Under the Cosmic Banyan is a six-part storytelling series that explores the beating heart of the yoga tradition through its most enduring stories and teachings. Gathering each week beneath the shade of ancient oral tradition, we journey through tales not as distant texts, but as intimate maps of love, struggle, transcendance, and transformation.

Across six evenings, we’ll enter the cosmic dance of Śiva and Pārvatī, where asceticism meets desire and union and reshapes the universe. The epic arcs of the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata will unfold as moral laboratories—testing duty, loyalty, grief, and grace amid impossible choices. And through the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, we’ll encounter bhakti as a lived, embodied practice: sung, wept, danced, and remembered. We’ll linger in the playful and radical devotion of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, where love itself becomes a path to liberation.

This series is for seekers, storytellers, and lovers of wisdom traditions—no prior knowledge required. Come listen, reflect, and reconnect with yoga not just as a discipline of the body or mind, but as a lineage of stories meant to be lived.

This course will be taught by Premananda Vilasa Das, aka Prema, who is a teacher of yoga philosophy, holds a PhD in History, and is a Dharmic Residential Minister at Georgetown University.