🪢 Learn how layers of the subtle body and consciousness affect meditation in the yogic tradition

🪢 Identify and utilize the 9 koshas to deepen meditation

🪢 Learn how the body, breath, nutrition, our environmemt and our karma affect our lives and how they work together to create pain, pleasure, or freedom

📈 Learn the 9 stages of progress to the deepest states of meditation known to man

📈 Learn how to progress through these stages of meditation

📈 Learn common problems and solutions that present themselves at each stage

💀 Learn Traditional Tibetan Buddhist approach to death

💀 Learn how to prepare for your death using meditation

💀 Learn perspectives on death that allow you to see death in a new way

🛖 Learn how to do a traditional silent solitary meditation retreat in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition

🛖 Understand the role of silent meditation retreat in a lifetime practice: how to know you’re ready, when to plan a retreat, etc.

🛖 Diet, exercise, sleep and how to choose a practice

🛖 Gain insights from Rachel’s most recent deep retreat

💕 Learn what unconditional love actually is and how to develop it

💕 Learn what makes unconditional love linked to unconditional joy

💕 Identify where you’re at on your progress towards love, and how to open your heart using traditional Tibetan Buddhist methods

👪 Learn how to conduct a wellness workshop event for families and children

👪 Meditation for parents, children or the entire family

👪 Yoga asana exercises for parents, children or the entire family

🧠 Build a regular meditation practice

🧠 Learn key meditation concepts

🧠 Learn to guide meditation effectively using traditional meditation techniques

🧠 Track practice progress, including states of mind, and development of compassion and wisdom

🌬️ Learn the true purpose of meditation and how it functions to bring one to Enlightenment

🌬️ Learn the laws of karma and investigate your reality

🌬️ Learn key Tibetan and Sanskrit phrases that support philosophical inquiry into meditation and understanding of key teachings

🧘 Learn the 8-Point Posture of Vairochana, a traditional meditation posture

🧘 Learn how to adjust this traditional meditation posture when it is not possible for students

🧘 Learn basic mechanics of the breath and supportive breathing

🧘 Learn how the breath can be utilized and trained for deep states of meditation

📕 Learn how to structure an effective meditation class

📕 Understand and apply key elements to include in a class structure

📕 Learn how to create a powerful class experience for any audience

🧑‍🎓 Practice teaching with regular feedback from peers and trainers

🧑‍🎓 Learn the ethics that make a meditator

🧑‍🎓 Begin to practice ethics that make a meditator in community

🎤 Learn how to speak in public in an effective inspiring way

🎤 Learn how to manage imposter syndrome and stage fright

🎤 Discover how to prepare your thoughts and present them in a relatable way

🎤 Cultivate authenticity in your teaching style

📓 Understand when students become qualified to teach

📓 Learn what is needed to make wellness am effective career

📓 Explore content development , pay, logistics, client relationships, student relationships

📓 Learn how teaching impacts your personal practice

💥 Learn how to identify and refine your personal style of meditation guidance with confidence

💥 Discuss how to represent your teaching on social media

💥 Learn how to connect with audiences in a relatable digestible way that is authentic to you

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 believes that anything is possible. She’s spent the past decade exploring the power of yoga and meditation to turn obstacles into opportunities. In her classes, she invites students to gracefully challenge their self-limiting beliefs through a sense of play, insight, and devotion to their own infinite potential. Her greatest joy is mentoring students & teachers and witnessing them step into their power to become guides for others. Sachi is a graduate of the Yoga Teacher Training and Meditation Teacher Training at Three Jewels. She has also completed her study of the 18 Foundational Buddhist Courses through the Asian Classics Institute, and became a certified philosophy teacher in 2022. Sachi is forever grateful to her teachers for unveiling her path.

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.

Tania began studying Yoga and Meditation when she first stumbled into the Dharma Yoga Center while she was pursuing her Bachelors in Fine Arts & Photography. Fallen in love with the practice and the compassion and discipline of her life long teacher Sri Dharma Mitra, she completed the first 200hr & 500hr Yoga Teacher Training Certifications. Since then, she has also studied with the Science of Self led by Dr. Rose Erin Vaughan where she completed the SOS 200hr YTT and the Meridian Yoga Therapy Level 1 & 2 Certifications as well as having worked as Teacher Assistant and Designer in all the Yoga and Meridian Yoga Therapy Trainings from 2017-2020. There is always much more to learn and NYC is a great place to find great teachers so in 2019 she hoped on the Three Jewels bandwagon and completed the 200hr Meditation Teacher Training, the Meditation Mentorship program and completed as well the 18 Asian Classic Institute Foundational Tibetan Buddhist Courses. Tania is also certified in Lady Niguma Level 1 from the Yoga Studies Institute where she also teaches Yoga & Meditation. At the moment, Tania is currently pursuing her Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, you can also find her leading Meridian Yoga Acupressure Workshops here in NYC and abroad. Tania loves to share all the wisdom that has been passed on to her, from each teacher and place she has studied with as well as from her own lived experience in all of these practices come join her in class and spend time with this vessel of kindness and joy!

Javier has been practicing and guiding meditation for 16+ 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.

At BEEM Future, Lauren Solomon, Shirley Roseman and their team blend mindfulness, movement, creativity, nutrition, and nature into everyday family life—reimagining wellness for the next generation. Through immersive classes, workshops, retreats, and curated events, we offer a holistic experience designed to help children and parents build calm, confidence, and emotional resilience.

At BEEM, we believe in helping families BEEM from within and BE ME—their most grounded, joyful, and authentic selves.

Hector Marcel has been studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism for over 25 years. He is a passionate organizational change management consultant helping executives drive transformational change in their organizations through an emphasis on culture, people, and service. He is a master teacher of meditation and Eastern philosophy, linking ancient Asian ideas to modern western systems for individuals and teams.

Hector serves on the board of the Asian Classics Institute, he is the director of the 108 Lives Project and is the president of Three Jewels. He believes that meditation opens the door to every personal achievement. Hector is treasured by his students for his immense kindness, humor, and generous wisdom.

IG: @wakeupist

Description goes herSanty 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.

Beginners are welcome to participate in this training, but it is expected that they sample at least 1 class with the lead trainer prior to commitment. Practice requirements, community involvement and home study will link the weekends together, giving students the opportunity to apply lessons to real life throughout the training. Students will be required to complete written homework and required reading of ancient and modern texts through the training. It is expected that students will maintain a regular meditation practice and a daily meditation journal. Students are responsible for purchasing books and supplies.

Training tuition is $3,000

Payment plan options are also available:
Option 1: Use afterpay at checkout for 4 installments of $750.
Option 2: Complete a deposit below of $500 before August 15th and remaining tuition of $2500 by September 15th.

Once your tuition is submitted, you will be contacted to submit an application and complete an interview. Deposit and tuition are non-refundable unless your application to the training is not accepted.

Scholarship applications open in August. There will be a limited number of scholarships available for applicants who demonstrate significant financial hardship and otherwise could not afford the training, even with a payment plan.

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