Teaching
Meditation
In The
Modern Age
Online Certification
Directed by Tamika Schilbe Cole & Carolyn Burke
Turn your passion for meditation into a gift you share with others.
Are you passionate about meditation but find you’ve lost focus and inspiration in recent years?
Are you searching for the right techniques to help create or maintain your meditation practice?
Are you a coach, counsellor, teacher, speaker, yoga instructor, or leader who wishes to incorporate meditation techniques into your work, or teach classes and workshops?
Are you interested in deepening your existing practice?
We’ve been teaching and studying meditation since the 1990’s and we’re here to help you achieve these goals and more.
No yoga experience is required to take this training.
Carolyn Burke
Carolyn Burke, MSW, RSW, E-RYT 1000, RCYT, is an experienced yoga teacher trainer, therapist, and past life regression specialist. As DevaTree’s co-founder, Carolyn artfully guides students in the Yoga for Anxiety, Meditation in the Modern Age, and HeartRise® Children’s Yoga programs. Carolyn studied at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica where she was a Director in their 500-hr program for 5 years. Carolyn was a long-time Faculty at the Toronto Yoga Show & Conference. She has designed and led numerous wellness and therapeutic groups for people of all ages, including a mindfulness and meditation program for adults in recovery from addiction. Carolyn is the creator of Mystic Moms, an online program that helps moms tap into their natural energetic powers. Known for her spontaneity, warmth, and deep wells of compassion, she creatively weaves mind-body practices into everything she does.
The methods we share in this course have helped us, our students and our clients create more peace, clarity, and calm. These methods are a lifesaver in unpredictable times
Tamika Schilbe Cole
Tamika Schilbe Cole, MSW, RSW, E-RYT-1000, is a therapist in private practice, author, meditation teacher trainer, and Emotion Code Practitioner. She’s the author of the #1 bestselling book Truthaches: Everything You Need to Know About Speaking—and Living—Your Truth. As co-founder of DevaTree, Tamika has created and facilitated numerous trainings and retreats, certifying hundreds of yoga and wellness leaders. Originally trained at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica in 2001, Tamika directed their first Canadian 200-hr YTT and their first advanced-level teacher training. She is a former university faculty, college instructor, and Toronto Yoga Conference faculty. For over three decades students have experienced the warmth, humour, and transformational power of Tamika’s teachings. Her mission is to empower people to trust their voice, speak their truth, and create more clarity, power, and freedom in their lives.
This Transformative Online Course Includes…












Learn the theory, practice, safety, and science of multi-style meditation. This training includes approaches from a variety of lineages and traditions so you can easily adapt your classes for beginners or more advanced students.
Styles include open and closed-eyed meditation, vipassana, metta, mantra, japa mala, walking meditation, nature techniques, sacred geometry, mindfulness, mudras, and much more. Learn meditation-focused warm-up sequences to open the body in preparation for sitting. Program includes optional gentle yoga classes.
Explore the expansive and life-affirming practice of meditation in a way that honours your need for individuality, reflection, and inner connection.
We do not teach meditation the same way we did 10 years ago.
In recent years people have experienced increasing stress, anxiety, and fear, which increases toxic adrenaline. Now more than ever, meditation teachers need to be aware, flexible, and sensitive to the
challenges their students face.
This course will help you evolve your teaching style for a changing world.
What Are The Key Components Of The Course?






















