Online Courses
Practices That Support a Steadier, More Grounded Life
Explore courses in DBT, ACT, Zenyasa®, meditation, and journaling — all designed to help you build emotional steadiness, embodied awareness, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself. Many of these courses also have a corresponding live group coaching program or occasional guided cohort, offering a community-based way to deepen your practice.
Why Online Courses?
Courses offer a flexible way to study the core skills behind DBT, ACT, meditation, and Zenyasa® at your own pace. They’re ideal for people who enjoy self-directed learning, want additional support alongside group coaching, or appreciate having practices they can revisit anytime.
Many students choose to pair select online courses with a corresponding live group coaching program or occasional guided cohort for deeper guidance, weekly accountability, and shared insight. Courses don’t replace the real-time connection and transformation that unfold in live coaching or the Zenyasa® movement series — they support and strengthen the journey.
How Courses Fit Into the Zenyasa Wellness Ecosystem
Learning, integrating, and embodying are all part of the same path — and each one makes the others stronger.
- Courses offer the groundwork: clear explanations, structured lessons, and practices you can revisit anytime
- Group coaching brings these skills into the real complexity of your life
- Zenyasa® movement helps everything land in the body, where lasting change actually happens
Course Pathways
Three pathways designed to help you learn, integrate, and embody these practices.
Resilience Skills
(ACT & DBT)
Learn and practice the core ACT and DBT tools through structured lessons, guided practices, and step-by-step skills you can begin applying right away — whether you want support between coaching sessions or prefer learning the material through self-study.
You’ll learn skills that help you:
- Create space from unhelpful thoughts and focus on what matters
- Feel more grounded and present in your daily life and relationships
- Manage intense emotions with greater steadiness and clarity
- Navigate difficult situations without going into overwhelm
- Communicate more clearly and establish healthy boundaries
Zenyasa®
Movement Practice
Learn and practice the foundational principles of the Zenyasa® method through clear instruction, mindful alignment, and breath-centered sequencing. These courses help you build steadiness in the body, and a deeper sense of grounded presence on and off the mat.
You’ll learn skills that help you:
- Build strength, flexibility, and balance in an integrated way
- Improve body awareness, posture, and confident movement patterns
- Coordinate breath and movement for greater ease and fluidity
- Reduce physical tension and alleviate psychological stress
- Feel more grounded and move from your center
Meditation &
Contemplative Practices
Explore traditional and contemporary mindfulness approaches through guided meditation, ethical inquiry, and reflective practices. These courses help you develop stillness, deepen awareness, and cultivate compassion and grounded presence in your life and relationships.
You’ll learn skills that help you:
- Build a consistent meditation practice that helps you feel more centered and grounded
- Make mindful choices that support well-being for yourself and others
- Cultivate patience and non-reactivity in challenging moments
- Listen more deeply to your inner wisdom through structured journaling
Courses + Coaching
A Supportive Two-Layer Path
Many students combine an online course with live group coaching for a supportive two-layer learning experience. The course provides structure and clarity; the coaching group offers real-time practice, guidance, and shared insight. Together, they help you integrate these skills more deeply into your daily life.
Explore All Courses
Three pathways. One integrated approach to steady, grounded living.
Resilience Skills (ACT & DBT)
If you're focusing on building emotional resilience, these ACT and DBT courses provide a clear starting point. DBT courses can be paired with a corresponding group coaching program for deeper guidance and real-time practice, while ACT Essentials is offered year-round as a self-paced course with optional live cohorts offered periodically.
DBT
Mindfulness Skills
The foundation that supports all DBT work, this course teaches the essential practices that help you notice your inner experience with clarity, create space before reacting, and move through challenges with greater steadiness.
DBT
Emotion Regulation
Learn tools for understanding and balancing intense emotions. This course helps you build long-term emotional balance skills that reduce vulnerability to overwhelm and support steady, consistent mood patterns.
DBT
Distress Tolerance
Develop skills for getting through difficult moments without making things worse. This course teaches short-term crisis survival tools that steady you during intense emotional moments in order to prevent situations from escalating.
DBT
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Strengthen your communication, boundaries, and relationship skills. This course teaches tools that help you express your needs clearly, maintain self-respect, navigate conflict with more ease, and build healthier patterns of connection.
ACT Essentials:
Tools for Psychological Flexibility
Learn ACT’s core practices for shifting unhelpful thinking patterns, clarifying values, and taking actions that align with what matters. This course teaches tools that support emotional steadiness, clarity, and purposeful living.
ACT + DBT
Mastery Bundle
Build a complete foundation in evidence-based resilience skills with all five ACT and DBT courses. This bundle gives you practical tools for emotional steadiness and clarity, and offers meaningful savings when purchased together.
Zenyasa® Movement Practice
Zenyasa® Foundations
Learn the essential components of Zenyasa® through mindful alignment, breath-led sequencing, and step-by-step instruction. This course builds body awareness and mobility while teaching you the core practices that shape every Zenyasa® class. It’s the perfect place to begin or to rebuild your foundation.
Zenyasa® 5-Element Flow
Dive into the structural and energetic patterns of the Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, and Fire sequences. This course develops strength and fluidity along key muscle groups, deepens breath–movement coordination, and helps you cultivate somatic awareness and balanced, grounded flow throughout your practice.
Zenyasa® Mastery Bundle
Get Zenyasa® Foundations and 5-Element Flow together and explore the full range of the method—from specific alignment principles to the unique five-element sequencing that defines the practice. This bundle helps you build a strong, integrated movement foundation and offers meaningful savings when purchased as a pair.
Meditation & Contemplative Practices
Sit Like a Buddha, Become Like a Buddha*
Explore the art of sitting and foundational meditation practices drawn from the Buddhist tradition, including mindfulness, loving-kindness, and shikantaza. This course helps you cultivate moment-to-moment awareness, steadiness, compassion, and the capacity to rest more fully in your embodied wisdom.
Cultivating Wisdom
& Compassion
Learn how to apply the Five Mindfulness Trainings of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh to daily life with clarity, compassion, and ethical awareness. This freely offered course offers practical guidance for mindful speech, deep listening, conscious consumption, and living with greater intention.
Conversations with Your Higher Self*
Learn a structured journaling practice that centers around a simple but powerful two-step process: first writing from the reactive part of you that’s overwhelmed, anxious, or unsure — and then responding from your Higher Self, the wise, grounded, stable inner voice that sees with greater clarity and compassion.
*Sit Like a Buddha, Become Like a Buddha and Conversations with Your Higher Self can also be combined with a corresponding 6-week group coaching program for those seeking deeper integration and guided support. Coaching programs are offered on a semester basis.
Whether you begin with a course, a coaching group, or a movement practice, each pathway is designed to help you develop steady, grounded, compassionate presence — one skill, one practice, one moment at a time.
