Inna Bliss Yoga is delighted to present Innate Being Meditation Immersion and Teacher Training

This unique course offers an inspiring and informed exploration of a natural, relevant and life-affirming approach to inner practice and meditation in its broadest sense.

While it aims to develop teachers, coaches and other practitioners in facilitating healthy inner practices in their students and clients across a wide range of contexts, the training also provides a wonderful immersive experience for those focused solely on developing their own personal journey.

It has been developed and is presented by Alison Potts, a highly skilled, experienced and much-loved teacher in the Brisbane and global online meditation space.

The course focuses on contact hours, personal and teaching practice, group study and discussion and is enriched by the inclusion of experienced guest contributors offering areas of specialist focus and support.

Held at the beautiful, light-filled Inna Bliss Yoga studio in Camp Hill, the course runs from March until late May 2024!

“I can’t begin to tell you how much the course has meant to me. It is life changing and I had no idea it would be so amazing. It is such a blessing to have met Alison and to have the opportunity to take this journey and experience her immense wisdom and compassion.”

Janice, Psychologist, 2022 Graduate

About Innate Meditation

The gift of meditation is that it allows us to enter more deeply into the thrill and wonder of being alive. Everyone has access to meditation - it is innate, it is built-in, it is our birthright. It is a universal phenomenon. Meditative experiences arise spontaneously whenever we are paying attention in a loving way.

Innate meditation is a flexible, natural and individuality-honouring approach to inner practice which recognises that there are skills we can cultivate to enter our inner space and open up the currents of our instinctive wisdom and inner healing. It celebrates experiential learning and draws also from neuroscience, psychology and spiritual life in the broadest sense.  It recognises the work of key developers in the field of instinctive meditation, particularly Lorin Roche PHD and Camille Maurine and the strong traditions of instinctive meditation that have developed since the beginning of time.

Innate meditation favours the path of feeling and embodiment to initiate healing and strengthen our engagement with life. The practice recognizes that individuals’ private inner lives are unique and sacred and encourages teaching approaches which hold space for that and which facilitate freedom rather than impose restriction. It is an accessible, healthy and rewarding approach to inner practice and can be accessed by everyone in every possible context.

What are the Benefits of Instinctive Meditation and Where Can It Be Taught?

Meditation is an essential deeply rewarding tool for self-care, wellbeing and personal growth. Facilitated in healthy ways, it can be used to strengthen our individuality, self-relationship and connection to others. It increases our sense of pleasure, thrill and wonder at being alive. It has impact on our emotional, physical and spiritual thriving.

It is possible to learn and cultivate healthy and thrilling ways of tuning into the intuitive wisdom of our body, heart and spirit as well as developing the vital art of healing anything that is getting in the way of our self-love, self-worth and individual expression.

Some examples where meditation can be used include:

• In yoga classes and workshops

• In workplaces, schools and universities

• In alternative and mainstream health and wellness settings

• To support treatment of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, addiction and eating disorders

• With children, parents and parents-to-be, in aged care, palliative care, prison, schools and in supporting those with disabilities and chronic illness

• Within a personal coaching context, in both private and workplace settings

Facilitated in this approach meditation can be taught in schools and universities, psychology practices, alternative and mainstream health, yoga classes, retreats, a range of therapeutic environments and in individual coaching.

Who Is this Training For?

This training has been specifically created from a desire to propagate the practice and facilitation of healthy meditation far and wide so that as many people as possible can reap the mental, emotional and spiritual benefits that can result from a thriving inner life.

The training is therefore intended for three broad categories of participant:

• Those with an interest in inner practices who wish to deepen their understanding and experience

• Those who wish to specialise in teaching meditation

• Teachers, clinical practitioners and coaches of all kinds who wish to learn how to incorporate meditation in enhancing the service they deliver to their students, patients and clients

What Will I learn from the Training?

The overall vision for the course is that participants:

• will leave feeling they are in a rich, regular and developing personal meditation practice

• are confident they can facilitate meditation for others and have a developing sense of their own style and approach

• will recognise and integrate the Five Principles of Innate Meditation and the values of a sensitive use of language that promotes engagement and embodiment rather than detachment and witnessing

• will develop an understanding of personal gateways, cherishing instincts and individuality and a repertoire of different styles and ideas for facilitating meditation in a range of contexts

• will learn how to facilitate healthy meditation that allows each student to have their own unique experience

Course Curriculum

• The Principles of Instinctive Meditation & Key Skills of a Meditation Teacher

• Meditation History and Philosophy. Pitfalls and Problems Within the Meditation Teaching Arena

• Making Meditation Healthy: The importance and benefits of inner practice and self-care tools; the science of meditation

• Creating an Inner Sanctuary and Full Mind-Body Welcome, understanding the Stress-Relaxation Response in humans

• A Dynamic Approach – embracing the path of feeling and experience.

