MEDITATION APPRENTICESHIP
Welcome to the Apprenticeship.
Your enrollment is complete. Over the next 12 months, we’ll work with your meditation as an unfolding practice: through direct mentorship, consistent practice, shared inquiry, and ongoing integration.
There is no need to absorb everything at once. This page is your starting point. Use it to get oriented, connect to the different parts of the Apprenticeship, and take the first few practical steps.
Begin HereTHE YEAR AHEAD
12 months of sustained mentorship and practice
Direct guidance through private and small-group coaching
Ongoing practice through the Meditation Discovery Cycle
“Bring the practice you actually have. That is where we begin.”
— Miles
YOUR FIRST STEPS
Get connected. Then begin practicing.
You do not need to set up everything at once. Complete these four steps and you’ll have everything you need to begin the Apprenticeship well.
MEDITATION DISCOVERY CYCLE
Enter your ongoing practice space.
Your Apprenticeship includes full access to the Meditation Discovery Cycle. This is where you’ll find the ongoing teaching, Q&A, Sangha, practice resources, and Daily Virtual Sitting Room.
Go to the Meditation Discovery CyclePRIVATE WHATSAPP
Join the back-channel for the year.
Use this private channel for timely meditation questions, observations, and practice developments that arise between your scheduled sessions.
Join the WhatsApp ChannelCOACHING & CALENDAR
Save the rhythm of the Apprenticeship.
Add your small-group sessions and other important dates to your calendar, and use the private coaching link to schedule your individual sessions according to the Apprenticeship rhythm.
DAILY PRACTICE
Establish your baseline.
Begin with approximately 30 minutes of meditation per day. Do not worry about improving anything yet. The first task is simply to establish a sustainable rhythm and begin noticing what is actually happening in your practice.
Consistency matters more than intensity.
ONCE THESE ARE IN PLACE
You are ready. There is no additional preparation required. Begin practicing, stay curious, and bring what you discover into the mentorship.
HOW THE APPRENTICESHIP WORKS
Five parts. One integrated practice container.
Each part of the Apprenticeship serves a different purpose. Together, they create enough continuity for your practice to be seen, supported, challenged, and integrated over time.
PRIVATE COACHING
Work directly with what is happening in your practice.
Your monthly private session is the most focused part of the mentorship. Bring the questions, difficulties, openings, patterns, or uncertainties that are most alive for you.
Use it for: practice direction, discernment, obstacles, strong experiences, plateaus, and questions that need individual attention.
SMALL-GROUP COACHING
Learn through shared inquiry.
The group sessions create another kind of learning. You will hear how similar themes appear differently in other practitioners and gain perspective that may not arise in individual work alone.
Use it for: shared questions, reflection, practice themes, listening, perspective, and learning from the wider field.
MEDITATION DISCOVERY CYCLE
Stay connected to an ongoing rhythm of practice.
MDC gives you the wider practice field around the Apprenticeship: teaching, meditation, Q&A, Sangha, weekly guidance, and the Daily Virtual Sitting Room.
Use it for: continuity, community, regular teaching, live practice, and staying engaged between mentorship sessions.
PRIVATE WHATSAPP
Stay in contact with the practice between meetings.
Some questions are most useful while they are still alive. The private WhatsApp channel gives you a way to share timely observations, questions, and developments without waiting for the next formal session.
Use it for: concise practice questions, meaningful shifts, emerging difficulties, and observations worth tracking together.
SHADOW WORK
Work directly with material meditation alone may not resolve.
At times, meditation exposes emotional patterns, protective strategies, disowned qualities, or relational material that benefit from a different mode of inquiry. You have two dedicated individual shadow-work sessions during the year for this purpose.
Use it for: psychological integration, recurring patterns, disowned material, emotional reactivity, and places where insight has not yet become embodied.
THE IMPORTANT PART
You do not need to use every part of the Apprenticeship equally every month. The structure is there to support the practice, not to become another list of things you have to complete.
YOUR PRACTICE COMMITMENT
Consistency matters more than intensity.
