Simple Living & High Thinking Course

Many people feel drawn to simple living, but the first steps can feel unclear. What do you change first? How do you reduce dependency without becoming reactive? How do you bring family, work, money, land, health, and spiritual life into one coherent direction?

The Simple Living & High Thinking Course turns that longing into a practical path. It helps you treat your life as something that can be consciously redesigned, one decision and one experiment at a time.

The SLHT Framework

The course is built around the Simple Living High Thinking Mandala: domains of life, phases of transformation and principles that keep practical change connected to self-realization.

Simple Living & High Thinking has two connected layers. First, it is a framework: a set of processes, principles, tools, and techniques for redesigning life with more simplicity, responsibility, and spiritual direction.

Second, it becomes accessible as an online course. The course gives structure, sequence, examples, reflection prompts, and implementation steps so the framework can move from idea into lived practice.

The origin of the Simple Living & High Thinking framework was first shared in Bharat's TEDx talk about leaving the hamsterwheel and rebuilding life around family, nature, service and self-realization. Watch the TEDx talk →

• Intro: understand the framework, the method, and your starting point.
• Agitation: honestly see where the current life pattern no longer works.
• Orientation: clarify roles, nature, responsibility, values, and spiritual direction.
• Simplification: reduce noise, consumption, false needs, and draining dependencies.
• Preparation: design rhythms for family, food, work, learning, health, and community.
• Intention: set direction, clarify what you are moving toward, and ground your motivation.
• Attention: turn insight into experiments, accountability, reviews, and next steps.
• Devotion: become more useful to family, society, nature, and God.

This is not about copying someone else's lifestyle. It is about becoming responsible enough to choose what serves life in your own context.

Some people begin with decluttering. Others begin with food, homeschooling, remote work, land, community, spiritual practice, or leaving a career track that no longer feels true. The course can begin wherever life is asking for more honesty.

Over time, this path can also grow into retreats, workshops, and shared harvests on the land: real-world spaces where people practice simple living together and orient their lives toward a higher meaning.

• People who feel the weight of a life built around performance, status or consumption — and sense that something essential is missing.
• Professionals, parents, or practitioners ready to trade lifestyle inflation for clarity and real freedom.
• Those drawn to intentional living — whether through land, community, family, or a quieter form of meaningful work.
• Anyone who has sensed the pull toward a higher purpose but has not yet found a framework to act on it practically.

This is not a course for people who want quick productivity hacks. It is for those willing to ask: what kind of life am I actually building?

• A personal Simple Living vision — written, grounded and honest about your own situation.
• A reduced-noise life architecture: clearer priorities, lighter daily structure, fewer draining dependencies.
• Practices rooted in the SLHT Mandala — a living framework you can return to whenever life gets complicated again.
• A relationship with this path that grows over time: through community, retreats, and ongoing orientation toward self-realization.

When does the next cohort begin?

The first live pilot cohort starts Tuesday, 11 August 2026, with weekly sessions from 18:00–20:00 Lisbon / 19:00–21:00 Berlin. Register your interest below. Early registrants receive priority access and pilot pricing.

Is this an online or in-person course?

The course is primarily online and self-paced, with optional in-person retreats and workshops. It can be done from anywhere in the world.

Do I need to have the VPTI result first?

No — the course stands independently. The Quick VPTI DharmaFinder (Free) can deepen your self-understanding and complement the course, but it is not a prerequisite.

What if I am unsure whether this course is right for me?

Start with the free resources: the Quick VPTI, the Mission & Method page, or the TEDx origin story on the About page. Register interest below and we will be in touch when the cohort opens.