80-Hour Meditation Teacher Training

Find Stillness

Spiritual Heart Meditation, mantra practice, and Eastern wisdom traditions. YACEP certified, suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners.

✓ 80 hours, self-paced
✓ Prereq: 200-Hour Certification

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Ends in July 17

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Heart-Centered Teaching

Authentic, breath-based Yoga presented deep yet simple, so you grow into a confident self-practitioner, not just a credential holder.

Bring Bali Home

Video lessons filmed in our exclusive BALIWOOD studio, paired with Live Zoom Sessions. Practice with us from anywhere.

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Your enrollment supports the Plastic Exchange Project, feeding Balinese families by turning ocean waste into nourishment.

Over the past 15 years we empowered more than 1,100 yoga instructors , now successfully teaching on all 6 continents.

About this Training

This meditation training offers a rare integration of practices from Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Tantrism, Kashmir Shaivism, and Buddhism. Participants dive into Spiritual Heart Meditation, mantra practices, and self-inquiry within a supportive environment built for profound inner transformation.

The program equips students to teach meditation with confidence while deepening personal practice. Through guided sessions, philosophy study, and practical techniques, learners develop the skills to hold space for others and integrate meditation into daily life and teaching contexts.

Curriculum

What You’ll Learn

A grounded, sequential path. Each piece builds on the last.

Spiritual Heart Meditation combining heart centering, breath awareness, and self-inquiry

Mantra meditation using vocalized and silent techniques with bija mantras

Pranayama and asana practices to prepare body and mind for deeper meditation

Eastern wisdom: Vipassana, Tantrism, Kashmiri Shaivism

Western scientific perspectives on consciousness, brainwaves, and altered states

Meditation philosophy across cultures and historical traditions

Teaching methodologies for classes and workshops

Personal self-practice development and sustainable meditation routines

Meet Your Teachers

Heart-Centered Senior Teachers

Teachers who embody the practice and share it in a relatable way.

Burkhard

Founder, Lead Teacher · E-RYT-500

Master's in Psychology from the Free University of Berlin. Over 5,000 hours of yogic study since 2001, living year-round in Asia since 2007, including a 49-day solitary meditation retreat.

Kirsten

Co-Founder, Lead Teacher · E-RYT-500

From architecture and art history to fifteen-plus years of travel through India and Southeast Asia, devoted to classical breath-based Hatha, Yin Yoga, pranayama, and meditation.

Devdas

Lead Teacher · E-RYT-500

Found Hatha Yoga at 16, then spent 12 years teaching meditation in India under Swami Jnanananda and Sri Mooji. Has taught across America, Europe, Bali, Thailand, and Mexico.

Hareesh Christopher Wallis

Guest Teacher · Ph.D. Sanskrit, Berkeley

Yoga Alliance

Registered School · ID 87485

Since 2012

Bali-based Academy

RYT-200

Internationally Recognized

1,100+

Graduates on 6 Continents

Inclusions

What’s Included

✓80 hours of pre-recorded video content with lifetime access
✓Comprehensive course manual and training materials
✓Eight guided Mantra Meditation sessions with Devdas (15 minutes each)
✓Eight Spiritual Heart Meditation sessions with Kirsten (15 minutes each)
✓Eight Spiritual Heart Meditation sessions with Burkhard (30 minutes each)
✓Self-Inquiry and Heart of Oneness workshop module
✓Mudras flash card set and poetry/quotation booklet
✓Lucid Dreaming playlist for supplemental practice
✓One full-day silent meditation retreat experience
✓Ongoing community support and access to live calls

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