If you’ve been teaching asana classes for a while and feel like your students are asking for something more, something deeper . . .

The yoga and meditation market is moving away from high-intensity asana workouts and toward practices that focus more on somatic healing and nervous system regulation. Offering guided meditations is a powerful way to meet that demand.

A great guided meditation is more than just relaxation cues and visualization prompts. There’s a science to using your voice, pacing your cues, initiating a visualization, describing sensory details of an inward journey, and giving your guided meditation scripts the kind of philosophical integrity that turns yoga theory into an embodied experience.

This 90-minute live online workshop is for yoga teachers who want to:

• Integrate high-quality guided meditations into their asana classes
• Teach short-form meditation “capsules”
• Lead long-form Yoga Nidra classes for students seeking burnout recovery

In this workshop, you’ll learn:

• How to prepare students for a guided meditation
• How to lead short seated meditations
• How to know that you’re maintaining the right tempo
• How to hold space for your class while staying in your own meditation groove
• How to use your voice: vocal resonance placement and tonal variety
• How following sequencing principles of sankhya-yoga — the yoga of understanding the elements of material nature — makes it easier for students to turn inward
• How guided meditations make higher concepts of yoga philosophy experiential
• The elements and structure of a long-form Yoga Nidra script

BONUS:
You’ll receive sample meditation scripts that you can use verbatim or personalize into your own guided meditations.

This workshop will be interactive as well as instructive. You’ll be guided into and out of meditative experiences that we’ll then analyze to understand how and why the script and the style of vocalization produced the desired effect.

This offering is by donation.
I’m making it available this way because the ability to guide others into a meaningful meditative experience feels especially needed right now.

Whether you’re already offering guided meditations or just getting started, you’ll come away with a full range of knowledge and tools to lead deeply impactful meditations for your students — and to guide yourself into a deep meditative state as part of your own practice.