Illuminated: A Twelve-Week Live Course with Chana Mason

Illuminated is a twelve-week live spiritual workshop on Zoom for women who want a prayer and meditation life that feels vivid and alive. It is led by Chana Mason, a somatic therapist, coach, author, and meditation and breathwork facilitator based in Jerusalem. The course draws on Judaism, Kabbalah, somatic practice, and modern personal growth, and it is taught in English to a cohort of up to 24 women.

What to Expect

The course builds four skills in sequence: the body, the thinking mind, the emotional state, and then consciousness itself. Chana starts with the body because it is the most solid place to stand. You learn to catch its signals early and treat them as information. From there you study the beliefs underneath an upset and practice shifting them through honest inquiry rather than positive thinking. Next comes recognizing your emotional state while you are in it and moving, on purpose, into the state you want, without suppressing what is real.

With those in place, the work opens into the inner life: a deeper, more colorful meditation practice, prayer you look forward to, conscious connection with an ancestor, a holy figure, or a future you are building toward, and more ease and joy in ordinary days. Chana is clear that outcomes are not the aim. What you learn to call up is your own emotional state, and how you meet circumstances becomes yours.

This is a practice course, not a lecture series. The group meets live on Zoom for two hours a week, every Tuesday, for twelve weeks, at 4:00 to 6:00 PM Israel time (9:00 to 11:00 AM US Eastern). Each session is built around exercises. Between sessions you receive an Illumination assignment and practice with an accountability partner. There is no session during the week of Purim, so the schedule runs a little past twelve calendar weeks, and because US and Israeli clocks change on different weeks, the US time shifts for one session while the Israel time stays the same. Every session is recorded.

About Chana Mason

Chana Mason has spent more than a decade as a somatic therapist, coach, author, and meditation and breathwork facilitator, working from her home in Jerusalem. Her path includes breathwork, Internal Family Systems, somatic practices, EMDR, the Work of Byron Katie, NLP, Jewish Spiritual Therapy, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and Family Constellations, which she pursued to find her own way back to wholeness rather than to collect credentials. She is the author of Hold That Thought, The Size of Your Dreams, and Inner Voices. Her guided meditations have been played 40K+ times across platforms and are rated 4.8 out of 5 on Insight Timer.

Chana teaches from experience. She lived with anxiety and depression, and with a relationship to prayer so strained she could not speak to God. She holds that a rich inner world is a learnable skill rather than a gift some people are born with.

Before You Go

All levels are welcome, and no prior meditation or prayer experience is required. The course suits beginners and experienced practitioners alike, but you are expected to do the weekly practices and take an active part in the live sessions. The group is part of the work, so it suits women ready to participate rather than observe. Chana says plainly that the course is not built to hold someone in an acute crisis.

Included:

- Twelve live weekly sessions with your cohort
- Weekly Illumination exercises
- Recordings of every session
- Free access to the online course Freedom of the Pen
- Free access to the audiobooks Hold That Thought, The Size of Your Dreams, and The Cash Machine
- A one-on-one integration session after the course
- A full year of course materials and community chat access