Watch This First. Then Decide.
Before you read another word, press play. Most people feel something shift within the first 10 minutes — not because they're told to, but because the practice actually works on you. This is your first data point.
Your Perception Is Your Power
Before we go further — take a breath. Notice what you feel right now. Your feet on the floor. The weight of your body. The temperature of the air. That noticing? That's what we're here to restore.
The Problem
Engineered distraction has systematically dulled your ability to feel your own life.
The Truth
You're not broken. Your perceptual system is intact — just dormant.
The Solution
A 52-week system designed to bring all nine perceptual channels fully online.
You're Not Broken. You're Running on a Stolen Signal.
There are industries worth hundreds of billions of dollars whose entire business model depends on you staying anxious, reactive, and reaching for the next thing. Not by accident. By design.
The attention economy didn't just steal your focus. It stole something far more essential — your ability to feel your own life. The quiet knowing. The gut that still recognizes what's true. The simple capacity to just be here, in this moment, without the pull toward the next notification.
Your productivity isn't the casualty. Your presence is. And presence is the foundation of everything that actually matters — your relationships, your decisions, your health, your sense of being alive at all.
What's Been Stolen
- The quiet knowing
- Your gut's honest signal
- Capacity to be present
- Felt sense of your own life
- Intuition that lives in the body
- The ability to just be here
Everyone's Worried About AI Taking Their Jobs.
Here's what no one is saying out loud: The skills AI can never replicate are the exact ones we've already been systematically trained to ignore.
Felt Creativity
Creativity that emerges from genuine felt experience — not pattern-matching from a dataset. This is the kind of insight that changes industries and moves people.
Somatic Intuition
Intuition that lives in the body, not in a spreadsheet. The deep knowing that arrives before logic catches up. This is irreplaceable. And it's trainable.
Reading the Room
The ability to sense what's real in a human situation — to feel the energy in a room, to know when something's off before anyone says so. No algorithm does this.
These aren't soft skills. These are your core human hardware. And unlike the attention economy's grip on you, they can be recalibrated — deliberately, systematically, and in far less time than you'd expect.
You Have Nine Perceptual Channels. Not Five.
Modern neuroscience and ancient Taoist training agree on this. Most people operate on two or three. The rest are intact — just dormant. Lights On is a 52-week system for bringing all nine fully online.
Exteroception
Your five external senses, sharpened beyond what you thought possible.
Interoception
Your body's internal intelligence, restored to full signal strength.
Proprioception
Your presence in space — grounded, embodied, fully here.
Neuroception
Your nervous system's threat detector, recalibrated out of chronic alarm.
Chronoception
Your relationship with time — transformed from frantic to sovereign.
Energy Perception
What monks called Qi, what modern science is only beginning to map and measure.
"By Week 9 you'll hold all nine simultaneously. That changes everything." — Dr. Pedram Shojai
Your First Two Weeks Look Like This.
No overwhelm. No 90-minute daily commitment. Just a structured, intelligent on-ramp designed to meet you exactly where you are.
Week 1 — Find Your Baseline
Where are you across all nine channels right now? Complete your full perceptual profile assessment. The 3-2-1 Reset daily. You start learning to hear yourself again — perhaps for the first time in years.
Week 2 — Awaken the External Channels
The Five Gates practice. Twenty minutes of systematically opening each external sense, fully. One meal eaten in complete sensory awareness. No phone. No planning. Just eating as an act of perception.
The Decision Point
By now you'll have experienced five full modules. That's more than enough to know if this work is for you. And remember — you have a full 30 days to decide. If it's not right, you get every penny back.
Enroll Today. $369 for the Full Year.
$369/year
Just $1.01 a day.
Module 1 is available immediately upon enrollment. A new module unlocks every 7 days, giving you time to integrate each practice before moving forward. By Day 30, you'll have access to 5 full modules — more than enough to know if this work is for you. And if it's not, you get a full refund. This isn't a leap of faith. It's a commitment backed by a guarantee that removes all the risk.
