An Online Course with Matthew Krepps
The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita
A journey through identity, difficult choices, and higher purpose
No prior background required
Matthew Krepps
Scholar · Ayurvedic Practitioner · Yoga Therapist
Matthew brings more than three decades of experience bridging eastern contemplative systems and western understandings of the human psyche — from therapeutic rehabilitation and spiritual development to performance work with elite athletes.
“My work has been a crucible of convergence between eastern and western models of the human system. My life’s work is to help alleviate suffering on all levels of being human — for the purposes of flourishing and liberation.”
His approach to the Gita is shaped not only by scholarship and long-term practice, but by decades of helping people navigate suffering, identity, discipline, devotion, and profound life transitions.
Begin the journey.
- ◆8 in-depth video lessons by Matthew Krepps
- ◆Full lesson transcripts
- ◆Structured lesson summaries
- ◆Unlimited lifetime access to all materials
- ◆Bonus live Q&A with Matthew — [DATE]
Begin immediately with the first 2 lessons. Remaining lessons released weekly.
Also available at $89 for 200hr graduates.
Do I need to read the Bhagavad Gita beforehand?
No. The course guides you through the text step by step, including all philosophical background, symbolism, and major teachings as they unfold.
Do I need a yoga or meditation practice?
No. This course is not built around physical yoga or prior spiritual training. What matters is openness, attention, and a willingness to contemplate the material seriously.
Is this course religious?
No. The course engages a sacred text, but the approach is contemplative, philosophical, and experiential — not doctrinal.
Who is this course for?
Those open to complexity, nuance, and paradox. Especially those who have encountered forms of inner or outer conflict that could not simply be avoided or solved through willpower alone.
“This course is not asking you to escape your life.”
It is asking you to understand what your life is already asking of you.
Begin with the Free Opening LessonNot escape. Clarity.
- ◦A structured reading of the Bhagavad Gita
- ◦A framework for conflict, transformation, and action
- ◦A contemplative exploration of Self and higher intelligence
- ◦A vision of how lived experience changes as attachment loosens
- ◦Simplistic self-help
- ◦Purely academic philosophy
- ◦Passive spirituality or escapism
- ◦Religious dogma or moral instruction
Three yogas for a single transformation.
Understanding the nature of Self, consciousness, and reality — the foundation beneath all action.
Acting fully, without attachment to outcomes — service as the purification of ego.
The path of love and surrender — opening to something larger than the individual will.
Nine things you will carry forward.
A grounded relationship to the Gita as a living contemplative text, not a historical artifact
A clear framework for understanding inner conflict, sacrifice, duty, and transformation
Direct exposure to the three yogas: Jnana, Karma, and Bhakti
Greater clarity around ego, higher intelligence, action, and surrender
Insight into the three gunas — the forces shaping perception, desire, and attachment
A contemplative vision of the Self as eternal, uncreated, and untouched by gain or loss
Practical orientation toward difficult decisions — without avoidance, passivity, or confusion
A deeper understanding of why humility and inquiry are necessary for genuine transformation
A richer sense of how spiritual teachings become lived realities through disciplined action and self-observation
A warrior collapses.
The transformational teaching of the Bhagavad Gita begins at the moment when Arjuna, a trained warrior prince, finds himself unable to act. Not because he lacks skill, but because what is now required of him brings his entire sense of self into question.
He believes himself to be on the side of righteousness. And yet the battlefield before him holds his teachers, his kin, his beloveds.
"In that collapse, something important happens: he stops acting on habit — and becomes open to receive wisdom."
The Gita begins where most teachings end: at the precise moment when the self we have built can no longer guide us forward.
Prince Arjuna's collapse is universally human.
His experience is not distant or symbolic. We find ourselves in the same situation whenever:
- ◆We know what we should do, but cannot bring ourselves to do it.
- ◆A great responsibility comes into conflict with a new desire.
- ◆A relationship, career, or identity no longer fits — but we cannot yet let it go.
- ◆We keep seeking information about a problem without gaining any more clarity.
- ◆We feel drawn toward something that simply doesn't fit our existing life.
These are not random moments of confusion. They are the auspicious moments when our current sense of self is no longer able to guide action — when breakdown becomes the threshold of transformation.
Three figures. One inner landscape.
Matthew Krepps reads the Gita not as symbol or history, but as a living map of human experience.
What happens when duty and emotion collide — and action becomes both necessary and unbearable.
Not only historical. The place where responsibilities, attachments, fears, and love stop resolving cleanly.
Not a rescuer. A presence that does not remove conflict — but makes it possible to act within it.