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Inner Awakening: Free Introductory Meditation Courses

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Meditation: The Inner Awakening

Free Upcoming classes in Mt Eden, Green Bay and Three Kings. Register now to get started on your inner journey to happiness!

What are the deeper goals that lie beneath our lives? Lasting happiness and peace are the universals we all share. Meditation is the fast track, the time of awakening, the longing to find your peaceful inner space.
Our November/December free courses offer the methods, knowledge and inspiration you’ll need to explore the many paths of meditation – you only need the sincerity to try and the determination to practice.

Our course instructors have decades of personal experience to share with you, and each of the structured free evenings will cover a range of techniques and essential meditation secrets. You’ll also enjoy the company of like-minded people who, like yourself, are seeking the inner treasures that our spiritual life always brings.

Meditation Introductory

  • Toolkit for Calm: A Free 4-Evening Immersion
  • When: Consecutive Tuesdays, November 26; December 3, 10, 17.
  • 7pm – 8:30pm nightly
  • Where: 89 Dominion Rd, Mt Eden. We’re located on the Dominion Rd/Tawari
  • Street corner. Ample street parking, admission free.

Content: A four-part progressive course introducing the essentials of meditation and a wide canvas of differing methods to get you underway. The accent is on guided practice, with several progressive meditations each evening. Guest teacher Jogyata spent many years under the guidance of the late Indian spiritual master Sri Chinmoy, and brings a wealth of practical experience, personal stories and insights to share. His w/shops are known for their encouragement, inspiration and simplicity.

Registration is encouraged to ensure seating space – simply text your name/contact details to: 0221887432 – or use the contact form below.

Please do not join after the second session as this is a structured 4 part course.

Green Bay

This series of introductory classes covering the ABCs of meditation – breathing and concentration techniques to remove stress and calm the mind; the use of creative visualisations and mantric chants; meditation in the spiritual heart centre; how to set up your own personal meditation program.

Once a week for three weeks from 6.30pm – 7.30pm

  •  Thurs 7, 14, 21 November

Venue: Green Bay Community House, 1 Barron Drive
Registration: Free admission, but registration is required to accommodate numbers.
Please use the contact form below, or text your name, number attending to: Durba 022 065 3719

 

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Meditation FAQ

This Q&A comes from a very nice recent meditation interview with course instructor Jogyata Dallas, shared with Verve magazine:

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Our class instructors

Meet a few of our regular class-giving team here in Auckland (We also frequently invite guests from abroad, so do keep an eye out for them!)

Jogyata Dallas

Jogyata has taught meditation for over 30 years and is the author of several books about the subject and his encounters and experiences with Sri Chinmoy. He lives in Auckland but teaches in many other countries. His workshops combine humor, personal anecdotes and guided meditations and reflect his sincere love of his subject.

More articles and videos by Jogyata:

Preetidutta Thorpe

Preetidutta has been a national level sailor and still loves the ocean as a place for meditation and happiness. She’s an adventurer, marathoner, trail runner and longtime meditator, and a member of a relay team that carries a peace torch around New Zealand and the Pacific islands every year to promote world peace. She runs free introductory courses in Auckland every year.

Hridayinee Williams

Hridayinee has studied and practised meditation for many years and shared her love of meditation in workshops offered throughout several countries.

She brings mantras and music to her courses and belongs to several Auckland a capella performing music groups. “Emptying the mind and finding stillness is difficult for most people – music fills the mind, displaces thought and replaces it with beauty…”

Abhimanyu Badami

Abhimanyu has been a member of the Sri Chinmoy Centre since 2003. A keen marathoner and occasional actor he lives and works in Auckland after moving here from India. He teaches evening workshops in introductory meditation throughout the year.

Some of spiritual master Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy can be explored here: www.srichinmoy.org

I meditate
So that my mind
Cannot complicate
My life

Sri Chinmoy