Meditation Teacher Training 1

9 days

• July 31 – Aug 9, 2009
• Oct 16 – 25, 2009

Nursing CEU Eligible: 30 hours

To register for this course, please fill out our online application. Please call 1-800-346-5350 if you have any questions.

Meditation is becoming well known in today’s world as an invaluable tool for enhancing one’s quality of life – mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Meditation teachers are needed and wanted in yoga studios, churches, businesses, health clubs – the list goes on and on.

The Expanding Light has been offering meditation teacher training programs for decades. Our curriculum prepares you to teach meditation skills to anyone.

In addition, we offer classes in:

• What meditation is and what it is not;
• How to get comfortable for a silent, sitting meditation;
• Using the breath to calm the body and mind;
• Concentration techniques to overcome mental restlessness;
• How to use affirmations, visualization, walking meditations, and nature meditations;
• How to open the heart and develop your feeling nature;
• Music as an aid to meditation;
• Effective presentation skills and how to overcome stage fright;
• Becoming a truly dynamic teacher;
• How to organize and market your classes.

In addition to inspiring classes offered by some of Ananda’s finest and most experienced meditation teachers, you’ll participate in daily meditations and Ananda Yoga practices, and receive a comprehensive teaching manual. Graduates receive a Certificate of Completion and credits toward Level 2 yoga teacher certification (for Ananda Yoga Teacher Training graduates).

Course director, Savitri Simpson, has taught meditation and teacher training courses for more than 20 years. She is assisted by Diksha McCord, who adds her own decade of experience in teaching meditation and many related subjects. Please contact us for a program application or download our printable PDF.

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Prices in the table below are all-inclusive and cover accommodations, meals, classes or activities, and course materials as appropriate.

Meditation Teacher Training starts the afternoon of the first date listed and ends with lunch on the last date listed. See Transportation and Directions for maps and directions whether you are coming by plane, car, bus or train. Our Frequent Questions page answers many of the questions you might have about How to Go on Retreat.

To Register:

To register for this course, please fill out our online application. Please call 1-800-346-5350 if you have any questions.

9 days

Tent / RV	Standard Shared	Standard Private	Deluxe Shared	Deluxe Private
$1,134	$1,404	$1,944	$1,719	$2,394

Meditation Teacher Training 2

6 days

• Coming again in 2010

A wonderful week of deepening your personal spiritual life and intensifying your daily meditation practices. In addition, you’ll learn new teaching skills and polish the ones you may already be using. Workshops will include: how to answer questions more effectively, developing counseling skills, understanding student-teacher bonding, chanting with the harmonium, how to teach specialized classes on the chakras and intuition, how to inspire students to meditate regularly and more deeply, and effective ways to lead guided meditations.

Program leaders are Savitri Simpson and Diksha McCord.

Register now

Prices in the table below are all-inclusive and cover accommodations, meals, classes or activities, and course materials as appropriate.

Meditation Teacher Training starts the afternoon of the first date listed and ends with lunch on the last date listed. See Transportation and Directions for maps and directions whether you are coming by plane, car, bus or train. Our Frequent Questions page answers many of the questions you might have about How to Go on Retreat.

To Register:

The prerequisite for taking Meditation Teacher Training, Level 2, is to have completed the Ananda Meditation Teacher Training, Level 1 program. No application is necessary. Please call 1-800-346-5350 to register or if you have any questions.

6 days

Tent / RV	Standard Shared	Standard Private	Deluxe Shared	Deluxe Private
$660	$840	$1,200	$1,050	$1,500