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<jats:p>This paper explores how two spiritual communities—a Catholic prayer house and an Integral Yoga studio—shape the emotional lives of their members. I find that both organizations promise to facilitate what I call <jats:italic>holistic emotional change</jats:italic>: modifications of deep‐seated emotional habits and dispositions. Moreover, both organizations transmit a comprehensive <jats:italic>emotion management system</jats:italic>—a regimen of different practices, or techniques of emotion management, with distinct goals and temporal horizons. At both sites, these practices—prospective, reflexive, and in situ techniques—are thought to work in tandem to overcome negative emotional habits and cultivate abiding dispositions of joy, peace, and contentment.</jats:p>