The Art + Science of Meditation – with Richard Miller (6 classes online)

The Art + Science of Meditation – with Richard Miller (6 classes online)

Thursdays: 4pm-5:30pm PDT - October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20 - 2025

Recordings available for 6 months

Discover the keys to integrating ancient wisdom and modern science into a powerful, nourishing and transformative meditation practice and experience your innate center of wellbeing.

Science has unequivocally confirmed it: a consistent daily meditation practice is one of the most generous gifts you can give your body, mind and soul. Meditation can lower your stress, enhance your energy, improve your sleep, make you mentally sharper, ease negative emotions and enhance positive ones... it can even optimize your work performance.

And on the spiritual level, as you take your meditation practice deeper, you improve your ability to access higher states of consciousness and directly realize, integrate and embody the underlying reality of your essential nature so that you experience radiant health and wholeness. Through meditation, you can awaken to great love, kindness and compassion. More than that, you can awaken to unity consciousness and realize that there’s something within you that has never been hurt, never been broken, never been harmed, and has always been whole and healthy. This all-embracing sense of oneness makes you feel more intimately connected to yourself, to others and to the world around you. Indeed, the potential impact of meditation on your life is enormous.

The Overwhelming Options for Meditating The challenge is that there are just so many options for you to choose from, it can be hard to know where to begin. Are all meditation practices equal? What works best and when? How do I tailor my practice to my busy life? These and many other questions may be going through your mind when you contemplate starting or deepening your practice. And it would take a lifetime to study and master all the intricacies of the countless practices and traditions that extend back for millennia so you can know which is best for you. Luckily, neuroscience is now providing some clues, as cutting-edge research is revealing exactly what’s taking place in our bodies and mind as we engage in various meditation practices. With that information, the most effective, powerful practices can now be distilled and shared.

The Value of a Master Guide: Rather than sifting through and distilling this vast array of information (from neuroscience and from the various traditions) on your own, we invite you to join us for this journey with a master guide who’s been at the forefront of meditation research for 45 years. Such a guide can navigate you through the inscrutable mysteries of ancient traditions and modern science — and help you harvest the best advanced meditation practices from the Yoga, Taoist, Mahayana, Dzogchen, Zen and Judeo-Christian traditions, without having to devote years to learning highly complex protocols. Master teacher Richard Miller, PhD, the founding president and CEO of the Integrative Restoration Institute (IRI), and founding president of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, was named by Yoga Journal as one of the top 25 teachers of Yoga and Meditation in the West. He has consulted on over 25 research studies on the efficacy of the iRest Meditation program developed by IRI — a research — based transformative practice of deep relaxation and meditative inquiry that effectively reduces PTSD, depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain and chemical dependency while increasing health, resiliency and wellbeing. Richard will share with you the insights and practices that can take you beyond effort and striving, into the ease of transforming your meditation from a hard-fought practice to an easeful way of life.

Whether this is your first experience with meditation or you’re a seasoned practitioner, this course offers you support in understanding:

· The underlying structure of meditation • The neuroscience of meditation

· The transformative power of meditation

· How to break free of compulsive thinking, emotional reactivity and negative beliefs

· The stages, phases, levels and practices of meditation so you can continue to progress into deeper realizations and great benefits

· Right relationship to, and functioning of the body, mind, senses and ego

· What lies beyond your sense of being a separate self — and how to experience it more and more

· Through taking your practice to the next level, you will come to no longer view parts of yourself as broken and in need of fixing; rather, you can welcome them into your wholeness. And in that welcoming, spontaneous healing arises.

· Meditation enables you to discover the peace that passeth all understanding, the peace that cannot be broken no matter what external circumstances you’re facing. You can confidently and courageously, as Indian yogi Paramahansa Yogananda wrote, “stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.”

· Your meditation then moves beyond a sitting practice into something incorporated throughout every minute of your day, creating and sustaining an underlying sense of peace and joy.

· Before you can experience the bliss of a meditation practice that fits you as naturally as a child’s hand fits into its mother’s, it’s essential to understand both the art and the science of meditation so you can build your practice on a solid foundation and be completely comfortable with the principles and tools that will help you advance and deepen your practice.

What You’ll Discover in this 6-part transformational series. Richard will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully integrate direct practices into your daily life to experience your innate, unchanging wellbeing and wholeness, no matter your circumstances. Each contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the next so that you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to sustain your newly developed practice.

Time: 4pm - 5:30pm PDT Please use this time converter if you need.

Thursdays: 4pm-5:30pm PDT - October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20 - 2025

Cost: Meditation series Oct 16 – Nov 20 - (Online)- Early bird $145 / After Oct 1 $155

Or

Meditation Series + Retreat Nov 23 (In-Studio + Online). Early bird $195 / after Oct 1 $210

Read more about the Meditation Retreat below

Technology : We will use Zoom. You will receive the link in the confirmation email.

Reminder emails: You will receive a reminder email 2 days before and 30 min before.

Recorded Video of the livestream session will be sent 48hr after the live session. If you cannot make the time but would like to attend, please register to receive the video link. The video will be accesible for 6 months.

PLEASE NOTE- You may wish to register for the meditation series online. Or you may wish to register for both the Meditation Series as well as the Meditation Retreat ( see description below)

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Meditation Retreat with Richard Miller at Yogakula

Sunday November 23 2025 – 1:00pm-5pm PDT - (In-Studio + Online)

Cost: Early bird $75 / After Oct 1 $85

During retreat Richard will guide you into the depths of your own self-exploration through simple yet elegant practices that includes discussion of underlying principles, self-inquiry, pranayama and meditation practices. Open to all, with no prior meditative experience necessary, this retreat engages you in inquiries that have been handed down through the ancient teachings of meditation, which enable you to recognize your essential wholeness, and provide you with the ground from which you can weather every challenging circumstance that life inevitably brings to your table Dr. Richard Miller, PhD clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar and spiritual teacher has devoted his life to integrating western psychology and neuroscience with the ancient nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Advaita, Taoism, Buddhism and Judeo-Christian perspectives. Richard is the founding president of the iRest Institute, co-founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and founding past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology. Author of iRest Meditation: Restorative Practices for Health, Healing and Well Being, The iRest Program for Healing PTSD, and Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Richard serves as a research consultant studying the meditation protocol he’s developed (Integrative Restoration - iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation), a modern adaptation of the ancient nondual practice of yogic meditation, researching its efficacy on health, healing and well-being with diverse populations including active-duty soldiers, veterans, women rescued from human trafficking, youth and college students, seniors, the homeless and the incarcerated, with issues such as sleep disorders, PTSD, TBI, chronic pain, chemical dependency and anxiety, as well as research on iRest’s efficacy for enhancing resiliency, well-being love and compassion. Richard leads international trainings and meditation retreats on the integration of enlightened living into daily life. Learn more at www.irest.org.

Richard Miller, PhD – Clinical psychologist Richard Miller is a leading practitioner of yoga therapy, combining Western psychotherapy and Eastern spiritual teachings.

Richard’s teachings have been inspired by his studies with renowned teachers over the past fifty years. Richard teaches us how to integrate yogic teachings into daily living through nondual yoga practices, contemplative self-inquiry, spirited dialogue, and awakening to what lies beyond all sense of self and separation.

Author of Yoga Nidra, The iRest Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing and The iRest Program for Healing PTSD, Richard co-founded the International Association of Yoga Therapists and founded iRest Institute where he teaches retreats and trainings internationally utilizing the timeless practices of nondual meditation. www.iRest.org

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