Are you ready to transform patterns that meditation alone hasn’t shifted? Embrace a life filled with love, connection, joy, aliveness, and authenticity? Unlock the benefits that meditation is meant to bring?
Join Amma Thanasanti and a community of co-inquirers on a transformative journey May – October 2025!
A message from Amma
For over four decades, meditation has been central to my life. As a former Buddhist nun of 26 years and a Dharma teacher for over 25, I’ve been fortunate to undergo extensive training including many long retreats and receiving teachings from renowned masters in the Ajahn Chah Forest tradition, His Holiness Dalai Lama, Tangpulu Sayadaw and Dipa Ma. Despite the transformative experiences, a persistent core belief of unworthiness and an underlying sadness and basic fear remained within me. My work with the 3-pillars has shifted these core beliefs and feelings positively impacting my health, close relationships, and resiliency. With my own experience of profound relief, I feel passionate about sharing this program with you.
Meet the Team
Overview of the IMP
Evolution of Integrated Meditation:
For the past 17 years, Amma has been studying attachment theory and repair. Since January 2023, Dr. David Elliott and Amma have been in regular contact. He endorses the Integrated Meditation Program, will be a guest speaker during the course and remains as an advisor. The program uses the 3 pillars of collaboration, mentalization and ideal parent imagery. Inquiry is a main practice and is used with attunement practices to optimize support and co-regulation. We expect this program will rely upon an open-ended collaborative discovery between participants and faculty.
The Premise:
This innovative program will start you on an open-ended discovery process designed to help you cultivate safety, attunement, comfort, delight, and encouragment to express yourself and be creative. We have seen that the impact of implementing this program shows itself in shifts in your internal and external sense of safety, beliefs about yourself, your capacity for self compassion and changes in your relationships. Previous participants found the program helped deepen thier meditation practice giving them more reliable access to the joys and freedoms that meditation is designed to provide.
This program has three main components:
- Collaboration: Support from mentors and peers using inquiry.
- Metacognition and Meditation: Combining metacognitive and Foundations of Mindfulness skills and practices to support healthy thoughts and reduce or eliminate unhealthy ones.
- Restructuring imprints: Changing deep-seated beliefs using Ideal Parent Imagery and other tools.
Integrated Meditation is a six-month program. Each month includes 1 big group and 1 small group meetings with a teacher. There will also be 1 peer led group and 1 other time to meet with a peer to do inquiry on your own. You also get two 45-minute one-on-one meetings with Amma. The community is a vital part of learing, sharing and discovering new insights together!
As this is not therapy, and we want to ensure that anyone who uses these tools is adequately supported we will want you to either have a preexisting relationship with a therapist or be willing to reach out to one if needed. We assess if this program will be a good match for you with free self-assessment quizzes and an interview.
For this program to be effective, we will need a group of motivated meditators committed to attending all meetings for the six months with big group sessions, small group sessions, peer group meetings, peer meetings with buddies, and one-on-one sessions with a teacher.
Sample IMP Guided Meditation: Safety
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