Educating The Ego For Inner Freedom: Intensive 3: Resolving Spiritual Challenges - by Stephanie Aurand

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Educating The Ego For Inner Freedom: Intensive 3: Resolving Spiritual Challenges

With Stephanie Aurand

This intensive course is the third in the Educating the Ego for Inner Freedom series. Building on the Foundation Course and Intensives 1 and 2, it invites you into a deeper exploration of how the ego can be gently aligned with the wisdom of the Higher Self through three classical pathways: Selfless Action, Devotion and Meditation, and the Path of Knowledge. Through guidance, meditations, journalling, affirmations and practical tools, you’ll be supported in understanding how a purified mind, a steady mind and a clear mind naturally reveal the Self. Each session offers grounded, experiential methods for navigating spiritual challenges with ease, presence and insight. By the end of this course, you will have gained: • Practical ways to anchor your actions in service and presence. • Simple daily practices to focus and soften the mind. • A clear introduction to self-inquiry and direct recognition of awareness. • An embodied understanding of how the ego can be educated rather than resisted. • A deeper sense of inner freedom, clarity, and connection with the Higher Self. This course is designed for sincere seekers who feel ready to engage more deeply with their inner work. All guidance in this intensive supports you in moving from conceptual understanding to lived experience — helping you meet life with greater steadiness, clarity and inner freedom. It is strongly recommended that you complete the Foundation Course: Educating the Ego for Inner Freedom and Intensives 1 and 2 before beginning this intensive. The previous courses provide essential context and practices that will allow you to engage with this deeper exploration more fully. Copyright © 2026 S Aurand. All Rights Reserved.


Meet your Teacher

Stephanie has been a teacher on Insight Timer since 2020 and, like many, her spiritual journey didn’t begin in a state of perfect peace. Instead, it emerged from the raw and real depths of personal struggle. In early 2018, she found herself at what felt like rock bottom, painfully entangled in the grip of addiction and the lasting pain of various abuses. Life felt unmanageable. She felt fractured, heavy and more than anything – disconnected. Disconnected from joy, from purpose, from others and perhaps, most heartbreakingly, from her own True Self. Yet, as with many of our greatest turning points, that time of crisis became a sacred threshold. The darkness, instead of being an end, was actually an invitation to go deeper. It was an invitation to move beyond the surface of life, beyond temporary highs and lows and into something far more stable and eternal. Through honest inner work, consistent daily meditation and a deep willingness to keep going– even when she didn’t feel ready or worthy – life began to subtly shift. Glimmers of light, moments of clarity and a quiet sense of peace began to emerge from the darkness. By late 2018, she began guiding meditations – not because she had it all figured out but because something deep inside knew the immense value of walking this path together. Since then, she's continued to grow, stumble, reflect, and rise, recognising the spiritual path is not about reaching perfection but about returning – again and again – to the deeper truth of Awareness within. Stephanie is a qualified Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist and a certified Meditation Practitioner.

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3 Days

4 students

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18 min / day

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English


Lesson 1

The Path Of Selfless Action : Purifying The Mind

In this session, you’ll explore how selfless action becomes a powerful spiritual practice for refining the mind and educating the ego. Rather than focusing on outcomes or personal gain, you’ll be guided to act from a sense of service and unity, allowing everyday actions to become expressions of the Higher Self. This session shows how selfless action naturally softens egoic identification, brings clarity and steadiness to the mind and prepares the inner landscape for deeper meditation and self-knowledge - revealing how freedom and peace arise through conscious engagement with life itself.

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Lesson 2

The Paths Of Devotion & Meditation : Focusing The Mind, Honouring The Self

This session explores devotion and meditation as complementary paths for gathering the mind and resting attention in the Higher Self. You’ll be guided to experience devotion, not as belief but as heartfelt reverence for life, Presence or your own True Nature, allowing the ego to soften through love and surrender. Through guidance, meditation, and practical advice, you’ll learn how steady attention quiets mental distraction and reveals the awareness that is already whole, unified, and at peace - supporting a lived sense of clarity, inner stability, and gentle joy in everyday life.

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Lesson 3

The Path Of Knowledge : Seeing Through The Veil To The Self

This final session explores the Path of Knowledge as a direct means of dissolving ignorance of our True Nature. You’ll be guided to recognise how the ego mistakenly assumes it is the whole of who we are and to see it instead as a collection of conditioned thoughts and identities appearing within awareness. Through gentle enquiry, guided meditation and practical pointers, this session supports the lifting of this veil of misunderstanding, allowing the ever-present Higher Self to be recognised as the unchanging reality beneath all experience.

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