MST
  • Monday, July 28, 2025, 6-8 pm MST
  • Monday, August 4, 2025, 6-8 pm MST
  • Finale Gathering: Thursday, August 14, 2025 6-8 pm MST


There will be an informal group watch of the recording the day after each class at 10 am MST for anyone who cannot attend live. 

Private Facebook Group

  • Confidential, safe space to share your experience with a committed group of fellow explorers

  • Direct access to Jeannie for support, encouragement and guidance


Optional Online Zoom Share Groups

  • Confidential, safe space to share your experience face-to-face with a committed group of fellow explorers

  • Members commit to a specific time and date for the duration of the Challenge

  • Facilitated by senior students who are trained and mentored by Jeannie 

  • Members must attend all 4 group meetings to be part of a group


Resource library that includes:

  • Support videos
  • Guided meditations
  • Articles on related topics


Personalized Commitment

This course is a deeper dive into the teachings and requires commitment. 

Having a group of people “all in” creates solid support, bonding, and transformation. 

This means you will do your best to follow through on all the required parts of the course and speak up if you’re having trouble or have questions. Jeannie’s approach combines commitment AND tenderness, so that we both learn to persevere AND to treat ourselves compassionately, and to use the container to learn about who we are and how we roll, with mercy for humanness.

Registering for the course means you commit to:

  1. Read about and understand the requirements of the course and ask questions as you need information.

  2. Watch/read any required materials, preferably prior to the start of the course.

  3. Attend or listen to the recordings of the weekly meetings with Jeannie in a timely way to keep up with the group. 

  4. Not refer to the shares of other participants (more about this in the course materials)

  5. Formulate a self-styled commitment that fits for you and share it on the private Facebook group.

  6. Engage with your commitment daily.

  7. Share weekly in the Facebook group in some way.

  8. If you join a small group, attend all 4 meetings, on time, and for the whole meeting.

  9. Be responsive to emails related to the course.

Through honoring the shared commitments, you will discover things about yourself and learn to be with and bring mercy to the places in you that rise when you seek to fully engage. There will be plenty of support along the way to assist you with full engagement.




Cost

If you have never taken the Holy Work Challenge course before, you would choose which new person rate works for you.

  • New Person Standard Rate: $297.00 (optional 3 payments of $99)
  • New Person Reduced Rate: $227.00 (optional 3 payments of $75.67)


If you have taken the Holy Work Challenge course before, you would choose which returning rate works best for you.

  • Returning Standard Rate: $177.00 (optional 3 payments of $59)
  • Returning Reduced Rate: $147.00 (optional 3 payments of $49)


If you have special circumstances for which you need a further reduction in the course fee, you may apply for a scholarship below. Please only apply for a scholarship after you have applied for the course itself in the section below under Application.

Apply for a scholarship here. 

Deadline to apply for partial scholarships/work trade: Monday, June 30, 2025.




Application

Because this is an intensive course where participants help hold the container, it is by application. The application is a way for Jeannie to get to know you as well. We will respond to your application as soon as we can by email. If you are accepted, you will be sent information to register for the course.

If you are a returning student, the application will direct you to registration information.

Deadline to apply for newbies: Monday, June 30, 2025 


Deadline to register: Monday, July 7, 2025

Apply for the Holy Work Challenge here.




This course is required for the Holy Essentials 8-month course that starts in the fall of 2025.

Questions? Email [email protected]

Learn to live from presence, clarity and love.

Apply now for the Holy Work Challenge.

The Impact of the Holy Work Challenge

Stories from past participants.

“Being in a community of people at all levels who are engaging with this wonderful work. And hearing more of Jeannie's wisdom...Jeannie's work and support have changed my life.”

“It brought me back home to myself and helped me 'remember'. It helped me to create some structure and discipline in my usual flow/wandering through the day. It created a profound shift in my daily life experience.”

“The Holy Work Challenge was the real beginning of a huge shift for me in how I operate in the world. Enormously beneficial.”

About Jeannie

Jeannie is a mother, a spiritual teacher, a writer, a revolutionary of the heart, and the Spiritual Director of Living as Love, a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeding a culture of the heart on earth. She passionately shares a model of integrated illumined humanness from a grounded perspective of the undivided. Known for her fearless clarity, tender mercy, and a juicy, poetic and often humorous style, Jeannie draws from a deeply embodied knowledge of the psyche, Sufism, Christian mysticism, Advaita Vedanta and the ongoing revelation of fully engaged living.

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