What Will I Learn In This Course?
- The theory and practice of multi-style meditation.
- Benefits and cautions of meditation.
- The difference between going wide and going deep.
- Mental patterns, mental dispositions, and personality traits as they apply to meditation.
- How to manage boredom and resistance.
- How meditation alters our brain, personality, and capacity for empathy.
- Accessing the meditation current; entering the slipstream.
- Alchemy and the power of the pineal gland.
- Increasing positive emotions and life satisfaction.
- Decreasing feelings of loneliness and disconnection.
- From self-judgement to self-compassion.
- Body-focused relaxation techniques.
- Metta, Tonglen, Mindfulness, and Zazen.
- Open monitoring, awareness-based, and surrender meditation.
- Japa, tratak, and sacred geometry meditations.
- Over 25 additional meditation tools and practices.
- The shake, rattle, and roll effect and how to manage these experiences.
- Breath-focused meditations and other ways to access the power of the subtle energy body.
- Techniques to assess your student’s readiness for meditation.
- Common mistakes when guiding students in meditation and how to avoid them.
- Myths of meditation and how to overcome blocks to meditating.
- Trauma-sensitive practices to support your students.
- Use of silence to calm the central nervous system.
- Addiction to adrenaline in modern society; meditation as an antidote.
- How to develop a lasting home practice.
- Harmonizing posture, breath, and state of mind.
- Accessing higher states of consciousness.
- Cultivating gratitude and openness.
- The intersection between science and mysticism.
- Transforming suffering and cultivating oneness.
- Igniting your natural instinct to heal.
- Earth-based mini-flows and therapeutic sequences including support for the spine, hips, neck, ankles, and feet.
- Use of props to support healthy seated posture.
- 7 meditation-focused yoga flows
What People Are Saying About Meditation in the Modern Age
DevaTree’s meditation course was absolutely beautiful. I loved being exposed to so many styles and methods from various traditions, and discovering new ways of diving deep into a meditative state. Before taking this gorgeous training, I had my own simple meditation practice that helped me clear my mind and release stress. After integrating all the new learnings and adopting new ideas and approaches, my personal practice has deepened considerably. Meditation has become even more vital to my wellbeing and self care. I have loved sharing different types of meditation with co-workers, yoga retreat participants, and loved ones, and it will always be an integral part of my mental health. I am forever grateful.
This course is so, so rich! I’m in awe of this program and the support that it gave me at a transitional time in my life when I really needed it.
I’m a long-time meditator, but in recent years I’ve had a harder time meditating because of anxiety. After learning new techniques I didn’t know about, I’ve really surprised myself because I’m doing so much better at meditating. It’s like a gift I’ve given to myself and also to the people I teach. We all have to manage struggles on a daily basis and quieting our minds and remembering to send love out to others is so important. I’m so glad I got to take this course!
Since starting this training, I’ve become more open to what’s happening when I meditate and also what’s happening in myself as I walk in the world. I’ve been able to enter into a quiet that I didn’t know existed before, and also enter into that space with others. Thanks to this course, I’ve been meditating daily for the past two years, both on my own and with my group. I continue to have profound spiritual experiences that are hard to put into words, but help me show up with more presence for myself, my family, and my community.
Course Format
Meditation in the Modern Age includes over 50 hours of study and practice. It offers multiple meditation techniques, practices, and self-study to help integrate and enhance learning.
This online course involves self-paced learning (videos, discussion boards, quizzes, audio recordings, and downloadable handouts) delivered on DevaTree’s membership platform. Self-paced learning is intended to create more space for you to digest the material, stay accountable to your learning goals, and decrease feelings of overwhelm.
You’ll also have access to recorded teacher training classes where you’ll hear students share their experiences of the techniques. These critical conversations will help you take your meditation practices to the next level.
Give yourself – and your students – the sanctuary of silence.

We want you to be fully satisfied with your training experience, therefore refunds can be issued within 3 days of purchase. After that, the course is yours and you’ll have lifetime access to come back and learn as often as you like. Due to the digital nature of the content, once that deadline has passed, no refunds are available.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Pricing: $855.00 CAD
Meditation in the Modern Age is eligible for 30 CEU (Continuing Education credits) with Yoga Alliance and can be used towards your 1000-hr Advanced Level Certification with DevaTree.
* Tamika and Carolyn are both psychotherapists (RSW, MSW) and mental health professionals, however, they are not medical professionals. This course is not intended to cure or treat anxiety, depression, or other symptoms. It is recommended that you seek support from your medical and/or healthcare professionals to deal with your specific issues and symptoms related to mental health. The material in the training is intended to support your healing path.