Meditation & Spiritual Health Enrichment Program

Are you a yoga therapist or yoga teacher looking to better serve your students and 1:1 clients Spiritual Health? Are you interested in a bio/psycho/social AND Spiritual approach to your client/patient care? Do you want to better understand Spiritual Health in your own life and receive guidance in a variety of meditation skills and techniques? Would you like to guide individuals or create curriculum for meditation groups, but not sure how to begin? This Enrichment Course and Professional Mentorship is for you and I am ready to guide you on your way to success!

Expert Guidance

Learn from Swami Lisa's decades of training, teaching individuals, facilitating groups and personal experience. My job, and calling, is to guide you as a professional care provider seeking greater understanding and experience of spiritual health, and ensure that you have the confidence, compassion, knowledge, and skill set to guide others.

Personal Growth

This course not only mentors you in guiding others, but also aids in your personal spiritual journey. Each month you will meet with Swami Lisa 1:1. In these sessions your personal spiritual health is at the forefront of our work together. You cannot offer someone or groups of others help if you do not have substantial personal experience and understanding.

Earn CE Certificate

Completion of this year long mentorship and fulfilling all of the course requirements earns you a 'Meditation & Spiritual Health Mentorship Certificate' for 108 hours of study and application of yoga therapeutics. CE credits can be obtained with Yoga Alliance or you can apply to submit to your own professional members organization for continued education credits.

Imagine Guiding Self & Others in Spiritual Health ~ Toward Greater Inner Peace

Signing up for this course will equip you with personal mentorship; cultivating experiential wisdom, knowledge, and the skillful means to make this dream a reality.

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More Details Level One

Mentorship in Meditation & Spiritual Health with Lisa Pearson/Swami Swarupananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, YACEP

Level One: Anchoring in Daily Sadhana (October 28^th, 2024 – January 29^th, 2025)

Overview:

Our Level One begins with Anchoring in Daily Sadhana Establishing your own personal spiritual practice is setting a foundation for yourself as a guide and preparing for the work in reconnecting others to their true nature and to their spiritual health, and wellbeing.

This is the first mentorship in a 3-part series entitled Mentorship in Meditation & Spiritual Health. The three styles of meditation we go over and take into our sadhana practice in the level one mentorship are as follows (several additional styles are added in levels 2 and 3 of this Mentorship series):

Guided Meditations and Explorations
Inquiry Meditation
Yoga ~ Pratyahara/Dharana, Dhyana

As people who serve others, we want to guide our clients into balance through every aspect of their Being. Concentration, Contemplation, and Meditation in particular, are paths within Yoga that we may overlook or perhaps feel less than adequate to teach others. LEvel One's Anchoring in Daily Sadhana (spiritual practices) is designed to support you in your sadhana first and foremost, and then guide you into taking your experiential knowledge and insight into your work as a Teacher, Therapist or Care Provider.

You will be supported and held in sacred space with a cohort where you will have the opportunity to share your writings and experiences. The Level 1 Mentorship closes with you sharing a guided meditation script and your level 1 sadhana and mentoring summary live in session with your cohort. Lisa and cohort will offer feedback, encouragement and insights.

Please note: What you learn from the level 1 Mentorship will feed into level 2 and 3 and serve as methods for your own teaching curriculum. Over the course of the next two levels in this complete Mentorship, you will become fully prepared and confident to lead a variety of meditation methods and techniques to individuals and in group settings. The level 2 & 3 cohorts will also be mentored in advanced yoga meditation sadhana by Swami Swarupananda. Suggested reading lists and sadhana practice logs are included.

This full 3- part mentorship will give you all the tools and experience you need to confidently support your community in spiritual health through meditation, regardless of any religious affiliation or belief.

The Level One Mentorship Assignment:

Complete an intake on yourself and submit to Lisa (intake link emailed upon registration)
Attend Lisa’s introductory Zoom (or listen to the recording)
Read the required text and listen to the recommended podcast, a link will be given on the introductory call and follow-up email from Lisa.
Commit to your weekly sadhana and take notes
Keep a spiritual journal
Meet privately with Lisa to discuss your practice and receive support
Develop your own guided meditation script
Complete a brief re-assessment survey via jot-form/email
Share your own guided meditation script and mentorship summary as final presentation

More Details Level Two

Mentorship in Meditation & Spiritual Health _Level 2

Advancing Daily Sadhana, Additional Methods and Techniques of Meditation, Teaching Meditation 1:1

February 12 – May 21, 2025

In this next step on your Mentoring process you will further deepen your personal sadhana and learn how to start others on a spiritual health journey with meditation. You will become prepared to lead a variety of meditation methods and techniques to individuals as 1:1 Yoga Therapy for Spiritual Health.

