What makes our Vedic Meditation Teacher Training Different?

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If you are familiar with other Vedic meditation teacher trainings, you will have noticed that ours is quite different. All our changes are deliberate and well thought out to create a better experience for you. We have based our training on years of experience running teacher trainings. Here are the key differences and our reasoning for them:

1. 1. 1. It’s shorter. The immersive retreat portion of our training is shorter.  We’ve shifted a lot of the intellectual portion of the training to an online, study-at-home format. By the time you start our Vedic meditation teacher training you will know the puja, how to check meditation, the structure of the vedas, vedantic philosophy, and how to read Devanagari script. We can then focus our immersive training on you and your spiritual and intellectual development.  Other initiator trainings are 3 months (or more!) of intensive rounding in a retreat format.  The reason that other teachers run their retreats so long is because in addition to meditating for hours each day students have to memorise everything we’ve shifted to the at-home prerequisite training. We think that making retreats so long is counterproductive. For starters, it excludes many fantastic candidates who simply cannot take 3 months away from their children or jobs. This means that many people who would be the best teachers are unable to take training. Also rounding combined with intense intellectual pressure can also lead to negative effects.
      2. We focus on joy. Other Initiator trainings have been compared to navy seal training. They are often described as one of the most difficult experiences a person can have. This is completely counter to the message and approach of Vedic meditation. Spiritual growth can be attained in a state of bliss and joy. You do not need to suffer or go through penance to attain higher states of consciousness. Our training is crafted to bring you to higher states of joy and be transformative through positive experiences. Will you still have moments of tears, and unstressing? Sure. But you should feel loved, uplifted, and guided through that experience.  The overwhelming experience of spiritual growth should be establishment in blissful consciousness.
      3. We encourage you to improve your physical fitness. Some traditional ideas about spiritual growth need to be updated. For a long time Vedic meditators have been told that raising their heart rates during rounding was counter to the experience of deep stress release. However modern scientific research has shown that this is a fallacy and that the exact opposite is true. Meditation combined with exercise has been found to be the most effective way to permanently lower the stress response, enhance the speed of recovery from stress, and undo the samskara associated with stress (anxiety and depression). In fact the combination of meditation and exercise is far more effective than either on their own. Some people cling to tradition even when it’s wrong. We are unafraid to progress and grow based on new knowledge.
      4. No cult culture.  We don’t do blacklists, dominance hierarchies, or try to control you in any way. If you’ve studied other forms of meditation we consider that an advantage, not a reason to exclude you. Everyone is welcome. Our techniques and approaches are so robust that we’re not scared of it being challenged.

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