HEARTS ON FIRE
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12 Week Intensive Training, Exploring and Embodying the -
THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION OF MEDITATION AND CONTEMPLATION TO HEAL THE MIND AND OPEN THE HEART.
“Doing this was one of the best decisions of my life so far”
- Amelie, London
“Having the Kings in my life has changed my life for the better”
- Yvi, Bali
“I have a far deeper understanding of myself. Simply life changing”
- Lewis, Noosa QLD
“This was such a deep dive and I love that I could really experience everything that I learnt, throughout my life.
- Maria, Spain.
After many years of being fortunate enough to work so closely in a one on one setting with people it is SO evident that we all struggle with the same, very human, challenges.
And we all yearn for the same triumphs.
Through this training you will learn meditation and contemplation practices that directly address this beautiful human conundrum - tools that will directly address and soothe the challenges we ALL face.
Tools that you will continue to use well into the future after the final gong has rung.
Tool that will have you dancing down the street feeling like this crazy donkey 👆 wait, is that a donkey?
Is this course for you?
Do even one of these points sound like you?
YOU MIGHT:
Struggle to be still or deeply relax?
Get stuck or bogged down?
Feel like experiences of the past cloud your future?
Ever struggle with family dynamics?
Feel like your prayers or intentions go unmet?
Suffer from anxiety, stress or overwhelm?
Hesitate to go big in life because of doubt?
Yearn for something more out of this human experience?
Unintentionally withhold love with friends, your partner or family?
Blindly react to certain external situations?
Want to bring more kindness and joy into the world?
Experiences moments of inadequacy, shame or imposter syndrome?
The good news?
We have both neuroscientific and traditional protocol to meet all of these ailments so you aren’t alone or helpless in your struggles.
This course has been designed for
Coaches, mentors and therapists, yoga teachers, meditation teachers and mindfulness instructors who want further understanding in how they can support their clients through their very specific challenges in life (This course is a precursor to our facilitators training where we look at how these tools and so much more can be applied successfully in a one on one coaching or group teaching setting)
Anyone who has done our beginners meditation course and wants to further explore how inner contemplations can heal the past and renew the spirit to live wholeheartedly.
People who work in a professional environment and/or athletes who need to be at their best and not let their past cloud their future or their futures create anxiety or stress.
Curious people who want to know how to manage their own minds (and stop them from spiralling, ruminating, regretting and reacting) and tap into the power of the mind to heal, balance and thrive.
“Thank you so much Michael for this training.I want to go back to the beginning and start again! I have loved this course in so many ways, not only to become a great teacher, but the awareness and understanding of who I really am and what I’m capable of, blows my mind! This is a course for life and everyone should do this. I think you should submit it to high schools! I can honestly say, you have changed my life. Much love and deepest respect and gratitude to you.” - Leah Anderson, Gold Coast
“Thank you thank you thank you for having me on this training. The value I am getting from it is off the charts, far and away beyond the price you charge” - Joe
“Having meditated for over 5 years, I have finally now learned for myself what it really means to meditate. Michaels teaching is profound, straightforward and no rocket science. Traditional teachings as well as modern research are combined so perfectly giving you the necessary theoretical foundation to dive into experience. I recommend this training to everyone who is intrigued by the effects of meditation and having the intention to spread this together with the rest of us into this world!” - Ute Franz, Germany
YOUR TEACHER
It’s Mikey here,
This training is designed so that you can become aware of and meet the very psychological tendencies that make you, well… you.
After years and years and thousands of hours of meditative practice and study into the a variety of contemplative traditions and modern neuro sciences, years of leading meditation teacher trainings and years of shepherding clients towards inner peace through one on one work, the absolute creme of the crop in terms of practices that actually, sustainably change your life, have risen up.
It is that thick oozy double cream that I am sharing with you here.
In creating this course I asked myself the following questions -
What are the practices that aren’t just fluff or noise, aren’t just filling the mind with unnecessary information, aren’t just moving energy around keeping people on the never ending hamster wheel of growth.
