Find stillness without forcing your mind to be quiet
Receive your Gaja mantra, learn a meditation practice you can confidently return to, and deepen your awareness through mindfulness practices that engage each of the five senses. Five foundational classes with Roger Gabriel and Laura Plumb: the opening module of Gaja's Meditation and Mindfulness Instructor Certification, as a course of its own.
Your mind does not have to be empty for meditation to work.
Many people come to meditation believing they need to stop their thoughts, hold perfect focus, or immediately feel calm. When that does not happen, they assume they are doing something wrong.
This practice is not to force your way into silence. It is to learn how to return. A personal mantra gives your awareness a gentle place to settle. Clear instruction helps you understand thoughts, restlessness and other common experiences. Mindfulness teaches you to carry greater presence into the world beyond your meditation seat.
Your five foundational classes.
Each class builds on the one before it, taking you from your first introduction to a personal practice that includes both inward meditation and present-moment mindfulness.
- 01
Introduction to Gaja Meditation
Discover what meditation is, what it is not, and why an effortless approach can make the practice more accessible. You begin experiencing the method rather than only learning about it in theory.
Roger Gabriel - 02
Personal Mantra Instruction
Receive your Gaja mantra and learn how to use it as a subtle anchor for awareness, so you can begin meditating with clarity and confidence.
Roger Gabriel - 03
Growing in Practice
Establish a consistent routine, work with common questions and challenges, and understand the experiences that can arise as meditation becomes part of your life.
Roger Gabriel - 04
The 7 States of Consciousness
A Vedic map of consciousness, beginning with familiar waking, dreaming and sleeping states and opening toward the expanded awareness that meditation supports.
Roger Gabriel - 05
Mindfulness Through the Five Senses
Turn toward sight, sound, touch, taste and smell as doorways into the present moment, exploring both what you notice and the awareness that is noticing.
Laura Plumb
Meditation turns awareness inward. Mindfulness brings it into the world.
Mantra meditation
Your mantra supports an inward movement of awareness. You practice allowing thoughts to come and go while gently returning to the sound, creating space for deeper rest and a quieter relationship with mental activity.
Sensory mindfulness
Laura guides you to notice direct experience with greater clarity and less automatic judgment. The senses become practical pathways for reconnecting with what is here now.
A practice that becomes yours
The goal is not to make you dependent on an app, recording or outside guide. It is to help you develop a practice you can carry with you.
A practice that can finally click.
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Before this course, I thought meditation wasn't for me. But the way this program breaks it down, it just clicked. Now it's part of my everyday life.
Amanda S.First-time meditator - “
I've done other programs, but this one made everything fall into place. The explanations, the guided meditations, the flexibility: it felt like a reset for my nervous system.
Miguel R.Wellness coach - “
Even as someone who's meditated off and on for years, this gave me a whole new level of understanding and depth.
Jo L.Yoga teacher
Give yourself a practice you can return to for years to come.
Receive your Gaja mantra, learn to meditate with greater ease, and discover how mindfulness through the five senses can bring awareness into everyday life.
- ✓Receive your personal Gaja mantra and learn how to use it as the foundation of your practice
- ✓Learn to meditate with a comfortable, sustainable approach you can practice on your own
- ✓Understand common meditation experiences and build a rhythm that feels realistic and steady
- ✓Explore a Vedic map of consciousness, from waking, dreaming and sleeping toward expanded awareness
- ✓Engage your senses: mindfulness through sight, sound, touch, taste and smell
- You have tried meditation but still wonder whether you are doing it correctly
- You are brand new to meditation and want clear guidance from trusted teachers
- You want a personal practice that is not dependent on a new guided recording every day
- You are interested in both inward meditation and practical, present-moment mindfulness
- You are considering the Meditation and Mindfulness Instructor Certification and want to experience its foundational module
2 parts, 8 lessons
Meditation and Mindfulness Foundations5 lessons
- •Introduction to Gaja Meditation
- •Personal Mantra Instruction
- •Growing in Practice
- •The Seven States of Consciousness
- •Mindfulness Through the Senses
Resources3 lessons
- •Personal Mantra Card
- •Meditation Foundations Summary
- •Audio Library
Do I need meditation experience?
No. The course is designed to welcome complete beginners as well as people who want to refresh or deepen an existing practice.
How will I receive my Gaja mantra?
The Personal Mantra Instruction class guides you through receiving your mantra and learning how to use it in your meditation practice.
Is this a guided meditation course?
You will be guided as you learn and practice, but the course is designed to help you meditate independently with your mantra rather than rely on a recording every time you sit.
How quickly do I need to complete the five classes?
There is no required completion schedule. Move at your own pace and return to the material whenever you want to revisit the teachings or refresh your practice.
Does this course certify me to teach meditation or mindfulness?
No. This is a personal foundations course and the opening module of the larger Gaja Meditation and Mindfulness Instructor Certification. The standalone course does not confer an instructor credential.
What do I need to participate?
An internet connection and a comfortable place to sit. Headphones may be helpful, but no special meditation equipment is required.
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