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Applications are opening for the October 2026 cohort.

12-week virtual journey beginning October 14, 2026.

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Applications are opening for the October 2026cohort.

12-week virtual journey beginning October 14, 2026.

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A 12-Week Grief & Leadership Journey

You have been strong for

a long time.

You have been strong for a

long time.

It is time to reclaim the light within you.

Ishvara: Reclaim Your Light is a guided 12-week journey for high-capacity women ready to honour what they have carried, reconnect with their identity and inner wisdom, and create a more grounded, purposeful and consciously chosen way of living and leading.

Through grief education, coaching, somatic practices, Ayurveda, leadership development and culturally responsive community, you will begin moving from survival and over-responsibility toward greater self-trust, connection, purpose and impact.

You do not need to abandon your ambition, your culture or the people you love.

You are being invited to stop abandoning yourself.

Begins

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Format

Virtual

length

12 weeks of programming, with a two-week year-end integration break

investment

$3,000 CAD + GST

cohort

Application-based, maximum 20 women

Begins

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Format

Virtual

length

12 weeks of programming, with a two-

week year-end integration break

investment

$3,000 CAD + GST

cohort

Application-based, maximum 20 women

Your application begins a thoughtful alignment process. You are not required to pay before you have been accepted into the cohort.

Apply for Your Place

Your application begins a thoughtful alignment process. You are not

required to pay before you have been accepted into the cohort.

You may recognize yourself here

You built a life that looks capable from the outside.

But you are tired of carrying it in a way that costs you yourself.

You are often the person people rely on.

You lead teams, manage complexity, support family, solve problems and continue showing up through circumstances most people cannot see.

You have learned how to function through grief.

How to keep working through exhaustion.

How to make difficult decisions while privately questioning whether the

life you built still fits who you are becoming.

Perhaps you are grieving:

Someone you love

A relationship or marriage that ended

A changing vision of partnership, motherhood or family

Your health or the body you once knew

A career, role or professional identity

Time you cannot recover

The safety or belonging you hoped to experience

The version of life you thought you would have by now

An earlier version of yourself

There may have been no funeral.

No socially recognized moment when people gathered around you.

And yet, the loss is real.

You may be here because:

You feel exhausted from always

being the strong one.

You are successful on paper but disconnected from your own life.

You understand your patterns

intellectually but still feel stuck in them.

You feel responsible for everyone

else’s wellbeing.

Your body has been signalling that something needs to change.

You are carrying grief other people

do not recognize.

You want stronger boundaries but

feel guilty maintaining them.

You are navigating racism, exclusion, tokenism or cultural pressure.

You feel caught between duty and desire.

You are unsure what you truly want now.

You want your next chapter to feel chosen rather than inherited.

You know you need more than another book, podcast or productivity strategy.

You do not need to be in crisis

to deserve support.

You may simply know that continuing in the same way is no longer sustainable.

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This is not a failure of resilience

You do not need to become stronger.

You need a different relationship

with strength.

Strength may have helped you survive.

It helped you enter rooms where you were underestimated.

It helped you support the people you love.

It helped you lead through illness, grief, uncertainty, discrimination and change.

But strength can quietly become a role you are no longer permitted to leave.

You become the dependable daughter.

The competent leader.

The emotional anchor.

The person who knows how to fix what is falling apart.

And over time, other people begin relying on your capacity without noticing what that

capacity is costing you.

You may have tried therapy, coaching, meditation, yoga, leadership programs,

self-help books, retreats, wellness practices or better productivity systems.

Some helped.

But many addressed only one part of you

at a time.

Your career without your grief.

Your thoughts without your body.

Your wellbeing without your culture.

Your spirituality without the practical realities of money, family and leadership.

Your exhaustion without asking why you feel responsible for everything in the first place.

The problem is not that you have failed to do enough work on yourself.

The problem is that very few spaces have been designed to hold the complexity

of the whole woman you have become.

Ishvara brings your mind, body, heart, culture, leadership and inner life into the

same conversation.