The Apprenticeship works best when meditation becomes a steady part of your life. You do not need to practice perfectly. You do need enough continuity for patterns, questions, and changes to become visible over time.
RECOMMENDED BASELINE
30 minutes of meditation per dayTreat this as a working baseline rather than a performance target. Your practice may evolve during the year depending on your experience, circumstances, and what we are exploring together.
Return more than you restart.
Missed a day? Had a difficult week? Return to the practice without turning the interruption into a story about failure.
Notice before you fix.
Before trying to improve the meditation, become interested in what is actually happening: effort, avoidance, tension, clarity, boredom, grasping, or ease.
Bring the difficult parts into the mentorship.
Resistance, inconsistency, doubt, frustration, and confusion are not interruptions to the work. They are often part of the work itself.
Keep the practice connected to life.
Pay attention to how meditation shows up in relationship, work, emotion, conflict, embodiment, and everyday choices.
WHAT TO TRACK
You do not need a complicated meditation journal.
What feels alive?
What keeps repeating?
Where does resistance appear?
What is changing?
What feels unclear?
What question is emerging?
WHEN PRACTICE GETS MESSY
Do not disappear. Bring it into the relationship. One of the purposes of an apprenticeship is to have somewhere to bring the parts of practice you would otherwise be left to interpret alone.
PREPARING FOR YOUR FIRST PRIVATE SESSION
Come with the practice you actually have.
You do not need to prepare a polished report or arrive with the “right” question. A little honest reflection is enough to help us begin in the right place.
What feels alive in your practice right now?
Notice what has energy around it: curiosity, difficulty, momentum, confusion, resistance, or a sense that something is shifting.
Where do you feel stuck or uncertain?
You do not need to solve it beforehand. Simply identify the place where your own understanding feels incomplete.
What keeps repeating?
Pay attention to recurring patterns: effort, avoidance, doubt, impatience, striving, collapse, distraction, or something else.
What are you trying to make happen?
Sometimes the most useful place to begin is with what you are unconsciously pushing toward or trying to get rid of.
What would make this first conversation useful?
If there is one question, difficulty, or area of practice that feels especially important, bring that with you.
OPTIONAL
Jot down a few notes before we meet. They do not need to be complete or beautifully expressed. A few honest observations are enough.
REMEMBER
The first session is not about proving where you are. It is about helping us see clearly where the work should begin.
SUPPORT & QUESTIONS
Know where to bring what.
The Apprenticeship includes several different points of contact. Use the right channel for the right kind of question and the whole container stays clearer and more useful.
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
Bring them into the mentorship.
Use your private coaching, small-group sessions, or the private WhatsApp channel for questions about meditation, practice direction, difficulties, insights, resistance, and integration.
SCHEDULING
Use the coaching and calendar links.
For booking or reviewing your private sessions, small-group dates, and other scheduled Apprenticeship events, use the links provided in your Start Here resources.
TECHNICAL ACCESS
Get help with the platform.
If you cannot access Kajabi, MDC, a resource, or another technical part of the program, use the support contact below rather than the practice channels.
Contact SupportWHEN YOU'RE UNSURE
Ask rather than guess.
If you are not sure where something belongs, reach out. The point of the container is to support the practice, not create another layer of complexity around it.
A SIMPLE RULE
Practice questions go into the mentorship. Technical questions go to support. Everything else can be clarified as we go.
A NOTE FROM MILES
We begin with where you are.
Over the next year, there will be periods when your practice feels clear and alive, and others when it feels uncertain, repetitive, resistant, or difficult to understand.
None of that is outside the work.
The purpose of this Apprenticeship is not to manufacture a particular meditation experience. It is to stay close enough to the practice, over enough time, that we can learn from what is actually unfolding.
My role is to help you see more clearly, ask better questions, recognize patterns that may be difficult to see alone, and support you in developing greater trust in your own discernment.
Your role is simpler.
Practice. Stay curious. Be honest about what you find. And bring the parts you do not understand into the relationship.
I’m looking forward to working with you.
— Miles
