TANTRIC MEDITATION TRAINING

Module 1 begins August 17, 2025
Year long study divided into 6 meditation training modules
Certification Track: Entire course of study - 6 modules plus added curricula
Personal Growth Study Track: Individual modules as desired

What is Tantric Meditation?

A dynamic form of meditation:
We engage deeply with the senses as a pathway to awakening
We master the mind through skillful use of energy
We move beyond mind to connect with the Infinite
We bring the light of Pure Consciousness back into the world

I first learned Transcendental Meditation when I was 15. By age 20 I had begun a serious study of yoga, which led me over the years to explore various forms of meditation - Witness Consciousness, Vipassana, Mindfulness. Meditation had always helped me feel centered and calm. But when I first experienced Tantric Meditation at age 49, I was quite simply blown away. A portal opened within me. I was introduced to a vast inner world, and my practice completely ‘took off’. For the first time in my life, meditation offered me much more than inner peace. It cracked open my mind and changed me at my core. It gave me experiences beyond my comprehension, leaving me wide-eyed in wonderment. It nudged me to face hidden demons who eventually became my allies. It helped me to understand myself better, while seeing the world around me in a whole new light. It brought new epiphanies, nourished my passions, and guided me to move through the doorway of fear - to step into the light of the Self, claim my intrinsic gifts, and create my own joy.

This is what I want to share.

Inherently brilliant, the mind is our greatest ally on the spiritual journey. And yet with its constant busy-ness and distraction, fears and triggers, stories and dramas and incessant need for control - it is also our biggest obstacle. The Tantrics learned we could make use of the mind’s inherent brilliance while transcending the challenges it presents by drawing upon our prana - the energy and intelligence of the very life force that animates us. When we master our energy, we master the mind. The systematic techniques offered in this course offer a roadmap to free us from continual stress, stimulation and never-ending change. We enter into a ceaseless stream of calm beyond mind that is saturated with prana - a vibrant self-guiding presence that nourishes and empowers us. By discovering our unique inner radiance, we become a light to the world around us.

PERSONAL GROWTH STUDY TRACK

For meditators intent on expanding their knowledge and deepening their own personal practice:

• Take any module as a stand-alone course, or join for the entire year of study

• No pre-requisites required for Modules 1, 2, 3

• Modules 4, 5, and 6: Recommended to have minimum 1 year regular meditation experience, or complete Module 1, or gain permission of instructor

• Teaching homework is optional
  

CERTIFICATION TRACK

For those meditators interested in personal growth as well as sharing through teaching, the process of growing your own practice becomes the blueprint for you as a teacher to guide others:

• 6 Meditation Modules based on a systematic progression of stages - See below

• Song of the Soul Course - Learn to live your dharma

• Yoga Nidra Course - Healing, transformation, and transcendence through the power of relaxation

• Practicum Sessions - Practice teaching with feedback

• Partner/small group assignments - ongoing practice and community

• Reading, journaling, script-writing assignments

• Personal purascharana - dedicated 40-day practice

• E-mail access to mentor for the year

• Havan (fire ceremony) in both Fall and Spring

• Minimum 1 year personal meditation practice as pre-requisite for certification

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TRAINING MODULES

1. Foundations I: Calm & Stable Mind / Witness Consciousness
   Calming the mind and settling into witness consciousness is the bedrock of all meditation, at all stages, no matter the style or tradition

2. Foundations II: Awaken / Balance / Connect to Prana
   Once we can look beyond the mind’s busy-ness, we gain access to a brilliant inner world of light, sound, pulsation, presence - the self-guided intelligence of prana that awakens us to our inner teacher. Our focus on prana is one defining aspect of Tantric meditation

3. Foundations III: Healing the Heart
   Our growing relationship with inner presence affirms that our very existence arises out of a loving intelligence. This ceaseless flow of love heals the deep wounds of our heart. We are loved and guided

4. Power at the Navel: Turning Darkness into Light
   With a calm and peaceful, inward flowing mind, anchored in the knowledge that we are loved and guided - we are now ready to purify the psyche. We systematically build the fire of discernment and determination we will use to overcome obstacles as we transform our life experience into wisdom

5. Working with Trauma: Negotiating Difficult Emotions
   We continue the work of the heart and navel centers as we give focused attention to strong emotional triggers and working with trauma through meditation

6. Deepening Our Personal Practice: The Long View
   Surrender at the heart, mastering the third eye, transcendence through the crown - these are stages we can look forward to and explore as we continue to cultivate a single pointed focus, devotion, determination, self-knowingness, and non-attachment
   

Key goals of the course are to help newer meditators become established in a personal practice, to direct more experienced meditators as they deepen their practice beyond a plateau, and to offer meditation teachers a systematic and clear set of tools to become skillful and inspiring guides.

STUDENTS WILL GAIN

• Clear understanding of the many stages of meditation

• Embodied experience of meditations with different effects

• Insight into where they are on their own personal journey

• Clarity on how best to work with the chakras

• A broad toolbox of meditations and supporting techniques, each with unique effects

• Guidance on how to efficiently enlist the support of asana and pranayama to enrich the meditative experience

• Increased skill and practice in guiding meditations

• Refinement of one’s own personal practice

• Expert guidance and mentorship

• Descriptions and recordings of each meditation presented

• Practice designing your own personalized meditation scripts

• Practice teaching (required for certification students, optional for others)

• Sangha - a community of like-minded peers

TOPICS INCLUDE

• Working with the mind in meditation

• Relationship between Tantric and Classical meditation

• Progression/krama of the meditative experience

• Dharana - concentration

• Relationship between breath and prana

• Prana dharana - working with energy

• Breath-aligned asana to open the flow of energy

• The role of relaxation to prepare for meditation

• Pranayama to collect and focus energy

• Kriya and master kriya for purification

• The role of visualization

• Technique versus devotion-driven practice

• Healing power of mantra

• Chakras and Nadiis

• Three most potent energy centers for meditation

• Prana vayus

• Working with difficult emotions

• Power of devotion

• Specific meditations to awaken each energy center

• Establishing a personal practice

• Creating meditation scripts

• On guiding seated practices

• Self-reflection as a tool for deepening one’s practice

• Growing your own community of students

• Yoga Nidra

• Dharma, samskara, and the wheel of karma

• Koshas - layers of our being

• Sacred fire
  
  

The course includes a mixture of In-person and Livestream Sessions
In-person sessions can also be live-streamed
All sessions will be recorded for on-demand access

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