Not so you can become a different woman.

So you can hear the woman beneath all the roles you have been carrying.

Another way is possible

Imagine living a

life that feels like

your own.

Imagine living a life that feels like your own.

Imagine beginning your day without immediately measuring your worth by what you can accomplish for someone else.

Imagine recognizing what your body is communicating before exhaustion becomes collapse.

Imagine setting a boundary without spending the next three days questioning whether you were selfish.

Imagine making a decision based not only on duty, fear or what other people expect—but on your values, your capacity and the life you want to build.

Imagine feeling more connected to your voice.

More at home in your body.

More honest about your grief.

More confident in what you want next.

The external circumstances of your life may not disappear.

You may still have responsibilities.

You may still be navigating complexity.

The difference is that you are no longer carrying everything in

the same way.

Through Ishvara, you

will be supported to:

Honour grief that has not had a place

to be witnessed

Reconnect with your identity beyond

roles and expectations

Strengthen your relationship with your body and inner wisdom

Develop sustainable somatic and Ayurvedic practices

Clarify your values, desires and

boundaries

Build greater self-trust

Explore a more aligned way of living

and leading

Reconnect with purpose

Create a personal vision and implementation plan

Identify meaningful ways to express

your gifts and increase your impact

Your vision might include:

Beginning a purpose-led initiative

Creating a side project or social-impact offering

Changing how you lead your team

Travelling to a place you have postponed

Volunteering internationally

Returning to creativity

Taking up a hobby you have continually deferred

Making more room for love, rest,

beauty and connection

Redefining success according to your

own values

Every participant’s journey will be different.

Ishvara does not promise to remove grief, resolve trauma, cure physical symptoms or guarantee a

specific life, career, health or relationship outcome.

It provides a structured space to explore, practise, reconnect and make more conscious choices.

Introducing

Ishvara: Reclaim

Your Light

Ishvara: Reclaim Your Light

A Grief & Leadership Journey

Ishvara is a 12-week virtual group experience for high-capacity women who are

ready for more than a moment of relief.

You may already know that something needs to change.

You may have had insights, attended therapy, completed leadership development

or tried to manage your exhaustion alone.

Now you are ready for sustained support.

You are ready to be witnessed in community.

You are ready to listen to your body, honor your grief and explore what your soul has

been asking you to choose.

This is not a passive online course.

It is not a space where you consume information and quietly disappear.

It is a guided journey combining weekly teaching, facilitated sharing circles,

private integration support, reflective practices and community.

The Ishvara Intensiveor the group journey?

The Ishvara Intensive is designed for women who need immediate, personalized support and a contained space to understand what is happening now.

Ishvara: Reclaim Your Light is for women who know they need more than one

moment of clarity.

It is for women ready for sustained support, community, embodied practice and a

structured process for changing how they live and lead.

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The proprietary methodology

inside the journey

The Ishvara Framework

The Ishvara Framework is a whole-person grief and leadership methodology

designed to support your movement from surviving toward thriving.

It recognizes that grief, identity, leadership, culture, the body and purpose are not

separate issues.

They shape one another.

Across four stages, you will be invited to honor what has been, reconnect with

who you are and consciously create what comes next.

From
Surviving

Stage One

Illuminate

Weeks 1–3

Stage Two

Soul-Align

Weeks 4–6

Stage Three

Integrate & Lead

Weeks 7–9

Stage Four

Vision & Impact

Weeks 10–12

Toward
Thriving

From Surviving

You may currently feel:

Overwhelmed
Disconnected
Self-doubting
Stuck in the past
Responsible for too much
Unsure what you want
Disconnected from your body
Exhausted by the expectations around you

Stage One: Illuminate

Weeks 1–3

Honor your grief and create inner safety.

We begin by bringing compassionate awareness to what you have been carrying.

You will be invited to explore the grief, stress, transitions and survival patterns
that have shaped your relationship with yourself.

You will not be asked to rush, perform or disclose more than feels appropriate.

