The Essential Guide To Meditation

The Most Comprehensive Guide To Creating A Daily Meditation Practice

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The Essential Guide To Meditation

The Most Comprehensive Guide To Creating A Daily Meditation Practice

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The Most Comprehensive Guide To Creating A Daily Meditation Practice

$249.99 USD

What you get:

  • A comprehensive guide to every type of meditation
  • Meditation exercises that you can use anytime, anywhere
  • The practical steps necessary to become the change you wish to see in the world
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instructor credentials Director of the Veda Center

Who Is This Class For?

This Class Is Perfect For You If:

  • You're curious about meditation and are looking to get your feet wet.
  • You want to know everything there is to know about meditating.
  • You experience anxiety, stress, or sleeplessness.
  • You want to live more mindfully, and feel more present and alive.

The Essential Guide To Meditation

By enrolling in this class, you’ll gain imperative knowledge on how to:

  • 1. Meditate effortlessly, anytime, anywhere.
  • 2. Cultivate your attention and awareness.
  • 3. Become more focused in daily life.
  • 4. Foster better relationships.
  • 5. Feel more at ease and at peace.

Class Outline

9 LESSONS

Meditation Basics

Whether you seek enhanced creativity, a respite from stress and anxiety, emotional and physical healing, or greater spiritual awareness, meditation will help you. In this first module, Charlie explains why meditation is important, along with its basics, various forms, and what to expect from this class.
LESSONS
  • 1. Why Meditate?
  • 2. How to Take This Course
  • 3. Benefits to Mind & Body
  • 4. Different Forms
  • 5. Demystifying Meditation
  • 6. Expectations
  • 7. Silence
  • 8. When & Where to Meditate
  • 9. Breathing Basics
7 LESSONS

Focused Concentration

Focused concentration is the practice of keeping the mind in a state of relaxed focus. Charlie reviews focused concentration techniques, and explains what each will help you manifest.
LESSONS
  • 1. Visualization
  • 2. Manifesting Healthy Relationships
  • 3. Creating Abundance & Wealth
  • 4. Improving Body Image
  • 5. Weight Loss
  • 6. Building Your Career
  • 7. Bliss & Happiness
7 LESSONS

Energy (Physical & Breath)

Every breath triggers the nervous system in a particular way. Charlie will teach you how to stimulate deeper relaxation by emphasizing particular ways of breathing.
LESSONS
  • 1. Intro to Energy & Breathing
  • 2. How to Do Simple Breath Meditation
  • 3. Pranayama & Chi
  • 4. Energetic Breath
  • 5. Harnessing Creativity
  • 6. Courage
  • 7. Into Action!
12 LESSONS

Awareness (Open Monitoring)

Meditation can have profound effects on so many areas of your life. Charlie discusses how various techniques serve different purposes, and walks you through twelve awareness exercises that focus on different outcomes.
LESSONS
  • 1. Cultivating Attention & Awareness
  • 2. Meditation on Breath and Emotion
  • 3. Morning Routine
  • 4. Evening Practice
  • 5. Calming Anxiety
  • 6. Deep Relaxation for Sleep
  • 7. Commute
  • 8. Healing Your Body
  • 9. Coping with Fear
  • 10. Flying
  • 11. Traveling & Distracting Environments
  • 12. Trauma
6 LESSONS

Self-Discovery & Transcending

This self-discovery phase of meditation is based on the Vedic tradition of India. In this module, Charlie will give you the background on this tradition, and use special sounds often referred to as mantras, to effortlessly settle the mind to quieter and quieter levels.
LESSONS
  • 1. Intro To Techniques Based On The Vedic Tradition
  • 2. Turning Off Stress-Response
  • 3. Techniques & Mantras
  • 4. Overcoming Difficulties + How & When To Practice
  • 5. State of Consciousness
  • 6. Meditation & Body
3 LESSONS

Integration

You know the techniques; now learn how to make them a habit so you can more fully enjoy your life. In this last module, Charlie makes sure that you take the time to deeply experience these practices and establish them within yourself.
LESSONS
  • 1. Everyday Life
  • 2. Friends & Family
  • 3. Combining All Modules Into Sustainable Practice
9 LESSONS

Meditation Basics

Whether you seek enhanced creativity, a respite from stress and anxiety, emotional and physical healing, or greater spiritual awareness, meditation will help you. In this first module, Charlie explains why meditation is important, along with its basics, various forms, and what to expect from this class.
LESSONS
  • 1. Why Meditate?
  • 2. How to Take This Course
  • 3. Benefits to Mind & Body
  • 4. Different Forms
  • 5. Demystifying Meditation
  • 6. Expectations
  • 7. Silence
  • 8. When & Where to Meditate
  • 9. Breathing Basics
12 LESSONS

Awareness (Open Monitoring)

