Breathing Deeply Meditation Teacher Training
The freedom that practice offers is not for the few, but for everyone.
Transparent, ethical mentors are invaluable in the progress of any meditation student. The purpose of becoming a Breathing Deeply Meditation Mentor is to gain the ability to safely and effectively guide others on their personal path and spread the practices to a wider audience.
Start with personal evolution and then share the path with others.
What makes our meditation teacher training unique is the process students go through, using our unique 3-part meditation model, and that we train our teachers to support others through their own, personal stages of development. Mentors become capable of helping individuals navigate their practice while identifying signs, issues, and openings to support their insights and deeper understanding of what each practice brings.
As a Certified Breathing Deeply Meditation Mentor you will:
- Possess the skills, tools, and capability to instruct meditations and variations to students in a group and individual setting
- Benefit others on their personal evolutionary path and help them realize their goals and potential through mentorship
- Continue to participate in the Breathing Deeply community both as as student and mentor while ongoing receiving mentoring directly from Brandt
- Continue to grow your skills, practice, spiritual path, and evolution
In More Depth
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As a school, we seek to make useful meditation mentoring more accessible so that individuals and communities all over the globe may all benefit from these practices.
The Yoga and Tantra traditions give us many meaningful references on how to work with individuals. Using these as guides, well-trained meditation mentors can help students accelerate their practice to reach their goals. The freedom that practice offers is not for the few, but we all need to be helped along the way by teachers with a clear understanding of the nuances of the path. We know that training honest well-intentioned mentors is the best way to share powerful life shifting practices with all who seek them.
This flexible training is structured like a 6-month course with 26 lessons [with some weeks off] and allows for students to engage with the material live (synchronously) or on playback (asynchronously) allowing for certification to meet the personal needs and schedules of a diverse student community.
Course includes:
- Weekly live lessons (Wednesdays 12:30-1pm EST) that include practices. Recording and coursework available 24/7 (Optional and recorded)
- Guidance from weekly live Q&A with Brandt (Wednesdays 1:15-2pm EST) where you’re encouraged to open, lean in, stretch and engage in thoughtful discussion about course material and personal practice (Optional and recorded if you want to listen in)
- Weekly community-led practice and discussion led by Sara Bowman, Meditation Community Facilitator on Mondays at Noon EST (optional)
- 6 monthly partner exercises to build confidence and skill
- Completion of a documented practicum that consists of 2 clients
- Lifetime access to the meditation course & sangha including 4 online retreats/year, additional live weekly meetings, a personal practice course, community membership
- Ongoing continuation of all the benefits of being a part of our meditation sangha
Some topics covered include:
- Intake, procedure, code of conduct and ethics
- Why we meditate and the importance of mentors
- Texts as references for working with individuals including Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Spandakarika, Tao Te Ching
- Contraindications of practices we use
- Roads and signs of progress and identifying roadblocks
- Your own sadhana and its relevance
Counseling vs. mentoring - Working with Trauma in Meditation
- How to use energy as a vehicle
- Proper perspectives on the mind
- The nature of evolution: What is the purpose of evolving enlightenment?
- How to not “role play”: the power of authentic teaching
- Silent transmission
- Working within while in the role of the teacher
- The experience of samadhis and enlightenment
- Spotting kundalini gone wrong
- Faith and reason are not opposite concepts
- Tantra and yoga as the same path
- Sharing Breathing Deeply teachings with general populations
- Starting a Breathing Deeply meditation community where you live
As a Yoga Therapist and seeker, Brandt has been practicing and teaching since 2001. His personal journey serves as an inspiration to countless others and informs his compassionate, humorous, and down-to-earth teaching style.
His teacher shared with him both yoga and tantric meditations as well as text study from various traditions. Brandt’s path, as given to him by his teacher, was to fuse the teachings he was tasked to study into one coherent path. His knowledge has helped thousands move past suffering and towards their fullest potential, and his straightforward, jovial teaching style makes complicated concepts and practices accessible and practical.
Brandt has maintained a private practice for nearly 20 years integrating yoga therapy in the tradition of Krishnamacharya and Structural Yoga Therapy, Medical Massage, a variety of meditation lineages, and plain-old common sense to help people realize their goals. Working with individuals suffering from a wide range of disease and discontent, he serves both as a meditation teacher and Yoga Therapist with an emphasis on finding the most efficient practice/s for an individual’s evolution.
Brandt is dedicated to sharing teachings in a systematized and pragmatic way. He has the ability to share complex concepts in a way that most individuals can use. You will find him candid, relatable, and accessible.
For more info, read “How I Got Here” by Brandt.
The power of a meditation community is immense. Sharing experiences and understanding help us all grow in our own practice. Meditation communities are indispensable for one’s personal growth and in our community, Breathing Deeply Mentors have the role of bringing people together to practice and helping individuals move forward in their meditation practice toward expanded awareness. Mentors have ongoing professional and peer support within our larger community, as well. Collective intention leads to great transformation.
Tuition:
The cost of the Meditation Teacher Training is $1,995 or 4 easy monthly payments of $525. Register here.
Training Begins March 22.
“All practice ends with personal evolution, coupled with surrender, service, and awe.”
– Brandt