Upcoming Meditation Classes
Discover the Art of Meditation
Join us for two consecutive Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30 pm, December 7 and 14, 2023.
Our complimentary meditation course is designed to introduce participants to the fundamental principles of meditation and cultivate a daily meditation practice in the comfort of your own home. Here’s what the course covers.
- Understanding the Benefits of Meditation: Explore the various advantages and motivations for integrating meditation into your daily routine.
- Preparation Techniques: Learn essential preparation exercises, including correct posture and breathing techniques, to enhance your meditation experience.
- Concentration Techniqes: Delve into methods that calm and center the mind, allowing for improved concentration during your meditation sessions.
- Meditation Practice Centered on the Spiritual Heart: Experience guided meditation sessions focused on nurturing your spiritual heart, promoting inner peace and tranquility.
- Harmonising Elements: Understand the role of music, mantra, and creative visualization in aiding your meditation practice.
- Establishing a Daily Meditation Routine: Gain insights into setting up a consistent and enriching daily meditation practice within your daily life.
- Lifestyle Integration: Learn how to align your lifestyle choices to support and enhance your meditation practice.
Please Note: As this course follows a progressive structure, attending both sessions is recommended to reap the maximum benefits. Upon completing the introductory course, a continuation option will be available for those looking to deepen their meditation practice through weekly group meditation sessions.
Begin your journey into the profound world of meditation and unlock a path to inner peace and self-discovery.
This event is free of charge but, as seating is limited, registration is required »
One Day Workshop
Free meditation workshop at the Sri Chinmoy Centre, 363 St Asaph Street. 10.30am to 3.30pm with an hour break for lunch at 12.30pm. Sunday 19 October, 2023
Join us for a one-day workshop where you will delve into the world of meditation and discover its myriad benefits. Here’s a glimpse of what the workshop will cover.
- Understanding the Benefits of Meditation: Discover the incredible benefits that a regular meditation practice can bring into your life.
- Exploring the Spiritual Heart: Learn how to connect with the spiritual heart and unlock its inner treasures.
- Calm and Focus the Mind: Begin the journey of calming and focusing the mind through simple yet effective techniques.
- Music and Mantras for Meditation: Explore the role of music and mantras in enhancing your meditation experience.
- Establishing a Home Meditation Practice: Gain insights into setting up a comfortable and nurturing space for your daily meditation practice.
This event is free of charge but, as seating is limited, registration is required »
Upcoming Special Events
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What Is Meditation?
Meditation is an inner search for happiness that reconnects us to our deeper spiritual nature – it cultivates inner peace and the discovery of our deeper potentiality and purpose. Our free meditation classes and workshops introduce simple meditation techniques that help participants on the journey to inner peace and happiness. Using guided visualisation, heart meditation, music and mantras, our courses cover the ABCs of establishing a personal meditation practice at home and offer the inspiration of long-term meditation practitioners in an informal and friendly environment.
"Meditation simplifies our outer life and energises our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life. This life becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without the consciousness of our divinity."
Meditation Class Content
Based on the teachings of Sri Chinmoy, our meditation classes and workshops will introduce participants to a range of techniques, skills and step-by-step guidelines to establishing a daily meditation practise at home. Within just a few weeks one can experience profound positive results: a growing calm, a renewed enthusiasm for life, the awakening or expansion of one's spirituality and a growing understanding of life's purpose.
Topics and Techniques Include:
- Breathing and concentration techniques to calm and focus the mind
- Creative visualisation
- Mantra and music
- The relationship between inner and outer peace
- Living in the heart – discovering happiness within
- The meditation lifestyle
- Finding your spiritual path
Registration
As with all of our meditation classes and workshops, admission is free but registration is required. For more information about class dates, times and venues, kindly contact us. If you have information and would like to register for a specific class, please call (03) 974 3137.
What to Bring to Our Classes
There is nothing that you need to bring to our free meditation classes – chairs and cusions are provided. Light, comfortable clothing is recommended but not obligatory.
Please note: For hygiene reasons we do not wear shoes in our classroom, so we do ask that you kindly bring along a clean pair of socks.
Books and CDs
We offer a selection of Sri Chinmoy's books and music CDs available for sale. Of particular note is Sri Chinmoy's meditation book, Meditation: Man-Perfection in God-Satisfaction and his flute music CD, Flute Music for Meditation. These have proven over the years to be most helpful and inspiring tools forthose who are learning and developing their meditation practice. We also offer a number of guided meditation CDs which are of great benefit tor those who are beginning their meditation journey and find simple guided meditaions helpful at home.
"If we practise meditation daily, then we can rest assured that the problems of our life, inner and outer, are solved."