How to teach a meditation class

Meditation can be self-guided or require the guidance of a trained meditation teacher. When we talk about a trained yoga teacher, the first thing that pops into our mind is: How to teach a meditation class?

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10 steps on How to teach a Meditation Class successfully

Becoming a meditation teacher requires a lot of hard work and practice to be accepted and appreciated. Here are a few steps that will help you to understand how to teach a meditation class:

1. Choose Your Audience

Focus on what kind of audience you are targeting to teach yoga and meditation. The first question you must ask yourself is, Who do you want to Teach Meditation to?

Teaching meditation to beginners requires a different set of skills. You will need to express yourself more clearly so that your students thoroughly understand your teachings and get the right learning on how to meditate.

Teaching children requires a friendly attitude, good communication skills, and a lot of patience.

But, when you are planning to teach advanced meditators, the in-depth knowledge and skills will help you stay ahead.

2. Choose the style of Meditation

Once you have decided on your target audience, you will have to master the style of meditation that you will be teaching. If you are already trained in a certain type of meditation practice take that one.

If you are unsure about the type, you can look at the below-mentioned techniques:

Mantra Meditation: The type of meditation where a mantra is chanted or listened to while meditating, to bolster the effect of medication. An example would be the universal Om chant.

Guided Visualisations: This form is essential for students who want to relax and don’t want to do much work. It is a relatively simple technique.

Transcendental Meditations: It was created by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and it's a technique used to remove negative thoughts and promote calmness, happiness and inner peace.

Buddhist Meditation: Also known as Zen Meditation, for which, you should be prepared to teach specific postures that will give the desired results.

Dynamic Meditation: this form of meditation requires physical activity such as dancing and walking. You need to be cautious while carrying such sessions so as to prevent any injuries.

Taoist Meditation: This requires training your students to focus on their breathing as it will help to increase concentration.

3. Mastering your Art

It is important to study before you teach. You must learn meditation before you start training others.

Once training is completed, it becomes imperative for you to study other techniques of meditation since the students will be interested to know about other techniques as well.

Knowing your subject and technique is one of the most important parts of offering successful training. Daily meditation in your chosen style is a good start.

4. Talk to Other Meditation Guides

This will help you to learn about your local market. What are the meditation techniques in which people are most interested? It can also help you gain more students using the referrals method.

Perhaps there is a Buddhist Meditation teacher who has a student that wants to learn Dynamic Meditation. They will refer such students to you only when they recognize you and know that you have experience teaching such a technique.

5. Find a Space to Teach

Search for a perfect place to teach meditation. Ensure that such a place is peaceful, relaxing, and therapeutic. The meditation place should reflect the mood you want others to feel. It can be inner peace, happiness, or energy.

Also, keep in mind that people always look for a ‘meditation class near me’ so book a place that is close to residential areas.

Different techniques can require different locations and spaces, and choosing the perfect location is the most important decision before starting training classes.

Make sure that the place has the right sort of lighting. Too much light will distract the students and less light will cause fatigue.

6. Gathering Important Tools

The tools required will depend upon the type of meditation you are teaching. Your objective is to become a spiritual retreat where your students can be meditative and contemplative.

If you are teaching guided visualizations you will need speakers to play light music.

If you are teaching Osho or Zen meditation, you will be needing mats for yourself and your students.

Regardless of the type of meditation, you will be needing cushions for your students to sit.

7. Insurance Cover

Practicing Zen or Osho forms of meditation requires a lot of physical activity which sometimes may cause severe injuries.

It will be great if you get insurance to cover your students, just to avoid any bad publicity.

8. Advertising your Business

Next, what you need to do is to spread the word about your meditation class. For this, you will need business cards, flyers or brochures, and other marketing materials. This will largely depend on the audience you are targeting.

For instance, if you are teaching breathing meditation to the elderly your marketing material should clearly show that.

Also, you can advertise your class sessions by taking weekly online meditation classes, which will also help in increasing your clientele.

While advertising you should make use of techniques like word of mouth and media.

Word of Mouth: Tell your friends and family about your classes. Give them the marketing material to distribute.

Media: You can start marketing through a sponsored post on social media. Alternatively, you can also publish an ad on the radio or local newspaper or conduct a workshop and advertise it through the newspaper.

9. Start with a Few Students

If you want your students to appreciate your teachings and classes, you need to make sure they get individual attention.

The best way to make this happen is to start with a few students, or with a number that you can easily manage. Then you can increase your students gradually after ensuring that everyone gets quality tuition.

10. Constantly Update Yourself

A good teacher should always try to update himself on various techniques of meditation. This will help you to meet the needs of students as they will be sure of learning something new every time.

For grooming your knowledge, you must read various blogs, read books, take certified courses that will keep you updated regarding the techniques practiced around the globe.

Books for Meditation

A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness

The Comprehensive Session-by-Session Program for Mental Health Professionals and Health Care Providers.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

A 28-day program to realize the power of meditation as a daily practice.

Conclusion

Teaching meditation can be fulfilling as well as a tricky business, but by following proper steps with patience you can definitely flourish in this field.

Advertise well, pour all your love into the lessons you teach, and constantly update yourself. These things will bring magic to your business.

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