<< All WorkshopsNeelakantha Meditation Initiation
With Heather Wertheimer
The initiation takes place over two group meetings and one 1:1, that you will schedule with Heather in between the first and second meeting.
Saturday, March 22, 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET // 11:00 am - 12:30 pm PT
Tuesday, March 25 6:00 - 8:30 pm ET // 3:00 - 5:30 pm PT
Online, livestream through zoom
Recommended Rate: $450 (see below for details on all that is included)
Payment plans and scholarships available by contacting Heather
Neelakantha Meditation is a powerful form of deep meditation.
It is easy to learn, accessible to everyone, and works within the structure of your daily life to help you thrive. It is effortless, using the natural processes of the mind to practice without the need for concentration or controlling your thoughts. Neelakantha Meditation enhances creativity and can support you in every area of your life. No prior experience required.
Recommended Rate:
A fee of $450 includes the initiation weekend plus access to 18-month program for new practitioners through Blue Throat Yoga. This includes live teleseminars, an 18-month curriculum, an extensive online library and monthly meditation group meet-ups with Heather and community online via Zoom.
Email Heather directly for pay from your heart scholarship requests
Benefits Of Neelakantha Meditation:
Live life from a place of connection to the deepest parts of yourself
Access your strengths and talents, and develop them more fully
Increase your compassion, intuition, creativity and intelligence
Release patterns that are no longer serving you
Decrease stress
Act with greater effectiveness and efficiency
Gain insight, wisdom, and meaning in life
Cultivate happiness, contentment, and freedom
Heather Wertheimer
Heather Wertheimer, MA has been practicing and studying Neelakantha Meditation with Paul Muller-Ortega since 2009. She became an authorized teacher of Neelakantha Meditation as taught by Blue Throat Yoga in 2017.
Heather is a meditation teacher, kirtan artist, singer, and songwriter, who combines her special love of both music and yoga to lead devotional chanting internationally. Heather brings the richness of her healing background as a kirtan artist, therapist, meditator and yoga teacher into her life work. With a rare ability to sing directly from the heart, she infuses sacred chanting with a powerful sense of peace and depth. Heather tours internationally with her husband Benjy in the duo Shantala and has appeared onstage with Deva Premal & Miten, Krishna Das, and Jai Uttal. Heather’s debut CD with Shantala, Church of Sky, was named by New Age Retailer as one of the top ten albums of the year.
Heather received her Master’s degree in Psychology, with a focus on Yoga and Mind/Body Health, from Sonoma State University in 2002. She worked as a therapist in Portland, OR, for 20 years and as a yoga teacher for 10 years.