Becoming a Qualified Hridaya Meditation and Yoga Instructor

If you have already been on the joyful and spiritual journey that is a Hridaya meditation and Hatha yoga course or retreat then you will already know the experience can have a positive effect on many areas of your life. The natural next progression is to train to become an instructor, qualifying you to teach others by introducing them to their own spiritual hearts and helping to better their lives and themselves.

Becoming a qualified instructor requires for you to have previously attended one of the courses or retreats that Hridaya offers in a number of countries. The course is intensive and fits in 500 hours of classes and practice into a 3-month period. Anyone with the intention of studying to become a Hridaya Meditation and Yoga instructor needs to be passionate and disciplined in order to complete the course with skill and confidence to assist others in finding the inner peace, love, and the divinity of the Self within all of us. The know one’s Self deeply, beyond body and mind comes as a natural result of meditation. The revelation of the Self, the Spiritual Heart, is the highest goal of Hridaya. Furthermore, the course also gives practical guidelines to assist you in becoming a great meditation and hatha yoga teacher to others. This course reaches into your life far beyond its 3 month duration; when speaking of spiritual practice Nisaradatta Maharaj said, “Any true transformation is irreversible.”

Attendees of any of the yoga and meditation courses and retreats are expected to be cigarette, drug and alcohol free and naturally that expectation also applies to instructors. As a qualified Hridaya instructor you will be expected to maintain and encourage in others a health lifestyle that focuses around your clean and pure body with your heart at the centre. During the retreat a sattvic diet is maintained (no meat, garlic, onion, minimal sugar). Mauna (silence) is mandatory throughout the retreat to facilitate an attitude of internalization, and to create an atmosphere of both inner and outer stillness.

During your yoga teacher training course you will be required to complete 500 hours of classes, and there will be exams that require personal preparation and revision. Exams must be passed with a high percentage in order to complete the course and receive your yoga teacher training certificate. Hridaya promotes self-discipline and aims to raise self-awareness, discovering your inner being beyond body, mind, emotions, and even beyond thoughts. Instructors should take pleasure in sharing what they have learnt about themselves and the spiritual heart, and help others to achieve the same inner knowing of the Self.