You will explore:

Recognized and unrecognized grief
Emotional and physical safety
Nervous-system education
Somatic grounding
Body awareness
Self-compassion
Survival patterns
Over-responsibility
The cost of always being the strong one

This stage may support you in:

Developing language for what you are carrying
Recognizing how grief may be appearing in your daily life
Understanding some of your body’s signals
Creating practices that support grounding and presence
Beginning to relate to yourself with greater compassion

Stage Two: Soul-Align

Weeks 4–6

Reclaim your identity, voice and self-trust.

Once we have created greater awareness, we begin exploring the woman

beneath the roles.

Who are you beyond the titles, responsibilities and inherited expectations that

have shaped your life?

What do you value now?

What do you desire?

Where does duty end and conscious choice begin?

You will explore:

Identity beyond professional and family roles
Cultural and intergenerational expectations
Values and desires
Intuition and inner voice
Self-worth
Self-trust
Boundaries
Guilt and over-responsibility
Duty versus desire

This stage may support you in:

Reconnecting with your voice
Identifying what belongs to you and what does not
Creating more aligned boundaries
Clarifying what you genuinely want
Strengthening your ability to make choices from self-trust

Stage Three: Integrate & Lead

Weeks 7–9

Live and lead from greater alignment.

Insight matters.

But insight becomes meaningful when it changes how you relate, decide,

communicate and lead.

In this stage, you will explore how to bring what you are learning into your

daily life.

You will explore:

Embodied decision-making
Leadership from wholeness
Communication
Relationships
Boundaries in practice
Reducing overfunctioning
Responding rather than reacting
Sustainable leadership
Aligned personal and professional choices

This stage may support you in:

Making decisions with greater clarity
Maintaining boundaries more consistently
Recognizing where you are carrying other people’s responsibilities
Leading without abandoning your wellbeing
Creating meaningful change in how you work, relate and live

Stage Four: Vision & Impact

Weeks 10–12

Create a purposeful vision for what comes next.

The final stage is not about creating an impressive five-year plan.

It is about listening for the life that feels true now.

You will explore what you want to create, contribute, experience and embody

in next chapter of your life.

You will explore:

Purpose
Personal Vision
Redefining success
Creativity
Contribution and impact
Sustainable rhythms
Community
Legacy
A practical implementation plan

This stage may support you in:

Reconnecting with possibility
Creating a grounded life and leadership vision
Identifying a purpose-led project, contribution or next step
Making room for travel, creativity, service, pleasure or rest
Defining impact according to your values
Building an implementation plan that respects your capacity

Toward Thriving

You may begin moving toward feeling:

More grounded
More confident
More connected
More purposeful
More self-trusting
More able to make conscious choices
More connected to your body and inner wisdom
More able to create impact without sacrificing yourself

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Whole-person support

for the woman you have become

Whole-person support for

the woman you have become

The Ishvara Framework is supported by five interconnected foundations.

The exact practices used will vary according to the curriculum, the group and

what participants are ready to explore.

Foundation One

Somatics

Return to your body.

Somatic practices support awareness of how stress, grief and survival patterns may be experienced in the body.

You will be invited to develop practices that support presence, grounding and greater connection with your physical experience.

Foundation two

Ayurveda

Build sustainable rhythms

of care.

Ayurvedic principles will support reflection on nourishment, energy, daily rhythms, rest and practices that honour your individual constitution and capacity.

These practices are educational and complementary. They do not replace medical care.

Foundation Three

Grief Education

Understand what you have

been carrying.

You will explore grief beyond bereavement, including identity loss, relationship changes, chronic illness, cultural dislocation, career transition, unmet expectations and the life you thought you would have.

Foundation Four

Leadership

Lead yourself before abandoning yourself.

Leadership is not limited to a job title.

It includes how you make decisions,

hold boundaries, respond to responsibility, use your voice and

create impact in your work, family

and community.

Foundation Five

Community

You do not have to do this alone.

You will be surrounded by women who understand what it means to carry responsibility, complexity and expectations while rarely feeling fully seen.

