Empower Your Instincts

100hr Meditation Immersion and Teacher Training

I am delighted to annouce the Innate Being Meditation Immersion and Teacher Training, launching in 2020 and hosted by Inna Bliss Yoga.

This unique course offers an inspiring and informed exploration of a natural, relevant and life-affirming approach to inner practice and meditation in its broadest sense.

While it aims to develop teachers, coaches and other practitioners in facilitating healthy inner practices in their students and clients across a wide range of contexts, the training also provides a wonderful immersive experience for those focused solely on developing their own personal journey.

I have developed this course based on my experience with clients over several years and in response to requests to provide a deeper, immersive experience in meditation.

The course focuses on contact hours, personal and teaching practice, group study and discussion and is enriched by the inclusion of gifted, experienced guest presenters offering areas of specialist focus.

Held at the beautiful, light-filled Inna Bliss Yoga studio in Camp Hill, the course runs from August until November 2020.

Apply Now (Note: all applications are processed via the Inna Bliss Yoga website).

About Instinctive Meditation

The gift of meditation is that it allows us to enter more deeply into the thrill and wonder of being alive. Everyone has access to meditation – it is innate, it is built-in, it is our birthright. It is a universal phenomenon. Meditative experiences arise spontaneously whenever we are paying attention in a loving way.

Instinctive meditation is a flexible, natural and individuality-honouring approach to inner practice which recognises that there are skills we can cultivate to enter our inner space and open up the currents of our instinctive wisdom and inner healing. It celebrates experiential learning and draws also from neuroscience, psychology and spiritual life in the broadest sense. It recognises the strong traditions of instinctive meditation that have developed since the beginning of time.

Instinctive meditation favours the path of feeling and embodiment to initiate healing and strengthen our engagement with life. The practice recognizes that individuals’ private inner lives are unique and sacred and encourages teaching approaches which hold space for that and which facilitate freedom rather than impose restriction. It is an accessible, healthy and rewarding approach to inner practice and can be accessed by everyone in every possible context.

What are the Benefits of Instinctive Meditation and Where Can It Be Taught?

Meditation is an essential deeply rewarding tool for self-care, wellbeing and personal growth. Facilitated in healthy ways, it can be used to strengthen our individuality, self-relationship and connection to others. It increases our sense of pleasure, thrill and wonder at being alive. It has impact on our emotional, physical and spiritual thriving.

It is possible to learn and cultivate healthy and thrilling ways of tuning into the intuitive wisdom of our body, heart and spirit as well as developing the vital art of healing anything that is getting in the way of our self-love, self-worth and individual expression.

Some examples where meditation can be used include:

• In yoga classes and workshops
• In workplaces, schools and universities
• In alternative and mainstream health and wellness settings
• To support treatment of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, addiction and eating disorders
• With children, parents and parents-to-be, in aged care, palliative care, prison, schools and in supporting those with disabilities and chronic illness
• Within a personal coaching context, in both private and work place settings

Facilitated in this approach meditation can be taught in schools and universities, psychology practices, alternative and mainstream health, yoga classes, retreats, a range of therapeutic environments and in individual coaching.

Who Is this Training For?

This training has been specifically created from a desire to propagate the practice and facilitation of healthy meditation far and wide so that as many people as possible can reap the mental, emotional and spiritual benefits that can result from a thriving inner life.

The training is therefore intended for three broad categories of participant:

• Those with an interest in inner practices who wish to deepen their understanding and experience
• Those who wish to specialise in teaching meditation
• Teachers, clinical practitioners and coaches of all kinds who wish to learn how to incorporate meditation in enhancing the service they deliver to their students, patients and clients

What Will I learn from the Training?

The overall vision for the course is that participants:

• will leave feeling they are in a rich, regular and developing personal meditation practice
• are confident they can facilitate meditation for others and have a developing sense of their own style and approach
• will understand the precepts of instinctive meditation and the values of a sensitive use of language that promotes engagement and embodiment rather than detachment and witnessing
• will develop an understanding of personal gateways, cherishing instincts and individuality and a repertoire of different styles and ideas for facilitating meditation in a range of contexts
• will learn how to facilitate healthy meditation that allows each student to have their own unique experience