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Experience 5 full modules before you decide. If you don't love it, you get every penny back. No hoops.
One Simple Price
$369/year is the only option. Pay once for a full year of access and save $18.
Not another app
A living program with community, live Q&A, and a teacher who has done the work himself.
Why $369?
"If you knew the magnificence of 3, 6, and 9, you would have the key to the universe." — Nikola Tesla
Lights On is priced at $369/year — not by accident, but by design. This is the sacred code for transformation, the frequency of awakening your inner light.
The Number 3
Manifestation and creative expression. The spark that brings vision into form.
The Number 6
Inner strength, harmony, and balance. The alignment of body, mind, and spirit.
The Number 9
Spiritual completion and release. The culmination of all cycles — the number of awakening.
3 × 6 × 9. Creation × Harmony × Completion. This isn't just a price — it's an invitation encoded in the language of the universe.
Everything You Need. Nothing You Don't.
Module 1 is available immediately upon enrollment. A new module unlocks every 7 days, giving you time to integrate each practice before moving forward. By Day 30, you'll have access to the first 5 modules of your transformation journey.
Immediate Access to Week 1 Today
Your perceptual training begins the moment you sign up. The 3-2-1 Reset and your full baseline assessment are ready and waiting. New modules unlock every seven days.
Week 2 and Beyond
A new module drips every seven days, building on the last. The Five Gates practice and full sensory awakening curriculum unfold week by week — perfectly paced so you never feel overwhelmed.
Full Temple Grounds Library
Complete access to our entire meditation and Qigong training library — decades of practice distilled into structured, progressive sessions.
Lights On Community
Connect with others doing this work seriously. Accountability, insights, and the reminder that you're not doing this alone.
Live Q&A with Dr. Pedram Shojai
Ask your questions directly to Pedram. Real answers from someone who has walked this path and trained thousands of students through it.
One Year. Nine Channels. $5,300 in Value. Enroll for $369.
Pay in Full
$369/year
Full year of access. A new module every seven days — perfectly paced, layer by layer.
52 Weeks of Curriculum (10 Modules)
$2,600 value
Temple Grounds Community
$500 value
12 Monthly Live Sessions
$1,200 value
Year 2 Advanced Curriculum (When Ready)
$1,000 value
Weeks of Training
A full year of structured, progressive perceptual development.
Total Value
Everything included in your enrollment
Per Day
Your actual daily investment for the full 52-week program
Both options include immediate access to Module 1, with new modules unlocking weekly, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Complete at least 3 lessons — if it's not for you, full refund.
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee.
You'll have access to the first 5 modules during your guarantee period — plenty of time to experience real transformation. If you're not satisfied within 30 days, email us for a full refund of your first payment. All we ask is that you complete at least 3 lessons before requesting a refund, so you've truly given the program a chance. No hoops. No forms. No guilt. Just an email, and your money is back.
We can offer this because we've seen what happens when people actually do the work. Most people don't just stay — they tell their friends. But if you're the exception, we respect that completely.
The Only Thing Left Is to Begin.
You've read about the nine channels. You've seen what the training looks like. You know the price. The only variable now is whether you take the step. $369/year — or 3 payments of $129. 30-day money-back guarantee.
Start Week 1 today. New modules every seven days. 5 full modules within your 30-day guarantee window.
Ancient Training. Modern Neuroscience. One Framework.
Lights On isn't a wellness trend. It's built at the precise intersection of Taoist perceptual training — refined over centuries inside monastery walls — and what modern neuroscience now understands about the nervous system, interoception, and embodied cognition.
The monks weren't sitting in meditation to feel peaceful. They were running a rigorous, structured protocol to expand what the human perceptual system is capable of. Modern researchers are now documenting the same pathways they were working with intuitively — and what emerges from that convergence is Lights On.
