Free Introductory Meditation Courses - Meditate in Auckland

Meditation: The Inner Awakening

Free Upcoming classes in Auckland. 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 upcoming 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.

Option A – A five step, 5 evening Challenge

When: Consecutive Tuesdays, May – June, 7pm – 8:30pm nightly.

Venue: Sri Chinmoy Centre, 89 Dominion Rd, Mt Eden.
Entry is through the side door just around the corner in Tawari Street.

Step One: Tuesday May 27
Stress – sharing 5 simple meditation exercises to cope with stress utilising breath-work and visualization.

Step Two: Tuesday, June 3
Mantras and chants – using the power of sacred sound to discover silence. This session introduces several easy mantras that open the spiritual heart and deepen our meditation.

Step Three: Tuesday June 10
The four pillars of Yoga – hatha, karma, jnana, bhakti.
A deep dive into exploring the principle paths of yoga and their various wisdom teachings and practices.

Step Four: Tuesday June 17
Lifestyle upgrade – putting it all together.
Meditation is part of an inner awakening and an evolutionary step up – what are some of the lifestyle positives enabling this? A look at nutrition, physical exercise and further meditation secrets.

Step Five: Tuesday June 24
Finding clarity and direction in your own inner journey.
An overview of the wide canvas of spiritual paths and their teachings and disciplines. An introduction to the recommendations and guidelines offered by the late Indian spiritual Master, Sri Chinmoy.

Registration: Registration is required to accommodate numbers attending. Please register on the contact page below, or text your name, number attending to Ailsa 021 892 153.

Option B – Silent mind, infinite power

How to quiten the busy mind with ancient techniques taught from meditation master Sri Chinmoy. In the first class free your mind from tension and learn how to set up a meditation home practice. In the second class discover the infinite well of power and peace that springs from within, and enter into the spiritual warrior’s journey that treads the path to yoga – oneness with the higher self.

When: Monday June 23rd, 5pm to 6:15pm (class 1) and Thursday June 26th, 5pm to 6:15pm (class 2)
Venue: Ponsonby Community Centre, The Meeting Room, 20 Ponsonby Terrace.

Registration: Registration is required to accommodate numbers attending. Please register on the contact page below, or text your name, number attending to Danny 021 831 382

July Courses – Meditation: Toolkit For Calm

When: July 14, 17, 21, 24, 28, 31. 7pm – 8:30pm nightly.

Venue: Sri Chinmoy Centre, 89 Dominion Rd, Mt Eden.

Inner peace, simplicity and happiness have always been there inside us, qualities of our heart and soul that are often hidden and lost beneath the busy
complexities of our mind. This free six-evening course covers the essential
techniques in learning and mastering meditation, rediscovering the inner life and restoring clarity and calm. Our guest presenter is Jogyata Dallas, who has taught workshops on meditation in many countries and authored several books about the subject and his own personal experiences.
Each evening introduces new material and meditation exercises that encourage stillness in the mind, body and breath; mantras and chants; the principle branches of yoga; and examines the seven essential steps in developing a more spiritual lifestyle. It is recommended that you start on the first or second evening rather than joining after this.
No need to bring anything; there is ample local street parking as well. Entry is just around the corner from 89 Dominion Rd, through the first entrance in Tawari Street. Admission is free, however registration is encouraged to ensure seating.
Please use the contact page below to register, or whatsapp to:
022 1887432
All welcome!

November Weekend Retreat

You’re invited to a very popular weekend out in the nearby Waitakere Ranges, a gravel road off Bethells Road taking you away from cellphones (no reception!), mental clutter, work and life’s usual dramas. Starting Friday evening, this two night retreat is an immersion in activities, meditations, trail hikes and local beaches, music, vegetarian food and new friendships that offers nothing less than an evolutionary jump in your spiritual life. This is a stage 2 w/shop – a requirement for participants is to have first attended one of our introductory meditation courses so you have some familiarity with our meditation guidelines.

When: November 14-16th, Friday to Sunday afternoon.

Venue: Held at the beautiful Aio Wira Retreat Centre in Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges.

Aio Wira offers a variety of accommodation options – single rooms, twin share rooms, bunkrooms, and we try to accommodate everyone’s specific requests. We can accommodate 24 participants.

Our organisers are offering their services freely – the costs are only those charged by the Aio Wira Centre for two nights accommodation and full use of all facilities, which include spa and sauna. We don’t have a one-night only option at this stage. Costs can be advised a little later once confirmed, and will include all vegetarian meals. Own transport preferable, though ride sharing to and fro may be possible.

For further information and cost updates, please message Jogyata. Email: jogyata@slingshot.co.nz or text/call: 0221887432

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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.

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…”

Daniel Rubin

A trail runner and fitness enthusiast, Daniel shares his love of nature with guided meditations that draw on images from nature and landscape.

He covers a wide range of meditation techniques with a focus on practice.

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