Vishoka Meditation® Course

2024 dates coming soon

Reach Your Full Potential
Vishoka Meditation offers a precise set of meditative techniques designed to unite mind and breath and turn them inward, allowing us to nourish and rejuvenate ourselves on every level of our being.

Grounded in the authentic wisdom of a living tradition, the simple—yet profound—practice of Vishoka Meditation is the perfect complement to your existing yoga practice, as well as a powerful standalone meditation practice.

The Vishoka Meditation system expands on the 5-Step meditation process you know from the Himalayan Tradition. It will help you take your practice to the next level. If you’re brand new to meditation, it’s a great place to start.

Our Vision
Imagine a life free from pain and sorrow, and infused with joy and tranquility. The ancient yogis called this state vishoka, and insisted that we all can reach it. Vishoka Meditation is a comprehensive system of meditation designed to help us reach this experience, even in the midst of a highly chaotic world.

How Do We Get There?
We start where we are at. We train our mind to stay focused on what we can control. We design our meditation practice, our yoga lifestyle, and our worldview to support our evolution towards Vishoka.

Program Overview
“Vishoka Meditation is grounded in the direct experience of the sages of the Himalayan Tradition, including Buddha and Patanjali, and embodies yoga’s essential wisdom on the path of meditation.

So far in the west, partial techniques have been introduced as independent systems of meditation. This tendency compromises the efficacy of such meditative techniques, and meditators are left with limited results.

The Vishoka Meditation® Course is the official companion to Pandit Tigunait’s Vishoka Meditation book and is designed to help you comprehensively experience the wisdom and practices described therein. In this intensive program, we’ll go through Vishoka Meditation step-by-step, and break down all the preparatory practices as well as the complete practice of Vishoka Meditation so you can learn each step systematically.

You’ll receive guidance on the subtle points of Vishoka Meditation, which require the direct guidance of a teacher proficient in this practice. This course is designed for students of all proficiencies, from those just beginning on the path of yoga or meditation, to experienced meditators and yoga teachers.

Program Features
Learn the entire system of Vishoka Meditation step-by-step through in-depth lectures and practicums, with a focus on understanding and gaining experiential proficiency in a precise set of meditative techniques designed to unite mind and breath, and turn them inward.

Build a solid foundation for your practice by mastering all of the preparatory skills required for Vishoka Meditation, including:

• Finding a comfortable and steady sitting posture

• Diaphragmatic breath training

• Systematic relaxation techniques

• Nadi Shodhana pranayama

• So Hum pranayama

Build up to the complete practice of Vishoka Meditation by systematically learning:

• Aharana pranayama

• Samikarana pranayama

• The 5-step main body of Vishoka Meditation

Understand the role of prana and pranic-awareness in Vishoka Meditation, including both theory and practice. We’ll explore these concepts in context to asana, relaxation and meditative pranayamas.

Explore the yogic lifestyle that is the foundation of Vishoka Meditation.

Receive an overview of the spiritual origins of Vishoka Meditation and its wisdom tradition.

Every session will include practicums and guided practice to help you have a living experience of each technique that is part of the Vishoka Meditation system.

PLUS! Receive complimentary access to the Vishoka Meditation Digital Companion course, which has 9 hours of bonus content from Pandit Rajmani Tigunait and other HI Faculty, including downloadable audio practices for all the techniques we’ll cover.

Program Format
This course is organized as 2 weekend sessions, delivered in a hybrid (zoom or in-person) intensive format.

The intensive format allows you to be fully immersed in the study and practice of Vishoka Meditation, and then digest your experience from the first session during the intervening week before the next session.

Zoom recording will be sent to participants for their review with access for 30 days past the conclusion of the course.

This program is a key prerequisite for the Himalayan Institute’s Vishoka Meditation 40-Day At-Home Practice and acceptance into the Vishoka Meditation Teacher Training program. These programs are offered through the Himalayan Institute’s headquarters in Honesdale PA.

The Vishoka Meditation 40-Day At-Home Practice is a powerful compliment to the Vishoka Meditation Course. It is a 6-week webinar that meets once per week for 90 minutes, to help you begin or refine your home practice of Vishoka Meditation. This program is open only to those who have done the Vishoka Meditation Course, and focuses on experiential refinement through a 40-day practice of Vishoka Meditation.

Pre-requisites:
Required reading: vishoka meditation: the yoga of inner radiance – you will receive this book in hard copy as our gift to you!

(Also available in Kindle eBook, and Audiobook formats)

registered yoga teachers receive 16 continuing ed units from yoga alliance