Describe your teaching style and session format. Makeform builds a meditation intake form covering experience, intentions, preferences, accessibility, and relevant health considerations.
Send new client responses to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Adults booking an individual introductory session
Format
Warm intake with conditional follow-ups
Prompt size
244 chars
Example form structure
Warm intake with conditional follow-ups
What brings you to meditation now?
How often have you practiced before?
Which practice setup feels most comfortable?
Anything you would like the teacher to consider?
Preferred session date and format
Suggested routing tags
New to meditation
Returning client
Follow-up requested
Ask only for health information that changes teaching, explain its relevance, and offer a prefer-not-to-answer option.
Step 1
Welcome
explain why each question matters
Step 2
Understand
experience, goals, and preferences
Step 3
Adapt
route access and teaching considerations
Step 4
Prepare
review answers before the session
A calmer first step
Gather context for teaching, room setup, and follow-up while keeping sensitive questions optional.
Replace vague beginner or advanced labels with frequency, practice styles tried, and what has or has not felt supportive.
Let clients describe what they hope to explore, then use their words to frame a session without implying a guaranteed outcome.
Show seating, breathing, sensory, or access questions when an earlier response makes them useful, keeping the initial form approachable.
Flexible by setting
Tailor scheduling, participation, and preparation questions to the way you teach.
Capture personal goals, practice history, preferred pace, and questions before a private first session.
Combine intake, access requests, cohort scheduling, and reminder preferences for a multi-week course.
Keep questions concise and focused on session preferences rather than personal health details an employer does not need.
Collect arrival, food, seating, sensory, and emergency-contact details in one organized pre-event response.
Build the intake
Describe your setting, review the questions, and publish a fitting welcome.
Name the audience, private or group format, session length, practices you may offer, and what you genuinely need to know beforehand.
Make questions sound like your studio, label optional items, explain sensitive asks, and remove anything that will not change preparation or teaching.
If someone selects new to meditation, ask what would help them begin; if they request a chair, show the relevant setup choices.
Publish the link, embed it with booking information, and route each response to the person preparing the room or leading the session.
Choose the right intake depth
Choose the approach that collects information the teacher will use.
Field guide
Use these six sections as a practical checklist. Keep required fields limited to what is necessary, and let clients skip sensitive prompts when possible.
Contact and logistics
Collect what confirms the session, and separate service messages from marketing choices.
Practice background
Ask about frequency and familiar techniques, with a welcoming no-prior-experience choice.
Intentions
Offer common themes plus an open response for goals you did not anticipate.
Comfort and access
Ask how clients prefer to participate. Concrete choices help staff prepare without requiring an explanation.
Health considerations
Use neutral, optional wording about comfortable participation and keep questions within the teacher's role.
Teacher follow-up
End with questions and a follow-up choice. Tags can flag conversations or room adjustments.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for meditation teachers and wellness studios designing a respectful first-client experience.
It is a questionnaire completed before a private session, course, or retreat. It gathers experience, intentions, preferences, accessibility needs, and optional considerations that affect preparation.
Ask about their motivation, experience, familiar techniques, goals, and comfortable participation. Add only scheduling, access, and health-consideration answers you will use.
Explain the relevance and ask about participation rather than detailed history: comfortable sitting, breathing, movement, or closing the eyes. Keep it optional and offer private follow-up.
Yes. Show introductory prompts to newcomers, practice follow-ups to experienced clients, or setup choices after an access request. Branching keeps the intake concise.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect meditation intake responses without a usage cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Start with shared experience, goal, and access questions, then branch into private scheduling or group logistics. Duplicate the form when the journeys differ substantially.
Explain how answers support preparation. Use everyday language, group related items, label optional fields, offer prefer-not-to-answer choices, and remove questions that will not affect teaching.
Responses reach the Makeform inbox and can route to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Notify the teacher and tag conversation or access requests.
Begin with a thoughtful welcome.
