DHARMA MOON 100-HOUR MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TEACHER TRAINING

"This training has helped refine my practice and equipped me with the tools, knowledge and understanding necessary to solidify my own practice and empower me to be an effective mindfulness meditation teacher."

"It was deeply meaningful in such a multi-dimensional way - from the teachings, how they were delivered, how students were interacted with and guided, lasting relationships made among the class, the practice deepening itself along with the understanding of it and the mechanics of the mind… the value and meaning of this experience cannot be fully stated with text, nor understated as a whole. Thank you."

"Changed my life as a human being all together."

"This program has been a tremendous first step in my path of trying to bring multifaceted wellness to others. It's built my confidence as a teacher and given me a spiritual community."

"It was wonderful, I am very happy with it. It helped me establish a firm practice and a clear way to communicate as a teacher."

"I don't know how to thank you enough. This course has meant the world to me, its helped give me my life back, helped me shift out of repeated freeze mode survival responses, from thinking that was home base, to seeing a more settled regular state as something achievable and that extending myself towards others and human connection is naturally and desirable in a felt-sense way that has been unavailable to me for most of my life. You've saved my life."

"I feel very empowered having gone through this program, and very grateful for these teachings, trainings, and for the support of this community and the accountability to practice and study."

"It's given me perspective on how to properly teach mindfulness meditation to fellow humans. It's opened many personal insights as well, giving me self-esteem to teach and work with others."

"This program means the world to me. I have wanted to train with Dharma Moon for years. I am also very grateful because everyone overall was very sensitive to those of us who may be grieving and/or those of us who may be neurodiverse. I also appreciate that I will now be able to pass on these teachings as an instructor in my community and offer it to more communities that I am part of in the future. I am deeply honored to have this certificate and learning experience from David Nichtern and Dharma Moon."

"It has given me the necessary tools to deepen my own practice and to learn how to help other with theirs."

"So grateful to David and the whole team. You are all amazing. Blessings! "

"So worthwhile and worth every penny."

"It was an amazing experience and I feel ready to teach! "

"It’s been paramount to my survival and stability through one of the most difficult transitions of my life. 🙏"

"I'm super grateful for this incredible opportunity to learn & grow with Dharma Moon."

"Thank you so much to David and all the teachers. It's very obvious the amount of time and love that goes into planning and running the program. It was a great experience."

"The tuition was a stretch for me but the training, education, and experience is worth MUCH more than the number of dollars required. Full stop."

"I really overcame lots of fears and everyone was so kind and supportive. Made it really easy to be myself."

"I am deeply grateful for this opportunity. Dharma Moon has given me another way to think about meditation and help others to learn how to practice Mindfulness  Meditation. I will always be grateful to share in this skill. The teachings throughout the levels were so compassionate and understanding of the students especially in consideration of the fearful time in history that we are learning how to learn through while constantly grieving and trying to heal in our communities. David Nichtern and Dharma Moon gave me the opportunity to continue working in my community with a connection to such honorable and compassionate expertise and source of learning. I am grateful beyond words that I can now instruct others how to meditate mindfully with heartfelt thanks to Dharma Moon. I will forever be grateful for this glimpse in how peacemakers do the difficult and wonderful work of shaping minds for peace. Thank you for the teachings, inspiration, kindness, and compassion."

"Loved the one-to-one mock sessions. I thought the practical focus of the training was very valuable. It's one thing to just sit and listen to people talk for hours and hours, but to connect with a practical method of teacher training over Zoom is truly a feat that Dharma Moon accomplished with aplomb."

"The course material is direct, simple, attainable and precise. I really feel confident. I know my strengths and weaknesses now and know I'm well prepared to teach right away."

"I've already been doing a few zoom meditations and I've got some workshops and more free and paid zoom sessions lined up. I'm really excited and confident. It’s no longer just a desire to change careers and focus on teaching yoga and meditation, it's become a necessary step in my life."

"A great program, wonderful teachings, excellent delivery and administration. Truly a world class operation :) I only wish it'd been a smaller group so I could've gotten to know all the teachers and my fellow classmates more personally, but also am glad to see so many people getting this empowering material <3"

"It was an immensely enriching experience that clarified the doubts that I had with my own meditation practice, and empowered me with the confidence and experience to effectively and systematically (in the nicest sense of the word) share the transformative practice with others."

"It opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me, deepened my practice and taught me skills that are helpful as a teacher and also in relationships."

"It meant the fulfillment of a long time desire to be "certified" to bring meditation into my yoga teachings. Also, given the circumstances of the training (first online due to pandemic), meant to be part of a community, to be connected in trying times and gave me the opportunity to dive even deeper in buddhists studies."

