Become an expert meditation teacher!

If you are a yoga teacher, meditation practitioner, or just eager to learn more about yourself, this meditation teacher training is for you!

With this 50 Hours Certification Meditation Teacher Training you will gain advanced knowledge about meditation, clarity about who you are, and you will have the confidence to share meditation with others!

Dates
18-29 November 2018
18-29 December 2018

Check in: 2pm – 18 November/December 2018
Check out: 11am – 29 November/December 2018
10 days training/instruction: 19 Nov/Dec 2018, 9am till 28 Nov/Dec 2018, 6pm

Price
€1800 Shared room/Single bed
€2200 Private room/Double bed
Including: Breakfast, Wifi, Airconditioning (Room & Hall), Syllabus, Certificate

Event Highlights
-11 nights accommodation in authentic Balinese sanctuary in the heart of Ubud, Bali
-Swimming pool, luscious garden, lounge, spiritual library, Wi-fi etc.
-Delicious full buffet breakfast
-10 days of training (50 hours) including experiencing meditations, learning advanced knowledge of meditation philosophy, practicing guiding meditations, discussions, sharings and more
-The experience and confidence to share meditation with thousands of people
-Official Meditation Teacher Certification with the Institute for Meditation
-10 days of fun, dance and celebration
-A life changing experience and friends for life!

Meditation Teacher Training Program
The program is a combination of experiencing meditations, meditation philosophy teachings and discussions, practicing guiding meditations, sharings, self-study and time to relax and digest. The program is an alive and joyful exploration where everybody becomes an inspiration to each other and where lifelong friendships are made. The program is rooted in the open sharing and celebration of your present experience.

Our signature
Institute for Meditation offers a holistic approach to meditation. This means we don’t teach one specific method, but rather give a complete perspective on the differences between the various ways of meditation. With this teaching you will be able to recognize the benefits and limitations of the different approaches to meditation. This enables you to consciously choose the right meditation techniques to fit your specific interest, purpose and audience. We encourage you to share from your creativity and authenticity. Sharing the meditation you are most passionate about!

Why teach meditation?
People are looking for silence, clarity, and answers in a more complex world. More and more companies, yoga studios, and schools acknowledge the benefits of meditation and incorporate meditation into their daily operations. With teaching groups and individuals, you can inspire thousands of people by sharing your authentic guidance for opening up to life.

The best way of learning is teaching
Scientists found out that students enlisted to tutor others work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately, and apply it more effectively. Feedback from students or peers further enhances the tutors’ learning. A teacher training is the best way to explore and understand the fundamentals of meditation.

What meditation teacher training graduates gain
Graduates have the skills and confidence to guide meditations, the knowledge of a vast variety of meditations, the creativity to fit the right meditation for the right audience and situation, the knowledge of ancient meditation philosophies, a deepened human understanding to guide and coach people, a progressive set of tools for teaching or other ways of guiding groups (yoga, primary & secundary school, corporate trainings etc) and an official Meditation Teacher Certification with the Institute for Meditation.

Certification
After successful completion of this training you will receive an official Meditation Teacher Certification with the Institute for Meditation. Participants receive a certificate of completion that can be counted as 50Hr of continuing education with the Yoga Alliance. If you are a registered yoga teacher (RYT) you must meet the Continuing Education (CE) Requirements on an ongoing basis. Every three years starting from your initial date of registration you must complete and log a minimum of 30 hours of yoga related training. Institute for Meditation is a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider® (YACEP) who has been verified by and is in good standing with Yoga Alliance.

Program
Institute of Meditations teachings are based on philosophies derived from Tao, Advaita and Buddhism. They focus on becoming aware of basic assumptions about life and their implications in your daily life. With ancient teachings and models from Tao and Advaita philosophy, we recognize and unveil limiting ideas to explore a spontaneous, open-minded way of living. With the ancient knowledge of Buddhism we explore the vicious circle of searching and suffering in life (Samsara) and the opportunity for liberation from this cycle (Nirvana).

Course content
Meditation practice
You will become familiar with a broad variety of meditations based on Zen and Buddhist traditions. You will experience passive meditations like silent sitting and active meditations involving sound and movement. The main focus of this training is insight meditation, which is based on the process of enquiry.
-Zen, Buddhist & Osho meditations
-Passive meditations
-Active meditations
-Insight meditations
-Bodyscan techniques
-Sharing & Discussion

Meditation philosophy
You will become aware of your beliefs and their implications on your emotions, thoughts and behaviour. With ancient knowledge from Taoism, Buddhism and Advaita philosophy you will be able to guide people towards clarity.
-Enquiry into effort & control
-Theory Nature of the Mind
-Theory Circle of Suffering (Samsara)
-Theory The Way of Tao (Yin Yang)
-Theory Advaita
-Sharing & Discussion

Art of teaching
You will learn to share from your OWN experience. In this training you will become your own authority. The only valuable and convincing teaching is simply being authentic, which will inspire others to do the same.
-Practicing guiding meditations
-Master your voice: tone, volume, tempo, rhythm, enunciation
-Exploring your playfulness and creativity with words
-Approaches holding space
-Giving feedback on meditations

Meditation sequencing
You will be able to design custom-made meditations to fit your specific intention, focus and audience. A simple yet profound structure enables you to trust on your own experience and flow with your intuition while guiding meditations.
-Theory Types of Meditation
-Enquiry into intentions & purposes of meditation
-Sequencing techniques
-Sharing & Discussion

Meditations in this teacher training
Relaxation meditations
-Mindfulness meditation
-Zazen or silent sitting meditation
-Vipassana meditation
-Body Scan
-Massage

Inquiry meditations
-Loving-kindness meditation
-Insight meditation
-Self-inquiry meditation

Active meditations
-Dynamic meditation
-Kundalini meditation
-Walking meditation
-Shaking meditation
-Dance meditation

Requirements
-This training is for beginners & advanced students and everyone who is curious about meditation and wants to know more.
-There are no other certificates needed for joining this training.
-We will enquire about your motivation to see if this training is suitable for you. If we believe your motivation is not in accord with the offered program, we hold the right to not approve your application.

