Mastering Your Emotions - by Patty Hlava, Ph.D.

COURSE

Mastering Your Emotions

With Patty Hlava, Ph.D.

Our emotions are an integral and essential element of our human lives. Every choice we make is fueled by our emotions, either consciously or unconsciously. This course offers insight into our emotions' nature, how they affect our physiology and practical strategies for navigating this vital part of our human experience. Turning to the fields of psychology and ayurveda, we will explore the realm of our emotions through the metaphor of the Guest House as presented by the great Sufi poet, Rumi. You'll learn tools for soothing the nervous system, as well as a 6-step strategy to assist you in mastering any of these unexpected visitors in your emotional world.

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Meet your Teacher

Patty Hlava, Ph.D.
Maple Grove, MN, USA

Patty specializes in guiding individuals to find their power, heal their wounds, and own their lives. She is a personal transformation guide and self-empowerment coach, a professional with a deep love of learning, balanced with a playful side. She works with people who have been isolated or shamed for being who they are, helping them experience deep connection and belonging in their body, in nature, and with others in the world. ​ With a Ph.D. in psychology and certification as a Yoga Health Coach, ICDS Intrinsic coach™, meditation instructor, and registered yoga teacher, her work has evolved into a mindful and science-based approach to whole-person healing that reflects her love of nature, learning in community, and personal growth.

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10 Days

6.7k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Stress

English

Lesson 1

Welcome To Your Guest House: Emotions As Visitors

This session sets the landscape for the course, providing a broad overview of the nature of emotions. We'll introduce the metaphor of the Guest House from both an intellectual and embodied view. We'll move through guided practice to help connect with the experience of witnessing and observing sensations and the body-mind dialogue.

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Lesson 2

Nurturing A Relationship With Emotions

In this session, we delve deeper into understanding the nature of emotions and our automatic responses to them. We will explore how emotions move through the body and what happens when we resist them. We'll enjoy a guided practice to experience this process in the body.

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Lesson 3

Welcoming Anger & Wonder

Anger is a powerful emotion that often brings up a great deal of resistance or conflict. In this session, we get to know our first guest: anger—and its frequent companion, wonder. We learn about the nature of anger, its messages, how it appears in the guest house of the body. You will move through a visualization and breath practice to help move from anger to a place of wonder where you can return to a place of aligned action rather than reactivity.

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Lesson 4

Welcoming Fear & Courage

Fear and its siblings of worry and anxiety are familiar to many of us. In this session, we'll invite and welcome fear, and its balancing companion, courage. You'll learn about the hidden gifts of fear, as well as how to recognize its knock on your guest house door. You will move through a guided practice to support a transition from the grip of fear to a present-moment sense of grounded connection where you can access the emotion of courage.

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Lesson 5

Welcoming Disgust & Love

In this session, we'll look at the often overlooked emotion of disgust. Disgust is more often described by its more subtle forms, which we know quite well: shame and depression. In this session, we'll get to know disgust, and its balancing emotion, love. You will learn the subtle ways in which disgust shows up in your guest house and learn strategies to help move through this heavy emotion. You'll also be guided through a gentle practice to soothe the nervous system and create space for the more expansive emotion-experience of love.

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Lesson 6

Welcoming Sadness & Joy

The pain that we experience with sadness is not something we can think away. In this session, we will welcome the visiting emotion of sadness and, through compassion, open the door for joy. You will learn how to receive the invitation to let go and release and be guided through a gentle self-compassion practice.

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Lesson 7

Welcoming Grief

In this session, we will welcome grief, our final visitor in the guest house of emotions. Grief is an experience that we will all encounter in our lives. We will introduce the 5 Gates of Grief, the doors through which grief enters our guest house. You will be guided through a gentle practice of self-nurturance to support us in the process of moving through grief by compassionately connecting with the body.

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Lesson 8

Befriending Emotions: Taking The First Steps

In this session, we go deeper into an exploration of the process of healing our relationship with our emotions. We introduce a 6-step process that we can walk through with each of our visitors when they arrive to learn to master our emotions—to understand what they are communicating to us and fully integrate the essence and core of our experiences in this life. You'll be guided through the first 3 steps with a practice that you can do at any time.

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Lesson 9

Befriending Emotions: Taking The Next Steps

We are reminded that there is no such thing as a bad or wrong emotion as we move deeper into the 6-step process of healing our relationship with our emotions. The session closes with a guided exploration connecting with emotions in the body and identifying clear actions that you can take at the moment to help restore balance in your whole being.

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Lesson 10

Befriending Emotions: Integration

In this final session, we take in the awareness, insights, and skills that you've cultivated through this journey and move toward cultivating a state of calm—an abiding sense of ease. This stage is about flowing through these 6 steps of healing our relationship with our emotions. We close with a guided practice to invite calm and clarity as we revisit the guest house, bringing gratitude to the emotions that offer guidance in our lives.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 71 community questions and 28 audio replies from Patty Hlava, Ph.D.. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Petra

Petra

November 18, 2025

Great course ! Very insightful. Un grand Merci 🙏🏻

Adrian

Adrian

June 11, 2025

Wonderful course! Thank you

Omar

Omar

March 1, 2025

Thank you 🤩

antonia

antonia

February 14, 2025

She grateful to Patty for this course. She speaks with compassion and provides clear and easy tools to implement

Josh

February 6, 2025

Great course! I wasn't really grasping these concepts from reading, but the itch exercise really made the lightbulb turn on as to what it means to allow your emotions. Its strange that it was confusing because you quite literally just allow them to emote. Thank you!

joy

February 27, 2024

Manageable, concise, impressive! Thank you. I will be sharing

Miren

November 28, 2023

I really resonated with this course and its learnings. Would 100% recommend it.

Ian

September 20, 2023

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Angela

Angela

September 19, 2023

Very helpful and comforting, thank you

Maria

July 14, 2023

This was so helpful! I think I will do it again!💖

Ray

Ray

May 6, 2023

Thank you

Alice

Alice

April 24, 2023

Lovely course!

Alexandra

Alexandra

April 15, 2023

This course have been amazingly valuable. Explained in such an easy, straight forward, compasionate and step-by-step way, you have given me both an understanding of my emotions and tools to experience them in a way where I learn and grow from my emotions rather than being controlled by them. My deepest thank you for this course!

Tracey

Tracey

April 11, 2023

Excellent! Lots to consider

Maria

Maria

March 23, 2023

Great course !

Nichole

Nichole

March 20, 2023

Such great information- and presented in a way to be able to easily digest and put into practice. I learned new and helpful techniques, along with a new way of working with my emotions! Thank you 🙏❤️!

Annette

Annette

March 20, 2023

Excellent

Debra

Debra

February 11, 2023

Thank you so much . Great course that is helping me to further exercise the unexpected response from all of the guests in my guest house! Loved this so much I may go through it again! Thank you Patty❤️

Dave

Dave

January 20, 2023

This is such a wonderful course, full of insights and information. Thank you Dr. Patty

Kayleigh

Kayleigh

July 30, 2022

Lovely class. I recommend all of Dr. Patty’s courses 😍

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