Connecting with Heart
Heart Rhythm Meditation Facilitator Training
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Benefits of Heart Rhythm Meditation:
- Improvement of Heart Rate Variability
- Improvement of Vagal Tone
- Enhanced Emotional Stability
- Resilience to Stress
Dates:
October 2024 - August 2025
Saturdays, 7 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. PST
Format:
4 interactive, virtual courses
*Bonus*
9, 1:1 Personal-growth Mentorship Sessions
*$1,125 value
Investment: $3,400
Full Payment: $2,900 - save $500
or
$340 Deposit + 9 Monthly Payments of $340
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Find the Power of Your Heartbeat & Lead with Confidence
Connecting with Heart is designed for both personal and professional development, offering an engaging learning experience of the foundational practices of Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM), synching your heartbeat and breath.Â
You will join a supportive and connected community of teachers and classmates to build a personal meditation practice to ease the effects of stress, expand your sense of well-being and connect more deeply with your heart.  Â
Via practicums, you will learn how to create an environment that cultivates vulnerability and connection between yourself and your future students, fully preparing you to lead with confidence upon certificate completion.Â
Connecting with Heart is Appropriate for:
- Beginners who have never meditated consistentlyÂ
- Meditation students that enjoy guided meditations and wonder, “Could I do this for others?”
- Healers (yoga teachers, energy workers, massage therapists, etc.) that want to expand their offerings
- Therapists and Professionals who coach individuals and want to incorporate meditation into their business
- Group leaders that want to incorporate meditation into their work with groups
- iamHeart community members interested in taking advanced courses but don’t feel ready or require a prerequisite
Curriculum
Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM) is an ancient meditation practice that syncs the breath and heartbeat.
iamHeart peer-reviewed research shows that regular practice of Heart Rhythm Meditation for more than 10 min a day over ten weeks, improves well-being, and that multiple measures of Heart Rate Variability and Vagal Tone show a consistent trend towards improvement in proportion to the time spent practicing meditation over ten weeks.
HRM is a safe, authentic and effective set of instructions and practices that allows you to reach a meditative state at will. Using this technique as a foundation, we reliably bring peace to traumatized nervous systems, increasing physical and emotional health, as well as mental clarity and sense of meaning.Â
The first course is a welcome to the Certification Program and an introduction to meditation as a whole.
Before breathwork, we are introduced to posture, connecting to our senses and sensation, and becoming aware of our breath.
We will finish this course with an introduction to the concept of Heart Rate Variability, an indicator of how your breath affects your heartbeat and your entire emotional and physical state.
Instruction and partner practicum on four practices & concepts: Six Basic Powers in Meditation, Rhythmic Breath, Full Breath and Swinging Breath.
Instruction and partner practicum on four practices: Touching the Heart, Radiant Heart, Heart Networks and Passive Breath.
Now that you know the ‘what’ of Heart Rhythm Meditation, the Practicum course polishes the ‘how’ as you build the skills of working with meditation students individually or in groups. You will learn the internal skills to handle group energy, giving you confidence in creating your guided meditation groups or maintaining your confidence and presence in 1-on-1 situations.Â
Course materials open the Wednesday before Saturday classes. All classes are held via Zoom on Saturdays, 7 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Course 1: October 5 – December 14, Thanksgiving break November 30th & December 7Â
Course 2: January 11 – March 8
Course 3: March 29 – May 31, Spring Break April 19 & 26
Course 4: June 14 – August 2
Mentoring to Guide Your Growth
Throughout the duration of Connecting with Heart, each student is supported with 1:1 personal-growth mentoring sessions to enhance your meditation experience.
Mentoring provides students the opportunity to address more intimate experiences that arise over the course of practice development. Our mentoring relationships are grounded in empathy, understanding and acceptance to create a safe and supportive environment for each mentee.
Through regular monthly one-to-one meetings your mentor will listen deeply from their heart and provide practices to address your unique needs and circumstances. The iamHeart Mentoring Program offers a unique approach to personal development, one that emphasizes the importance of connecting with the heart as a source of wisdom and insight.
