No-charge Workshop Replay
Teaching Meditation: Where Practice Meets Science
Understanding meditation through the lens of practice, science + Vedic wisdom.
Watch Roger Gabriel, Dr. Sheila Patel, and Armenia Gary in a conversation exploring the meditation experience and what it means to guide others with greater understanding, awareness, and care.
- Meditation + personal practice
- Modern science
- Nervous system awareness
- Vedic wisdom
- Teaching meditation
Recorded Wednesday, October 14 | 60 Minutes | Watch On Demand
Watch the Replay
Explore meditation through practice, science + Vedic wisdom—and discover what it means to move from practitioner to teacher.
A deeper look at meditation
Explore the practice through more than one lens.
Watch Roger Gabriel, Chief Meditation Officer, and Dr. Sheila Patel, Chief Medical Officer, for a conversation bringing together decades of meditation experience, Vedic wisdom, modern science, and integrative health.
Moderated by Armenia Gary, Head of Admissions, you’ll explore what these perspectives can teach us about the meditation experience, individual differences, and the responsibility of guiding others. You’ll also get an inside look at Gaja’s Meditation & Mindfulness Instructor Certification and the path from practitioner to teacher.
Watch the ReplayIn the replay, you’ll explore
Where practice, science + Vedic wisdom come together.
Through a candid conversation, Roger and Sheila explore meditation from their distinct areas of expertise and what these perspectives can teach us about understanding and guiding the practice.
What experience teaches us
Hear how Roger’s 50+ years of practicing and teaching meditation have shaped his understanding of the practice, the teacher, and the Vedic wisdom behind it.
What science helps us understand
Explore meditation through the lens of modern science, including stress, the nervous system, individual physiology, and why meditation experiences can vary.
What changes when you teach
Discover why guiding meditation involves more than knowing a technique and the role of presence, awareness, responsibility, and meeting the person in front of you.
Inside the certification
A comprehensive training for modern meditation + mindfulness instructors.
The Gaja Meditation & Mindfulness Instructor Certification is a comprehensive, science-informed, Vedic-rooted teacher training designed to help you deepen your own practice and confidently guide others.
Students explore mantra meditation, mindfulness, Vedic wisdom, modern science, nervous system awareness, and applied teaching practice while developing the skills to share meditation with clarity, confidence, and care.
Explore the CertificationWhat makes this training different
- Deepen your own meditation practice while developing the skills to guide others.
- Explore mantra meditation, mindfulness, and the Vedic foundations of the practice.
- Understand meditation through modern science, stress, and nervous system awareness.
- Learn to support different meditation experiences with care and appropriate scope.
- Build confidence through practical teaching tools, live learning, and applied practice.
Meet your guides
Practice, science + Vedic wisdom in conversation.
Roger Gabriel
Chief Meditation Officer
With more than 50 years of experience practicing and teaching meditation, Roger brings a deep foundation in meditation, mantra + Vedic wisdom.
Dr. Sheila Patel
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Sheila brings the lens of modern medicine + integrative health, exploring meditation through stress physiology, the nervous system + individual experience.
Armenia Gary
Head of Admissions | Moderator
Armenia moderates the conversation and shares an inside look at Gaja’s Meditation & Mindfulness Instructor Certification.
BEYOND THE TECHNIQUE
Learn to understand the practice more deeply + guide others with care.
This replay is for practitioners and aspiring teachers looking for an approach that brings together personal practice, Vedic wisdom, modern science + thoughtful teaching.
Watch the Replay- You want to connect Vedic wisdom + modern science in the way you understand and teach meditation.
- You want to understand why meditation experiences differ and how to guide them with care.
- You want to develop presence, discernment + confidence, not simply memorize scripts or techniques.
- You want to teach with nervous system awareness, appropriate scope + responsibility.
- You want your teaching to grow from your own practice + lived experience.
Explore the training
See what becoming a Gaja Meditation + Mindfulness Instructor looks like.
Explore the curriculum, learning experience + path to certification. Download the program syllabus for a closer look at what you’ll study, how you’ll practice teaching, and the support you’ll receive along the way.
Download the Syllabus