Institute for Meditation
Institute for Meditation stands out from other meditation schools by its personal approach and focus on self-enquiry. In our trainings and retreats we explore our attitude towards relationships, work, emotions, thoughts and bodily sensations. We offer different meditations to explore the nature of stress, control, resistance, flow and relaxation. We regard the open sharing of individual experiences in our insight dialogues as the core of our teaching programs.

Another clear characteristic of our school is that we do not stick to one lineage of meditation. We teach simple yet profound models, theories and philosophies from different traditions to deeply understand the meaning of meditation. In order to experientially explore the meaning of meditation, we also use different techniques of meditations which have their origin in the different traditions. We sit in silence, but also dance, discuss, shake, shout and go into nature.

We don’t believe force is necessary for change. Any force will inherently bring stress in your life, however subtle this tension may be.. We therefore use meditation as an effortless tool to look at life and conciously live the life we want to live!

Paul Verkuijlen
Paul is a philosopher, massage therapist and expert meditation teacher. He was born in The Netherlands but spend the last years mostly living abroad. With Merel he has been running meditation courses in India, Portugal, Thailand and The Netherlands.

He studied meditation and Eastern philosophies while living in meditation communities in India and Australia. After seeing many teachers (and charlatans), he clearly saw the benefits and traps of the different spiritual teachings. Through his incessant curiosity and with the honest input of some teachers, he recognized the source of confusion and suffering. Consequently he realized the meaning of clarity and liberation. This is when he started to share his passion for meditation.

He has a bachelor's degree in teaching and has a Master's degree in sociology. His main focus of study was social psychology, philosophy and lifestyles.

Paul is a certified Osho Meditation facilitator (Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune, India).

Next to teaching meditation, he also works as a certified massage therapist and had more than 300 hours of training in various disciplines: rebalancing, aryuvedic yoga massage, Thai massage and Myofascial Chi-Release.

Merel Martens
Merel is yoga therapist, entrepreneur and expert meditation teacher. She was born in the southern part of the Netherlands. She has been living in India since six years, where she founded and managed a successful yoga and meditation teacher training school. Throughout the years she has trained over 300+ teacher training students to become successful yoga teachers and therapists. She now focusses on teaching meditation.

Merel also works as a yoga teacher (E-RYT500) and yoga therapist.

She studied yoga philosophy and Buddhism in various meditation centres in the Indian Himalayas.

She has a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Master's degree in International Public Health.

She is specialized in mind-body physiology and psychology. She wrote a book about this subject titled: ‘Essential Yoga Therapy: A beginner's guide to applying yoga therapy’.

Venue
Narasoma Retreat Centre is a sanctuary and retreat centre right in the heart of Ubud. Narasoma is a traditional Balinese family compound and retreat accommodation venue. The traditional Balinese buildings follow a feng shui system and has been intricately carved from sandstone and wood.

There is an edible and decorative garden with swimming pool. Enjoy your breakfast or drinks at the tea house overlooking the swimming pool and coconut palms. There is also a small spiritual library where guests can enjoy reading time and sit out doors or in the lounge area. Free wi-fi is available.

Spa treatments at Narasoma
-Deep Tissue Masssage
-Balinese Massage
-Therapy Healing Massage
-Salt Foot Bath & Foot Massage
-Back, Neck & Shoulders
-Foot Reflexology
-Sacred Sound Healing: Tibetan bowls
Book your own treatment at Narasoma. Spa treatments are not included in the packages.

Ubud
Ubud is Bali's cultural and spiritual heart just an hour drive north of the airport. It's located amongst rice paddies and steep ravines in the central foothills of the Gianyar regency. This traditional country town is home to one of Bali's royal families. You can visit the majectic palace in the centre of the town. Ubud is also well known as a flourishing crafts centre. There are hundreds of shops selling antiques, woodcarvings, crafts, textiles, paintings and jewellery in Ubud. You'll also find some of the best art museums in the country here. Along Ubud's main street are dozens of art studios, an excellent local craft market and galleries. It also has lot's of good restaurants and cafes. Ubud is artful, creative and serene.

Accommodation
Each room is equipped with airconditioning and is named after one of the most popular flowers in Bali and most commonly used flowers in Balinese offerings. From the top floor rooms of the homestay you can see the sacred mountains to the west of Bali. The sunrises and sunsets are exquisite! On clear early mornings on the top floor you will be able to see Mount Agung.
Including:
-Breakfast
-Wi-Fi
-Swimming Pool

You can choose to share a room or book your own private room. When you share a room with someone, you will have your own single bed (€1800). When you book a private room, you will have a double bed (€2200).

Including:
-Antique wooden bed
-Airconditioning
-Safety deposit box
-Toilet & shower

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12 Day 50 Hours Certification Meditation Teacher Training in Ubud, Bali

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