Meditation Mentorship

🧱 Internalize the lineage & cultural background of this body of practices so that you can teach them appropriately, and ensure students reach all necessary realizations

🧱 Learn how to relate with students appropriately as a guide and a friend until you have achieved deep realizations

🧱 Understand the personal practice skills needed to guide students, and how to develop them with the help of guides who are further along the path

💎 Learn & practice how to teach karma and emptiness in an effective way to the level of your students

💎 Learn how to address common problems and concerns students have about applying karma and emptiness to their practice

💎 Learn how to guide students down the complete path to freedom, which includes the development of an open heart and the direct perception of emptiness

🥇 Learn about the intersection between what you love and how you should teach

🥇 Identify skills yourself, and receive reflections from peers

🥇 Develop personal talents and skills

🥇 Apply tools to shine in your own unique way as a teacher

📲 Learn about the current wellness climate and what works and what doesn’t work

📲 How to stand out in a sea of influencers and corporate sponsorships

📲 Create a personal “brand” or way to relate with your students that is natural to you, and understandable to them

📲 How and when to utilize social media to bring students into a class and support their learning

📲 How to use social media to support your practice and theirs

📲 Determine which type(s) of social media work for you and how to use them effectively

📈 Manage your personal practice so you can achieve realizations for the sake of your students

📈 Learn how to determine where a student is at in the progression of meditation from stage 1 to the final stages before the direct perception

📈 Internalize classic problems and how to spot them, and how to offer solutions to the students so they can progress deeper

📈 How to guide students to the direct perception, and how to support students who have surpassed your level of experience

⛰️ Identify where you are at in your spiritual practice and where you need to go in order to be an effective teacher

⛰️ Learn methods to go deeper in your practice, and how and when to use them

⛰️ Learn how and when to take deep retreat, and how to utilize retreat to achieve realizations in meditation

⛰️ Learn how to keep motivation for serving students

⛰️ Understand how to identify progress and success on the Tibetan Buddhist path to enlightenment and how to find and relate with a teacher as a teacher

Students can set up their own independent weekly class, or participate in private IRL or URL classes at Three Jewels studio.

For the first seven Sundays, there are weekly 2-hr lectures on key topics for beginner teachers: foundational practice, how to teach dharma, how to find your X-Factor, how to brand yourself and work on social media, how to guide students to deeper levels of meditation and how to maintain a lifetime mastery of practice.

Students will work with four different mentors for four different 1:1 feedback sessions. Mentors either attend or listen to a recording of a student’s class and then provide feedback and answer questions about the class in a private meeting.

After the weekly lecture, students have one week to apply the new tools they have learned to their weekly class and student conversations. The following week, students will share with the group [this is either IRL or URL], dive deeper into the topic with a master class lecture, and then have Q&A on the topic, before the following lecture.

For the first 7 weeks, students complete and submit a weekly class plan before they teach. This will be reviewed by the mentor prior to their 1:1 conversations and serves as a key development tool for students to share their plan, what actually happened in the class, and whether or not it met their expectations.

Rachel Webb is the Co-Executive Director of Three Jewels NYC, a 501c3 non-profit Enlightenment Studio that specializes in the preservation and dissemination of authentic Buddhist teachings in a modern and approachable way. Rachel has trained simultaneously in yoga and mental health services for the past decade. Rachel completed her certification in 18 Buddhist Sutra courses in 2019 with the Asian Classics Institute. She has over 6 years of experience working with people diagnosed with serious mental illness assisting them in achieving wellness goals. She has taught meditation and Buddhist dharma for the past 9 years, and yoga for the past 7 years.

Sachi Pettit is the Co-Executive Director of Three Jewels, where she mentors the next generation of yoga and meditation teachers, guiding them to embody and transmit authentic Buddhist teachings in a way that’s alive and accessible. For over a decade, she’s explored how ancient wisdom practices can transform anything - from her corporate consulting career to her closest relationships. Known for weaving discipline and devotion with curiosity and clarity, Sachi invites her students to move beyond self-limiting beliefs and step fully into their power. In addition to training extensively in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage of yoga and meditation, Sachi has completed the 18 Foundational Courses of Buddhist Philosophy through the Asian Classics Institute, and became a certified philosophy teacher in 2022. Her deepest gratitude goes to her teachers, who continue to reveal her path.

