Lynden Yoga Collective
Become a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
200 hours. 13 weeks. The discipline to see clearly, the strength to feel fully, and the courage to teach what you've lived.
Live Q&A. No commitment required.
The Invitation
Beyond the gentle shallows, deeper waters.
Mindfulness meditation offers real therapeutic gifts: greater calm, clarity, reduced stress, and an increased capacity to meet life's challenges with steadiness. In the early stages of practice, we rest in the gentle shallows — moments of peace, flashes of insight, a growing sense of ease.
Yet this training invites something more. Beyond the shallows lie deeper waters — the vast and sometimes turbulent ocean of wisdom. Here we encounter the fullness of our human experience: the places where we feel exposed, the patterns we'd rather avoid, the truths we have yet to face.
It is precisely in these depths that true character is formed. When we willingly turn toward what is difficult with curiosity and honesty, we develop resilience, humility, and courage.
The world needs teachers who have not only tasted peace — but have been shaped by the depths.
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."Mary Oliver
The Framework
Your mind has two modes. Most people only know one.
This training is built around a direct, experiential model of how the mind actually works — the felt reality of your own first-person experience.
Camera Mode
Direct experience. The raw, unfiltered input of being alive — sensation, sound, breath, warmth. A camera captures reality as it is, with no interpretation, no narrative. Your mind has this same capacity. Most people rarely access it.
Author Mode
The storytelling mind. It interprets, evaluates, judges, narrates. It takes raw experience and wraps it in meaning. Useful — but when it runs unchecked, it creates suffering. Most people live here almost exclusively.
The Third Element: Body. Beneath both modes lives the body itself — the ground of all felt experience. The Triadic Model of Camera Mode, Author Mode, and Body forms the architecture of the entire training.
The Curriculum
Seven modules. 200 hours. A complete path.
Integrating traditional Theravada teachings, modern psychology, somatic understanding, and trauma-informed approaches.
The Mind and Foundations for Meditation
Welcome to your mind. The two modes of experience. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. The Depth of Perception. The Five Hindrances. Building the ground for everything that follows.
Samatha Meditation (Calm Abiding)
Stages of concentration through breath, visual, and mantra practices. Introduction to jhana. The contraindications of deep absorption. How to teach samatha safely and effectively.
Vipassana Meditation (Insight)
The stages of insight practice. Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self as direct experience. The dark night of vipassana. Liberation. The physiology and neurology of meditation.
RAIN Meditation and Metta (Loving-Kindness)
The five core emotions. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture as a framework for difficult inner weather. Metta toward self, difficult people, and inner parts. IFS-informed compassion practices.
The Body: Scanning, Breath, and Mindful Relating
Somatic awareness, interoception, and the felt sense. Body scanning as a doorway to presence. Breathwork as regulation and inquiry. Mindful relating as embodied practice.
Teaching Skills and Ethics
The art of guiding meditation. Trauma-informed teaching. Group dynamics and facilitation. Holding space. Building your authentic teaching voice through supervised practicum.
Integration, Wisdom, and the Business of Meditation
Mindfulness in daily life. The Circle of Peace. Awakening beyond wellness. The Three Marks of Existence as lived practice. Accreditation pathways. Building your teaching career.
Not just wellness — wisdom.
The Schedule
Five immersive weekends. Weekly sessions between.
13 weeks in hybrid format: weekly Wednesday evening online sessions anchored by five intensive in-person weekends at our Lynden, WA studio.
Weekend Intensives
Fri 6–9 PM · Sat 12–8 PM · Sun 12–6 PM
Wednesday Sessions
Wednesdays 6–8 PM · Online via Zoom
Independent & Practicum Hours
Beyond the classroom, the real work.
Lead Trainer
Kyle Kloostra
Founder of Lynden Yoga Collective. Trained in the Theravada Vipassana, Samatha, and Metta traditions. Kyle's primary teacher is Dawn Mauricio. He has studied under Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, and brings advanced degrees in philosophy with particular interest in the philosophy of mind and consciousness studies.
His teaching centers on embodied presence, integrating trauma-informed practices with inquiry-based learning. He draws from both ancient contemplative traditions and modern neuroscience to create a rigorous, transformative learning environment.
The Reading List
Six core texts.
The Wise Heart
Buddhist psychology blending ancient wisdom with modern insights on mindfulness, compassion, and consciousness.
Radical Compassion
RAIN meditation as a tool for loosening the grip of difficult emotions, limiting beliefs, shame, and fear.
The Path of Insight Meditation
A practical introduction to vipassana — exercises for developing mindfulness, cultivating compassion, and living ethically.
Loving-Kindness in Plain English
The practice of metta meditation. Overcoming anger, aversion, and emotional obstacles toward greater peace.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
How standard mindfulness can exacerbate trauma symptoms — and the research-based modifications that make meditation safe.
No Bad Parts
The Internal Family Systems model — how our psyche consists of protective and wounded parts, and how to access the core Self.
Investment
Two paths. Same training.
Early Bird
$499 deposit by May 1
Standard
After May 1
$499 deposit reserves your spot. Payment plans available. Enrollment capped at 10.
Accreditation
Recognized credentials.
Accredited by IMMA and recognized by Yoga Alliance as continuing education. Graduates are eligible to register as Certified Mindfulness Teachers (CMT).
This journey will ask much of you. It will give much in return.
See clearly. Feel fully. Love fiercely.