Certified Mindfulness & Meditation Instructor · Minneapolis, MN
Mindfulness Instructor training in Minneapolis.
Train as a Certified Mindfulness & Meditation Instructor (CMMI) with Harmonika Institute in Minneapolis, MN. Train to teach secular mindfulness and meditation in groups, workplaces, and one-on-one — informed by MBSR pedagogy.
Minneapolis cohort details
- City
- Minneapolis, MN
- Credential
- CMMI
- Tuition
- $3,500
- In-person training
- 8 days · 64h
- Live cohort calls
- 2 days · 8h
- Supervised practice
- 80h
- Portfolio + jury
- 40h
- Total
- 192h · ~24 day-eq.
- Cohort
- 10 students
- Format
- In person + live cohort calls
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Why Mindfulness Instructor in Minneapolis?
The Twin Cities' wellness market is shaped by the major healthcare systems (Mayo Clinic, Allina, Fairview, HealthPartners) and a uniquely community-oriented wellness culture. Our Minneapolis students are often nurses, social workers, and educators — practitioners who arrive with strong relational skills and look for embodied complement to their primary work.
For students of Mindfulness Instructor specifically, Minneapolis's scene is a particularly good match: healthcare-system pipeline. community-oriented practitioner culture. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Northeast Minneapolis, Uptown, St. Paul (Cathedral Hill), with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Twin Cities students are often 35-55, with backgrounds in nursing, social work, education, and healthcare administration. They tend to be unusually relationally skilled, value practical applications over spiritual abstraction, and often build practices serving specific community populations (older adults, family caregivers, religious community members).
What you'll be training in.
For a deeper introduction to Mindfulness Instructor as a practice tradition, see the full program page.
Mindfulness is the practice of bringing intentional, non-judgmental attention to present-moment experience. As a contemplative tradition it has roots in Buddhist psychology going back twenty-five hundred years; as a secular practice in the modern West, mindfulness was systematized primarily through Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, developed at the University of Massachusetts in 1979 and now taught in hospitals, schools, prisons, and corporate settings across the world.
What a mindfulness teacher actually does, day to day, is help other people sit. The work involves leading guided meditations, designing class arcs (typically the canonical eight-week MBSR-style program), fielding inquiry from students about difficulties in their practice, holding silence, and modeling the patience that the practice itself asks for. It is unglamorous and unusually rewarding work.
The Mindfulness Instructor curriculum, in 8 in-person days.
- Secular mindfulness foundations and key practices
- Designing and delivering an 8-week mindfulness program
- Teaching guided meditations: pacing, language, silence
- Working with common difficulties: pain, boredom, restlessness
- Bringing mindfulness into a workplace context
- Building a teaching practice: ethics, marketing, pricing
When Mindfulness Instructor cohorts run in Minneapolis.
Twin Cities cohorts adjust around the deep Upper Midwest winter. May and September starts dominate; January cohorts are small. Polar-vortex weather occasionally requires schedule adjustments. The summer cohort, though shorter, produces unusually cohesive groups.
Who this Minneapolis cohort is for.
Yoga teachers, coaches, HR practitioners, and career-changers who want to teach meditation with the confidence of structured pedagogy behind them.
After graduation in Minneapolis.
- Teach 8-week mindfulness programs as a CMMI
- Lead corporate mindfulness sessions and lunch-and-learns
- Anchor a weekly community drop-in meditation
- Add mindfulness to a yoga, coaching, or therapy-adjacent practice
$3,500 for the full 24-day Mindfulness Instructor program in Minneapolis.
Same tuition whether you study in Minneapolis or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Minneapolis cohort.
Tuition and financing details$3,500
192h total · 8 in-person days
Mindfulness Instructor certification in other Harmonika cities.
Next step
Become a Certified Mindfulness & Meditation Instructor in Minneapolis.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Mindfulness Instructor cohort starting in Minneapolis, MN. Free, online, one hour.