Meditation 101

Finding Your Authentic Path to Meditation

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Meditation is a natural, built in ability that you already have. It is similar to sleep in that your body and mind already know how to do it, if we just give it a little space and time.


Meditation is a kind of rest for your mind, although, as you’ll discover, it doesn’t always feel restful or peaceful during the meditation. Meditation is preparation for activity - it is after meditation, in our life, that we feel clearer and calmer.

During meditation, our mind naturally moves through an integration process, that involves review (memories), releasing stress (physical or emotional sensations), planning (todos, projects, relationships), and some moments of quiet, or rest.

While many of us have an image of meditation being a place of deep peacefulness or bliss, sitting cross legged in some natural area, the reality is that meditation can be noisy, where we experience even more ‘thoughts’ then when we are engaged.

You will learn how to:

  • Move through stages of meditation

  • Experience genuine meditative techniques

  • Apply different tools to structure a meditation practice

  • Try different methods to drop into a meditative state

This course qualifies for you for 10 CEU hours with Yoga Alliance.

Course details

  • Engaging lectures

  • The 5 stages of meditation

  • Breath-work in meditation practices

  • Over 6 hours of total content.

PRICING

Meditation 101; Finding Your Authentic Path to Meditation (MN)
$79.00
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After enrolling in this course, you’ll receive an email from ‘support@yogafarm.us’ with the course access details.

About Your Instructor: Jeannie O'Neill

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As instructors, we have a combined depth of experience that is rare, and our love for our mission, for each other and for our students creates change on both an inner and outer level that is unique.

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JEANNIE O'NEILL

Jeannie on her experience studying kundalini yoga in the us.

  • I, like most Kundalini yoga teachers in the US, trained in Kundalini Research Institute programs. As I received this teachings, I really struggled with the teaching methodology in typical kundalini training.

    The ‘Guru worship’ and the authoritarian approach did not resonate with me, as I had previously been trained by Bessel van der Kolk in trauma informed teaching, and yoga.

    The many teachers that I trained with were all wonderful and very informative. They were however, bound by requirements that teachers of that lineage, teach in a very specific way. 

    In our training, we have taken a fresh, new, feminine and non-dogmatic approach.