Light teaches Vedic Meditation, which is an in-person, comprehensive meditation course for beginners and experienced meditators alike.

Light works with both beginner and experienced meditators who are interested in learning how to meditate with ease (without having to rely on apps, guidance, or drop-in studios). The people who are most attracted to this kind of training are those who’ve tried many different styles and they’ve struggled to find a practice that felt easy, as well as people who’ve read Light’s book Bliss More or who subscribe to his Daily Dose of Inspiration.

We cap the number of participants to about 20 people to insure that we can provide a generous amount of personal attention to each participant.

You must attend the first session in order to take the training. But if you have to miss one or two of the follow-up sessions, you will be supplied with a video recording of your missed session so you can stay caught up with everyone else.

Light Watkins is not affiliated with the Transcendental Meditation organization. However, some practitioners of TM have remarked that the Vedic Meditation teaching format is similar to what they learned with Transcendental Meditation. There’s a personalized mantra plus four sessions of instruction, and a lifetime of ongoing support.

Yes, but you will have to make a one-time exchange of $ 500, and that gives you unlimited access to Light’s training as well as ongoing follow-up support from him.

Meditation apps are generally devoid of personalized instruction or support, which is a prerequisite for mastery, and drop-in studios are the most expensive way to meditate where you're essentially paying by the hour to meditate, with no free support. Most apps and online meditation classes offer guided meditation, which is a starter technique. What we teach you is how to meditate successfully on your own (without guidance).

Step-by-step, you will learn all of the relevant aspects of meditation directly with Light. He will walk you through the key principles for meditating in the easiest, most effortless way. You will see that there is nothing arbitrary about meditation—from the way you sit, to the time of day you practice, to the manner in which you treat your thoughts. You will also have plenty of home practice, group practice, and Q&A with the teacher. By the end of your training, you will be an expert meditator—able to meditate successfully almost anywhere, even with a busy mind. You will also remain in contact with Light in case you have future meditation-related questions. Plus you will have an open invitation to audit the course when Light returns to teach in your area. None of those options exist with meditation apps or online courses.

If you just want to dabble in meditation, there are less expensive ways to do that. However, if you know you want to make meditation a part of your daily life over the long term, and you want to know how to optimize your experiences, then you won’t find a more thorough training or an easier form of meditation than Vedic Meditation. Basically, you get personal instruction from an expert teacher with over 15 years of real-world experience teaching beginners how to meditate (and not just guiding meditations), you get a minimum of two years free support from Light, plus access to weekly group meditations over Zoom as well as access to the larger Vedic meditation community. After conducting deeper research on other meditation offerings, you'll quickly see that the value of this training far exceeds that of any other training (make sure to ask the other offerings you're considering what their ongoing support options look like).