"It strengthened my own practice and allowed me to confidently share meditation with my high school students. Participating cleared my path for deeper spiritual practices & teaching yoga."

"The program was a transformative experience. My first real dive into meditation and Buddhism. Its changed the direction of where my life is going, and wanting to help to be of benefit to others."

"The program initially helped with my practice, but has turned into a place where I can deepen my spiritual path. Also, I now have a spiritual community where I can be supported and challenged. In addition, it has afforded me the opportunity to add to my " toolbox" for my career."

"I found it invaluable for both deepening my personal practice as well as giving me the skills and confidence to share mindfulness meditation with others."

"Although I was very familiar with mindfulness, I had not understood how it related to Buddhism. Since then I have taken more courses with Dharma Moon to deepen my learning. What I learn at DM is intellectually stimulating but most importantly, I believe that I now have more capacity to be compassionate."

"Getting trained in a community guided by an expert teacher was a priority for me. There's so many options for MMTT but I wasn't interested in learning with someone who doesn't have a solid history with the practice."

"The experience was excellent. Not only did it bolster my own practice, I learned a great deal about how to listen and teach others."

"It was a phenomenal experience - it enhanced my own practice and opened up a new world of study for me, which included readings, resources, and teachers."

"It has given me tools to begin helping others in a way that meditation teachers helped me." 

"I had been teaching but took off a few years because of illness. I felt I had lost my voice. This training was a powerful and empowering restart." 

"The Dharma Moon Meditation Teacher Training was an opportunity to hone my teaching language, learn from others and gain confidence in myself."

"I started teaching groups and like both the additional perspectives and certification of the course."

"It changed my life. I used meditation to escape. Due to a lifetime of traumatic situations and a lot of responsibility to make money and be a single parent I did not have the space or the internal resources to even fully remember my childhood much less work with how deeply it has affected how I relate to the world and my relationships. The support of the container, encouragement and connection with students and teachers and the information presented led me to waking up to all of this heavy stuff. Now I am a completely new creature, intensely aware of my past and my shortcomings, but able to feel compassion towards it and that it is workable everyday. The progress I’ve made personally around these issues leads me to feeling more confident as a teacher and member of my family and community. I’m completely floored by the entire experience."

"I attended this program after a 3 year break in teaching due to a combination of a spinal injury and the dissolution of the sangha I had been teaching through led to a crisis of faith. Returning to teaching after my MMTT training with David had a profound impact on my teaching and my personal practice."

"I learned so much and was able to start teaching meditation to family, friends, and fellow healthcare providers and patients effectively. It also deepened my practice tremendously."

"It offered a structured program, methodology, and information to deepen my existing meditation practice and think about what it means to have a conscious spirituality practice. It also gave me an opportunity and space to think about larger existential questions that touch on my individual responsibility to myself, to my community, and the world."

"It helped me continue my own journey of healing, and it helped me learn how to accept myself more and my experiences."

"This teacher training meant a lot of things to me - a path forward through a time of change, a community, a trusted and fun teacher, wisdom, support and love, tools in the tool belt and a certificate that validates my hard work and that will make others feel assured."

"It was one of the most significant things that I have learned. The way the program was developed allow me to gain confidence in sharing Dharma with others, and also help me to go deepen on my practice."

"After practicing yoga, cognitive behavioral therapy, and tons of other practices over the years to help curb my anger and calm my nervous system, it was mindfulness meditation that made the biggest difference."

"It helped /supported me and my meditation practice. It gave me the training and tools to teach meditation privately and to my elementary school students."

"I am teaching meditation workshops and weekly zoom meditations and incorporating this into my work with somatic coaching."

"Oh my. I’ve sent you all emails how powerful the experience was for me. It provided a framework to better understand my own practice and a clear way to share it with others."

"I wanted to learn and educate my mind to support my personal practice and I wanted to confidently communicate what mindfulness meditation is and is not to other peers and my clients."

"It was wonderful to see a teacher in action while training to be a teacher. David's ability to field all questions and answer them with stories and Dharma teachings taught me so much."

"We want more of David!! His experience is precious and his humour and laugh is just so fun and contagious. He makes Buddhism free of complex hang-ups. Of course I have to study more and more but David helped me open the way. Thank you!!"

"It was a very joyful experience."

"I’m very grateful for the experience and for all the effort that when into the training; from all resources (people, materials, time, etc..), to thoughtful support systems, to community during and after, and for the senior teachers sharing their knowledge which is so valuable.  Thank you!"