• Cherishing Individuality, Instincts, Inner Guide and Sacred Inner Space

• Developing Personal Gateways to Meditation

• Healthy and transforming ways of being with thoughts, feelings, instincts and embodiment in Inner Practice

• Enlivening our senses & Falling in love with breathing

• Meditation off the Mat – micro practices; making meditation and ally of life and vice versa; living meditation 24-7

• Meditation for Mental Health & Trauma-Sensitive Approaches

• Active and Restorative Yoga and Meditation, Mantra, Mudra, organic movement and sound

• Teaching Skills: tuning in, facilitating healthy inner practice, creating freedom for individuality, respecting the validity of personal experience, using sensitive language and cues, creating space for inner experience, teaching from the heart, class planning, theming and methods of inspiration, continuing personal development and inner work

• Teaching in a range of contexts – classes, workshops and private mentoring; facilitating to special communities, supporting workplace, health and educational needs and setting up your business.

• Key Attributes of a Meditation Facilitator and Taking the Seat of Teacher –Empowering your personal self-care and abilities, being confident, genuine and living and loving what you teach!

Teaching Faculty

Dates Of Training

2024 Course commences in April 2024. Applications are now open!

5 Day Intensive : April 17th - 21st

Weekend 1 : May 4th - 5th

Weekend 2: May 18th - May 19th

Weekend 3: June 1st - 2nd

Weekend 4: July 13th - 14th

Weekend 5: July 20th - 21st

* All class-based training will take place at the Inna Bliss Yoga studio in Camp Hill.

Weekday Times: 8.30am - 4.30pm. Weekend Times: Saturdays: 10.30am - 5.30pm and Sundays: 9.30am - 3.00pm

A 90% attendance rate is required by all participants for full completion and certification of the course.

Contact Hours & Accreditation

The above mentioned schedule will provide 99 hours of direct contact time with an additional 8.5 hours allocated for personal work.

In additional to these formal learning activities, participants will be expected to develop their personal meditation practices in their own time and will be offered “homework prompts” for each area covered. While there is no prescription for this, daily practice is advised.

Every attendee who completes the full training will receive a certificate of completion. Yoga teachers who have completed a recognised 200hr training will also be eligible for Continuing Education points with Yoga Alliance.

Pricing

Full course cost : $2666 (Payment Plans Available below)

Early Bird: $2444 (Before December 31st)

A $600 (non-refundable) deposit is due by all applicants upon successful acceptance into the course

Payment Plans Available (after deposit is paid)

6 month payment plan - November - April @ $365 per month

5 month payment plan - December - April @ $438 per month

4 month payment plan - January - April @ $547 per month

Submit Your Application

Eligibility and acceptance into this course is determined via the below application form

Testimonials

“I can’t fully articulate the impact this course has had on my life. I signed up to a meditation training and have been taught so many skills and amazing practices, that I am now so confident sharing and teaching. But I have also gained so much more. I feel so transformed and my life feels so enriched.”

Aleisha, Yoga and meditation teacher, Graduate 2022.

“Words cannot express the gratitude I have for this training and the teachings. Alison teaches in a unique way and her gifts have changed me personally and professionally and profoundly.”

Barbara, Osteopath and Yoga Teacher, Graduate 2022

“The wisdom and boundless amounts of knowledge that Alison shares in this training, and the energy and enthusiasm she puts into planning and facilitating each session, makes it a rich and wonderful immersion into meditation. I have already felt the changes in my life. The world is brighter, more luscious and richer.”

 Katrina, Teacher, Graduate 2022

“A truly life-affirming experience!  Alison’s generosity and content delivery was beyond words. A combination of academic finesse and lived experience were abundant. It is clear that this is her heart and soul – her absolute purpose here on Earth. Never have I felt more permission to be who I truly am. I cannot recommend this training highly enough. I so look forward to sharing and building upon this.”

Erin, Graduate 2020

“This course is a life changing, life -enhancing training. Whether you are looking for a course that offers personal life supporting, self -healing practice or a course that offers a professional practice pathway, this training provides both. Alison has a gift, that she generously shares through this course.”

Janine, Graduate 2020

“This course does not just give you a template and some rules and send you on your way. This course fully equips you with an extensive range of tools to fully engage with life and all of life's experiences - no rules! It has empowered me to be my own ally, nurturer, protector, and mischief maker. It has changed my life in more ways than I ever expected and am so grateful to Alison and to Inna Bliss for this incredible gift and opportunity “

Lisa , Graduate 2020

“This beautiful offering has been a shining light in what has been a challenging 2020 I am just gobsmacked by Alison’s incredible ability to create such a beautiful learning space. Her training has shown me how much I have inside me and that I have so much to give to others. I have so many ideas in my head of what is next for me and I am excited. I haven’t felt this alive in a long time.”

Christina, Graduate 2020

“Alison is one of the most passionate, intuitive and elegantly expressive people I have ever met, and a truly remarkable teacher” I will.be forever grateful to have been her student and will continue to practice and share the techniques of Innate Meditation to all those who wish to be guided.”

Catherine, Graduate 2020

“This training provides a space for profound transformation. Putting into words how life changing these months have been is proving a hard task. I feel like I have undertaken a profound metamorphosis during this course and I am excited to see where the journey will take me.”

Rebekah, Graduate 2020