Inner Alchemy Working with the 12 Laws of Karma (In-person & Zoom)

# Inner Alchemy - Working with the 12 Laws of Karma

## Module 1 — The Great Law (Cause and Effect)

### Core Inquiry

How inner states generate outcomes over time.

### Teaching Focus

• Distinguishing immediate events from long-term patterning
• Understanding subtle cause and delayed effect
• Releasing moral judgement from consequence

### Guided Practices

• Neutral self-observation of repeated outcomes
• Tracing one current situation back through decisions, habits, and attitudes

### Integration Work

• Journaling on one recurring pattern
• Identifying one point of choice within it
• Somatic check-in: where consequences are held in the body

Stabilising Outcome:
Participants gain clarity without self-blame.
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A structured course in awareness, responsibility, and inner coherence
About the Course
Inner Alchemy is a practical course based on the 12 Laws of Karma, approached as a framework for understanding how inner states, choices, and patterns shape lived experience.
In this course, karma is understood as action.

One can think of karma as the inner equivalent of Newton’s Law of Motion:
for every action, there is a corresponding reaction.
This applies not only to physical actions, but also to thoughts, emotional responses, habits, and repeated inner attitudes. What is cultivated internally tends to express itself externally over time.
Karma is not presented here as punishment or reward.
It is a learning mechanism.

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### What Karma Is (and Is Not)

• Karma is not fate
• Karma is not moral judgement
• Karma is not something imposed from outside

Karma describes cause and effect within lived experience.
When a person repeatedly acts, thinks, or responds in ways that create friction, avoidance, or harm, the resulting experience often reflects that inner pattern. When actions become more coherent, responsible, and aligned, experience tends to stabilise.
Suffering is not random.
It arises when the conditions for suffering are created — often unintentionally.
Karma exists for education, not punishment.
It shows us the results of our own patterns so they can be understood and changed.

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### Course Intention

This course is designed to help participants:

• Understand how inner patterns translate into outer experience
• Recognise repetition without self-blame
• Develop responsibility without guilt
• Create internal coherence rather than spiritual idealisation

The work is observational, reflective, and experiential.
No belief system is required.

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### How the Course Works

Each module explores one of the 12 Laws through:

• Clear explanation and context
• Guided inquiry and embodied awareness
• Practical reflection and integration
• Realistic application in daily life

Sessions are structured, steady, and grounded.

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### The 12 Modules

1. The Great Law — Cause and effect in inner life
2. The Law of Creation — Participation rather than passivity
3. The Law of Humility — Seeing clearly before change
4. The Law of Growth — Inner development as the source of change
5. The Law of Responsibility — Ownership without self-attack
6. The Law of Connection — Continuity across time and experience
7. The Law of Focus — Attention as a directing force
8. The Law of Integrity (Giving) — Alignment between values and actions
9. The Law of Here and Now — Presence as a stabilising force
10. The Law of Change — Understanding repetition
11. The Law of Patience and Effort — Sustainable transformation
12. The Law of Significance and Meaning — Living what truly matters

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### Who This Course Is For

This course is suited to people who:

• Want a grounded understanding of karma and personal responsibility
• Are interested in inner work without dogma
• Prefer clarity over spiritual performance
• Are willing to observe themselves honestly

No prior experience is needed.

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### What This Course Is Not

• It does not promise instant transformation
• It does not bypass emotional or psychological reality
• It does not frame suffering as failure
• It does not require belief or spiritual identity

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### Outcome of the Course

• Increased clarity and steadiness
• Reduced inner conflict
• Greater responsibility without harshness
• A more coherent relationship with choice and consequence

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### Format

• You can join via Live Zoom sessions or in Person at Elephant & Castle, London, SE1
• Structured weekly modules
• Guided practices and integration prompts
• Optional reflection between sessions

### Background

The principles commonly referred to today as the 12 Laws of Karma come from much older Indian philosophical and spiritual traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Their roots can be traced back to the Vedic period, particularly the Rigveda (c. 1500 BCE), one of the earliest surviving bodies of Sanskrit writing. These ideas were developed further in the Upanishads (c. 800–200 BCE), where attention shifted from ritual practice toward understanding inner causation, responsibility, and liberation through awareness.
At its core, karma comes from the Sanskrit word karman, meaning action.
Action here includes not only what we do physically, but also how we think, how we speak, and how we repeatedly respond. These actions shape experience through cause and effect, rather than through moral reward or punishment.
The phrase “the 12 Laws of Karma” itself is a modern framework, created largely for contemporary and Western contexts as a way of organising these older teachings into a clear, practical structure. There is no single ancient text that lists them as twelve fixed laws.
Instead, the laws are a synthesis — drawn from long-standing teachings on:

• cause and effect
• ethical responsibility
• personal conduct
• the continuity of experience over time
• the interconnected nature of life

In this way, the 12 Laws are best understood not as doctrine, but as a working model: a way to observe how inner states, choices, and patterns reliably shape lived reality.

### Closing Note

Inner Alchemy is not about becoming someone else.
It is about seeing clearly how one’s own actions, inner states, and attention shape experience - and learning how to work with that consciously.

Contact Gayatri if you would like to come in-person
gljr@duck.com
07505014729