Foundations in Teaching Mindfulness Meditation

Course Description

• Are you looking for an enlightening mindfulness training with a range of techniques to help you or your students with overwhelm, distraction, and disconnect? 
• Are you looking  for a mindfulness course that provides mindfulness practice teaching exercises that builds confidence in your own teaching?
• Are you ready to let go of patterns of reactivity and inhabit your body and mind in a way that feels safe, calm, and centered?
• Are you ready to transform and deepen your approach to mindfulness and meditation and learn how to offer these valuable practices to others?

When you join our transformative Foundations in Teaching Mindfulness Meditation course you will access the tools and insights to do just that. Developed and delivered by the late Michael Stone, this 9-week immersive programme is designed to help you deepen your personal practice while equipping you with the skills to guide others through the transformative power of mindfulness.

This isn't just another course—it's an opportunity to engage with mindfulness on a profound level. Each week, you’ll explore a carefully structured module filled with guided video teachings, thought-provoking readings, and practical audio exercises by Michael Stone. These resources are crafted to help you fully embody the lessons and integrate them into your daily life.

What makes this course truly unique is its blend of structure and flexibility. You’ll progress through the training alongside a supportive community, with each module building on the last to ensure a cohesive and enriching experience. By the end of the course, you’ll not only have strengthened your own practice, but you’ll also be prepared to bring mindfulness into your work, relationships, and beyond.

Students will have one week to complete the requirements for each module before being able to move on to the next module as a way to ensure that the whole group begins and ends the training at the same time.

If you're ready to transform your approach to mindfulness and meditation, this course offers the comprehensive foundation you need to move forward with confidence and clarity.

“Our lives happen in the present moment. Often we are preoccupied and distracted, and we don’t have the skills for inhabiting the body in a way that’s safe, still, and calm.” Michael Stone

The course includes tuition on:

• the essential skill sets for mindfulness practice. The course includes sample scripts for a wide range of mindfulness practices and an extensive resource section in text, video and audio formats
• how to open to and transform your difficult emotions, feelings and thoughts on a moment to moment basis
• how to help people bring mindfulness and stability to sensations in the body instead of turning to habitual reactivity
• how to bring the peace of meditation into your workplace and relationships
• guidance and tools for adjusting teaching style and content for special populations and what techniques to use when and why
• how to use a relational understanding of mindfulness practices to support moment by moment work with groups or individuals

This course is for teachers, educators, psychotherapists and anyone with a background in the healing arts who wishes to explore mindfulness meditation in more depth.  Michael Stone designed this course to meet best global standards of practice.

Course Structure

The course is made of up 9 modules, each to be completed in one week, making the total course 9 weeks long.

We provide you with well organised materials and a forum for class/community participation. The 9 modules are broken into small video clips that can be watched at any pace during the week. You will have access to the content for one year.

Each weekly module consists of the following:

• a weekly video teaching with Michael Stone that can be watched at your convenience;

• a guided audio meditation each week that covers a different meditation technique (available for streaming or download).

   

Coursework

Students are asked to commit to a daily 30 minute sitting meditation practice and to a weekly 20 minute guided meditation. This guided meditation, led by Michael, will help you learn the cues of Mindfulness Meditation and can be listened to as often as you'd like.

Each module has a short reading and/or practice quiz or assignment built into it, requiring about 10 minutes per week.

Those wanting certification, are asked to complete two larger assignments:

• Halfway through the course, upload one teaching practice and to give feedback on the teaching practice of another student (in week 4). You will receive direct feedback from a fellow student.
• At the end of the course, submit a short Reflective Written Assignment, reviewing your own meditation practice and reviewing working with a case study. You will receive direct feedback from the course facilitator.

What Will I Learn?

• What meditation is and is not
• Deepen your capacity for presence and stability
• Establishing a personal practice
• Mindfulness and breathing as body-based meditation
• Using your body as a gateway to sensations
• The power of sensations as an opening to awareness
• How to stay with craving
• Overcoming intrusive thoughts
• Building capacity for a wider spectrum of feeling.

Participants will work closely with fellow students to explore and develop their teaching style and experiences allowing for the growth of an organic online sangha.

Who is the Course for?

Open to teachers, teachers in training and those with a meditation practice either willing to go deeper into their own self-discovery and exploration, or to feel confident in delivering elements of mindfulness meditation within the context of a yoga class.

Certification 

For those who submit the assignments, you will receive a Yogacampus certificate of completion stating CPD hours.

Meet the Teacher

The late Michael Stone, 42, was an activist, family man, and teacher of yoga and Buddhism.

Michael taught silent meditation retreats in North America and Europe, as well as yoga and meditation workshops that combined practice and study. He gave talks, trained other professionals, and mentored future dharma teachers. He wrote and published several books and hosted the Awake in the World podcast. He worked at the intersection of personal, political, and ecological awakening. His style was smart, instructive, calm, direct, and funny. He had the gift of being able to share complex and interdisciplinary ideas in a way that was contemporary, relatable, and heartfelt.