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Our Music of Joy group and Meditation team will be visiting Sydney during November to present a Music and Meditation concert followed by a 3-week course.
Embark on a serene journey with Music of Joy as they bring their acclaimed Music and Meditation experience to the Sydney region. Presented by Sahaja Yoga Meditation Australia, this uplifting tour combines world-inspired live music and guided meditation to nourish the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being of all attendees.
Visit our event website or view details below:
https://www.freemeditation.com.au/burwood-oct-2025
Music and Meditation Concert and 3-Week Workshop
Woodstock Community Centre
Penfold Ballroom
22 Church Street, Burwood Sydney
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All events are always free of charge.
Enquiries call 0468 476 552
MUSIC and MEDITATION CONCERT
Sunday 9th November 2025 • 10AM – 12PM
Uplifting live music from Music of Joy and the experience of true meditation.
3-WEEK WORKSHOP
(FREE – Join in at anytime, even if you miss the concert or a session.)
Week 1 – Experience the silence within
Sunday 16th November 2025 • 11AM – 12PM
We will experience the awakening of a divine mothering energy within us that gently takes us into a state of silence.
Week 2 Expand the silence of meditation
Sunday 23rd November 2025 • 11AM – 12PM
Learn how to calm your attention, reduce your thoughts, and increase your enjoyment of inner silence.
Week 3 – Inner peace and balance
Sunday 30th November 2025 • 11AM – 12PM
Our attention can move into the past, the future, or be stable, quiet, and settled in the present. In a state of balance we are able to surmount inner and outer obstacles to becoming our true selves.
ONLINE CLASSES
Ongoing online classes and courses in over 10 languages
The Music
Music of Joy is a multicultural ensemble based in Australia, dedicated to creating music that awakens the spirit. With decades of international and Australian touring behind them, they unite meditative practice and global musical traditions to cultivate inner peace and joy.
The Meditation
The sessions will include guided meditations and a video presentation by Sahaja Yoga founder – Shri Mataji who offers practical tips to reduce stress and cultivate inner peace
A Sample of Music of Joy: “Raining on the Rock”. The Rock is Uluru.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTbxECuOf1E
Shri Mataji
Nothing like laughing. Laughing is the greatest correction; you’ll laugh at yourself, you’ll laugh at others. Don’t make others look ridiculous, but just enjoy the way others are and enjoy each other. They are all very beautiful people, very beautiful. It’s like one beautiful flower is enjoying the fragrance of another beautiful flower. That’s what should be.
One should not feel, that, “Oh, look at this flower. It’s so beautiful.” Look at yourself; you are so beautiful, too. But unless and until you enjoy the fragrance and the beauty of another flower, you cannot know what you are, because you are all just the same inside. You are all people whose Spirit has come into their attention, wonderful people …
Shri Mataji, Germany, 10 July 1988
Shri Mataji
Once you become the part and parcel of the whole, you do not feel that you are doing any good to others or you are obliging anyone because nobody is the other. If somebody feels this hand paining, the another hand soothes him. And what is the obligation? Who is the other that you are helping? You are helping yourself. So the feeling of other goes away. When you have the first stage of thoughtless awareness, then you watch everything without thinking, is Zen.
Now I see a beautiful piece here and I know it is not mine, so I have no headache of it. But when I watch it without thought, all the joy that was put into this to create this starts filling me up completely because there is no thought in between. Otherwise I would think, “How much will I pay for this? When will I get it? Where will I buy it?” But when I have no botheration like that and just enjoying without owning it.
Like a calm lake reflects all that is created around it, the joy of that, fully. In the same way, the calm mind, without any thought, reflects the joy of the creation. So the idea of my mind drops out, all the headaches of insurance drops out. But the greatest thing is that you start enjoying another person.
Shri Mataji, Munich, Germany, 9 May 1985
When you get your Self-realisation, you become the Spirit. And your attention is enlightened by that spirit. You become a witness of the whole world like a drama. This enlightened attention is a very powerful means of spreading divine vibrations. You see eyes of such person becomes innocent, absolutely innocent. We have to know that there is one thing that is our innocence which never destroy. It is covered with clouds … but never destroyed. And you regain that back your innocent state within yourself. At the same time you are so dynamic but you become extremely compassionate. You don’t have fears, You don’t have any grudges, you are absolutely floating in the beautiful atmosphere of truth. … Then the greatest thing that happens to you is that you jump into the ocean of joy. Now joy … it is not like happiness or unhappiness. When your ego is pampered, you are happy; when it is punctured, you are unhappy. But the joy …. It is a state which is to be experienced. And you start using your vibrations and raising the Kundalini of others, because this power you get. From the first stage of thoughtless awareness, you jump into another state called as doubtless awareness. And a tremendous transformation takes place.
Shri Mataji, Basel, Switzerland, 1994