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Free Meditation in Darwin

Every Monday
25th November, 2nd, 9th & 16th December, 2019

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Nightcliff Community Centre
18 Bauhinia Street Nightcliff, Darwin
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Sahaja Yoga has a new 4-week course starting next Monday in Darwin. The meditation is very easy to do and you are welcome to join us to experience the peace it may offer.

The course is also open to everyone who has attended previous classes and would like to have a collective meditation with us and assist the new attendees.

 

Weekly topics

  • Introduction to meditation and the subtle system (for newcomers).
  • Vibratory awareness of the chakras.
  • Clearing and balancing techniques for the subtle system.
  • In-depth knowledge about the chakras.
  • In-depth guided meditations.
  • Video talks by Shri Mataji, founder of Sahaja Yoga.

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Please join us this Sunday at our Wamuran Meditation Centre to experience the quiet tranquility of nature, take a walk and experience Sahaja Yoga meditation. Our meditation is very easy to do and you are welcome to join us to experience the peace it offers.

When: Sunday 25th March, 2018, 10.00 am to 1.00 pm

Where: Sahaja Yoga Meditation Centre
95 McClintock Road, Wamuran Queensland
(60 minutes north of Brisbane)
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Suitable for regular meditators and newcomers

Program

  • ​​10:00 ​am: Arrival and refreshments
  • 10​:30​ am to 1.00 pm: Workshop
    – Introduction to meditation (for newcomers)
    – Video talks by Shri Mataji, founder
    – Vibratory awareness workshop, foot soaking
    – Clearing techniques using various elements
    – In-depth knowledge about the chakras
    – Meditating on earth and guided meditations

1:00 pm: Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

The Workshop

  • Learn simple and effective ways to help experience the peace of true meditation.
  • Classes and events are provided free by our experienced team of volunteers, as a non-profit community service.
  • No physical exercises, postures or special clothing are required, and chairs are provided.
  • New people can join in at any time.

Can’t make this event? Then try our online meditations at www.freemeditation.com.au

  • Free weekly classes worldwide.
  • Always free of charge.

    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 Highway until you reach Wamuran. Opposite the IGA store, turn right and then right again into Station Rd. Turn left at the small roundabout into Newlands Rd for approx 3 km, 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.

Our beautiful planet Earth

Our beautiful planet Earth

Great  writers have given us inspiring lyrics such as the song, “Imagine”. Great people say great things that inspire us.

One of my favourites at this time is something like “Change an individual and you change the world”.

These three ideas keep coming into my head, along with the saying, “As it is without, so it is within”. Or is it the opposite? Whichever way it goes, it makes sense and is obviously true.

If we look sick, generally we are.  If our normally neat homes look like a disaster for no obvious reason, then there’s a big chance we are feeling like a bit of a disaster inside as well.

At this point in history we  all seem to be  wondering what will go wrong next in the world – our jobs, money, housing and so on.

Thanks to Shri Mataji we can meditate and learn to dissolve these worries.  She has told us the qualities of each chakra so that we can feel the true peace we have within us. These are the qualities that the entire planet needs. She tells us we can help to save the world by helping it to change.

This is a huge statement until we remember it starts with us.  If it is true that “Change one person and you change the world” and “As it is within, so it is without”,  then if we can clear our chakras we have done just that. We have begun to change the world.

 Not convinced? If you are practising regular Sahaja Yoga meditation then you must have noticed some change in your niche in the world.  If we all could do it our improved personal worlds would finally have to connect.

Imagine that! I did and came up with the idea for this article.

Lisa Barron

PathwayI had tried a few of the New Age therapies around in the early ’90s, including affirmations, re-birthing, kinesiology and counselling, among others, but none of them seemed to fill the void, or answer my questions, or explain the mysteries of life, or even help me to feel better. 

I wanted to learn to meditate so I could find peace of mind and equanimity, to improve my health, to become a better person and to satisfy a longing for knowledge of the truth about life, about the world.  As Sahaja Yoga was free, I felt like I had nothing to lose.

I went to a program at the local Arts Centre.  The people at the program were friendly and helpful, and I could see that some of them were very impressive in that they were very nice, kind, sincere, balanced, and strong within themselves without being egotistical or aggressive.  I liked the fact that there were no rules to follow, and that you find the truth within yourself in Sahaja Yoga.  It was different and interesting and I really enjoyed the Indian classical music.  I was keen to find out more about the chakras and how to meditate.

