(No availability) 8 Week Online Meditation Teacher Training Over Zoom

Certification

A meditation teacher's certificate will be issued to those who attend every meeting and fulfill the activities given. The meditation teacher's certificate will be issued by Zen Qiyoga Pty Ltd.

How the training works

You will need a reliable internet connection, Zoom, and a computer to join the live sessions. The training takes eight weeks with one weekly meeting on Wednesday evening (AEST, GMT+10). Students will be given an activity each week to practice, and written assignments are sent via e-mails.

Timing of sessions (AEST, GMT+10)

Number of hours at meet up: 1.5 hours on Wednesday, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Zen Buddhist & Yoga Retreat is based in Brisbane, Australia (AEST, GMT+10).

There's also an optional meeting at 8 a.m. Sunday morning for a Zoom Zazen Meditation and Zen Dharma.

Curriculum

In these unprecedented times, people do their best to find peace within themselves so that they can understand the major changes in their lives.

Learning to manage and develop a positive relationship with your mind is the basis to health and happiness. If you neglect the mind, you can easily slip into the ways of negative thought patterns that may lead to stress, fear, anxiety, anger or depression.

The aim of meditation is to find self-awareness and remain grounded in all of life's experiences without judging them as good or bad, to live more fully in the present and appreciate the miracle of life.

When you are learning to meditate, you can use your breath as a focus, you can find the silence within yourself, your true nature abiding in the gaps between inhalations and exhalations. During meditation, look for the silence in that gap, free the mind from the chatter, the more you do this, the more that silence will stay with you through the practice..

Meditation is a state of calm being and with a regular practice one can carry that state of being through-out the entire day.

As your knowledge about meditation grows and you experience the benefits of the practice, compassion will arise and you will feel the need to be of benefit. This is a foundational course with the understanding that you will require a daily practice of your own prior to passing on this experience of awareness to others.

Why Meditation?

People want a variety of things from meditation.

Some come for peace, others for self-control,

some for power and some for silence,

but of all the reasons, the ones which are

most often expressed are peace or peace of mind.

At first glance there does not seem to be much

difference between the two but on closer inspection,

we find that they are asking for different things.

Peace is simply an experience,

whereas ‘peace of mind'

is a way of life.

​Taken from: "Practical Meditation" by Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya

Course topics

• History of meditation
• Beginning or deepening your own practice
• Meditation seats and space
• How meditation works from a neuroscience point
• Zen, Zazen, and Mindfulness
• Inner Silence - Antar Mouna
• Pranayama (Qi) - why the breath is so important
• Challenges, benefits, and contra-indications
• Guided meditations, loving kindness / Metta, Tonglen
• How to design your own meditation class

The group size will be from six to 30 at max. With numbers greater than 12, Zen Buddhist & Yoga Retreat will be offering additional Zoom times to ensure each student has the option to talk to either Rose or Fushin to help them with their progress.

This meditation teacher training is held online. Zen Buddhist & Yoga Retreat is located in Brisbane, Australia (GMT+10), and they will live-stream the classes via Zoom which you can participate from the comfort of your home.

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• 8 weeks online meditation teacher training
• 8 1.5-hour live sessions over Zoom
• Optional Zoom Zazen Meditation & Zen Dharma on Sunday morning (Brisbane time)

• Accommodation
• Food

• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.