Over the course of the mentorship you will complete three case studies, guiding clients through techniques of meditation to address their spiritual health. You will write and record a guided meditation /healing meditation script for one client and share the recording to a google.drive as part of your final presentation. You will also be mentored in advanced yoga meditation for your personal sadhana. Suggested reading lists , listening and practice assignments and sadhana practice log is included.

This Mentorship Level begins with an initial 3 hour discussion on helping others to cultivate a personal meditation sadhana. Swami Swarupapanda will lead you in a practice session of additional meditation techniques to add to your yoga therapy tool kit. Included will be slide/booklet for content reminders, a practice log for your records, all necessary links and a book recommendation list.

You will also have the opportunity to complete three private 30 minute mentoring sessions (additional time available if desired) with Swami Lisa to review your personal sadhana and receive guidance in cultivating your competence in offering yoga therapy for spiritual health with your three case study clients. You will have the entire mentorship period to complete your practices, journaling, case study client sessions and homework. You may ask for guidance and give updates to Lisa throughout the duration of the mentoring time. Your case study write up and final report is due on at least one day prior to your closing mentorship call.

This Mentorship Level closes with you sharing your experiences and reporting one case study write up -live in session with a small group cohort. Lisa and Michele will offer feedback and insights. You are also asked to share one recording of a guided meditation that you prepared for this client. Recordings will be shared with the full Mentoring Group on a google drive link.

In addition to advancing our Self Inquiry, Guided, and Yoga Meditations (see more info*) we will discuss and potentially practice the following types of Meditation in this Mentorship:

Tratak, Moon Gazing, Yantra Meditation

Mantra, Japa Meditation

Kirtan Kriya

Metta Meditation and Tonglen

Prose Meditation

The Four Directions

Labyrinth and Walking Meditations

Shinrin-Yoku/Forrest Bathing/Eco Therapy

Drumming /Exotic Dance/ Whirling

Kriya Yoga Ritual

Feeding Your Demons

More Info*

Teaching 1:1 Self Inquiry Meditation:

What will you ask on a Spiritual Health Intake Form?–( examples: what is important to you and why? how do you connect to or work with Ishvara Pranidhana and what is the outcome?)
Guiding others in station and stage - relevance to goals
Guiding others in starting and keeping a Spiritual Journal

Offering Guided Meditation 1:1

Writing guided meditations specifically for your clients spiritual health goals/needs
Mentorship Guided Meditation recordings by Swami Lisa

Advancing Yoga Meditation Sadhana ; teaching 1:1 dose and dosage of shat kriyas and advancing your own practice .

Personal advancement dosage; adding repetitions, adding kumbahka, adding bandha
Personal advancement; Rotating Kriya currents
so hum or hong sau? (Personal guidance with Swamiji)
ADVANCED - When one is ready (for those who cultivate consistency in sadhana)
cueing directives in teaching pranayama to beginners
recording practice sessions for clients to create
creating your own personal library of meditations and spiritual health offerings to share with your community

More Details Level Three

Mentorship in Meditation & Spiritual Health _Level 3

Advancing Personal Meditation Sadhana, Group Yoga Therapy for Spiritual Health

June 4 – September 17, 2025

This Mentorship Level begins with an initial 3 hour discussion on continuing to develop your meditation skill-set and accumulating further tools to assist your community in their Spiritual Health goals. Swami Swarupapanda will guide you in the process of taking a group through an 8 class series dedicated to Meditation & Spiritual Health. We will also discuss ways to offer Meditation through Group Yoga Therapy Sessions and Meditation Workshops. Included will be slide/booklet for content reminders, all necessary links and a book recommendation list.

Over the course of the mentorship you will complete one full case study reviewing your experience in; Guiding a group through techniques of meditation to address their spiritual health. (a group implies three or more students that attend sessions together in the same format)

Expectations:

Your offering needs to be based in Group Yoga Therapy for Spiritual Health

Select one of the followingoffers:

Four Weeks or More - Group Sessions (group=3 or more individuals)
Meditation/Spiritual Health Workshop (3 hours or longer)
Create an Online Evergreen Course with a minimum of four sessions

You will also be mentored in advancing your Kriya Yoga/meditation for your personal sadhana

PLUS : Included in this mentorship is an example and an opportunity to experience everything that is required of you. We will come together in live online sessions for an 8 class Group Yoga Therapy for Spiritual Health Series titled “W.O.W. Gatherings”, you are also invited to participate in a 3 hour Workshop titled “Be-coming”, where you will learn to identify vikalpa and create your own unique sankalpa as well as how to guide others to do so. Lastly, you will receive a free link to Swami Lisa’s online evergreen program “Mercy Meditations; Inspired by the Compassion of Kuan Yin” = W.O.W. Gathering Dates TBD

NOTE* Those who complete all three levels of this Mentorship in Meditation & Spiritual Health, will receive a Meditation & Spiritual Health Yoga Therapeutics Certificate of completion for 108 Hours of CE

PLUS you'll receive these ADDITIONAL BONUS Sessions!