About Dr. Pedram Shojai
Pedram spent years training at Yellow Dragon Monastery in China before returning to practice medicine and raise a family in the modern world — which is precisely what makes him different from most teachers. He didn't stay on the mountain. He came back. He built a life, a practice, and a family inside the same noise you're navigating. And then he built a system for doing it without losing yourself.
He's the founder of The Urban Monk Academy, host of The Urban Monk Podcast, and author of The Urban Monk and The Art of Stopping Time. For over two decades, he has been teaching at the precise intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science — helping people who are serious about their inner lives build real, sustainable practices that actually change how they function.
"The monks weren't meditating to feel peaceful. They were training their perceptual system. That's the distinction that changes everything." — Dr. Pedram Shojai
20+ Years
Teaching at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science
Yellow Dragon
Years of training at the Monastery in China under traditional masters
Thousands
Of students trained through The Urban Monk Academy worldwide
What Students Say
These aren't cherry-picked testimonials from outliers. They're from people like you — skeptical, busy, experienced with wellness practices — who gave this a real try and found something they didn't expect.
"I've done yoga, meditation apps, breathwork — all of it. This is the first thing that actually gave me a framework I understood and felt working in my body. Week 2 was genuinely different."
— David R., San Francisco
"The $9 felt almost too low. I figured I'd cancel. I'm in month four now."
— Melissa T., Austin
"I work in tech. I was the last person who expected a Taoist training program to be the thing. But the science is real, Pedram is the real deal, and two weeks in I could feel something shifting."
— James K., Seattle
David R.
San Francisco — yoga teacher and tech professional
Melissa T.
Austin — came for the trial, stayed for the transformation
James K.
Seattle — skeptical tech worker turned committed practitioner
The Only Risk Is Not Starting.
Everything you've read points to a single action: enroll. $369 for the full year, a new module every week for 52 weeks, and a 30-day money-back guarantee that gives you five full modules to decide. If it's not for you, you get a full refund. If it is — and you'll know well before Day 30 — you've found the thing you've been looking for.
Start Week 1 today. A new module every seven days. 30-day money-back guarantee. $369/year — just $1.01 a day for 52 weeks of the most systematic perceptual training available.
Today
Sign up. Access Week 1 immediately. Begin your baseline assessment.
Week 2
The Five Gates practice. One meal in full sensory awareness. The work deepens.
Day 30
You've experienced 5 full modules. Still not for you? Full refund. No questions asked. Zero risk.
Week 9
Hold all nine perceptual channels simultaneously. Everything changes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is it priced at $369?
$369 represents Nikola Tesla's sacred numbers — 3, 6, and 9 — which he believed were the key to understanding the universe. This isn't just a price; it's a frequency of transformation.
Can I pay in installments?
We have a few options upon checkout that allow for you to do the payments and installments.
What if it's not for me?
You're protected by our 30-day money-back guarantee. You'll experience five full modules within that window — more than enough to know if this is right for you. If you're not satisfied, email us for a full refund of your first payment. No hoops, no hassle.
How does the weekly drip work?
You get immediate access to Week 1 on enrollment. Every seven days, a new module unlocks — 52 modules over the full year. This pacing is intentional: each week builds on the last so you integrate deeply.
What's included in the $5,300 value?
52 weeks of curriculum ($2,600), Temple Grounds community ($500), 12 monthly live sessions with Dr. Shojai ($1,200), and Year 2 advanced curriculum ($1,000). You get all of it for $369/year.
Do I get all modules at once?
Module 1 is available immediately. New modules unlock every 7 days, allowing you to integrate each practice before moving forward. By Day 30, you'll have access to 5 modules. This pacing ensures real transformation, not just information consumption.
What if I want to go faster?
The weekly release schedule is designed for optimal integration and lasting change. However, each module contains multiple lessons and practices, so you'll have plenty to work with each week. Students who try to rush rarely get the full benefit.
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