This is a non-performative space.

You do not need to impress, rescue, advise or compete.

You are invited to witness and be witnessed with care.

What is included

Twelve weeks of teaching, reflection, integration and

community

Twelve weeks of teaching, reflection,

integration andcommunity

The program combines structured learning with space for reflection, discussion

and personalized integration.

Materials will be released progressively so you can focus on the stage you are

currently moving through rather than receiving an overwhelming library all at once.

Weekly teaching sessions

12 live sessions

Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. Pacific

Each 60-minute session introduces the week’s teaching, framework and practices.

The sessions are primarily instructional, with coaching and reflection included where time allows.

Teaching sessions will be recorded.

Participants receive lifetime access to the teaching recordings.

Biweekly sharing circles

Six 90-minute integration circles

Every second Thursday from 5:00–6:30 p.m. Pacific

The sharing circles provide space to reflect, ask questions, practise being witnessed and integrate what is emerging.

Sharing circles will not be recorded.

This protects confidentiality and allows participants to speak without knowing their personal reflections will remain in a permanent recording.

Two private integration sessions

Each participant receives two private 45-minute sessions with Manpreet.

These sessions provide space to explore how the Ishvara Framework relates to your individual life, leadership, grief, transition or emerging vision.

Group Telegram support

Between sessions, participants receive access to a private Telegram community.

Support is available Monday through Friday.

Participants may submit one question per voice note.

Manpreet will respond within one business day, using text or voice coaching where appropriate.

Active coaching support ends when the formal program concludes.

The community space will remain available afterward for continued connection.

Progressive curriculum

materials

Resources may include:

Guided workbook sections
Reflection questions
Somatic practices
Ayurvedic practices
Recorded meditations
Boundary and communication tools
Grief and leadership exercises
Vision and implementation resources

Materials will be released in alignment with each stage.

Bonus

Leadership Pivot Audit

Each participant receives a private

60-minute Leadership Pivot Audit.

This is a strategic session focused

on your current work, leadership

or contribution.

Together, you will explore how

your next professional decisions can reflect who you are now without requiring you to sacrifice your health, identity or values to maintain your impact.

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Program schedule

The October cohort begins on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

The program includes a two-week year-end integration break from December 21, 2026, through January 4, 2027.

Teaching schedule

Session

Date

Time

Teaching 1

Wednesday, October 14

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 2

Wednesday, October 21

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 3

Wednesday, October 28

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 4

Wednesday, November 4

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 5

Wednesday, November 11

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 6

Wednesday, November 18

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 7

Wednesday, November 25

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 8

Wednesday, December 3

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 9

Wednesday, December 9

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 10

Wednesday, December 16

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Integration break

December 21–January 4

No live sessions

Teaching 11

Wednesday, January 6

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Teaching 12

Wednesday, January 13

12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

Sharing-circle schedule

Circle

Date

Time

Circle 1

Thursday, October 22

5:00–6:30 p.m. PT

Circle 2

Thursday, November 5

5:00–6:30 p.m. PT

Circle 3

Thursday, November 19

5:00–6:30 p.m. PT

Circle 4

Thursday, December 3

5:00–6:30 p.m. PT

Circle 5

Thursday, December 17

5:00–6:30 p.m. PT

Circle 6

Thursday, January 7

5:00–6:30 p.m. PT

Attendance

There is no formal minimum attendance requirement.

Regular participation is strongly encouraged because the curriculum is progressive and the depth of the experience grows through consistency.

Teaching recordings will be available if

you miss a Wednesday session.

Sharing circles will not be recorded.

A confidential, non-performative space

You do not have to prove, perform or explain yourself here.

You do not have to prove,

perform or explain yourself here.

Ishvara is designed to be a respectful, culturally responsive

and emotionally thoughtful group environment.

No group can promise that every moment will feel comfortable.

Meaningful reflection can bring up emotion, uncertainty and difference.

What we can do is create clear agreements for how we treat one another.

You are not expected

to arrive polished.

