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.
Curious but not sure whether you want to commit to a six-month program? Try Amma’s free drop-in sessions, offered every Wednesday at 5:30 PM PT, where she provides a guided meditation offering a glimpse into the full program!
Overview of the IMP
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.
Who? The Integrated Meditation Program is designed for meditators who have been practicing for 3 years or longer, have a regular meditation practice and have some tools to work with difficult emotional experiences. It is for meditators who want to get more out of their meditation practice, who want to deal with challenging patterns that meditation alone has not resolved.
What? The Integrated Meditation Program is a 6-month immersive community experience in which you develop and practice tools to create internal safety, attune to yourself and others, increase your skills at self soothing, letting in appreciation, and allowing your creativity to express itself. It combines traditional and trauma informed meditation practices and the use of imagery.
Where? Virtual on Zoom
When? May 2025 – October 2025
The Big Group (full class) meetings are the first Saturday of the month from 10am -12:30 noon Pacific Time. The Mentor Group (subgroups with Amma) meeting times will be scheduled when we know the numbers of the cohort. The Peer Group (subgroups without Amma) meetings will be coordinated after the cohort begins.
What’s the time commitment?
The first 3 months will require a minimum of 6.5 hours each month and the last three months will require more time as follows:
- 2.5 hour big group
- 90 minute mentor group with a teacher
- 90 minute peer group
- 60 minutes one-on-one meeting with a peer to continue practicing. (The one-on-one meeting with peers proved to be extremely beneficial. Many opted to have more than one meeting a month.)
- The last 3 months of the program will add an additional two more 45 minute meetings with Amma to help you make the best use of the Ideal Parent Figure imagery.
What’s the cost of the program?
This will be in monthly instalments and will begin 30 days before the program begins.
- Patron – $2,000 = $334/month for 6 months
- Standard – $1,750 = $292/month for 6 months
- Subsidized – $1,500 = $250/month for 6 months
In order to make this program available to participants of different financial means, we ask you to select the most financially generous option you can pay for course.
What is Amma’s connection with Dr. David Elliot?
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 Integrated Meditation program uses the groundbreakiing 3 pillars of collaboration, mentalization and ideal parent imagery that the late Dr Daniel P Brown and Dr David Elliott co-founded.
How do I get accepted to the program?
First, you need to fill out the application, which includes taking three free quizzes. You will be contacted about scheduling a one-on-one interview. After the interview you will be contacted about acceptance into the program. The application has no cost up front.
How is the course administrated?
We use Padlet as a noticeboard for journal prompts, peer group instructions, mentor meeting recordings and resources. We use email for general reminders and communication.
Are there any additional things I should know about?
- We build the community cohesiveness that allows the program to be effective we abide by these confidentiality and ethical guidelines.
- We want to assure that what we offer is a good match for each participant. To help us make that assessment each applicant will be required to take 3 free quizzes and undergo an interview as part of the application process.
- We ask that if you don’t currently have a relationship with a therapist that you are willing to reach out to one if needed.
What if it turns out I can no longer participate in the program after enrolling?
If you need to withdraw, there will be a $175 fee and your refund will be prorated.
Can you describe what the Integrated Meditation Program is not?
This program is not therapy. We respect the healing required after significant loss, trauma, or mental health crisis and if you have had any of these we advise you to wait at least a year before applying to this program.
Sample IMP Guided Meditation: Safety
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