MEDITATION TEACHER TRAINING

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Why should you join our training?

✅ Fun, Live (Online) Classes.

Enjoy interactive (discussion-based) classes and personal attention from teachers. You’ll look forward to class all week!

✅ Learn to Expertly Guide Meditations.

Beginning week two, you’ll learn to confidently guide a range of mindfulness and compassion meditations.

✅ Entirely Online.

Join us from anywhere in the world. We train students across Europe, Africa, Asia and North, Central and South America.

✅ Community-based and Uplifting.

Class becomes a supportive, inspiring community with teachers who care about you and classmates — become friends.

✅ Transformational.

You’ll learn to practice and guide a variety of meditation techniques, the neuroscience behind meditation, and Buddhist wisdom — in an accessible, understandable way so you can incorporate the learnings and learn to live with more joy, calm, and ease.

✅ Just 12 Weeks to Certification.

The Path leads an internationally recognized meditation accreditation program. When you graduate, you’ll receive a Meditation Certification for Teaching Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation and be certified to teach meditation globally.

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Curriculum

Whether you are taking this course for your own benefit or to share the life-changing benefits of meditation with others, the curriculum is carefully designed to give you a deeper understanding of meditation. You’ll also learn not just the “what” but the brain science behind “why” and “how” meditation affects our brains and, in turn, our lives. 

You’ll achieve a heightened sense of inner calm and peace — a balance that fortifies you against the ups and downs of life. After taking this course you’ll feel more even throughout the day. Centered. And you’ll begin to feel that the world is supporting you rather than out to get you. This is a crucial shift that affects everything in your life from your happiness with yourself to your relationships and your sense of inner calm.

Topics and meditations covered include:

Topics

• 5 Precepts (Sila) + Living with Virtue - learn why the Buddhist path begins with ethics and how this can be a source of deep happiness within ourselves.

• Four Noble Truths - how to escape the suffering of daily life and enjoy freedom.

• Ending the Cycle of Suffering and Samsara (to enter nirvana, the world without suffering) - actions we can take to avoid the cycle of suffering many people live with.

• Eight-fold Path + Focus on “Right Action” - we have the power to choose “right actions” each moment and to live morally sound lives and train our minds .. so we can be happier and more free.

• 5 Hindrances - these can get in the way of our meditations, and if we know them, we can avoid them!

• Insight - we’ll learn a meditation known to provide great insights & bring us closer to our intuition.

• History of Buddhism - the Buddha was an actual man who lived in what is now called Nepal - we’ll learn his story and the three main types of Buddhism now practiced and taught around the world.

• Three Universal Truths + Karma - Buddhists say our actions lead to more success or failure (we’ll learn how to maximize what cause success!); we’ll also learn the benefits of impermanence.

• Teaching + How to Answer Difficult Questions - we’ll learn pacing, timing and trauma-informed guiding + how to respond to tough questions.

• Making People Feel Welcome, Encouraging Community - The Path is community focused, so we’ll learn how, as teachers, to encourage community when we are teaching!

Meditations

• Mindfulness of the Breath, Mindfulness of Body Sensations, Mindfulness of Sounds, and Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions

• Compassion Meditation (two different techniques)

• Walking Meditation

• And more

Our Teachers - click to learn more!

Each cohort has one head teacher and one assistant teacher. Teachers for each ongoing class are specified above.

Frequently Asked Questions

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We alternate class schedules to accommodate a large variety of time zones & welcome students from around the world.

About The Path’s Online Meditation Teacher Training

We host one of the oldest and most respected online Meditation Teacher Training programs, and once you graduate from our program, you will be certified by The Path to teach Mindfulness and Compassion meditations. We have certified hundreds of students to teach meditation, many of whom are now teaching meditation both formally and informally for companies, individuals, and groups. There is no entity overseeing meditation teacher training programs, but this certificate will be widely respected and accepted both in the U.S. and around the world.

About The Path

The Path is your meditation community. Once a year we host Mela, our curated retreat with master teachers. We also offer a world-renowned certificate online Meditation Teacher Training program, meditations for corporations and brands and private meditation coaching. We believe meditation can be accessible and taught in beautiful, fun environments, surrounded by an inspiring community of peers. Since 2014, The Path has taught thousands of people to meditate.

Missed Class Policy

Students may miss two live meditation training classes and still earn their teaching certification if they watch videos of the classes missed. Beyond that number, students are welcome to participate in the course but will not earn a certificate unless they make up class material by completing and submitting written work.

Diversity

The Path is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. In this course and in everything we do, we welcome people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identity or expression, differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and other qualities that make everyone unique.

Scholarships

We offer a very limited number of partial scholarships off the admission fee. Click here for the scholarship application.

Refund Policy

Full refunds are available 12 days before the start date of your teacher training program. 50% refunds are available 7 days before the start of your teacher training program. After this no cancellations or refunds. Due to charges from our payment processor and administrative costs, there is a $230 additional fee for scholarship refunds and a $130 fee for all other refunds.

If you need to switch to a later class outside of our refund policy, and we have availability, there is a $230 class changing fee if you alert us 48 hours before the start of the class. After a class has begun it is $980 to shift to a later course.