You are not expected to share everything.

You are not expected to have the right answer.

You are invited to arrive honestly, participate respectfully and

honour your own capacity.

Community agreements

By joining the program, participants agree to:

Protect the confidentiality of the group
Never share another participant’s story outside the space
Take no screenshots, photographs or personal recordings
Respect every participant’s right to pass
Avoid unsolicited advice
Avoid fixing, diagnosing or rescuing
Seek consent before offering reflections or coaching
Respect different cultures, identities, beliefs and
spiritual paths
Avoid gossip, comparison and competitive behaviour
Participate with personal responsibility
Respect facilitator and participant boundaries
Understand that serious or repeated breaches may
result in removal

Ishvara may

be for you if…

You are a high-capacity woman carrying more than most people realize.
You are navigating grief, burnout, identity change or a major life transition.
You are tired of being valued primarily for how much you can carry.
You are ready to explore how cultural and family expectations have shaped your choices.
You want to reconnect with your body, voice, intuition and purpose.
You want stronger boundaries but need support moving beyond guilt.
You are accomplished but no longer want success at the expense of your peace.
You are in a formal leadership role—or you lead through your work, family, community or service.
You are open to grief education, somatic reflection, Ayurveda and whole-person practices.
You want a structured process rather than another piece of information to consume.
You are ready to participate in community with honesty and respect.
You want to create a life that feels more consciously chosen.

Ishvara is available to high-capacity women, with particular expertise supporting women of colour, generally between the ages of 35 and 55.

Women outside this age range may also apply when the program’s themes and approach feel aligned.

No formal leadership title is required.

This may not be

the right support if…

You are currently experiencing an acute mental-health crisis.
You require psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, medical care or clinical trauma treatment from this program.
You are seeking a guaranteed health, career, financial or relationship outcome.
You are unwilling to respect confidentiality.
You are not comfortable participating in any form of group reflection.
You are looking for Manpreet or the group to make decisions for you.
You are seeking advice without being open to reflection or practice.
You are unwilling to respect different cultural, spiritual or personal perspectives.
You are joining primarily to observe, test or evaluate the facilitator rather than engage sincerely.
You are unable to take responsibility for seeking appropriate clinical care where needed.

You may participate while receiving therapy, medical care or other professional support.

You are encouraged to continue that care.

Ishvara is designed to complement—not replace—qualified medical and mental-health services.

Meet your guide

I created Ishvara because I could not find a space that could hold all of me.

I created Ishvara because I could not

find a space that could hold all of me.

I am Manpreet Dhillon, founder of Strong Daughter Institute.

For more than 25 years, I have worked across leadership, executive coaching, human resources, organizational change, equity and inclusion.

I have supported leaders, founders, professionals, governments, healthcare systems, nonprofits, international organizations and workplaces navigating complexity, change and human impact.

I understand the visible world of leadership.

The expectations.

The decisions.

The responsibility.

The experience of being the person

others rely on.

I also understand the parts of life that do not fit neatly into a professional biography.

I have lived with chronic and invisible illness.

I have grieved a life that did not unfold exactly as I imagined.

I have experienced the pressure of being strong while navigating systems that do

not always make space for the full humanity of women of colour.

I know what it is to hold leadership pressure, cultural expectations, racism, exclusion and private grief in the same body.

For a long time, I believed I could think, work or achieve my way through what I was carrying.

But the body has its own wisdom.

Eventually, I had to learn that strength was not only the ability to continue.

Strength could also be the willingness to pause.

To listen.

To grieve.

To receive support.

To choose a different way.

Why Ishvara was created

I created the Ishvara Framework

because traditional leadership coaching often ignored grief, culture, the body and systemic barriers.

At the same time, many healing spaces could not hold professional complexity, ambition, practical decisions or the

realities of leadership.

Women were being asked to split themselves into pieces.

Career here.

Grief there.

Culture somewhere else.

Body and spirit only when there was time.

Ishvara brings those parts back together.

This work is not about abandoning ambition.