No, there’s enough of that out there.
What are the practices that directly address the challenges that you and I face each and every day? What are the practices that change your nervous system, your unconscious reactions, the way your brain is currently wired and the neural coherence between your brain and your heart?
What are the therapeutic and psychological contemplative disciplines that bring people more fully alive?
And how will they TRULY help you (and me) as a husband, father, wife, mum, friend, employer, employee, son or daughter be the most stable and alive that I can be?
What are the mental disciplines that even those grounded in spiritual understanding or daily worship could benefit from to enhance their very real human experience and also enhance their spiritual connection?
So in 2024, for the first time in many years I am shelving our flagship teacher training to run this training, not (necessarily) to create teachers but to change lives.
And I hope, if you are drawn to this course, you will be able to join us.
One question that I get asked about this training is if it is a spiritual or religious training.
The answer is no, it isn’t. My family (my wife, my son and I) aren’t religious but we have a spiritual daily practice of reading the bible, meditating, prayer journaling and more. We love and worship God and we hope, sincerely, that this work can glorify Him. It was, in fact, our morning contemplations and conversations with God that led us to shelf the teacher training and run this course.
But in saying all of that, the contents of this training are about fine tuning your mind, body and heart-centred emotions so that whatever you believe comes more alive for you and you can create a deeper sense of peace and wholehearted living regardless of your spiritual or religious orientation.
You can read more about my spiritual views and us becoming more of a God focused business here if you’d like.
Here’s some more specific info about the training -
COURSE CURRICULUM
This course is made up of practical tools that only require what you already have within you.
You don’t need any bells or whistles - nothing! Just your body, mind, heart, an internet connection and a comfortable place to sit!
Once you know how to use the tools that you already have they will be with you forever.
You will see below that each session is geared towards practical healing. And practical healing is what we call inner gardening, which requires 3 things; uprooting the old, planting the new and enjoying the garden.
In the different sessions throughout the course you will see that some are focused more on uprooting weeds (thought processes that are no longer relevant to you) and some are focused more of planting seeds (recognising what you want to grow) and some session are focused on enjoying the garden (learning how to just BE and enjoying the fruits of your labour and thanks giving for what you do already have).
LESSON 1 - WELCOME OVERVIEW AND PREPARATION
Laying down the foundations with a philosophical overview and the meditation methodology
How to use the mind, emotions and breath to best prepare for meditation
LESSON 2 - DEFENSELESSNESS
Disarming the reactive tendencies of the ego that create inner and outer conflict
LESSON 3 - BASIC GOODNESS
Negating the striving and over-efforting habits of the mind
Returning home to knowledge of innate worth and innocence.
LESSON 4 - SENSITIVITY
How we can use our senses in meditation and contemplation to balance and manage the movements of the mind, cultivate presence and practice safely (with PTSD for eg)
LESSON 5 - CONCENTRATION. 1
The power of a focused mind
How to harness awareness
The benefits of conscious mind wandering
LESSON 6 - CONCENTRATION. 2
Meeting the obstacles to concentration
Meditation’s most powerful heart tool - equanimity.
LESSON 7 - ACCEPTANCE
Using acceptance as the medicine to soothe and undo the predictable afflictions of your mind, which are 3 fold:
1. craving and clinging
2. resistance and aversion
3. rigid attachment.
And understanding how these afflictions arise though unmet psychological needs
LESSON 8 - RESILIENCE
Growing the fundamental psychological needs of your mind and nervous system to build and cement holistic happiness and robustness
LESSON 9 - HEARTFULNESS 1
Cultivating a safe and open heart
How to stack positive emotions in the heart
LESSON 10 - HEARTFULNESS 2.0
Returning to and growing inherent innocence
How to defrost and dearmour the heart which leads to wholehearted living
LESSON 11 - HEARTFULNESS 3.0
Loving Kindness for self and others
Empathetic Joy, universal love and surrender
LESSON 12 - HEARTFULNESS 4.0
Giving, receiving and deserving
Affirmative Prayer
Integrating the course into life and designing your ongoing meditation practice
WHY WE NEED THIS COURSE
You as a youngster probably weren’t taught that art of holistic wellbeing and how to thrive as a human being.
