Vedic Meditation Initiator Training
WITH JONNI POLLARD
March 2024 – February 2025 | 12 months - 1600hr | Up to 1200 rounds
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Jonni Pollard is offering a unique format of initiator training that supports those with worldly obligations, to take the journey to becoming a teacher of this profound technique and body of knowledge.
Jonni will be offering ‘initiator training’ as a 12-month intensive learning program that will be facilitated partly in person with him and your cohort in India and partly online from anywhere that you are in the world.
This will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to be immersed in over 1600hrs of learning, practice and training. You will have the opportunity to complete up to 1200 rounds over the 12-month period. The effect of which will elevate you into profoundly higher states of consciousness, elegantly integrated over 12 months.
The result will be a deep expansive awareness stable in the face of demands, ready to step into the role of Vedic Meditation Initiator.
Why become a meditation teacher?
When we graduate as a Vedic Meditation teacher, we enter into an incredible power stream of momentum that has been generated by masters over thousands of years.
Known as the Holy tradition, we carry on the legacy of masters that were devoted to liberating themselves and others through this elegant practice and knowledge. The privilege to teach within this lineage affords us access to a level of reality that is otherwise almost impossible to attain.
This 12-month training is a catalyst event for profound awakening and transformation. It will prepare you to stand with stability and confidence in your highest self to lead others into this experience and reshape our society through your efforts.
“Becoming a Vedic Meditation teacher has held me to the highest account to my values and conscience. The role as an initiator has been the most reliable mechanism for orientation for me in the most challenging times of my life”
What to expect?
In March 2024 you will begin your training in the mother land of the Veda, India. For three weeks you will bond deeply with your colleagues while delving into the heart of the teachings and practices - all the while moving into high rounds.
Over the following 10 months after returning home, you will be led by Jonni through a nourishing curriculum of transformational Vedic knowledge, practice and testing, while being supported by your colleagues in a collective learning format.
For a 3 month period you will be personally mentored by Jonni in weekly sessions to assist you to gain visibility on where limiting beliefs are rooted and then trained how to remove them.
You will gain authentic clarity on what Being in your power feels like with a road map for how to guide your students to have this experience.
In the final month of your training, you will return to India for a 3 week retreat of high rounds, examinations and if successful, your graduation as a Vedic meditation teacher.
What will you learn?
You will be masterfully trained by Jonni in –
The art and science of how to teach Vedic Meditation.
The role and responsibility of being a Vedic Meditation teacher
In depth understanding of how to manage your students complex meditation experiences.
How to support and mentor your students after you have taught them
How to build a community around your teaching practice
Advanced practices that will increase the power of your presence in the role as VM teacher
How to integrate and embody deep Vedic knowledge
How to regulate and stabilize your awareness while releasing deep stress
Why take this training with Jonni?
Jonni has immersed himself in the Vedic tradition, its knowledge and practices for 30 years. He has had the great fortune to sit at the feet of great masters from different lineages within the Vedic tradition. Through this he has cultivated a unique perspective on the practical application of knowledge and practices and how it can be lived in daily life to maximize awakening.
Jonni’s approach to teaching Vedic meditation extends beyond the teaching of the technique, to encompass a wholistic understanding of the students journey to awakening. Jonni’s 15 year private practice in ‘Veda therapy’ –a spiritual based psychotherapeutic approach to healing trauma, informs the curriculum of this training and the teachers approach to holding space for their students.
He places enormous emphasis on the practical understanding of the human condition in order to awaken and stabilize the authentic spiritual experience. Jonni will train you to be an immense force of support in the lives of your students. This is something that is unique to Jonni’s training format.
“One of the unique points of this training are the extended modules of learning about humanizing the role as teacher, how to mentor your students to integrate the everyday human experiences with in their deeper spiritual reality .”
The prerequisites and conditions of registration.
It is essential that you have been practicing Vedic meditation for at least 2 years.
That you have attended at least one Vedic meditation rounding retreat and engaged up to 8 rounds a day.
That you can commit to the year long program without causing undue pressure or strain on you or your immediate family.
That you can travel to India twice in the 12-month training unrestricted by obligations, for 3 weeks at a time.
That you can commit to 90% of weekly calls scheduled through the 12 months.
