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School of Sankalpa
A living school of contemplative and spiritual inquiry
A place for those drawn to explore what can genuinely be known about ourselves, consciousness, the sacred, and reality through direct experience, contemplation, discernment, and a willingness to remain with questions that do not yet have an answer.
The map may change. The inquiry continues.
Welcome. I’m Tanis.
For as long as I can remember, a question has followed me like a second shadow:
What is this?
I have taken that question seriously.
For more than twenty years, it has led me through meditation, spiritual traditions, Yoga Nidra, Sankalpa, contemplation, pilgrimage, direct experience, and some profound encounters with consciousness that have radically challenged what I thought I understood about reality.
The questions did not. The inquiry continued.
My work now reaches beyond any single practice or spiritual framework. Through meditation, Yoga Nidra, Sankalpa, contemplative inquiry, shared field, retreat, sacred site work, and the ordinary experiences of being human, I continue to follow the questions that remain alive.
Increasingly, I find myself returning to a deceptively simple question:
How do we know what is actually true?
What can direct experience genuinely reveal about reality, and where does interpretation begin? How do we know when a spiritual understanding describes something true rather than simply providing a meaningful way to understand what we have experienced?
These questions open into larger inquiries about consciousness, oneness, God, divinity, Creator and creation, and the frameworks through which human beings have tried to understand what we are and what this is.
The distinction between what we experience and what we understand that experience to reveal about reality feels consequential to me. What we understand to be true can fundamentally orient how we understand our existence, our relationship with the divine, and what we believe we are here for.
I don't know where the inquiry will lead.
I am willing to stay with the question.
A School Built Around Living Inquiry
School of Sankalpa is a school for learning how to remain inside living spiritual inquiry.
It is a place where direct experience, contemplative practice, spiritual maps, discernment, relationship, and mystery can be brought into conversation. We contemplate, practice, question, and listen, examining the frameworks through which we understand ourselves and reality while taking our time with what our experiences may mean.
There is room here for mystery; for experiences that are profound, difficult to explain, or capable of disrupting what we thought we knew, as well as for what becomes clear, what changes when we look again, and what remains unresolved.
The inquiry is spiritual. The laboratory is human life.
This work may speak to you if spiritual life matters deeply to you, but certainty no longer feels sufficient.
Perhaps you have had experiences that changed the way you understand yourself or reality. Perhaps a spiritual framework that once oriented you no longer answers every question it once seemed to answer. Perhaps you want to remain open to mystery without surrendering discernment.
You do not need to arrive here with an answer.
Only a willingness to look.
Explore the Work
The work within School of Sankalpa has developed across different periods of my own inquiry. Some offerings are alive and unfolding now, while others hold bodies of work developed through many years of study, practice, direct experience, and teaching.
You can enter wherever you feel most drawn.
Current Offerings
This is where you'll find the work I am actively exploring and facilitating now, including live gatherings, meditation, shared field practice, and other spaces emerging from the questions I am living now.
Templed Retreats
Templed is a retreat experience I co-facilitate with Joanna Haines, created in relationship with the particular landscape and people who gather. Through contemplative and embodied practice, meditation, intentional walking, silence, conversation, nature, and rest, we explore presence, right relationship, and our relationship with what we understand as sacred.
Our next Templed retreat will take place at 42 Acres in Somerset, England, June 4–10, 2027.
Courses
Explore self-paced courses developed through years of study, contemplation, direct experience, and teaching. Here you'll find A Path to Sankalpa, alongside the Yoga Nidra teachings and courses that grew from more than twenty years devoted to that particular map of consciousness.
Some of these courses represent work that feels complete in its development, while others sit closer to questions that continue to evolve. Together, they form part of the larger body of inquiry that has shaped School of Sankalpa.
Free Recordings
A collection of freely available Yoga Nidra practices recorded across many years of my teaching and exploration. The library includes practices created during different periods of my relationship with Yoga Nidra, so you may notice my language, understanding, and way of guiding evolve throughout the collection.
These recordings remain available as a resource for rest, practice, and your own exploration of inner experience.
Your Life Becomes the Path
The questions we carry do not remain separate from the way we live. What we understand to be true shapes how we orient ourselves to existence, relationship, purpose, spiritual life, and what we understand as sacred.
This is where inquiry becomes lived. In what we notice, what we question, what we are willing to reconsider, and how what we discover begins to enter the choices and relationships of an ordinary human life.
For me, spiritual inquiry belongs here.
In the life we are actually living.