Over 3 full days in person, in addition to 6 weeks of excellent quality online video, learn valuable mindfulness skills and tools for developing a regular meditation practice, integrating it with movement sequences, and learning the psychology behind meditation.

Learn to open to and transform your difficult emotions, feelings and thoughts on a moment to moment basis.

Learn to bring mindfulness and stability to sensations in the body instead of turning to habitual reactivity.

Bring the peace of meditation into your workplace and relationships.

This course is for both beginner and experienced meditators, yoga students and teachers. It’s also a great opportunity for yoga teachers, school teachers, and therapists to learn how to integrate basic meditative practices into their work.

Course Topics Include

What Meditation Is and Is Not
Deepen Your Capacity for Presence & Stability
Establishing a Personal Practice
Mindfulness and Breathing as body-based meditation
Using Your Body as a Gateway to Sensations
The Power of Sensations as an Opening to Awareness
How to Stay with Craving
Building capacity for a wider spectrum of feeling
Classes will include lecture, stillness practices, sitting meditation, yoga practice, dyad and group exercises, study, and role-play.
In addition to the 3 day in-person component of this course, you will also take Michael’s video-based online meditation course that goes over the techniques in great detail. It’s a well-organized and beautifully presented online learning program that you can learn at your own pace.

A deposit is required to hold your spot. Deposits are not refundable. Cancelations up to 30 days prior to the event may be issued a credit with Empowered Yoga to be used towards a different program. Unfortunately we are unable to issue a credit or refund the deposit within 30 days of the event. Certificates of completion may be issued upon the successful completion of the requirements above. Once a certificate is issued students may be eligible to register with the Yoga Alliance as an RYT. For more info, contact us at info@empoweredyoga.ca