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Becoming an IAM Instructor or Teacher

IAM has reworked the training for the IAM Teacher Certificate. The old requirements had created too long a training, requiring several years. The new system is designed to allow people interested in Heart Rhythm Meditation or Heart Rhythm Therapy to begin to offer it to others after a three-day workshop. Further trainings can be taken later to expand the teaching curriculum.

Each training earns a certificate as an IAM Instructor. At the completion of the series of five Instructor Trainings, the IAM Teacher Certificate is awarded. Thus an IAM Teacher is a person who is fully qualified to teach the techniques and philosophy of the heart, while an IAM Instructor is qualified to teach an aspect of the IAM curriculum.

It is a great challenge for anyone educated in an American school system to represent the principles of the heart, which are revolutionary in our mind-centered culture. Some would say the philosophy of the heart is a throw-back to classical Christianity, or an expression of the compassionate history of Buddhism, but others would say it's a radical vision of the only workable future.

For example, the teachings of the heart are to

• Give more than you receive; this is the only protection your heart needs.
• Honor all your emotions as crucial messages from your heart. Avoid no feeling; harnesss them all to your productive use.
• Go beyond honesty to saying the only things worth saying, from an open heart.
• Look for the dimensions of the heart in everyone, and own everything you see.
• Blame no one for anything.
• Recognize pessimism as an illness of the heart, and optimism as coming from love.
• Find the purpose of your life, and give your life to it.
• Transform the difficulties, distortions and ailments of others by absorbing them into your energized heart.
• Use your body as an instrument of your heart, providing sensations that encode your inner wisdom.
• Welcome diversity and difference as enriching rather than threatening.
• Guard your conscience, not your pride.
• Don't try to be something you are not; you are already greater than you can imagine.

We feel these teachings bring physical, emotional and spiritual health and answer the dilemmas facing our culture at this time. Whether you see these principles as revolutionary or just common-sense, they still need practice to make them your own, and even more practice to be able to represent them to others with integrity. This is the purpose of our Instructor Trainings.

Links for more information:

Instructor Training #1, based on Energize Your Heart

Instructor Training #2, based on Living from Your Heart

Instructor Training #3, 4 & 5 leading to the IAM Teacher Certificate