“It’s not the style of meditation that matters, but the ability of the teacher to awaken and safely guide the student to their own truth.”
-David
A 250-Hour Online Meditation Teacher Training Certification! Feb 7th, 2024!
- 9 Month Training to Step into Your Potential as a Meditation Teacher, Develop a Unique Teaching Style and Launch a Conscious Business
- 10 Industry-Leading Meditation Teachers as Your Small Group Mentors and 1:1 Coaches
- 4 Conscious Business & Marketing Mentors to Help You Envision and Launch a Sustainable and Aligned Business
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Wednesday, January 24th, 5 PM - 6 PM Pacific
A Highly Personalized Meditation Teacher Training Certification.
Join David Gandelman and 10 industry leading meditation teachers and conscious business experts for a 9 month intensive teacher certification training to help you master your practice, grow into your potential as a teacher and launch a thriving and sustainable conscious business.
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What Styles of Meditation Will Be Taught?
Many teacher training programs walk you through the basics of mindfulness, breathwork and similar tools, but there is a lot more to being a professional meditation teacher who operates from a space of presence and integrity with a sustainable business. Learn to teach from 'presence', set the energy of a room and develop a teaching style and language from your heart. In this training we take a broad look at a number of the world's traditions, harness the wisdom from each and teach you how to express your voice and wisdom.
How is this teacher training different?
Learn to teach from 'presence', embody your own awakening, set and hold the energy of a room and develop a style from your heart. As you break through your fears and develop as teachers, you'll get clear on your gifts and we'll help you to embody them at the level of a practitioner, professional teacher and business owner.
Join the Live Information CallThe 3 Levels
You'll embark on a program structured into three distinct levels. Each level lasts 3 months, making up a comprehensive 9-month journey. Over this period, you'll attend a total of 18 classes: every month, you'll participate in both a 2-hour and a 3-hour class. Beyond the classes, you'll benefit from 9 monthly small-group mentorship sessions. Additionally, each level offers you a private mentorship session. To enhance your experience, the program also includes book studies and dedicated meditation hours for your personal growth.
Level 1
Mastering Meditation as a Teacher
The first 3 months of teacher training focus on deepening your own personal meditation practice, understanding the philosophy and teachings of the world’s great traditions, and awakening to a deeper level of presence as a guide. See our in-depth class by class schedule below.
One of the most important aspects of meditation is having a consistent meditation practice. As you move through the program, engage with the material, and meditate regularly, you will naturally land into a consistent structure for your own practice.
Traditionally, one of the goals of meditation has been to find, or awaken to, enlightenment. Sometimes we refer to this state as nirvana, samadhi, satori, or moksha. It is a place beyond identification with the mind, and the home to your true nature as a being. In Level one, you will learn the philosophy behind awakening, and move into the energy of it through practice.
This training is non-ideological in the sense that we do not adhere to one tradition, but recognize that every tradition was created by an individual who had an awakening experience, and built a structure around that experience to help others find it in themselves. With that in mind, level 1 and beyond will offer you the opportunity to find your own truth and wisdom that is derived from your inner work, and level 2 will teach you how to share that wisdom.
Level 1 Class Schedule
Level 2
Mastering Your Teaching Skills
In this phase of training you’ll learn how to teach what you know. As you solidify what kind of meditation practice, principles, and philosophy you ascribe to and want to share with the world, you’ll have the opportunity to teach in small groups, write out your own guided meditations, and get real-time feedback on your style from your peers and teachers.
You’ll also overcome fear of public speaking in a safe and structured way. As a teacher in training you’ll learn to connect with your students from your heart and use your presence to help calm, comfort, and awaken them to their own truth.
As you begin to relax as a teacher and guide, which only comes through practice, you may find yourself enjoying teaching more and more. The more you enjoy being in this sacred space, the more your students will trust you as their guide, and keep returning to your classes.
By the end of level 2 you will have had ample experience and opportunities to teach, hold space, and develop your craft. As you graduate from level 2, we’ll begin to explore how to become a teacher in a professional way in level 3.
Level 2 Class Schedule & Curriculum
Level 3
The Business of Teaching & Serving
The last level of teacher training will be primarily focused on how to get your message out into the world, attract students, and set up a sustainable and sacred business structure that sustains you financially, and serves the world.
You’ll learn to simplify and craft your offers, brand your teachings in a way that aligns with your values, find the right marketing channels for your work, hire and scale a team in affordably and to share your light with the world.
We’ll also work on the mindset of abundance and prosperity as a meditation teacher. It’s no secret the majority of meditation teachers in the world today struggle with making a living.
Collectively, the experts in this certification training have worked with over-500 six, multi-six and seven figure earning meditation and spiritual teachers — and we are here to help you set yourself up for success, joy, and healthy finances while teaching in integrity.
This training will help you overcome energetic limitations, and teach you the practical tools to achieve your career goals with alignment and integrity.
Level 3 Class Schedule & Curriculum
YOUR GUIDE
David Gandelman
David is the founder of Meditation School, the host of the Energy Matters podcast, and a meditation instructor at Cornell University. With over 10 years of teaching experience, David has cultivated a program that connects energetic experience, ancient wisdom traditions, and humor, to create a safe atmosphere for people interested in developing their natural spiritual abilities and tapping into their creative potential through meditation.
We at Parsley Health recommend David's work to all our patients as a great option to learn meditation. I’ve been using his meditations for years, and his incredible sense of humor and calm voice create a comfortable, calm space to meditate.
David Gandelman’s Grounded Mind Program has made learning to meditate easy and accessible. Honestly, I can’t believe how quickly I was able to see progress – in my ability to calm my brain as well as my ability to handle stress. I have become a meditator after only four months of this one year program, and I look forward to my next meditation each week.
Grounded Mind has helped me dive deeper into my meditation practice. David's meditations have enabled me to stop taking my stress so seriously, move out old energy, and start to cultivate the new kind energy I want in my life. I even felt less tired and more energized at the end of the meditations, and I continue to use those tools daily.
Insight Timer Reviews
See what people on Insight Timer say about David's meditation courses.
"I have found that this pandemic has been kind of lonely for me and I don’t mean that in severe way. Like you know, I’m home now with my amazing wife and my amazing two kids and I have my family around me but there's a certain lack of social interaction that is missing from me. And so early in March for the first time ever i ended up just going to the guided tab in Insight Timer just because I kind of just wanted to hear someone else’s voice and i've actually been doing these guided meditations almost consistently since March now and they range from courses. I know you've talked about Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, David Gandelman, Sarah Blondin. They’re just some amazing guided meditation coaches on Insight Timer."
- Harley Finkelstein (President of Shopify)
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