US Certified Mindfulness Teacher Training 2025-2026
with Mark Coleman and Martin Aylward

• Develop and refine your own practice of embodied mindfulness.
• Enhance your capacity for applying mindfulness in your personal and professional life.
• Understand the historical context of contemporary mindfulness approaches.
• Utilize latest neuro-science research on the effects of mindfulness.
• Contribute to bringing powerful mindfulness-based interventions into emerging 21st century culture.
• Study with renowned mindfulness teachers Mark Coleman and Martin Aylward with over 30 years of combined mindfulness teaching experience.

• Mindfulness of breath and body: cultivate awareness of sensations, posture, walking, standing and other activities and learn how to work with physical pain.
• Mindfulness of emotions: develop Emotional Intelligence through learning how to work skillfully with emotional states like fear, anxiety, and shame. Cultivate ‘response flexibility’.
• Mindfulness of the mind and mental processes: working with negative thoughts, beliefs and the Inner Critic to see how they interfere with focus and well-being.
• Mindful communication: developing mindful speaking and listening skills that support effective communication.
• Mindful inquiry: a practice for sustained investigation of one’s personal experience.

• Explore the Science of Mindfulness: study contemporary neuroscience research on the practice and applications of mindfulness. Understand how mindfulness affects the brain and cognitive processes.
• Understanding the historical (Buddhist) and contemporary context of mindfulness.
• The 4 Pillars of Training: Practice, Presence, Pedagogy and Protocols for teaching mindfulness.

• Learning how to teach in the following formats:
  • 6 week SIT (introductory) mindfulness course.
  • Daylong courses.
• Mindfulness teaching components:
  • Class and course design.
  • Creating an ideal learning environment.
    • Setting up the container.
    • Trust issues.
    • Understanding confidentiality and group safety.
  • Using group process as a vehicle for teaching mindfulness.
  • Understanding diversity issues and multi-cultural sensitivity.
  • Practicing teaching key elements in pairs and small groups and practicing giving and receiving feedback about teaching.
• Teaching issues: learning to work with:
  • Money issues.
  • Power issues.
  • Transference and projection.
  • Difficult class and student scenarios.
• Understanding how to teach different populations.
• Diversity: developing awareness and sensitivity about race, gender, class, sexual orientation and physical ability issues and dynamics.
• Working with people individually.
  • How to integrate mindfulness into one-on-one sessions in therapy, coaching and bodywork.
• Working with trauma: how to use mindfulness as a skillful resource.
• Utilizing contemporary mindfulness research and neuroscience findings on mindfulness.
• Marketing mindfulness courses.

Before the last module of the training, you will be required to complete a practicum, involving the design and delivery of our SIT Mindfulness course (Six-week Introductory Training in Mindfulness).

Monthly online group tutorials are held between in-person modules, led by the course trainers, Mark and Martin.

Participants will be expected to complete papers that explore both your own understanding of mindfulness practices and the practice of teaching mindfulness in your chosen field. Participants will also submit two video recordings of their mindfulness teaching.

Participants will be given a reading list to support your understanding of the course material and the theoretical background of mindfulness practice.

Trainees’ personal mindfulness meditation practice is the cornerstone of being able to teach well. All participants will be expected to maintain and deepen their practice throughout the course and beyond as well as continue attending mindfulness classes, courses and retreats during the year.