Welcome to our Meditation Training program. This training is an exploration and study of the fifth, sixth and sevenths steps of yoga (Pratyahara, Concentration and Meditation). Designed for both teachers as well as those who simply wish to deepen their own personal practice, this course consists of 4 weekend intensives covering all aspects of meditation found in traditional yoga.

Concentration is a method of mental purification and a means of acquiring knowledge. Just as a scientist concentrates the entirety of mind to the analyzing of the forces to be understood, the yogi enlarges their consciousness through intense concentration on the transcendent bliss of the soul.

It is often easy to concentrate outward—the senses and mind naturally move toward sensory objects. The yogi concentrates the mind inward—back on itself, as it were. As the mind turns inward, engaging in self-reflection, the very nature of reality begins to become revealed. The mind becomes absorbed back into itself and awareness of body, breath and surroundings disappears.

Concentration then naturally merges into meditation. As the mind concentrates on the object of investigation, through steady and consistent practice, the ability to remain undistracted strengthens. When the yogi has intensified the ability to concentrate for a period of time, beyond the misperceptions of name and form, resting solely in the true essence behind the gross manifest, that is meditation.

Concentration is the fixing of the mind on a single point; meditation comes when that fixation flows uninterrupted. Concentration and meditation eventually lead to Self-realization.