The only school in Canada providing the award-winning, industry-approved, evidence-based Mind Body Education training programs in holistic wellbeing therapies.
Meditation Teacher Training Course
Online, Self-Paced
No prerequisites required.
(min 120 hours) – 12 modules
Course duration: 3 months part-time (10 hours per week)
This 12-week 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 3 months
✔️Start your own regular meditation practice
Course Information
(minimum 120 hours)
Part-time: 12 weeks (10 hours of study per week)
Full time: 6 weeks (20 hours of study per week)
IICT Recognised Certification:
Meditation Teacher and Holistic Counselling Skills for Meditation Teachers
- 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
- Subconscious programming and reprogramming Guided meditation (creative visualization)
- Tools for healing
- 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
- Meditation as a healing tool
- 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
- Building the foundations of happiness
- Equipment
- Outcomes of holistic counselling
- The holistic counselling sessions
- Assessment and introspection
- Goal setting
- Support Part
- Listening skills
Holistic counselling tools for meditation teachers:
- Life charting
- Reflection time
- Needs assessment chart
- Gratitude journal
- Worry time
- Positive thinking skills
- Affirmations
- Meditation as a healing tool
- 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
What does enrollment include?
As a student at The School of Meditation & Transformative Studies your success is our priority.
To help you succeed and flourish, enrollment also includes:
- LIVE Bi-weekly sessions: Q & A, connecting & sharing with other students, business development coaching and practice delivering meditations
- Individual support as needed
- Assessment results and feedback after each module submission to ensure your progress
- Certification
- One year free membership with the IMTTA post graduation which includes a Practitioner kit with tools and resources including guided meditation scripts

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Next Start Dates:
September 11th, 2023
November 6th 2023
Pay in full: $1150 CAD
First payment of $497 + 2 payments of $330
TheSMTS is happy to be providing partial scholarships for the upcoming enrollment period of the Meditation Teacher Training ONLINE course.
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