The Path of Return
This live online 8-week transformative journey is for women who look like they're doing fine on the outside but feel overwhelmed, disconnected, and depleted on the inside.
What Is The Path of Return?
As a former criminal defense lawyer, I learned that some prisons have walls and bars, and some exist within us. Today, I help women heal the patterns that keep us trapped in exhaustion, over-giving, and disconnection from ourselves.
Working with the female nervous system is important because many women have been taught to override, suppress, and disconnect from their body's signals to meet the demands of family, work, relationships, and society.
Imagine A Few Months From Now...
You wake up without the constant weight in your chest.
You trust yourself more.
You know how to identify your needs and communicate them with less guilt.
You no longer feel responsible for everyone else's emotions.
You recognize when your body is entering stress and have the tools to return to regulation.
You stop abandoning yourself to keep the peace.
You feel more grounded, more present, and more connected to your intuition.
You have boundaries that protect your energy without shutting down your heart.
And for the first time in a long time, your life feels like it belongs to you.
What Makes This Different?
Most healing approaches teach you how to manage your symptoms.
The Path of Return teaches you how to change the conditions that created them, working with the female biology, which is differnt than tradtional healing.
Because the goal isn't to cope better with a life that is exhausting you.
The goal is to create a life where your nervous system no longer has to live in survival mode.
The Cost of Waiting
Nothing changes by understanding your patterns.
Things change when you begin living differently.
If nothing changes over the next year, where will you be?
How much energy will you continue spending managing stress, resentment, overthinking, and exhaustion?
How many more times will you put yourself last?
The Path of Return is an invitation to choose a different future.
A future where you no longer have to earn your worth through sacrifice.
A future where you trust yourself.
A future where you finally come home to yourself.
"Before taking The Path of Return, I was stuck, always feeling angry, burnt out and stressed nonstop without any idea of how to stop it. I felt stuck in a never-ending cycle and disconnected from myself, ignoring my physical, emotional and mental needs. It was then showing up in my life as overwhelm, depression, self-abandonment and dissociation.
Since taking the class, I've started to build a relationship with myself. I've started to pay attention to and prioritize my needs, show myself forgiveness and compassion, and started to genuinely care for myself (physically and emotionally).
Now I savor the moments that come with better self-awareness: more moments of peace, deep breaths, slowing down to appreciate the world around me. I also know with confidence that when tough emotions arise again (and they do!),
I will be able to show up for myself and weather those storms more intuitively. It's been the best investment of my time, prioritizing my own well-being and happiness, and I feel everyone deserves to do that for themselves as well.
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Lindsey B.
The Path of Return: Class Dates and Times
Did you know there is a science-based rhythm to how we heal?
The Path of Return offers an intentionally sequenced, trauma-informed method.
Each stage builds upon the last, addressing the core layers of our emotional, somatic, energetic, and relational life.
DATES:
Tuesday, July 7, 7-9 pm EST
Tuesday, July 14, 7-9 pm EST
Tuesday, July 21, 7-9 pm EST
Tuesday, July 28, 7-9 pm EST
Tuesday, Sept 8, 7-9pm EST
Tuesday, Sept 15, 7-9pm EST
Tuesday, Sept 22, 7-9pm EST
Tuesday, Sept 29, 7-9pm EST
All classes are LIVE, with a recording sent out the next day if you can't make it. Life happens.
The pause between classes is not a break from the process—it is an intentional time to explore our learnings in the real world. During this time, we will still connect in our chat group for help, support, and real time teaching
Join The Path of Return
HOW THIS COURSE WORKS
Facilitated by Priya, each module dives deep into education, tools & techniques, practical skills, and spiritual truths.
Each live call will offer a guided exploration of the week’s theme, weaving together discourse, somatic integration, and space for your voice, your body, and your truth to be witnessed.
These gatherings are not just classes—they are ceremonies of remembrance, regulation, and return.
- 8 live sessions — 2 hours each Real-time gatherings, not recordings you'll get to someday. Each call weaves together teaching, somatic integration, and space for your voice and body to be witnessed. These aren't classes — they're ceremonies of remembrance, regulation, and return.
Each live call will offer a guided exploration of the week’s theme, weaving together discourse, somatic integration, and space for your voice, your body, and your truth to be witnessed.
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Recordings within 24 hours. Life happens. If you miss a live call, the recording lands in your inbox within 24 hours so you don't lose the thread..
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Integration tools between sessions: Carefully chosen, short, doable practices that weave the teachings into your actual life. Healing isn't a performance. Come as you are.
You can choose to NOT do any of the integration tools and only attend the LIVE sessions and still benefit greatly from The Path to Return.
- A WhatsApp community A living thread between sessions — to stay connected, share, and be held by the circle between calls. Priya answers questions, doubts, shares, as they happen, in real time. Calls are answered generally during business hours, M-F.
- Live group healing sessions Reiki. Spinal energetics. Hypnotherapy. EFT. Breathwork. The kind of support that usually lives behind a private client door — brought into the container, offered to you as part of the journey.
