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Sahaja Yoga Meditation class at Cairns, Australia
Sahaja Yoga in Cairns is offering a new time slot for the regular program that is held at the Marlin Coast Neighbourhood Centre.
At the sessions, participants are shown how to achieve mental stillness in their meditations. This process is a very simple one that allows the participants to experience true meditation, known as thoughtless awareness. Regular practice of this meditation helps in reducing stress and achieving balance in our lives. In this way, we can experience better health, improved relationships and greater wellbeing.
The new meeting details are provided below:
Time: Wednesdays, 6.30 to 7.30 pm
Where: Marlin Coast Neighbourhood Centre
Lot 2, Reed Rd, Trinity Park
Cost: Always free
Enquiries: Telephone 1300 724252
We hope to see you there.
(Photograph: Vishnu Bonneau)
"Music of Joy" concert leaflet
Sahaja Yoga in the Philippines has invited “Music of Joy”, the renowned Australian Sahaja Yoga musical group, to perform a musical concert in the Philippines, as part of the Sahaja Yoga Asian Tour 2012. The concert will present vocal and instrumental music, including bhajans and qawwalis.
It will be a life-time experience for everyone in Manila to watch Australians playing musical instruments from all around the world.
The instruments include harmonium, didgeridoo, guitar, bass, flute, saxophone, clarinet, tabla, dholak, djembe, chimtar and tambourine.
The concert will be held on Sunday, 8 July 2012 at 3.00-7.00 pm in SM Mall of Asia, one of the biggest malls in the Philippines, at Pasay City, Metro Manila.
- Sahaja Yoga East Coast Tour members
Our meditation team will be visiting towns along the east coast of Australia from 28th December to 4th January to present free meditation sessions. The members of the team come from all over Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Italy to join in the tour, travelling by bus and holding meditation programs in towns along the way.
Come and meet us! You’ll learn to meditate and experience the cool breeze of pure meditation.
Sessions run for 30 minutes throughout the day at the venues listed below.
QLD – Brisbane
Wednesday 28 December, 2011
10.15am to 2.45pm
Brisbane Square Library
Tiered Theatrette
Ground Floor, 266 George St
Brisbane
Contact: 1300 724 252
QLD – Bundaberg
Thursday 29 December
2pm to 5pm
Hinkler Shopping Centre,
Baroling Street
Bundaberg
Contact: (07) 4159 7887
QLD – Bundaberg
Friday 30th December
10am to 1pm
Bargara Beach
Bargara
Contact: (07) 4159 7887
NSW – Byron Bay
Monday, 2nd January 2012
9am to 3pm
Byron Community Market
Butler Street Reserve
Byron Bay
Contact: 1300 724 252
NSW – Woolgoolga
Tuesday 3rd January
9am to 1pm
Woolgoolga Beach Reserve
Woolgoolga
Contact: (02) 6654 7495
NSW – Coffs Harbour
Tuesday 3rd January
9am to 1pm
Jetty Reserve
Coffs Harbour
Contact: (02) 6654 7495
NSW – Avoca Beach
Wednesday, 4th January
10am to 3pm
Hunter Park
Avoca Beach
Contact: 0416 259 025
Hope to see you at one of our sessions!
Work stress
In one of the most thoroughly designed studies of meditation ever published, full-time workers who used Sahaja Yoga meditation became much less stressed compared with more conventional approaches to relaxation or placebo, according to a paper published in the online journal, Evidence Based Complementary Medicine, a leading publication in its field.
A team of researchers at Sydney University’s Meditation Research Programme monitored stress levels of full-time Australian workers in Sydney’s Central Business District to determine the effectiveness of meditation in combating this widespread and expensive problem.
The 8-week clinical trial provides strong evidence that there are measurable, practical and clinically relevant effects that appear to be specific to Sahaja Yoga meditation.
The study divided volunteers into three groups. Those who used Sahaja Yoga meditation showed significant reduction in their stress levels compared with those who used other methods of meditation that didn’t involve thoughtless awareness.
This is one of only a few meditation studies in the world that clearly demonstrate an effect that is much greater than just placebo. Hence, it has broad and important implications for all levels of society.
Work stress is described by many experts as a modern epidemic. It costs the Australian economy $15 billion per year and the US economy more than $300 billion. It is a leading cause of work absenteeism, causing both mental health problems such as anxiety and physical problems such as heart disease. Sahaja Yoga is a simple, low-cost intervention that can help prevent these problems.
The strategies currently available to tackle work stress often have limited effectiveness. This is where this study is remarkably relevant. It shows that a simple, mental silence orientated meditation skill reduces stress significantly more than other, often more expensive, approaches to stress management.
Stress is not just limited to the workplace. In western countries, studies estimate that more than 70% of medical consultations feature stress as a major issue.
Read the original research publication here:
www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2011/960583/
Visit the Australian Meditation Research Programme’s website:
www.researchingmeditation.org <http://www.researchingmeditation.org>
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