Meditation
Teacher Training
30th Year Anniversary Training
October 2- November 22rd
Fri 12-3p or 6 - 9pm | Sat & Sun 9am - 5:30pm EST
Hybrid (virtual or in-person)
Core Curriculum
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Meditation
🧠 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
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Yoga
💪 Yoga classes before every session
💪 Learn how to condition the body while training the mind
💪 Improve strength, flexibility and overall health using traditional yoga systems
💪 Learn classical yoga sequences
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Tibetan Buddhism
🌬️ 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
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Posture & Breath
🧘 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
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Class Structure
📕 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
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Professionalism
🧑🎓 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
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Public Speaking
🎤 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
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Career Teaching
📓 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
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Social Media
💥 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
Special Topics
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Subtle Body
🪢 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
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9 Stages of Development
📈 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
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Death Awareness
💀 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
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Silent Retreat
🛖 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
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Unconditional Love
💕 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
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Working with Kids & Families
👪 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
Lead Trainers
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Hector Marcel, Master Teacher
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
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Santy Wang, Assistant Teacher
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.
IG: @innermethods
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Requirements
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.
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Investment
Training tuition is $3,200
Payment plan options are also available:
Option 1: Use Afterpay at checkout for 4 installments of $800.
Option 2: Complete a deposit below of $500 before September 19th and 50% remaining tuition by October 1 and 50% remaining tuition by October 31st.
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.
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Certification
Upon completion of the training, you will receive a teaching certificate from Three Jewels. We do not guarantee employment upon graduating.
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Contact
If you have any questions about the training, please email trainings@threejewels.org
Nonrefundable and nontransferrable.
If you are not accepted in the training, you will be refunded your deposit.
Full tuition payment: $3200.
If you are not accepted in the training, you will be refunded.
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Scholarships
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.
Change the World Scholarships. If you are a wellness leader, therapist, parent, or under 21, you can apply for our Change the World scholarship. Use code “changetheworld” at checkout for $1500 off the training. Once your tuition is submitted, you will contacted to submit an application and verification to qualify for this scholarship. Apply now before spots fill up. Deadline is September 19, 2026.
Financial Aid Scholarships. We will have 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. Applications open August 25. Deadline to apply: September 1st.