Santy Wang (they/them) teaches meditation in an approachable and applicable way to both beginning and advanced meditators. They teach from the heart and their personal experiences on how meditation applies to support their mental and emotional well being so others can be inspired to apply meditation in a similar manner. Santy is a formally trained fine artist and professional creative problem-solver who is currently the Experiential Producer at Nike's Brand Experience Design team. While maintaining a rigorous professional career during the week, Santy also maintains a consistent spiritual practice through the study of Tibetan Buddhism and meditation. Santy completed Three Jewels' 200-hour meditation teacher training in 2018 and has regularly been teaching meditation classes as well as supporting Three Jewels' Meditation Teacher Trainings.

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Rachel started meditating out of necessity when she realized how uncomfortable she had become in her own company. Getting quiet changed her into a radically better friend to herself (and to others, too). After getting a taste of Buddhist philosophy one summer afternoon, Rachel began studying foundational Buddhist texts and completed Three Jewels' 200-hour Meditation Teacher Training in 2021. As a teacher, she uses sharp insight and honest stories to inspire people to find meaning in their lived experience. Her goal is to help students expand who they think they are so they can make room for more laughter, acceptance, and unconditional love.

Sue (she/they) found Three Jewels using that ancient method of discovery: Google search! During the depths of the pandemic, Sue yearned for something to help calm and ease her mind. But what she found when she stumbled upon Three Jewels’ virtual meditation classes was so much more than they ever could have imagined. They became a committed student of Buddhist philosophy, diving deeply into the 18 Foundational Courses developed by the Asian Classics Institute, completed a 200-hour Meditation Teacher Training in 2021 and an Advanced Meditation Teacher Training in Tong Len in 2023, both with Hector Marcel, and dedicated themself to the magic of retreat and karma yoga (service). Sue served as a barista in the Three Jewels Cafe for more than a year, and currently helps manage Three Jewels’ Retreats offerings. She aims to help students feel safely held and completely cared for.

John-Chris is a Dharma, Meditation, and Yoga teacher at Three Jewels. An attorney for nearly a decade, John-Chris is a member of the oldest and largest public defender firm in the country, where he represents low-income elder New Yorkers at risk of eviction. John-Chris has completed both the Meditation and Yoga Teacher Trainings at Three Jewels, as well as formal mentorships in both modalities. He completed his 18 Foundational Asian Classics Institute (“ACI”) Sutra Courses in 2021. He loves to create, and loves to learn— by diving deep into the cultures and subcultures epitomized by this strange portal called the East Village. Finding ways to honor his lineage, and alchemize its teachings for the New York of today brings him joy.

​​Maya Thakrar (she/her) is a meditation teacher passionate about helping people unlock profound insights into their inner and outer worlds. In 2019, she completed her meditation teacher training at Three Jewels NYC, where she discovered the transformative power of meditation for cultivating radical realizations. Rooted in the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Maya’s practice emphasizes integrating these ancient principles into everyday life, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary. Since then Maya has continued to study the Geluk Tibetan Buddhist Lineage with over 1000 hours of dedicated study, including study retreats and solo silent retreats. 

Maya thrives on bringing communities together through meditation, infusing her classes with innovative prompts and fresh topics to inspire self-discovery and connection.

Supriya Jain is a strategist at an EdTech startup, and discovered Three Jewels on a lunch break. She has since become a daily meditator, curious yogi, and dedicated dharma practitioner. Supriya has 400 hours of meditation and yoga asana teacher training with Three Jewels, and over 500 hours of yoga asana & acupressure training with Rose Erin Vaughan. She has also completed a rigorous study of the 18 Foundational Buddhist Courses as offered through the Asian Classic Institute, which parallels the basic core of information that a Geshe (Doctor of Theology) learns at Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Supriya has volunteered on the Three Jewels Leadership team since 2018. She is currently Director of Dharma, and oversees production of all Dharma courses. Her motivation is to help others find the discipline and depthless joy of a spiritual practice that delivers extra-ordinary results. She is indebted to Three Jewels for revealing her teachers.

