Meditation Teacher Training at SoulCentre

Meditation Teacher Training at SoulCentre

By Sally Forrest
Managing Director of SoulCentre, www.soulcentre.org

14th March 2018     

Sally took the opportunity recently to interview Robin Liu about his meditation journey with Vikas Malkani at SoulCentre.

She asked Robin 3 questions and his answers are very enlightening.

1) Why did you want to learn meditation?

3 years ago I was troubled by something in my life. A little voice in my mind posed a very simple question that moved me to act. That voice asked, “How’s your life today?"
I was perplexed! I started doing a soul search and realised that whilst I was doing well in my job and almost all areas in my life, something seemed to be missing. I was stressed, worried and experienced anxiety. This felt just not right and I was neither happy nor feeling fulfilled at all. That is when I embarked on a spiritual journey.

I used to meditate when I was a teenager, but somehow the everyday life had taken over and I stopped meditating. Remembering that peace and serenity that I have when I meditate, I decided to go back to the practice.

It was also around that time that I decided to visit Bhutan. That trip changed my life for good: I understood what it means to feel contented and live in balance and harmony with yourself. On one of the trips a simple quotation on the rear windscreen of a mini bus struck me at the core: “If you want to know your past, look at who you are today. If you want to know the future, look at your mind today.” It was strange, just like that little voice that asked about my life today! I knew I had to do something at that moment and discipline my mind. I knew meditation was the way to go but I also knew that what I was doing was not enough and I should learn more about meditation from a teacher to truly benefit from it. That is how I landed at SoulCentre and I immediately clicked with what Vikas taught during the preview session.

2) How has it benefited you?

Meditation has effectively calmed me down and “re-conditioned” my mind to be more focused. It is also through meditation that I have learnt to be more open minded. I choose my response to any situation instead of just reacting to it.
I have not only gained more confidence, but I also live a happier life. I have overcome my stress, worries and fears.
Through meditation, I learnt more about myself than any personality and psychometric tests I had ever taken. Meditation allows me the space and security to reach into my deepest consciousness and be truthful to myself. It makes me a better person, knowing my strengths, weaknesses, deepest fears, beliefs and desires. Through meditation, I have learnt to harness these aspects of me to achieve a balance in both my inner and outer world.

Hence, meditation has benefited me in 3 ways,

- Control my emotions and thoughts;
- Choose to respond and not react; and
- Contentment that allows me to know I am blessed, to be positive and to have a happiness that emits internally.

3) What qualities do you have as a teacher that you want to share with your students?

Having gone through that period of soul searching an encountering that life changing question “How’s your life today?”, I am now able to identify and understand what most of us are going through in life. My life has changed because of this question. Richness in life is not only about material wealth, but also about inner peace, fulfillment and happiness. 

Having achieved the 3 “C”s, Control, Choice and Contentment, through the wisdom that was taught by Vikas, I know with certainty that the system works and it will work for you too.

As a teacher in meditation, I will be able to guide and provide that support you need to grow and achieve that balance in your inner and outer world. My passion is to make a difference and see that my students will be confident to answer the question “How’s your life today?” with a strong affirmative and positive answer.

Thank you Robin, true words of wisdom.

I am confident that you will inspire many more people globally now that you are a Meditation Teacher at SoulCentre.

It’s great to see that Robin “walks the talk” and inspires everyone he meets with his calmness and wisdom.

SoulCentre is Asia’s Premier Centre for Meditation & Mindfulness, and many students (and teachers) from around the world have learnt with us. We have taught over 25 different nationalities, and so we know the training and processes work across all cultures.

Vikas Malkani is the creator of our unique proprietary meditation programs, and he will personally train students to become a certified teacher.

Vikas is one of the world’s leading teachers of wisdom and meditation, who has taught leading companies and personalities, and anyone will be fortunate to have him as a guide. He is sought out by people from all over the world. 

We love to work with people who are passionate to be with us, and we grow as a wisdom family. 

If you are interested in becoming a Certified Meditation Teacher at SoulCentre, please connect with us at: info@soulcentre.org

Meditation Helps You Discover Yourself

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leads to ignorance. 