It is about creating a relationship with ambition that does not require abandoning yourself.

Manpreet’s work draws from her experience and training in:

Executive and transformational coaching
Leadership and organizational
development
Human resources and organizational change
Equity, diversity and
inclusion
Grief education

Trauma-informed practice
Relational somatics
Nervous-system
awareness
Ayurveda
Mindfulness and reflective practice
Akashic Records teaching
Culturally responsive and intergenerational work

Read Manpreet's Full Biography

What women experience in

Manpreet’s spaces

To be seen without having to explain everything is its own form of relief.

This work touches personal, professional and cultural experiences that some

clients prefer to keep private.

Testimonials may therefore appear with full names, initials or anonymous

professional descriptors according to each client’s consent.

Feeling Seen

“For the first time, I felt like I did not

have to translate the complexity of my life before I could receive support.”

Name / role

Boundaries and Self-Trust

“I left with a much clearer understanding of what was mine to carry and what I was finally allowed to put down.”

Name / role

Somatic or Body Based-Insights

“The work helped me understand what my body had been communicating long before I had words for it.”

Name / role

Leadership

“Manpreet could hold both the leadership challenge and the personal grief beneath it. I did not have to choose which part of myself belonged in the room.”

Name / role

Community or group experience

“There was no pressure to perform or

have the perfect answer. I felt witnessed, respected and supported.”

Name / role

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Your investment

Choose to build your next chapter from wholeness.

The investment for Ishvara: Reclaim Your Light is:

$3,000 CAD + GST

This includes:

Twelve live weekly teaching sessions
Six facilitated sharing circles
Lifetime access to teaching recordings
Two private 45-minute integration sessions
One private 60-minute Leadership Pivot Audit
Progressive Ishvara Framework resources
Group Telegram support during the program
Continued access to the community after the formal
program ends

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Payment options

A $500 non-refundable deposit is required after

acceptance to reserve your place.

Pay-in-full and payment-plan options are available.

Instalment schedule pending.
No payment-plan amounts or dates have been operationally approved, so none are published here. Supply the approved schedule and processor and this block becomes the instalment table.

Deposit and refunds

Your $500 deposit is non-refundable.

Participants may request to withdraw within seven calendar days of the official program start date.

Any eligible refund will exclude the
non-refundable deposit.

After day seven, no refunds will be issued, and all remaining payment-plan instalments remain due.

Your employer may be able

to support your participation.

Your employer may be able to support your participation.

Ishvara includes

learning related to:

Sustainable leadership
Emotional capacity
Boundary-setting
Embodied decision-making
Communication
Self-awareness
Leadership through change
Wellbeing and burnout prevention
Purpose and professional direction

Your employer may be willing to fund some or all of the program through a:

Professional-development budget
Leadership-development budget
Coaching budget
Learning allowance
Wellness benefit
Employee resource group initiative

Strong Daughter

Institute can provide:

A detailed program overview
Learning outcomes
A professional invoice
An employer-funding request letter
An employer-funding request letter

Personal disclosures and group conversations remain confidential.

Accessibility

Three supported

spaces are available.

Three supported

spaces are available.

Three supported places are available for the October cohort at an investment of:

$1,000 CAD + GST

These spaces are intended for women who are deeply aligned with the program

and unable to access the full investment.

Supported spaces require a separate application.

Receiving an application does not guarantee a supported place.

Applications will be considered based on alignment, readiness, financial need

and the overall composition of the cohort.

Please use the subject line: Ishvara Supported Space Application

What happens next

A thoughtful application process for a high-trust group.

A thoughtful application

process for a high-trust group.

Apply

Complete the application and share what you are navigating, what you hope will

change and what kind of support you are seeking.

Alignment call

Selected applicants will be invited to a 20-minute alignment call with Manpreet.

This conversation allows both of you to explore whether the program, timing and

group format are appropriate.

Acceptance

You will receive an acceptance decision and next steps.

Acceptance is based on readiness, fit and the ability to participate respectfully

not simply on the ability to pay.