Christina Ionno was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She landed in New York working as a fashion model in 2008 and has been calling it home ever since. Upon discovering yoga and spending a decade as a devotee, her direct experience of the immense physical and mental benefits of this powerful practice sparked curiosity to learn more about it. Intuition and divine timing lead Christina to take a deep dive into the yogic arts in 2019 by completing a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Three Jewels NYC. She felt deeply inspired by the transformative experience that was had and quickly recognized her calling as a Teacher. Christina continued her studies with Three Jewels in 2020 by completing a 200-hour Meditation Teacher Training and graduated from the Three Jewels 6-month Meditation Teacher Mentorship program in 2021. Christina has a voracious appetite for studying dharma and is near completion of the Asian Classics Institute's 18 foundational Tibetan Buddhist courses and has embarked on her studies of the 18 advanced courses that follow. She teaches for and has trained extensively with the Yoga Studies Institute and has in-depth knowledge of the quintessential Yoga Sutras of Master Patanjali. Christina has mastered the ancient practices of Lady Niguma’s Yoga Level 1 and 2 and excels at leading others in these subtle body sequences. She now primarily guides this style of asana.

Javier has been practicing and guiding meditation for over 20 years. Most of it with the Three Jewels Sangha. Javier was in the first class at the Three Jewels meditation teacher training, and he is incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to share with our students the best technology we have available to attain ultimate, everlasting happiness.

Sam Wilensky is a New York based yoga, meditation and sound teacher. After a decade in corporate fashion, Sam spent years exploring various spiritual paths searching for deeper meaning. In 2019, a chance encounter led her to meet a Buddhist teacher—a pivotal moment that ignited her teaching and creative expression and became the unifying force behind all that she shares. Sam embraces the qualities of “Yin” as an all-day-long practice—a way of being that honors receptivity, patience, and the wisdom of ease. She weaves contemplative traditions with somatic awareness, prompting the discovery of all that's available when we release effort and yield to what is. Her teaching invites an artful exploration of the body, breath and mind, and an opportunity to soften beyond even the most stubborn habits of tension.

Kelly Magee is a meditation teacher and has been a teaching assistant at Three Jewels in NYC, specializing in supporting students in its Foundations courses and Meditation Teacher Training program. She completed her 200-hour Meditation Teacher Training at Three Jewels in December 2019 and has a background in nursing and a professional career in the healthcare field. 

Anyone who has completed a Three Jewels Meditation Teacher Training is eligible for this mentorship. This does not include people who have only completed the advanced, subject specific trainings, like Sleep & Dream Training, or Tonglen Training only. They must have completed a full Three Jewels Meditation Teacher training.

1/18-4/24 Mentee Weekly Class

1/18-3/1 Sundays Weekly Lectures 11:30-1:30pm

1/18-3/1 Sundays URL Group Work 7-9pm

Mentorship tuition is $1,500

Payment plan options are also available at $100/week, this option will pop up at checkout.

Once your tuition is submitted, you will be contacted to determine your availability to teach a weekly class.

Deadline is 1/1. Scholarship application deadline 12/15.

Upon completion of the training, you will receive a 50-hr teaching certificate from Three Jewels. We do not guarantee employment upon graduating.

If you have any questions about the training, please email trainings@threejewels.org

As part of our nonprofit mission, our goal is to support access to ancient wisdom techniques and training. That’s why we offer financial aid and impact scholarships to our Meditation Teacher Training.

Financial Aid Scholarships. We will offer 5 scholarships for applicants who demonstrate significant financial hardship and otherwise could not afford the training, even with a payment plan. Applications open December 4. Deadline to apply: December 15.