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom

                                                                        The Buddha

Meditation teaches you to observe.  For instance if you are miserable, just observe the misery as misery without feeling compelled to do anything about it.  In the fertile space of observing, the cause of misery becomes clear – it arises because you are reacting with negativity, craving or aversion. 

As you keep observing that sensation, it begins to lose its strength and passes away – and the negativity passes with it.

Meditation shows you why you feel the way you feel, how you have become what you are, and the repeated patterns of behaviour you are conditioned to operate under without awareness. 

The goal of meditation is not to achieve just another transitory ‘other-worldly’ experience but to accept whatever manifests itself with equanimity and ease, and then be able to change it. 

If you would like more information about the unique meditation programs created by Vikas Malkani and offered by SoulCentre^® please contact:

Vikas Malkani / SoulCentre

Mobile: (65) 9875 2372

Email: info@soulcentre.org

Website: www.soulcentre.org

Living the Life I was Born to! – by Mary Jo Pokorski

Mary Jo Pokorski

Never before in my life did I fully comprehend how blessed I was to be learning meditation than when I undertook my Meditation Teacher Training Program at SoulCentre under Vikas Malkani and then got the opportunity to spread this wisdom to others.

Taking the plunge on the journey of meditation was quite a challenge. Honestly, I thought myself to be reasonably happy in my life, but deep within, I knew I was overly sensitive, just hoping for the best and fearing any blows that life would bring. I had been fooling myself to believe I could keep everything under control, when in reality, I was growing increasingly disquieted and unfulfilled.

I wasn’t interested in committing to sitting in silence for 30 minutes and wondered what I was supposed to do with my mind in that time: relax? Think about something? Not think about anything? Yet, Vikas had told me many times that meditation would change my life, so I finally said ‘yes’ and booked my place on his beginners program called ‘Meditation Made Simple’.

I came to class armed with misconceptions and doubt, not to mention my negative past experiences, but after the first class my eyes were opened to a basic and crystal clear understanding of what meditation was and was not.  We were given different techniques that achieved different effects, a lot of wisdom to open our minds and space to practice what we had learned.

I came away from Meditation Made Simple with all I would ever need to be happy and yet, that first taste of meditation stirred something deep in me that I hadn’t noticed before. My sense of unrest quietened and I was happier which was wonderful. But something more, and truly amazing happened - My sense of living an unfulfilling life started to change into an understanding that there was so much more to life than just ‘living it out’ in a mundane way. My restlessness became a budding desire to accomplish something meaningful with my life. Meditation was showing me that there is purpose within us and that training the mind was the path to get there. Vikas was opening my eyes to who I was, to the working ways of life, and I loved it.

This brought me to the next level of ‘Meditation in Action’ with Vikas, where I got the opportunity to solidify my practice and expand the study of the self. Initially, this solidifying seemed tedious to me who was avid to know more and to grow. But I soon realized a crucial aspect of this growth was to make sure our bases were strong. This step reinforced the essential need for meditation in me. It helped me establish mediation in my day to day life and reconnect to the wisdom which would carry my life forward. Here I learned to trust my teacher more deeply, I learned to accept he had chosen to do things in a certain way for a reason, and that it was for our benefit without a doubt. My life evolved; I grew more peaceful and stronger in the knowledge that I was investing in myself. In a more practical way, I was living life more akin to what it should be to be - genuine and with meaning. 

Once this was complete, I was ready to commit to the final step in my journey and take the ‘Masters of Meditation’ class with Vikas. This course blew my mind away more than anything else I have ever done. Vikas Malkani opened us yet again to some of life’s great secrets, or perhaps, it was only then that I finally understood what he had been sharing with us all along: the secrets of a life lived in joy, freedom and power, all repeated in different ways and in more depth along the way.

His classes on meditation were a masterpiece. I had fallen in love with life as it could and should be, and I would never go back. My only option was to go forward and share what had transformed my life, with others, which I now do as a Meditation Teacher certified by and teaching under the loving guidance of Vikas Malkani.

I will be eternally grateful to him for opening my eyes and heart. 

Mary Jo Pokorski