Continuing Education Requirements

Our teachers are required to attend a minimum of 32 hours of continual education each year. They must register by 30 June each year, providing details of classes taught in the previous year and presenting evidence of their current Ignite Your Spirit practicing certificate. They must continue to abide by our Teacher code of conduct which is set out below.

Teacher Code of Conduct

 The following code of conduct is what underpins our teaching service. All of our trained and certified teachers undertake to abide by this code of conduct and to support each other in doing so. Our teachers are not given permission to teach any subject within our school until in the opinion of Shakti Durga they have substantially realised the teachings within them. This means that the teachings are not held in their minds as theory, but is actually utilised and practiced in their lives. We feel that if we can do this we can provide a truly enlightening and world class education in spirituality and health, using the tools of Ignite Your Spirit therapy, the Path of Ease and Grace, Sound healing and the will to do good.

Pillar 1 Devotion as a spiritual teacher in our school means:

1. Continually surrendering to God, having devotion and faith in the Holy Spirit/Shakti
2. Devotion (love with commitment) for Shakti Durga and Her guru Parameshwari as founder of the Shanti Mission lineage of Guru’s
3. Being willing to accept spiritual guidance, refinement and sadhana from Shakti Durga or her senior disciples
4. Devotion to our fellow man through a commitment to serve all sentient beings and our planet until death, or until we resign as a spiritual teacher and/or disciple 
5. Dedication to serve Shanti Mission

Pillar 2 Purification as a spiritual teacher in our school means:

1. Purity of Intention – alignment with the goals of Shanti Mission to bring peace to Earth
2. Accurate Perception: Capacity to discern that which is Avidya (Thought form based reality, and Maya, that which can be changed through astral work) and not be its prisoner
3. Purity of mind, thought and belief – erasing negative thoughts as they arise and replacing them with nourishing thoughts
4. Purity of speech, including correct expression, skilfulness, assertiveness and gentleness
5. Honouring the body, including Non-smoking, non-intoxication, zero recreational drugs, adequate exercise, nutrition and rest

Pillar 3 Meditation as a spiritual teacher in our school means:

1. Meditation upon Guru
2. Using the meditative styles and tools of Shanti Mission daily
3. Spending time in reflection and contemplation, eg in nature or in a yin state
   
   1. Having a spiritual discipline which is practiced regularly
   2. Use of chanting and jappa (repetition of the names of God)

Pillar 4 100% Responsibility as a spiritual teacher in our school means:

1. Understanding the multi-dimensional nature of reality through which we create our lives and everything in them through karma, energy, thought form, and physical action
2. Choosing to take 100% responsibility for all aspects of our existence, with no exceptions: non-victim mentality
3. Observing the spiritual laws as well as the laws of the state/country in which I am residing
4. Willingness to mentor others in their spiritual journey
5. Recognizing that our own personal lifestyle and behaviour as well as processes will be of relevance to the school and its students. Use of the tools of the Path of Ease and Grace to effect problem solving.  

Pillar 5 Virtue Cultivation as a spiritual teacher in our school means:

1. Striving to cultivate all of the virtues through all interactions and all parts of our lives
2. To place emphasis on the cultivation of integrity, gratitude, joy, service, excellence, love and unity in alignment with our teacher mission statement.
3. Contentment, gratitude and calmness with either success or failure
4. Moderation and non-excessiveness
5. Non-attachment, non-greed, and non-possessiveness,
6. Spiritual tenacity and capacity for follow-through

Pillar 6 Give forgive and Serve as a spiritual teacher in our school means:

1. Forgiveness of everything and everyone, including self
2. Doing unto others as we would have them do unto us, with compassion and non-judgment
3. Generosity, giving money (tithing 10% of our income to our spiritual school/church), gratitude for what we receive and honouring the law of flow
4. Honesty, Non-stealing and non-jealousy
5. Commitment to and regularity of service

Pillar 7 Cultivation of Wisdom as a spiritual teacher in our school means:

1. Moving from ignorance, to knowledge to understanding to self realization and liberation
2. Cultivates the Hallmarks of a Spiritual Master
3. Willingness to learn and continually refine growing edges
4. Deep familiarity with the Path of Ease and Grace and the evolving teachings of Shakti Durga
5. Teaches/heals/serves in sharanagathi (unity) and in accordance with these teachings

Pillar 8 Multi Faith as a spiritual teacher in our school means:

1. I Honour God by any name or by any religion,
2. Respect for all names and styles of worshipping the Divine
3. Whatever my religion might be, Shanti Mission teachings help me understand it more deeply
4. Non-judgment of any religious sects in light of understanding that there are many levels of consciousness and different needs within emerging human souls
5. Understanding that diversity of faiths must exist in a relative universe (one in which the Law of Polarity exists), but that in the Divine dimension, which is what we seek to realize, diversity is a part of unity and we are all part of the one religion of the Divine