Payment Options for The Course
If you are unable to afford the program's cost, please contact me to inquire about available scholarships.
What Will I Learn?
Week 1: Understanding Your Nervous System
Theme: Your Body is Not Broken
- The autonomic nervous system explained
- Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses
- Neuroception: how the body detects safety and danger
- Understanding your unique stress patterns
- Building awareness without judgment
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Week 2: The Female Nervous System
Theme: Why Women's Healing Looks Different
- The role of connection and belonging
- Oxytocin and co-regulation
- Hormones and nervous system regulation
- Why women often carry invisible emotional labor
- Understanding the body through a female lens - our cycles
Attachment & The Inner Child
Theme: Where Survival Patterns Begin
- Attachment styles and relationships
- Childhood conditioning
- The inner child and unmet needs
- How early experiences shape adult behaviors
- Creating internal safety
Shame, Self-Worth & the Nervous System
Theme: From Self-Protection to Self-Compassion
- Chronic shame vs. healthy guilt
- Perfectionism, people-pleasing, and over-functioning
- The nervous system's relationship to belonging
- Understanding shame as a survival strategy
- Reclaiming worthiness
Week 5: Boundaries, Voice & Healthy Aggression
Theme: Reclaiming Your Power
- Why boundaries feel difficult
- Healthy aggression versus anger
- Learning to identify needs
- Speaking truth without guilt
- Building capacity for conflict and repair
Week 6: Emotions, Grief & Emotional Regulation
Theme: Feeling Without Being Flooded
- Understanding emotional overwhelm
- Titration and pendulation
- Grief as a healing process
- Emotional regulation tools
- Creating space for difficult feeling
Week 7: Relationships, Co-Regulation & Receiving
Theme: Healing Through Connection
- Co-regulation and safe relationships
- Receiving support without guilt
- Moving beyond hyper-independence
- Creating nourishing connections
- Repair and relational resilience
Week 8: Embodiment, Purpose & Integration
Theme: Coming Home to Yourself
- Living from regulation rather than survival
- Aligning with your values and desires
- Trusting intuition and inner wisdom
- Creating sustainable self-care practices
- Integration ceremony and next steps
Say Yes to The Path
You have everything to gain.
"One of the greatest gifts this class has brought me is the ability to release the need to always have an answer.
Instead of trying to solve or fix what I'm feeling, I rest as the witness. There is spaciousness now around my experiences and emotions. I can sit with what's present. and meet myself with compassion rather than criticism.
This has also transformed how I support others. I no longer carry the pressure to fix someone else's experience. I can hold space with love and presence while recognizing what belongs to me and what belongs to them. There is freedom in that boundary.
This wisdom has softened old people-pleasing patterns. I can honor my truth without needing everyone's approval.
As a result, I experience more joy, more love, more freedom—not because life has become easier, but because I trust my ability to meet whatever arises.
I'm no longer trapped in old stories or wounds seeking validation. I can remain present with what is, while allowing others the freedom to be exactly as they choose.
That is one of the deepest teachings of the Path of Return."
Deepa S.
Frequently Asked Questions that you may have, too!
This feeling is the reason you MUST do this program. Making time for you and what you truly want isn’t easy because you’ve been brainwashed to always be busy and never have time for you.
You are worth the time.
One of the huge benefits of this course is that I teach you things you can integrate into your life immediately. So you don’t have to wait for months to take action and see results.
Also, once you complete the course, you can start it again with a different focus. I know people who are always using the tools in the course.
The Path of Return is a 8-week journey that includes:
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8 in-depth modules and group sessions with live teachings, somatic tools, and spiritual practices
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Gentle practices between modules to support daily embodiment
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Private community space for optional sharing and connection including on WhatsApp for daily questions and shares
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Lifetime access to all materials so you can revisit the journey anytime
This course meets you where you are and walks with you as you return to your body, your truth, and your soul.
In this class, there is no “my way or the highway.”
This is not religion. It's not anti-religion. It holds no relationship to any other practice. These gateways to learning fits in with whoever you are and whatever you believe... whatever the Divine means to you.
All that is required is a willingness to be open and a deep desire for change.
Yes. And when held in a safe, sacred, trauma-informed space—they can be life-changing.
We heal in relationship. Many of our wounds—especially childhood or relational trauma—were formed in disconnection, isolation, or shame. Group work gently invites those patterns to be seen, softened, and rewritten in real time.
In The Path of Return, you're never alone. You’re held in a community of others who are walking their own brave path. You’ll feel witnessed, supported, and encouraged—not pushed.
And because the nervous system is wired for co-regulation, simply being in the presence of others who are healing amplifies your own transformation.
This isn’t about sharing everything or being vulnerable on command. It’s about remembering that you were never meant to do this work in isolation. And inside this sacred container, you’ll experience what it feels like to be met with compassion, safety, and resonance.
When you do an online program, you don’t have to travel, you don’t have to wait, and you get access to the best coaches/facilitators in the world without the cost of a plane ticket.
Research has shown there’s incredible energy and collective wisdom when doing group coaching that’s different from 1:1 sessions, and it’s this energy and wisdom that can rapidly get you to deepen into your healing.