Reserve your place

Accepted applicants submit the $500 non-refundable deposit and select a

payment option.

Complete onboarding

You will sign the participant agreement, receive the group agreements and

access the onboarding materials.

Begin

The journey begins Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

Apply for Your Place

Completing an application does not obligate you to enrol.

What happens next

A thoughtful application process for a high-trust group.

A thoughtful application

process for a high-trust group.

Apply

Complete the application and share what you are navigating, what you hope will

change and what kind of support you are seeking.

Alignment call

Selected applicants will be invited to a 20-minute alignment call with Manpreet.

This conversation allows both of you to explore whether the program, timing and

group format are appropriate.

Acceptance

You will receive an acceptance decision and next steps.

Acceptance is based on readiness, fit and the ability to participate respectfully

not simply on the ability to pay.

Reserve your place

Accepted applicants submit the $500 non-refundable deposit and select a

payment option.

Complete onboarding

You will sign the participant agreement, receive the group agreements and

access the onboarding materials.

Begin

The journey begins Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

Apply for Your Place

Completing an application does not obligate you to enrol.

Questions

Is this therapy?

No.

Ishvara is a coaching, educational and whole-person development program.

It is not psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, medical treatment, diagnosis or crisis intervention.

The program may complement appropriate therapeutic or medical support but does not replace it.

Can I participate while I am in therapy?

Yes.

Many participants may already be receiving therapy, medical care, coaching or other support.

You should continue working with your qualified providers.

You are responsible for determining, with your providers where appropriate, whether participation is suitable for you.

Is this only for women grieving a death?

No.

Grief may come from:

Relationship loss

Infertility or childlessness

Chronic illness

Caregiving

Career change

Job loss

Migration

Racism or exclusion

Changing family dynamics

Identity shifts

Aging

An expected life that did not happen

You do not need a socially recognized loss to deserve support.

Is this only for executives?

No.

Ishvara is for high-capacity women who carry responsibility and influence, whether or not they hold a formal leadership title.

Participants may be executives, founders, professionals, caregivers, community leaders, creatives, consultants, educators, healthcare

professionals or women navigating a significant transition.

Is the program only for women of colour?

The program is available to high-capacity women, with particular expertise supporting women of colour.

The curriculum recognizes culture, racism, identity and systemic barriers without assuming every participant has the same experience.

All participants must be willing to respect different lived experiences.

Is this a religious program?

No.

The program is spiritually open but not religious.

You do not need to hold a particular belief.

You may bring your own faith, spiritual practice or secular perspective.

Spiritual, energetic, womb-centred and Akashic practices are optional and consent-based.

Do I have to participate in every practice?

No.

Consent is central to the experience.

You may decline or adapt a practice.

You are also free to pass during group sharing.

What happens if I miss a teaching session?

Teaching sessions will be recorded, and participants receive lifetime access to those recordings.

You can review the lesson in your own time.

Are the sharing circles recorded?

No.

Sharing circles will not be recorded.

This protects confidentiality and supports more honest participation.

Is there a minimum attendance requirement?

There is no formal minimum.

Regular participation is strongly encouraged because the curriculum builds progressively and the community deepens through consistency.

How much time should I expect outside the sessions?

The program is designed to support your life, not create another overwhelming workload.

You will receive reflection questions, practices and resources progressively.

You can engage at a pace that respects your capacity.

The more consistently you practise and reflect, the more you are likely to integrate the learning.

What is the Telegram support for?

The private Telegram group allows participants to ask questions, share reflections and receive brief coaching support between sessions.

Support is available Monday through Friday.

Submit one question per voice note.

Manpreet will respond within one business day.

What is the investment?

The investment is $3,000 CAD plus GST.

A $500 non-refundable deposit is required after acceptance.

Pay-in-full and payment-plan options are available.

Can my employer pay?

Possibly.

The program includes leadership development, boundary-setting, communication, emotional capacity, embodied decision-making and sustainable leadership.

You may request an employer-funding letter and program overview.