Living Meditation Training
Online Training with Jennifer Raye
Begins May 1st 2025 with lifetime access
Join Now for Early Bird Rate & Bonus Live Classes
Quiet Your Mind. Open Your Heart. Deepen Your Practice.
Join us for an in-depth journey into the ancient and transformative practice of meditation. This course is for people interested in maturing a personal practice or can be used as a foundation for offering mindfulness within the context of other work or teaching.
The wisdom and heart practices we explore in this course are designed to empower your mind, open your heart, and awaken you to a greater sense of grounding and resiliency. The teachings we’ll draw on are wide-ranging, touching on inspiring poetry, social theory, classical Buddhist psychology and philosophy, and the latest neuroscience.
This self-paced, on-demand course includes lifetime access, instructional videos, dharma (philosophy) talks, guided meditations, weekly readings, and an in-depth manual.
Sign up before Mar.31st to access the early bird price and bonus live online classes and calls.
This course is open to all levels! Whether you are brand new to meditation or you are an experienced practitioner, join us to deepen your practice and study.
Our yoga school is a Registered Yoga School (RYS®) with Yoga Alliance and a continuing education YACEP provider so students receive a certificate and can use their training for continuing education credit if they desire.
IN OUR COURSE WE'LL COVER:
This course emphasizes developing a practice that cultivates mindful awareness (sati), tranquility (samatha) and insight (vipassana). In-depth step-by-step guidance and steady practice will deepen your understanding and help you feel the benefits of this profound tradition.
Foundations in Presence
We begin our program by building consistency in our meditation practice. We’ll explore the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and develop tranquillity through four distinct yet interrelated areas: body, feeling, heart-mind, and mental states. We'll also start to cultivate the “7 factors of awakening.” These seven skillful qualities, such as energy, concentration and investigation, offer practical support for our practice.
The Boundless Heart
Mindfulness and loving kindness support and temper one another on the path of practice, and we need them both to progress on our journey. The Pāli word citta refers to both heart and mind, indicating how states of mind and heart are deeply intertwined. We will investigate loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity and the potential these practices have to awaken the boundless nature of the heart.
Somatic Mindfulness
In this section, we delve into embodied presence and mindfulness as a trauma-informed practice. This rich tradition offers many ways to calm the nervous system and build healthy presence in the body. Some practices we’ll explore are awareness of the elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, walking meditation and gentle yoga. We’ll also use slow somatic movement forms designed to awaken sensory awareness.
Essential Teachings
Throughout our time, we will study many classical teachings and readings as entry points into deeper self-understanding. This section will investigate “the Eightfold Path,” which contains eight aspects of a balanced practice, such as Wise View, Right Effort, and Right Speech. We will also contemplate the Buddha's famous Four Noble Truths. All of our investigation will center around how to use these profound insights in service of our regular everyday lives.
Buddhist Psychology
In this phase of the training we shift into more subtle practices involving mind states and dhammas such as hindrances, aggregates, and sense bases. We’ll also contemplate more complex states and “the three poisons.” By understanding our mind, thoughts, and emotions more deeply, we can better understand our own conditioning, leading to clarity, space, and the natural arising of insight.
Deepening Insight
The final part of our program brings it all together. Meditation is at the core of our practice because it helps us understand how our body, feelings, and mind states drive our choices and actions. The practices of tranquillity and insight reveal the conditioned, impermanent, and selfless nature of our experience. When we understand this we transform how we live and we cultivate our intuitive wisdom and open spacious heart, leading to freedom and peace.
HOW IT WORKS:
This course has lifetime access and can be done in a self-paced manner or with the group beginning on May 1st, 2025.
Sign up before Mar.31st for the early bird rate. Sign up before May 1st and gain access to 3 optional live online classes over Zoom (with replays) for community discussion, Q&A and more in-depth teachings.
The core training is delivered through two training modules over six months (with a two month break between), giving you time to integrate the lessons and develop your practice.
Course Schedule:
Sign up before May 1st and receive:
May - July 2025: Module 1 - Tranquillity
Aug - Sept 2025: Integration (continued practice, getting caught up if needed etc.)
Oct - Dec. 2025: Module 2 - Insight
What Does This Course Include?
- Lifetime access to all course material.
- In-depth training with professional pre-recorded video and audio.
- Weekly step-by-step guidance with 6 months of instructional videos and dharma (philosophy) talks.
- Weekly audio meditations and practice videos
- Sign up before May 1st and receive 3 BONUS live online classes with Jennifer (with replays) throughout the training.
- In-depth downloadable and printable manual.
- Living Mindfulness Training certificate upon completion and 30 CEUs with organizations like the Yoga Alliance.
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MEET YOUR GUIDE
JENNIFER RAYE, R.TCMP, E-RYT 500+
EXPERIENCED YOGA AND MEDITATION TEACHER AND LICENSED TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
Jennifer Raye is an experienced practitioner and teacher trainer supported by her primary teachers. She has over 17 years of experience teaching meditation and a doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is a licensed Chinese medicine practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience working with patients and students in the healing arts. Jennifer is a published mindfulness author, and her newest book (Shambhala Publications) is scheduled for release in autumn 2025.
Jennifer has been a faculty member at several educational institutions and has worked with thousands of students and clients worldwide. Her offerings reflect her varied expertise in contemplative practice and integrative medicine, and her extensive background and training create a deeply informed and instructive learning environment.
Steeped in the wisdom of Buddhist mindfulness and deep respect for the beauty and magic of the natural world, Jennifer's teachings emphasize true self-care and are holistic and therapeutic.
Currently she teaches classes, retreats, and teacher training related to meditation, therapeutic and somatic movement, anatomy, Chinese Medicine, herbal medicine, and seasonal wellness, along with running her private medical practice.
For more info about Jennifer visit: jenniferraye.com
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
+ Will there be one on one support during the training? Can I ask Jennifer questions?
+ Will I have access to the videos and training after the program?
+ Can I go at my own pace? What if I want to do the course later?
+ I'm not a yoga or meditation teacher. Is this course right for me?
+ Will I receive a certificate at the end of the program?
+ I'm not religious / I'm not a Buddhist. Is this course right for me?
In this course, we emphasize the practical nature of undstanding our mind free from ideology and dogma. We focus on a lived experience of peace and wisdom based on calming and clarifying the mind and opening the heart. All are welcome!