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The next free Sahaja Yoga Meditation Workshop will be held this coming Sunday at our Wamuran Meditation Centre. Please join us to experience the quiet tranquility of nature and meditation.
We look forward to enjoying a beautiful meditation workshop with you. Beginners and ongoing meditators are very welcome. Full details are below.
To book: email [email protected]
When: Sunday 25 September 2022 10.00 am to 1.00 pm
Where: Sahaja Yoga Meditation Centre, Wamuran near Brisbane.
Program
- 10:00am: Arrival and refreshments
- 10:30am to 1pm: Workshop
– Introduction to Sahaja Yoga Meditation (for newcomers)
– Video talk by Shri Mataji, founder
– Vibratory awareness workshop
– Clearing techniques
– Guided meditation - 1:00pm: Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
The “Going Deeper” Workshop
- Learn simple and effective ways to experience the peace of true meditation.
- Video talk by Shri Mataji, founder
– Vibratory awareness workshop
– Clearing techniques
– Advanced meditation techniques
Free – Classes and events are provided free by our experienced team of volunteers, as a non-profit community service.
Getting there
The address is: The Sahaja Yoga Meditation Centre, 95 McClintock Road, Wamuran. From the M1 motorway, take the Kilcoy exit and proceed along D’aguilar Hwy until reaching Wamuran. Opposite the IGA store, turn right and then right again into Station Rd. Turn left at the small roundabout into Newlands Rd for approximately 3km, then left into Patane Rd which leads to McClintock Rd. Number 95 is just over the top of the hill on the left. See Google map
More information about Sahaja Yoga Meditation
Come and join us at this very special meditation event. Learn how to feel the peace within and how to understand and strengthen our connection with the Mother Earth. Learn how to easily maintain this state of serenity and balance with a simple daily practice, and learn how our own state of balance within can positively impact the environment as well as those around us.
Our Gidgegannup Centre is set amongst Nature’s beauty and tranquility to help experience inner peace.
Suitable for absolute beginners and regular meditators. Full details below.
COVID Safety Guidelines and Plans
Social distancing and hygiene measures will be followed at this event, as set out by the WA Government’s COVID Safety Guidelines and Plans.
Getting to Gidgegannup
From Perth, turn left from Reid Hwy or right from Roe Hwy into Toodyay Rd. Travel for approximately 10 minutes on Toodyay Rd until you reach O’Brien Rd. O’Brien Rd is on the left immediately after Roland Rd (on the right) which goes to Parkerville. Set your speedometer as you turn into O’Brien Rd and then travel 12.2 km to the turn in at 1254 O’Brien Rd, which is the Sahaja Yoga Centre. As a guide there is a one lane bridge at the 11.2km mark, just 1km from the centre. (See Google map)
More information
- Everyone welcome.
- Light refreshments provided.
- No charge. Provided free by our experienced team of volunteers, as a non-profit community service.
- No physical exercises, postures or special clothing are required. Chairs are provided.
- Enquires: 1300 724 252
- Daily meditation webcasts (and recordings) on YouTube, Facebook and Zoom.
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The festival of Vasant Panchami is celebrated every year on the fifth day of the bright fortnight of the lunar month of Magha (January – February).
This “Panchami” is also known as Saraswati Day, because it is believed that on this day the Goddess was born. As Diwali is to Shri Lakshmi and Navaratri is to Shri Durga, Vasant Panchami is to Shri Saraswati, the Goddess of art, creativity, knowledge and learning. She represents the free flow of wisdom and consciousness. She is the Mother of the Vedas, and chants to Her often begin and end Vedic lessons.
Saraswati literally means “the flowing one”. In the Rigveda it is said She represents a river and the deity presiding over it. In later mythology, Shri Saraswati was identified with Vach or Speech. The “flowing one” in an allegorical sense may mean speech also – perfect speech which denotes intelligence.
On this Vasant Panchami day, Lord Brahma is said to have created His consort Goddess Saraswati, infused speech into Her and bestowed the Veena in Her hands. She was thus named as Veena Vandini (veena player) and Vani Dayyani (recipient of speech). As the spouse of Brahma and the Goddess of wisdom and eloquence, She is known by various names such as Veenapani (holding the veena), Sharada (giver of essence), Vagisvari (mistress of speech), Brahmi (wife of Brahma) and Mahavidya (knowledge supreme).
The colour yellow is given special importance on Vasant Panchami. On this day, Shri Saraswati is dressed in yellow garments and worshipped. Books, articles, instruments of music and arts are placed before Her. In the evening after the Puja is over, the idol is immersed in the sea with serenity.
In all educational institutions of music, arts and science in India, Saraswati Puja is observed with great reverence. Saraswati Puja is also performed during the Navaratri or Dusshera. In India, Hindus prefer to wear yellow clothes on this holy day. Sweets of yellowish hues are distributed among relatives and friends.
Children are taught their first words on this day, for it is considered an auspicious day to begin to learn how to read and write.
Vasant means “spring”, and Vasant Panchami heralds springtime in India, a time of renewal and creativity of life in nature.
(Photograph: freewebs.com)
How blessed we are to have Nature’s bounty ─
The rolling seas, the boundless sky, the Earth
Which provides us with food and shelter
And yields untold riches for use by Man.
No need to ask; no need to beg or grovel or plead.
The bounteous Earth just gives and gives and gives.
Yet, if we do not have respect for the Earth
And use and destroy in the name of greed
Mother Earth unleashes her fury.
The crux is in the balance ─ the ability to take
With respect, to make amends when we can,
To know that Earth’s gifts are irreplaceable,
To acknowledge our puniness in the face of Might.
We know too well the dangers and horrors
Of vengeful Earth, the unruly consequence
Of Man’s pride, greed and arrogance.
We need to find a different way.
With respect for Mother Earth and all Her gifts
We can live in harmony with the Earth
And with all the creatures She upholds.
God grant that we change our wasteful ways.
Melody Anderson
(Photograph: geekphilosopher.com)