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Meditation Teacher Training Level 1
Sample Schedule

(subject to some slight changes each session)

Participation in all classes, student teaching sessions, and at least one daily sadhana session is required in order to receive a certificate of completion.

There are five special sadhanas times* which are required (see schedule below). “Sadhanas” are composed of Energization Exercises, chanting, a few gentle Yoga postures in afternoon and weekend sadhanas, and a time of silent, sitting meditation.

Friday
4:45pm	Sadhana
6:30	Dinner (Expanding Light Dining Room)
7:30	Orientation/First Gathering
Saturday
6:00am	Wake-up Bell
6:30	Sadhana
8:30	Breakfast in silence
9:30	Keynote Talk: “The Importance of Teaching Meditation in the World Right Now; What Meditation Is and What It Is Not” with Savitri
12:00	Noon Meditation
12:30	Lunch
2:00	Workshop: “How to Begin Teaching Meditation” w/Diksha
4:45	*Required Sadhana with Diksha: focus on the Energization Exercises
6:30	Dinner
	Free evening for study
Sunday
6:00am	Wake-up Bell
6:30	Sadhana
8:00	Breakfast (not in silence)
10:00	Purification Ceremony (optional)
11:00	Sunday Service (optional)
12:30	Lunch
2:30	Teaching Meditation Workshop with Savitri
4:45	Sadhana
6:30	Dinner
7:30	First Student Teaching Experience
Monday
6:00am	Wake-up Bell
6:30	*Required Sadhana (Energization, Chanting, and Meditation – no yoga postures)
8:30	Breakfast in silence
9:30	Teaching Meditation Workshop with Savitri
12:30	Lunch
2:00	“Nature and Meditation” Workshop with Bharat Cornell
4:45	Sadhana
6:30	Dinner
7:15	“The Effects of Meditation on the Brain: The Science of Meditation” class with Dr. Peter Van Houten
Tuesday
6:00am	Wake-up Bell
6:30	*Required Sadhana
8:30	Breakfast in silence
9:30	“Patanjali's 8-Fold Path and Meditation” Class with Diksha
12:00	Noon Meditation including a Swami Kriyananda Video
12:30	Lunch
2:00	Teaching Meditation Workshop with Savitri
4:45	Sadhana
6:30	Dinner
	Free evening for study
Wednesday
6:00am	Wake-up Bell
6:30	*Required Sadhana
8:30	Breakfast in silence
9:30	Teaching Meditation Workshop with Diksha
12:00	Walking Meditation* required
12:30	Lunch
2:00	“Each-One-Teach-One” Student Teaching Exercise
4:45	Sadhana
6:30	Dinner
7:30pm	Sharing Circle at Savitri’s dome-home (meet at 7:15 for walk or carpool)
Thursday
6:30am	Leave for the Meditation Retreat for the day
7:00	*Required Sadhana with Diksha
9:00	Light Breakfast in silence
9:30	“Developing Devotion” workshop with Diksha
12:00	Purification Ceremony
12:30	Lunch in silence
1:30	“Making the Best of Silence and Seclusion Time” with Diksha afternoon in Silence and Seclusion
3:30	Return to Expanding Light
4:45	Sadhana
6:30	Dinner
7:30pm	Music and Meditation Class with David Eby
Friday
6:00am	Wake-up Bell
6:30	Sadhana
8:30	Breakfast in silence
9:30	Wrap-up Workshop with Diksha
11:45	Group Photo
12:00	Noon Meditation
12:30	Lunch
1:30	Resources and Starting Meditation Groups Pranaba Hansen (optional)
2:30	“How to Set Up Classes and Get People to Come To Them” class with Savitri
4:45	Sadhana
6:30	Dinner
	Free evening for study
Saturday
6:00am	Wake-up Bell
6:30	Sadhana
8:30	Breakfast in silence
9:30	Student Teaching
12:00	Noon Meditation
12:30	Lunch
1:45	Student Teaching and Evaluations
4:45	Sadhana
6:30	Victory Dinner and After- Dinner Celebrations/Entertainment
Sunday
6:00am	Wake-up Bell
6:30	Sadhana
8:00	Breakfast (not in silence)
9:00	Final Meeting and Graduation Ceremony, Presentation of Certificates
10:00	Purification Ceremony (optional)
11:00	Ananda Sunday Service (optional)
12:30	Lunch and Good-byes