Teacher Training

“Awaken Your Intuitive Intelligence.”

Thank you for your interest in this unique program. The workshops currently offered are also apart of the Padma Meditation Teacher Training Program. If you are interested in the teacher training program, you can start right away by taking these workshops and credits for participation will be issued towards the curriculum requirements.
Please note that everyone is welcome to attend any of the workshops regardless of being apart of the Training Program.

Padma offers a unique and inspirational Meditation Teacher Training Program.  The Padma Meditation Teacher Training Program was created for those who want to enhance their inner strength and calm, achieve the sense of freedom, have focus, enjoy self-confidence, inspire creativity and to be excellent leaders in any field.

Padma designed this program to offer more people the chance to learn meditation, and then to be able to share this with others. These workshops are not affiliated with any religious organization, and are designed to be secular and practical, as well as deeply fulfilling and effective. Padma offers a personally authentic approach to teaching meditation, outside of any particular denomination. She presents a secular, human approach to meditation and reveals its benefits as a way to access deep, real joy.

This Teacher Training is soundly based in classical meditation wisdom, as well as designed to suit our modern culture. It includes a thorough overview of  Meditation Philosophy Studies. Students learn to teach the art and science of meditation and to deepen and refine their own personal practice. The program lays the foundation for a deep personal practice and the ability to offer meditation to others.

This series of workshops is a unique and revolutionary fusion of western stress-management skills and scientific research, combined with the time-proven techniques of eastern wisdom. Effective skills help individuals to recognize stress symptoms and to make educated choices for managing the present moment, plus avoiding stress in the future. These time-tested practices unfold self-confidence, clear inner freedom, and eliminate doubt, worry and anxiety. Padma Meditation includes a select variety of meditation techniques, from simple to more advanced. The teachings are thorough, fun, simple and intensely effective.

You are welcome to take single workshops on their own without obligation to complete a teacher training, or take all six workshops and complete the whole program. Stay in touch as sections of this program also become available online.

Upon completion you will :

  • have an established personal meditation practice
  • understand yoga meditation philosophy
  • know what meditation is and what it is not
  • identify sources and symptoms of stress
  • be comfortable in long, silent, sitting meditation
  • be a truly dynamic teacher
  • conduct guided meditations and understand their purpose, benefits and applications
  • assess students in order to best select the exact meditation technique suited to them
  • demonstrate meditation and breath techniques
  • be aware of some teaching precautions
  • offer knowledge and skills through multiple teaching methodologies
  • use wisdom and experience to inform discussions and question and answer sessions
  • communicate clearly, confidently and professionally with students
  • be knowledgeable of the Patanjali Yoga Sutras
  • chant key verses of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit
  • chant essential Upanishadic Mantras in Sanskrit
  • skillfully organize and market your classes
  • be a part of a wide community of meditators and respected teachers
  • receive a diploma as a Padma Meditation Teacher, Level One: 108 hours
  • participate in yearly Meditation Teacher Training re-certification and upgrade programs
  • be able to proceed with Level Two Meditation Teacher Training

Curriculum:

  • TECHNIQUES & TRAINING:
  • Meditation skills, applications, variations, benefits and precautions.
  • Meditation practices including breath-work, mantra, chanting, concentration, mindfulness, awareness-enhancing techniques, and techniques from Zen, Vipassana, Mindfulness, Mind-Management, Kriya Yoga, and Raaj Yoga.
  • Mantra Yoga, including the chants Pranav OM, Gayatri Mantra and Om Purnam Adaha.
  • Yoga postures that enhance meditation.
  • TEACHING METHODOLOGY:
  • In-depth exploration of what makes an excellent meditation teacher, utilizing various up-to-date professional teaching and coaching methods.
  • How to observe, assist, adjust, coach, facilitate and instruct groups and private students.
  • Class design and making a living as a teacher.
  • Understand various learning styles of students. Includes an education in Coaching, Adult Education and Leadership training.
  • PHYSIOLOGY:
  • The physiology of the subtle bodies : Chakras, Nadis, Mudras and subtle bodies observed in meditation.
  • Purification practices.
  • The process of ego manifestation.
  • The powers of mental concentration.
  • Modern Scientific research on meditation and the effects on the personality, stress levels and on the physical brain as observed by fMRI and MRI scans.
  • PHILOSOPHY:
  • Sanskrit, Dev Nagri script, Philosophy of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita, and aspects of Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Vedic Vision of Oneness, Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda Health.
  • Modern Stress-Management, mind-management, Yoga Psychology, Meditation Therapy.
  • PRACTICUM:
  • At home and retreat hours of meditation practices. How to continue your own home practice.
  • Includes student teaching as well as observing and assisting in classes taught by others.
  • Practicing from selected schools of meditation.
  • AT HOME STUDY MANUALS:
  • Includes all information, documents, video, audio, online components, and references you need to learn all the important philosophies, history, methods and practices you need to teach Padma Meditation.

THE SIX SIGNATURE WORKSHOPS are:

  1. PADMA MEDITATION: Learn to meditate
  2. RELAX AND RENEW: Relieve stress
  3. FOCUS ON EFFICIENCY: Maximum efficiency, Minimum effort
  4. END YOUR STRUGGLES: Understand your mind and ego
  5. DEEPER SELF-STUDY: Classical meditation philosophy
  6. LEARN TO TEACH: The art of Padma Meditation

Dates: Please See the Workshops Page for Workshops included in the Teacher Training Series

Tuitions: To Be Announced

For more information please email padma@padmameditation.com