Seattle area meditation teacher training course: introduction
Meditation Teacher Training Course With Ajayan Borys
April- May 2008, Fern Life
Center, Issaquah, WA, USA
(If you are interested in the October 2008 Meditation Teacher Training Course in Rishikesh, India, click here.)
Would you like to become an instrument in enriching the lives of others by teaching meditation? Are you perhaps a yoga teacher wishing to give more of the practical benefits of India's rich spiritual wisdom to your students? Or maybe you are a therapist who would like to add meditation as a potential offering to clients. Then consider this intensive Meditation Teacher Training Course taught over two 7-hour Saturday sessions and five 2 and a half-hour weekday evening sessions in the Seattle area (Fern Life Center in Issaquah).
This course offer the opportunity of a lifetime, to not only receive training to teach highly effective meditation practices, but to prepare your own consciousness for teaching by deepening your inner experience and knowledge of the Self. The Meditation Teacher Training Course (Meditation TTC) is open to anyone (not just yoga teachers), but some previous yoga and/or meditation experience is expected.
For the past 35 years, Ajayan has explored India's most effective forms of meditation, developing and offering classes to make these practices accessible to students worldwide. (See Ajayan's Bio and Testimonials.) In this Meditation TTC, he will personally train participants in all aspects of teaching meditation. By the point of graduation you will be thoroughly grounded, not only in an understanding of the principles and mechanics of meditation, but in your own personal experience of deep meditation. You will feel in your own life the inestimable value of a truly effective program of meditation, and you'll be able to give that to others.
You will learn:
- To teach several highly effective forms of meditation accessible to almost any student.
- A context for understanding meditation that dissolves effort and frustration and reliably brings students an effortless, profound, and self-validating inner experience.
- How to convey the essential principles of correct meditation, so that virtually anyone, even children, can meditate.
- Important auxiliary practices from the Raja, Kundalini, and Jnana Yoga traditions to further deepen a student's experience of meditation.
- A context for understanding the principles and mechanics of meditation that will allow you to insightfully answer questions regarding meditation.
- Philosophical and practical background on meditation and its purpose.
- An effective course structure to give students the support they need to meditation regularly.
- How to inspire students and prospective students with a vision of the benefits of meditation.
- How to handle special needs, for instance people with physical, emotional, or psychological problems.
- How to recognize the signs of evolving consciousness on the path to enlightenment. This will give you a basis for guiding students as they begin to personally experience higher consciousness.
A graduation certificate will be awarded to those successfully completing the course. For more information, please see our other Seattle Area Meditation Teacher Training pages: curriculum, cost, schedule, and a message for yoga teachers. To register, contact us.