That you can commit to a vegetarian diet , abstaining from alcohol or elicit substances for the duration of the training.
That you agree to abstain from sexual activity through various components of the training during the year.
That you agree that it will be at the discretion of Jonni to determine if you are eligible for graduation after the 12 month training. Completing the training does not guarantee graduation.
If you are unsure you meet the prerequisites, please apply and we will support you to understand whether this training is for you at this time or not.
Aside from learning to teach Vedic meditation what else will I learn?
Over the 12 months there will be several weekend knowledge retreats either in person or online depending where you are in the world.
The first series of retreats will show case the foundational knowledge of the Vedic World view and its practical application for embodying higher states of consciousness. Included in these retreats will be learning and extended practice of advanced techniques.
Included in this program is a 3 month mentoring program. This will involve you being personally mentored by Jonni. In the final month you will be instructed in how you can facilitate a mentoring process with your students. This will also count as module 1 of the two year ‘Veda Therapy’ training that Jonni will be offering in the future.
Your Investment
The training tuition varies from country to country to create some equality in variation of currency. You will only be able to pay in the currency of the place you reside. If your currency is not listed please let us know where you live and we will provide the tuition in your currency.
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USD 20,000
GBP 16,000
EUR 18,000
AUD 26,000 + GST
INDR 14500000
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6 weeks room and board in India.
All training and course materials including puja kit and Holy tradition. (note books not included)
Lifetime support and membership to a global alliance of Vedic Meditation Teachers.
Monthly group mentorship via zoom, Post graduation.
50% off 2024 and 2025 vibrate Higher India Immersion retreat - Rishikesh
75% off Living the Veda retreat 2023
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Travel to and from your home country to India
Ayurvedic treatments while at the ashram in India
Travel and accommodation if traveling to Byron Bay to attend weekend knowledge retreats in person.
Note books.
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We will reach out shortly after we receive your application and arrange a time to discuss the training in greater depth with you. Our aim will be to assist you in understanding if now is the right time to embark on the journey to becoming a VM teacher.
Shortly after this call, we will inform you if your application is successful. If you have not been able to meet our criteria, we will work to support you to be ready for following years cohort.
If you are successful, you will be required to pay a registration fee of $5000 AUD to secure you spot. Your final payment will be required by no later that Jan 30, 2024. We will consider payment plans only in special cases.
As we approach the commencement date there will be a series of group calls with the entire cohort to begin preparations for the training.
”Your embodied mastery will become the most influential dimension of your teaching. It is not enough to understand the knowledge intellectually, it must be lived in action. This format of training maximizes integration and embodiment.”
FAQs
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Yes you can and we encourage you to fill out the application and speak with us about how we can support you to prepare for training in the future if you are yet ready.
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Application deadlines will be Jan 30, 2024. However we encourage you to apply and register as early as possible so you may maximize the support we provide in preparing you for the training.
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There are several important reasons.
• The 12 month training enables many whom have
families and jobs that are restricted from taking
this much time away from these responsibilities.
• It is a format that promotes integration of the
learning and upleveling as we go.
• In some cases in the 3 month program, there is
demand to leave your work and give up where you live in order to afford to take the training. In this format you are able to continue working and living where you are. This supports the integration process far more effectively.
• The concentration of high rounds in the 3 month format often takes graduates significant time after the training to reground and stabilize what they have just experienced.
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It will be certainly be beneficial for you to have completed these programs, However it is not a prerequisite as there will be similar offerings within the year long training.
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In the first two weeks of March 2024 we will be in an ashram in the south of India. The Ashram has a world class Siddha/Ayurvedic clinic where teachers in training will be encouraged to engage in daily treatments to support them moving into high rounds. The food is of the highest Sattvic quality and ideal for the intensive rounding program. In the third week we will travel to the north of India to receive the teachings of the puja while we practice together on the banks of the ganga river in Rishikesh. This 3rd week will coincide with the Jonni’s Annual Vibrate Higher India retreat. While you will be staying at the same place as the others on that retreat you will be on a different program to the retreat participants.
The 3 weeks of the 12month training in Feb 2025 will be similar to this schedule. You will receive the final part of the training and be tested in Rishikesh.
