Certificate in Meditation Teaching &
Holistic Human Development
Meditation Teacher Training Course
No prerequisites required.
This 12-module course will teach you all you need to know about teaching meditation and chair yoga, give you some holistic counselling skills, and help you start a small business.
✔️Become certified with this internationally accredited course
✔️Help people heal and live happier, healthier lives
✔️Start a new career within as little as 6 weeks
✔️Start or deepen your own regular meditation practice
Course Information
- History and theory of meditation
- Meditation in the western world
- Brainwaves in meditation
- Meditation techniques and styles
- Developing meditation routines
- Deepening and refining your practice
- Understanding stress
- Psychological causes of stress
- The Fight-or-Flight response
- Physiology of the stress response
- Human behavioral manifestations of fight-or-flight
- Negative effects of the stress response in humans
- Positive stress
- Stress management
- Meditation development and practice
- Chakra meditation
- Concentrative meditation
- Mindfulness meditation
- The psychology of happiness
- Subconscious programming and reprogramming
- States of mind
- Fundamentals of self-image
- The pursuit of happiness
- Guided meditation (creative visualization)
- Positive thinking skills
- Foundations of mind-body medicine
- Meditation as a healing tool & hypnotic states
- Journaling and gratitude
- Understanding affirmations
- Tools for developing a positive self-image
- Movement meditation
- Poses and positions
- Breathwork
- Chakras and energy meditation
- Guided meditation & creative visualisation
- Mantras and affirmations in meditation
- Gentle seated movement meditation (formerly chair yoga)
- Before you teach
- Talking to groups & group leadership skills
- Answering questions about meditation
- Leading guided meditations
- Overcoming obstacles to meditation practice
- Creating safe and effective teaching environments
- Group leadership skills
- Teaching various meditation styles
- Working with teenagers
- Working with people with physical disabilities
- Working with people with emotional disorders
- Working with health care professionals
- Business clients and corporate groups
- Dealing with difficult clients
- A client-centred approach
- Your role as a holistic counsellor
- Outcomes of holistic counselling
- Holistic counselling sessions
- Assessment and introspection
- Goal setting
- Listening skills
Holistic counselling tools for meditation teachers:
- Life charting
- Reflection time
- Needs assessment chart
- Gratitude journal
- Worry time
- Positive thinking skills
- Affirmations
- Designing courses and workshops
- Integrity and intentions
- Setting the scene
- Creating strong foundations for your groups
- Understanding learning styles
- Choosing your teaching style
- Terrific teaching techniques and tips
- Student management
- Working with seniors
- Choosing venues
- Corporate stress management workshops – Includes corporate teachers course manual.
- Approaching community groups and organisations
- Volunteer and community work
- Teaching online – Using Zoom
- Corporate stress management
- Ethics and professionalism
- Your public profile
- Fundamentals of customer service
- Maintaining student/client records
- Charging for your services
- Running a small home office
- Joining organisations
- Insurance and legalities
- Understanding the power of branding
- Targeted marketing and advertising
- Building your community
- How to find and use free advertising
- Public image
- Final review
- Your graduation
Course Duration for Online Course
12 modules – 120 hours
Part Time: 12 weeks (10 hours of study per week)
Full time: 6 weeks (20 hours of study per week)
IICT Recognized Certification
Meditation and Holistic Human Development Practitioner
Holistic Counselling Skills for Meditation Teachers
What's Included With Enrollment?
As a student at The School of Meditation & Transformative Studies your success is our priority.
To help you succeed and flourish, enrollment also includes:
- Audio recordings for all modules
- One-on-one support as needed
- Assessment results and feedback after each module submission to ensure your progress
- Facebook Group to connect with other students and alumni
- Certification
- Invitation to join Practitioner Support Network
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Next Start Dates
Online
Self-Directed
Aug 5th
Sept 16th
Oct 28th
Pay in full: $997 CAD
First payment of $497 + 2 payments of $250
In-Person
Rockwood, ON
(near Guelph)
Sept 18th – Dec 4th
Wednesday evenings 6-9pm
Pay in full: $1599
Payment plan:
First payment of $799 + 2 payments of $400
In-Person
DeWinton, AB
(near Calgary)
Sept 21st – Nov 30th
Every 2nd Saturday 9am – 4pm
Pay in full: $1699
Payment plan:
First payment of $899 + 2 payments of $400
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