Sahaja Yoga meditation workshop
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to learn how to meditate or to get back to meditating, now is the perfect time to come along to our free weekly meditation classes. Our meditation is very easy to do and you are welcome to join us to experience the peace it may offer.
About our classes
• Simple meditation techniques
• Suitable for both beginners and regulars
• No prior knowledge is necessary
• New people come along most weeks, and so everything is explained
• Join in at any time
• Chairs provided
• Always free of charge.
Where are the free weekly classes in Australia?
There are free weekly classes at over 100 locations. See if there’s one near you.
• For class locations, click here.
• To confirm class details, choose your nearest location and call the number provided on the website for that class.
Free meditation podcasts now available
People tell us how much they enjoy the depth of “collective” meditation when they attend weekly classes. But for the times when it’s just not possible to attend, or you’re in a remote location, there are podcasts. Listen online or download a selection of our meditation radio program podcasts to your computer, mobile device, iPhone, iPad or iPod. Each podcast includes guided meditations, music and talks by Shri Mataji (founder of Sahaja Yoga).
To access the free podcasts, choose one of the following options:
• Podcast website: click here.
• iPhone, iPad, iPod or iTunes users, click here.
• To use a RSS feed reader, click here.
During the year, we’ll keep in touch with details of special events such as courses, workshops, film showings and music events.
See you soon!
Sahaja Yoga Meditation Australia
Music of Joy
The Sahaja Yoga music group, “Music of Joy” will be in Canberra for the National Multicultural Festival this weekend, 10-12 February 2012, for two special performances.
Saturday evening, 11 February 2012
The concert begins at 7.30pm at the Majura Community Centre, 2 Rosevear Place, Dickson.
Sunday lunchtime, 12 February 2012
On Sunday 12 February 2012, “Music of Joy” have a 20-minute performance scheduled at Platform 1, Petrie Plaza, from 12.40pm to 1.00pm (just off London Circuit) in Canberra Civic.
Also on Sunday, 12 February 2012, Sahaja Yoga has a small information/self-realisation stall adjacent to Platform 1, Petrie Plaza.
Last year about 240,000 people attended the two and half day National Multicultural Festival in Canberra, and so the festival organisers are expecting a similar number this coming weekend.
- Shri Mataji
Achieve a kind of control over your tongue to talk sweetly. Some people have to go through penance for that. For them to talk sweetly is like taking rhubarb again. They just cannot talk sweetly…. In that sarcasm, they have a special pleasure. Try to say something sweetly. You can be humorous without being sarcastic. Humour is the best way.
What is the need to be sarcastic? There is no need at all. It is a sign of cowardliness, sarcasm. It is a sign that you want to hurt others, that you are not straightforward. So try to avoid sarcastic talking. If you are sarcastic, better tell your tongue to behave itself.
Shri Mataji, 22 April, 1984
Himalayas
I cannot express my feelings on coming here but it is an auspicious moment to recall the glory of my father. All the seekers who did their penance here achieved their ascent with the inspiration they received from the Himalayas; they succeeded in rising to the pinnacle.
Himalaya is the Sahasrara which the Mother Earth has created for you. It should be worshipped. This Sahasrara is very great. I do not see anything except vibrations everywhere. Those who are here are drenched in this tremendous ocean of vibrations, just like fish in the water. These vibrations that are spread all around are so beautiful and joy-giving that it cannot be expressed in words. This is the blessing of the Himalayas.
First and foremost we accept the ocean as our guru. The pollution of the whole world is thrown in it. However, the ocean leaves behind the pollution in its bed and rises as clouds in the sky. It becomes absolutely pure, unblemished and so beautiful. Then it sails toward the Himalayas and covers it with “Hima” [snow].
The word, “Dhaula”, means absolutely pure, clear and nirmal [referring to the mountain range of Talnoo called Dhauladhar]. Ranges like the Dhauladhar spread across the Himalaya. These ranges are similar to the ranges that cover our brain and enlighten our Sahasrara. When we face the Himalaya we appear as particles before Him. There is nothing so special in us that can stand out before Him. What are we before His majesty?
This is the Sahasrara of the whole universe. It has given the whole universe such solace, happiness and joy that there remain nothing more to desire. I have opened your Sahasrara with its help. Through this Sahasrara I discovered that till the peace of the Himalaya settles within, its coolness will not permeate your nature.
Today let us pray to the Himalaya and the seven mighty Devis [Gods] that are here to bless us with their Divine Powers. Their Divine Powers are embodied in the Mother and may we receive these from Her. Thus evoking the embodiment of the Mother, may we seek refuge at the feet of the Himalaya.
Shri Mataji, 29 March 1985, Talnoo, Dharamshala, India
(Photograph: med-ina.org)