What is the time commitment?

Each Level has a 3 hour Kick-Off Session from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Pacific (3 levels total = 9 hours). Oct. 28, Feb. 12, June 4. Replays available

Each Level offers you 4 - 30 minute 1:1 Sessions (12 - 1:1 sessions total = 6 hours)

Each Level requires personal research/practice and study = approximately 6 hours per Level (3 Levels = 18 hours)

The entire year long Mentorship requires your personal sadhana commitment to your meditation and spiritual health practices (this could range from 30 minutes per week = 26 hours, to 30 minutes per day = 182.5 hours, or more). This measurement is in your control/intention, #yourgoals

For those seeking professional mentoring hours with IPYT or those wishing to create curriculum see Homework and case study requirements for Levels 2 & 3. For non- IPYT mentees this is optional homework and not a requirement.

Optional W.O.W. Sessions (Replays available) Level 3 offers you additional experiential Group Yoga Therapy Gatherings in 6 - 90 minute Sessions (= 9 hours)

Optional Spiritual Health Workshop Level 3 also offers you a supporting experiential workshop on Sankalpa = 3 hours Replay available

Each Level closes with a 3 hour cohort sharing and optional peer/mentor feedback (3 Levels = 9 hours)

____________________________Approximate Total Mentoring Hours = 54

Approximate Total Sadhana (your spiritual practices) Hours = 26 to 182+ you decide

Approximate Total Homework/Building Curriculum for 1:1 & Groups = 27 to 54 Hours

***Only mentioned here: Typically Swami Lisa offers BONUS sessions in Level 2 as well. These will be opportunities to practice some of the meditation techniques we discuss in Level 2. These surprise bonus offerings would also be recorded. Potential possible hours = 3 to 6

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You can make the most of this Mentorship by committing to a year of study, deep practice, and curriculum building - or you can allow this to be an introduction to meditation and discovery of your own Spiritual Health without the goal of building curriculum.

The amount of time you put into this Mentorship is totally up to you and how you wish to meet your personal and professional goals.

Learn More About Your Mentor

Lisa Pearson, Swami Swarupananda

C-IAYT, E-RYT500, YACEP

My yoga teaching path began in the early/mid 90’s with my first teacher training in the basement of a beloved and long standing local Iyengar Yoga Teacher. We used the monthly Yoga Journal Magazines over the course of a year as our manuals - 😁 - reading YJ from cover to cover and discussing, dissecting and practicing actually, EVERYTHING in each edition.

I've been teaching and serving life and love on this path ever since - in a variety of places across North America - its been 3 decades now and I feel like I’m more confident and curious than ever about yoga and its incredible benefits to spiritual health.

After realizing that I really wanted a formal certificate from a Yoga Alliance accredited program, in1999/2000 I took a formal 200 hour YTT. That program was great, but I felt that it was based mostly in the first three limbs of yoga. It wasn’t completely what I was looking for, but it led me to meeting wonderful people and like minds and took me deeper onto the path of yoga.

Teaching awhile and still being drawn to learning from YJ :), I saw a new advertisement for a “Home Study YTT 200” accredited with YA, offered by a Temple in Chicago. I thought that I might learn the spiritual side of yoga in this realm. Their requirements said all the study and practices could be done from home and you also needed to join them for four in-person retreats to receive contact hours with the lead teachers etc.– a 6 hour drive was do-able. That year, 2001, my relationship with The Temple of Kriya Yoga began. It was a spiritual homecoming.

I continued to take nearly every course they offered, completing my full Yoga Seminary Training in 2009.

In addition to the training I received at the Temple of Kriya Yoga, I have completed many other certificate trainings and Continued Education Courses over the process of my career beyond those three 200 hour programs. I have logged an additional 1332 advanced training hours for YA standings and 1100 IAYT credited hours of training in my specialty as of Dec. 2023.

That’s approximately 3432 hours of CE training, over three decades of personal practice and teaching that give me the expertise I share with you!