Meditation can have profound effects on so many areas of your life. Charlie discusses how various techniques serve different purposes, and walks you through twelve awareness exercises that focus on different outcomes.
LESSONS
  • 1. Cultivating Attention & Awareness
  • 2. Meditation on Breath and Emotion
  • 3. Morning Routine
  • 4. Evening Practice
  • 5. Calming Anxiety
  • 6. Deep Relaxation for Sleep
  • 7. Commute
  • 8. Healing Your Body
  • 9. Coping with Fear
  • 10. Flying
  • 11. Traveling & Distracting Environments
  • 12. Trauma
7 LESSONS

Focused Concentration

Focused concentration is the practice of keeping the mind in a state of relaxed focus. Charlie reviews focused concentration techniques, and explains what each will help you manifest.
LESSONS
  • 1. Visualization
  • 2. Manifesting Healthy Relationships
  • 3. Creating Abundance & Wealth
  • 4. Improving Body Image
  • 5. Weight Loss
  • 6. Building Your Career
  • 7. Bliss & Happiness
6 LESSONS

Self-Discovery & Transcending

This self-discovery phase of meditation is based on the Vedic tradition of India. In this module, Charlie will give you the background on this tradition, and use special sounds often referred to as mantras, to effortlessly settle the mind to quieter and quieter levels.
LESSONS
  • 1. Intro To Techniques Based On The Vedic Tradition
  • 2. Turning Off Stress-Response
  • 3. Techniques & Mantras
  • 4. Overcoming Difficulties + How & When To Practice
  • 5. State of Consciousness
  • 6. Meditation & Body
7 LESSONS

Energy (Physical & Breath)

Every breath triggers the nervous system in a particular way. Charlie will teach you how to stimulate deeper relaxation by emphasizing particular ways of breathing.
LESSONS
  • 1. Intro to Energy & Breathing
  • 2. How to Do Simple Breath Meditation
  • 3. Pranayama & Chi
  • 4. Energetic Breath
  • 5. Harnessing Creativity
  • 6. Courage
  • 7. Into Action!
3 LESSONS

Integration

You know the techniques; now learn how to make them a habit so you can more fully enjoy your life. In this last module, Charlie makes sure that you take the time to deeply experience these practices and establish them within yourself.
LESSONS
  • 1. Everyday Life
  • 2. Friends & Family
  • 3. Combining All Modules Into Sustainable Practice

Meet The Instructor

Charlie Knoles
Charlie Knoles

Charlie Knoles is a Vedic Meditation teacher and the director of The Veda Center. He was taught Vedic Meditation at age 4 by his father, Maharishi Vyasananda Thom Knoles. Following in his father’s footsteps, Charlie has devoted his life to innovative teaching. He studied at the Australian Institute of Music, The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and attained his degree in Biology at Maharishi University of Management, where he helped create their multidisciplinary degree in Sustainable Living, now one of their most popular programs. In his decades of teaching, Charlie has helped thousands of people learn the practical steps necessary to become the change that they wish to see in the world. He has worked with people from all over the world, in a wide range of professions, and his clients include teachers, nurses, A-list actors, and Fortune 500 CEOs.

Testimonials

"Charlie is a very knowledgeable meditation teacher. Vedic meditation has given me the ability to center myself and relax in a particular moment as well as made me adaptable and flexible outside of meditation in this crazy entertainment industry."
— Jordana Brewster
"Charlie helps me to be in harmony with my relationships with people, my community, my children and my significant other. I feel open artistically and creatively so that I am able to create music as purely as it flows from me. This meditation is the ultimate gift."
— Doyle Bramhall II
"Over the past 20 years I have struggled with implementing meditation into my life. Until I met Charlie two years ago. He made it so much fun to learn the practice and he also was able to teach me how to stick with it."
— Manon von Gerkan
"I met Charlie through mutual friends and was so impressed by his grace and easeful presence, I thought there must be more to it! Of course he turned out to be someone who is replenished daily by a dedicated meditation practice -- and he wears it well in how he interacts with others. Charlie is a fantastic teacher -- he has very easy going teaching style but it always felt intellectually satisfying; learning to meditate with Charlie was a such gift!"
— Maggie Grace

What’s Included

Secure your spot in The Essential Guide To Meditation for these enrollment benefits:

  • 6 modules and 44 video lessons, filled with all the information you need
  • A comprehensive guide to every type of meditation
  • Meditation exercises that you can use anytime, anywhere
  • The practical steps necessary to become the change you wish to see in the world
  • Lifetime access to stream from your computer, phone or tablet

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The Most Comprehensive Guide To Creating A Daily Meditation Practice

$249.99 USD

What you get

  • A comprehensive guide to every type of meditation
  • Meditation exercises that you can use anytime, anywhere
  • The practical steps necessary to become the change you wish to see in the world
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The Most Comprehensive Guide To Creating A Daily Meditation Practice
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$249.99
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