You might have learnt how to write a good essay, how to apply trigonometry, how to write, prepare and cost a menu (if you were a chef like me) or how to dissect a rat in high school science.
All these kinds of things prepare us for the workforce. But they don’t prepare us for life.
If we want this type of knowledge we have to hunt it out ourselves.
We typically don’t learn anything about -
How to balance our nervous system, or even what our nervous system is! Which, when we understand that we interpret our whole world through our nervous system, it’s kind of a big deal!
How to breathe and how paramount breathing is for our health
Why our mind does what it does and thinks how it thinks
How to master your distractions
How to develop emotional intelligence and let go of past experiences
Living with meaning and purpose
How to let go and adapt
There comes a time where we take a small portion of all the information we gathered in school or university that’s relevant to us, and apply it in our chosen field. And we’re left with questions that bubble up from a lack of deeper fulfilment in life. We might be working, making money, going through the motions, but our heart isn’t on fire for life.
At this point, if we don’t know what to do we either become restless and destructive or apathetic and lethargic.
Either way, it is no way to truly live and we teach this course with such passion because we wish this information - as simple as it is - was taught to all of us, with paramount importance, from a young age. We want your heart to be on fire and for you to truly LIVE.
LOGISTICS
WHEN
Starting Wednesday 6th March - and each Wednesday after that for 12 weeks - finishing on 22nd May
5pm AEDT
WHERE
All sessions will be online, taught live.
You will receive all relevant login information after signing up.
If you can’t make it live or miss a session the recoding will post posted right away so you can watch at your closest convenient time.
HOW DO I SIGN UP?
Click the I’M IN button below and it will take you through to payment.
From there I will reach out soon after to say g’day and introduce myself so I can hear a little more about you and I will add you to the whatsapp group.
PREREQUISITES
There is a list of learn to meditate short courses that will be released on our website soon.
You will get access to all of the courses for free by signing up for this training. You don’t have to complete them all (although we recommend it), but the necessary prerequisites are the following 3 courses-
1.How To Breathe
2. What is Awareness
3. Emotional E.A.S.E
* There are exceptions for having to fulfil these prerequisites.
If you can tell us where and how you have learnt the art and science of breathwork (either with us or someone else) there may be an exemption.
If you have studied the nature of awareness either with us or a reputable teacher you may be exempt
If you have studied the EASE method with us or one of our trained teachers you may be exempt
If you have already done our 6 week meditation course
FACILITATORS TRAINING
This 3 month course, Heart’s On Fire, also serves as a prerequisite for our facilitators training. The facilitators training is for professionals (teachers, mentors, coaches, counsellors etc) who want to expand upon what they learn in this training and be able to share it in both one on one and group settings. This training is 6 months long, and both expands upon the foundations learnt in Heart’s On Fire and focuses on the teaching and leadership skills to share it all with the world clearly and powerfully. You can find out more about this training towards the end of these initial 3 months.
INVESTMENT
“This training has brought me closer to myself, has made me see more clearly and has made my heart fuller and lighter. I now have powerful tools that will continue to crack my heart open and to profoundly support my growth for the years to come; as a human and as a teacher. Thank you, Michael and Hannah from the bottom of my heart.” - Mirjam
FULL 3 MONTH LIVE THERAPEUTIC MEDITATION AND MENTORING CONTAINER EXPERIENCE, including
Access to our learnt meditation courses as preliminary materials. This includes 3 short courses on Emotional EASE, What is Awareness and How To Breathe
12, 90 minute to 2-hour live sessions (you can watch recordings if you can’t make it live) that you can keep for up to a year.
Full course workbook and sessions notes
Audio meditation and/or contemplation practices for each session
Whatsapp group for group support, connection and shared inspiration
COURSE FEE - $1750 AUD
PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE
Pay over 5 months - $350 AUD per month
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