Shri Mataji came to Canberra and gave a public lecture shortly after I went to my first meditation class.  I was very impressed and thought she was an amazing person – strong, compassionate, wise, intelligent, funny, witty, passionate, knowledgeable, kind, refreshingly honest and direct, and I was surprised by her independent and original thinking.  I felt inspired to give Sahaja Yoga a serious trial.

My curiosity was aroused and I was intrigued by Shri Mataji’s lecture at the public program, as well as by her talks on the videos we saw at the local programs.  I was particularly interested in what she said about Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, and about Lao Tse, Confucius, Abraham, Moses, Zarathustra and Socrates, and about realised souls like Mozart, Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Einstein and Gorbachev. 

I was amazed to find that the techniques I learned at the meditation classes really worked!  I was very motivated and in the beginning I used to meditate for five minutes every morning when I woke up, and at night I would footsoak, use candles to clear the left side for five minutes and then meditate for five minutes.  I found that I felt better!  I felt better physically.  Emotionally I felt stronger. I was worrying less, sleeping better, felt happier. 

And it was fun!  Sahaja Yoga is fresh, alive, always different, never boring, never the same.  It is always interesting and full of variety.  I found small miracles started happening, making my life flow more easily.  If I needed to speak to someone, they’d phone me, and if I became aware that I needed to buy something, it would be on special.

After doing Sahaj meditation for thirteen years, I spent seven weeks at the Sahaja Yoga International Research and Medical Centre at Mumbai in India.  Here I learned more clearing techniques and had the opportunity to spend each day in clearing, meditation and introspection.  I learned a lot from the teachers or doctors at the Centre and admired their dedication and selfless work in helping the people who went there.  Since that time I feel I have gone through another deepening in my meditation and in my understanding.

I continue to be inspired more and more by Shri Mataji, by her selfless and tireless work for the spiritual evolution of all people, to help them find love and truth and genuine happiness, to help them become better people and to relieve their suffering.  I have been helped so much myself that I want to help others find the same peace and joy that I have found.  I enjoy listening to her lectures and am always finding new things I hadn’t heard before. 

I continue to feel better, emotionally stronger and to have better self-esteem and more peace of mind.  I sleep well, worry less and cope better with stress, I’m not buffeted around by my emotions and I’m less affected by others’ opinions of me.  I am more optimistic and hopeful.

I enjoy meditating more and more and find it more and more helpful in my life.  I find the clearing techniques helpful and have got to know myself much better through clearing and through meditating: why I react as I do, how I can act differently and more constructively. 

I have better judgement, I feel more certain about the right thing to do, have better judgement about people and situations, and am not swayed so easily by other people.  I find meditation helpful in finding the right solution to any problems that arise.

I feel satisfied and content with my life.  Material things are not so important and minor inconveniences don’t worry me so much.  I feel like the emptiness inside has been filled by the knowledge of the whole.  I feel like the mysteries of life have been answered.

I am still fascinated by learning more about Sahaja Yoga and about how it fits into the scheme of things, the way it is an integral part of the intricate web of life, how it permeates into everything, how it is the basis of life itself – science, nature, the absolute, the ultimate truth.

It’s continually heart-warming to see the wonderful qualities in the realised souls, the Sahaja yogis – the love, the kindness, the integrity, the truthfulness, the simplicity, and each one’s particular talents and abilities.  I enjoy seeing the variety of their different life journeys, all leading to the same destination but travelling there by many different roads.

The love, kindness and blessings showered on me, the love I feel for others, the nice feeling of being able to forgive, and the warm feeling of seeing others express their love towards me and towards others never cease to amaze me.

I enjoy seeing the myriad ways beauty is expressed by realised souls in music, dance, literature, art, craft and architecture.

In a world where there is so much cynicism, so much dishonesty and trickery, so much cruelty and hatred, Sahaja Yoga gives me the strength to continue to behave with integrity and honesty and kindness.  It also gives me the strength to cope with adversity and to maintain my equanimity in the face of so many threats – natural disasters, climate change, wars, disease, terrorism.

Sahaja Yoga gives me hope for the future.  If many people take to Sahaja Yoga all the world’s problems can be solved.  Just as Sahaja Yoga has transformed my life it can transform the lives of others.  Sahaja yogis don’t add to the problems of the world; they help to solve the problems.  They are also able to help and support others.

I heartily recommend Sahaja Yoga.  Try it!  You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Kay Alford

(Photograph: Vishnu Bonneau)

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