Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Certification beginning Online February 28, 2027

This online meditation teacher certification, Masters of Wisdom & Meditation, is a 235-hour training led by davidji for people who want to deepen their own practice and learn to guide others. It is held entirely online, with weekly live classes on Zoom and a four-day live certification weekend, and it draws on Vedanta, Buddhism, mantra and the Vedic tradition. No prior meditation experience is needed.

What to Expect

The training runs for 12 weeks of preparation, then moves into the certification weekend. Each week brings new video and audio teachings, readings, and a live Zoom webinar with davidji on Sunday mornings at 9am Pacific Time, lasting about 90 minutes. Recordings are available if you can't attend live. You also have a one-on-one video session with davidji, study groups, and regular contact with your fellow teachers-in-training.

The curriculum blends different kinds of meditation with chanting, dancing, energy work, group discussion, lectures on the soul and teachings from the Vedas. The path moves from the individual, ego-based self toward the more universal. Over the twelve weeks you receive your personal Nakshatra birthSTAR mantra and learn other mantras, practice a range of meditation and breathing techniques, and study what happens in the body, mind and emotions during meditation, including research on what meditation does to the brain. Reading includes the Bhagavad Gita and modern teachers such as don Miguel Ruiz, Pema Chodron and Eckhart Tolle. You also learn the process of teaching others.

The certification weekend is four days of live attendance on Zoom, from 7am to 3:30pm Pacific Time each day. Mornings and evenings include embodiment practices, meditation and breathwork. There are group teachings with davidji, guest speakers and instructors, and time for reflection and journaling. A term paper must be submitted before this week, and there are optional "test your knowledge" quizzes along the way.

After certification you receive a final lesson and materials, then join a closing group webinar about a month later. Ongoing support from davidji and access to certified teacher resources help you begin teaching.

About davidji

davidji is an internationally recognized meditation expert, stress-management counselor, corporate trainer and author of the award-winning Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace & Personal Transformation. He created the 21-day meditation challenge, and his voice is heard on more than 300 guided meditations, including the best-selling CD Fill What is Empty; Empty What is Full and the Ayurvedic opera Journey to Infinity, made with sound healers SacredFire.

He came to teaching after a 20-year career in business, finance, and mergers and acquisitions, when he began a new path through meditation. He apprenticed under Drs. Deepak Chopra and David Simon, serving as Chopra Center COO, Lead Educator and then the first Dean of Chopra Center University, where he trained more than 200,000 people to meditate.

Before You Go

All you need is an open mind, an open heart and a willingness to begin or deepen a meditation practice. Beginners and established meditators are both welcome, and the training is taught in English. Enrollment is limited so that students and davidji can connect personally.

Lessons and materials live on davidji's online Teacher's Dashboard and are available on demand. Tuition covers the syllabus, the dashboard, the required reading list, weekly live sessions, study groups, the one-on-one session, post-graduate sessions and the certificate. Books are not included and must be bought separately. Payment plans are offered.

The program is registered with Yoga Alliance and offers 235 hours of Continuing Education Units for 200-hour or 500-hour Registered Yoga Teachers. Early enrollment brings a bonus package that includes a personal coaching session with davidji, early dashboard access, daily mantras, a 20-day mantra audio course and a video course on becoming calmer and clearer.