Because The Path of Return doesn’t just give you information—it gives you transformation.
This isn’t a quick fix or a surface-level self-help class.
It’s a trauma-informed, spiritually rooted, somatically guided journey that is SPECIFIC to women —gently, powerfully, and with reverence for our nervous system and soul.
You won’t be asked to bypass your pain.
You’ll be invited to meet it with compassion—through breath, movement, energy, and truth.
Created by someone who’s walked both the path of trauma and awakening, this course blends science, mysticism, and embodiment to help you truly come home to yourself.
Life happens, and we understand that not everyone can attend every live session.
All teaching calls will be recorded and made available for replay, so you can engage with the material at a time that works for you.
According to Dr. Gabor Maté, trauma is not defined by the event itself—but by what happens inside of you as a result of that event.
Trauma is the disconnection from the self, caused by overwhelming experiences that the nervous system couldn’t process at the time.
These experiences can range from overt abuse to subtle neglect, or even the absence of emotional attunement.
In other words, trauma is not just about pain—it’s about what we do to survive it.
This may include:
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Suppressing emotions
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Disconnecting from the body
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Adopting protective parts or coping patterns
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Losing touch with our authentic needs and voice
First, let me say: your fear makes sense. When you’ve experienced deep pain, the idea of opening up—even to healing—can feel overwhelming.
That’s why The Path of Return is built with deep care.
It’s trauma-informed, nervous-system aware, and gentle by design. You are never asked to go faster than your body wants. There is no pressure to share, perform, or push through anything.
Instead, you’ll be offered tools of regulation, safety, and support—and invited to move at your own pace. This isn’t about re-living your trauma. It’s about slowly, safely returning to yourself—one breath at a time.
If a part of you is saying yes, even quietly... that’s enough. That part is ready. And the rest of you will be lovingly supported along the way.
You don’t have to be “fully ready.” You just have to be willing.
I see you. I know what it’s like to deeply want healing and support—and to feel like it’s just out of reach.
The Path of Return was created with the belief that healing is a birthright, not a luxury. While this offering reflects the depth, care, and sacred labor poured into it, I also understand that finances can be a very real barrier.
That’s why I offer:
🌿 Extended payment plans
🌿 Partial scholarships for those in true financial need
🌿 A trust-based system—if you are genuinely called to this work, I’ll do my best to meet you where you are.
If your heart is saying yes, but your wallet says no—please reach out. We’ll explore what’s possible together. No shame, no judgment—just truth and compassion.
Because you matter. Your healing matters. And we rise together.
In addition to my own deep and years-long healing journeys (which is the best training I could ask for)...I have worked with hundreds of clients in group and one-to-one sessions.
THE STATS COMBINED YOU WILL RECEIVE THE BENEFIT OF YEARS OF EXPERIENCE OF THOUSANDS INVESTED INTO EDUCATION…PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING SUCH AS...
Eastern Philosophy & Vedanta
Energy Healing
Emotional Intelligence
Neuroscience
Experiential Learning
Embodied Leadership
Psychology (Developmental, Positive, Intrapersonal, Transpersonal, Evolutionary, Cognitive)
Time Line Therapy
Magnified Healing
MASTER Results Coaching
MASTER Neuro Linguistic Programming TRAINER
Conflict Management
Yoga Teacher Training
Esoteric Wisdom
Breathwork
Bach Flower Therapy
Essential Oils
Huna Philosophy
Sri Vidya and the Divine Feminine
Master Hypnotherapy Trainer
This experience was not forged from a few weekend seminars and a handful of online courses.
This experience is the best there is because I have put my entire life into this work, AND I AM DEEPLY COMMITTED TO SERVING HUMANITY AND HELPING THE AWAKENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
No problem! Simply reach out to Priya via email (priya@awakenananda.com) or WhatsApp +1614-404-6430 and she will be happy to set up a chat.
Say Yes to The Path
Meet The Teacher
Hi, I'm Priya
Priya Lakhi is the founder of Awaken Ananda, a space for embodied healing, trauma resolution, and soul remembrance.
Her path weaves together decades of experience as a former criminal defense lawyer, a master Reiki teacher, a nervous system educator, and a trauma-informed somatic guide.
She holds many certifications that allow her to be a well-trained teacher, healer, and facilitator, but more than titles, Priya brings a rare combination of embodied wisdom, legal precision, and spiritual depth.
She has walked through trauma, burnout, and soul initiation herself—and now guides others from a place of lived experience, grounded grace, and fierce compassion.
Her teaching style is warm, intuitive, honest, and down-to-earth.
Whether you’re just beginning your journey or deep into your healing, she’ll meet you exactly where you are—with depth, integrity, and heart.
Priya is guided by Kwan Yin, Kali, Shiva and the Masculine Divine, Gautam Buddha, Meher Baba, The Magdalene Energies, the Divine Mother, and Mahalaxmi.
Her years of studying indigenous wisdom and pilgrimages to the spiritual power centers of the Earth deeply influence her work and energy.
