Meditation Instructor Training

Get more out of your practice with a coherent, functional and trauma-informed approach!

"Meditation is an art to master."

The ultimate path to connection, awareness and deep peace

To live from a heartful, centered place.

In 2025, join Ava Irani and The Centre for Healing in a one-of-a-kind journey to learn the NEW paradigm of being trauma-informed, and the mastery of meditation.

Build a practice that you love, and that nourishes you and your community.
Your guide, Ava, is an advanced meditation teacher and trainer who has:

Founded her own successful yoga studio and meditation training centre in Fremantle, WA
Run silent meditation retreats for thousands of students since 2013
Has developed her own trauma informed philosophy and movement called Functional Spirituality

With powerful frameworks, techniques, templates and personal guidance from Ava monthly, you can transform your nervous system experience, heal trauma and master meditation as your own daily habit.

I AM READY TO START THE JOURNEY

Who is Ava Irani?

Ava is the director of Functional Spirituality and the popular yoga and meditation centre Spanda School in Fremantle, W.A. She is a philosopher with a degree from the University of Sydney, retreat leader, business owner and somatic therapist. Her deepest passions are non-dual philosophy, community healing and looking at the impacts of spirituality. Her business has been offering meditation training and silent retreat to thousands of students over the past 10+ years.

Ava's path started with a fervor for awakening and non-duality. However over the years her path has matured with a more functional approach. Her work now considers the wide-spread complex trauma that lies at the heart of almost every obstacle to happy, healthy and connected living, and marries profound mystical approaches with nervous system regulation.
She has trained with Paul Muller-Ortega (Blue throat yoga), NARM (complex trauma), Cecily Milne (yoga detour), the Centre for Healing to name a few.

Ava is predominantly known for her thriving yoga studio, silent retreats in nature and the phenomenal teachers that emerge from her yoga and trauma-informed certifications. She lives in beautiful, rural Western Australia with her family and animals.

What you will gain..

Learn how to facilitate transcending and healing meditation

Experience a significant upgrade in your own meditation, spiritual & healing practices

Feel confident in a simple and easeful approach

Avoid key pitfalls in the spiritual industry

Remove disassociation from meditation techniques

Reduce burnout and fatigue for a dysfunctional approach

Course Modules and Lessons

MODULE 1

Introduction to Ava's Approach

A Functional Approach in Spirituality
The 3 Types of Meditation
The Attitudes of meditation
What is a trauma informed meditation instructor?
History of Yoga and meditation

MODULE 2

Understanding Trauma & The New Paradigm of Healing

The 3 Part Healing Method
The Fundamental Imbalance
The Biology of Suffering
The Biology of Society

MODULE 3

Foundations of A Trauma-Informed Meditation Practice

Creating a regenerative state
What are top down healing tools?
Self-reflection in meditation
The R.A.I.N. model
What are bottom up healing tools?

MODULE 4

Structuring Your Offering

Structuring your offering
Setting up a business
6 Steps to a meditation session
Structuring a meditation course

MODULE 5

Guiding a Meditation Practice

Guiding a meditation practice
Posture, Breath and Warm ups
The Heart Space
Counting Techniques
Gratitude
The Inner smile technique

MODULE 6

Awakening Meditation Techniques

What is Non-duality
Hridaya meditation
Self enquiry of Ramana Maharshi
Allowing everything to be as it is (AETBAII)
How awakening contributes to healing

MODULE 7

Trauma-Informed Principles as a Facilitator

Trauma-informed principles as a facilitator
Principles of being trauma-informed
Cultivating safety vs. preventing harm
Heart-based vs. Mind-based curiosity
Embodied Consent
Power dynamics