I was ordained as Swami Swarupananda in a beautiful ceremony, by my Parham Guru and beloved teacher, a true guru, Sri Goswami Kriyananda. I am a Swami (the word swami means “one who is the master of her own self” but may be better known as a Yogic Priestess), and lineage holder in the Kriya Yoga Traditions. Kriya Yoga was brought to the west by Paramahansa Yogananda. This lineage was passed down to me through Yogananda's direct link via Sri Shellyji (Timmer), Goswami Kriyanandaji and Swami Enoch Dasa Giri.

My Spiritual name is Swarupananda: “she who finds bliss in knowing her true nature”. Most of my students know me by and refer to me as Swami Lisa, and some call me Swamiji as a term of endearment. I do not have a preference as to which name you use, my mother liked Lisa Dawn and still calls me that. I am not attached to any name, it is my vibration in which I hope you recognize me by and remember.

In the Kriya lineage of yoga, a Priest’s Swami name points to their Dharma, into which they are called to serve/teach, in order to "achieve the enlightened state of their souls return to bliss and transcend the suffering of human experience".

I am called to serve others in remembering and nurturing their True Nature.

I am also a Dasa, “One who is called to serve”. My name does not hold Dasa in it, however for years I studied with another Kriya Yoga lineage holder who was my guru, Swami Enoch Dasa Giri. My intrigue to become learned through this teacher was due to the nature of service which I recognized in his soul. In my process of being a kriya yoga disciple I learned a great deal; gaining yogic discipline and experiencing profound yoga practices like sleep fasting, dream kriya, studying Astrology and symbolism, Pranayama, Kriya yoga discipline guidance in Holy Kriya’s, Mantra, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and varieties of Meditation. I dove into and contemplated the writings of Lau Tsu, and other great mystics. I mastered how to serve a satsang and support a beloved teacher. Then, ultimately, how to support and show up for mySelf and how to know a true guru from a really great teacher.

In Kriya Yoga Seminary I studied Kriya Yoga as well as the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Yoga Sutras, Advanced Kriya Pranayams, Meditation, Dream Yoga, Symbolism, Astrology, the Laws of Karma, Sanskrit, World Religions, Mysticism, Hatha Yoga, Spiritual Guidance, Rituals, Ceremonies and Pastoral Care.

In 2010, I opened a Yoga Studio and Wellness Center "Spirit of the Lake Yoga and Wellness" in a small boutique lake town. I sold it in 2015 to a student who went through one of my 200 Hour YTT's, and it still operates today under the same name with the same beautiful owner and right hand staff.

In my "yoga career" I've learned a lot about curriculum development and execution, and nurturing relationships with community, staff, students and clients, and most importantly serving my dharma by working smarter instead of harder. I continue to share this knowledge with great insight.

In 2012 I began down a path with the yoga therapy school Inner Peace Yoga Therapy. First as a student, so that I could even better serve my community in specific yoga therapeutics in a bio/psycho/social/spiritual evidence driven capacity. And in 2014 accepted a job as a program assistant and group facilitator. My roles with IPYT have changed over the years ranging from support faculty, to faculty assistant, to lead faculty when I am teaching and certifying students Pain Care Aware. And from program mentoring to running my own mentorship in Meditation and Spiritual Health. One thing has remained constant and true over my years with IPYT, I absolutely LOVE the students and faculty! I still wear many hats with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy and I always get so much from the opportunity to serve in every role I have. I am proud to bring this program to you based on the work I do with IPYT School.

In 2016 I moved to Canada and my work focused mostly on Pain Care Yoga. Here I developed curriculum along with the expertise of my partner Neil Pearson, called Pain Care Aware, for yoga therapists, LHCP and movement professionals working with people with chronic pain. My role in PCA has always been about sharing the psycho/emotional/spiritual side of suffering and how to best use yoga as a skill for living well - even when life is hard. I also live with fibromyalgia and persistent pain, so I know first hand how important and crucial the role of Spiritual Health is when overcoming our personal suffering.

Throughout all of these years, my personal practice has changed and morphed. The life force of my practice nourishes my soul and has sustained me with ebbs and flows - even some little eddies, occasional droughts/doubts and many, many inspirational floods. But three things remain constant and foundational for me as a result; Remembering my unique essence of spirit, Meditation, and Connection to something greater than myself.

I currently live on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada with my beloved, wise and handsome husband Neil, and our sweet girl doggo, Millie. Between us we have four amazing adult children and a bonus DIL - spread out from MN to CO to right here in beautiful British Columbia - and one absolutely adorable grand daughter, Annabelle, who is growing up in Tofino (lucky little girl!).

I feel my greatest calling in service to others is in helping them help themselves in obtaining greater spiritual health. With my life experiences and privileged education, alongside nearly 20,000 hours of teaching and three decades of mentoring, I am ready and confident to work with you.

In dharma of remembering our True Nature,

Swami Swarupananda

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