{"id":622,"date":"2008-03-18T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/03\/18\/a-joyful-day-at-woodstock-community-centre\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T12:12:09","slug":"a-joyful-day-at-woodstock-community-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/03\/18\/a-joyful-day-at-woodstock-community-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"A Joyful Day at Woodstock Community Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to Greta and Melike for their report on the\u00a0joyful day at Woodstock Community Centre in Burwood, Sydney, \u00a0where Sahaja Yoga participated in Burwood Council\u2019s 2008 International Women\u2019s Day celebrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Everything in Sahaja Yoga is always sahaja, i.e. spontaneous, and this day wasn\u2019t any different. Room 2, upstairs, was allotted to us.\u00a0 Just as we had set up the room the way we wanted, the organiser came to tell us that we had to move to Room 1, downstairs, because the television set was too big to be brought up.\u00a0 Dismantling quickly, we set up again in the new room, only to realise that it was much better and perfect for our needs!\u00a0 We were located just off the main auditorium with a lot of traffic.\u00a0 We had planned to screen a lecture given by Shri Mataji which was on DVD but when we got to Room 1, we found only a video machine.\u00a0 So once again, a change of tack was required, and the three meditation sessions scheduled before the screening of the film turned into one long session while the right equipment was obtained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The organisers were very helpful and supportive of our efforts, steering people towards us throughout the day. About 40 to 50 people got their Self-realisation.\u00a0 There were\u00a0many interesting activities which vied for visitors\u2019 time, thus preventing many from participating in the meditation sessions.\u00a0 However, handbills for the film, Freedom and Liberation<\/em>, flyers showing the nearest Sahaja Yoga public programs, and Sahaja Yoga information pamphlets were distributed, with everyone expressing a sincere desire for follow-up.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0meditation session helped to clear the atmosphere in the room, lightening it as the heart chakra opened.\u00a0 Just as we finished the meditation, people flowed into the room for the screening of the film, only to find the fuse had blown! This created another glitch, with most of the people streaming out again to get refreshments.\u00a0 By the time the electricity problem had been solved an almost new group of people had settled into the seats.\u00a0 These people watched the screening of the film, The Vision<\/em>, and enjoyed the experience of the guided Self-realisation meditation.\u00a0 Everyone felt the peace and quiet of the Cool Breeze of the Spirit.\u00a0 Many of the women live locally and expressed their desire to attend the free\u00a0Sahaja Yoga\u00a0programs at the Belmore Community Centre in Burwood.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in the morning I found a few minutes to get a cup of tea.\u00a0 One of the ladies who had come in during the\u00a0meditation session came up to me and said, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m imagining it or not, but I am moving much more freely\u201d, indicating that she felt much freer in the joints.\u00a0 I looked at her smiling, calm face and told her that it wasn\u2019t her imagination but that this is what happens when people do Sahaja Yoga, and that there is\u00a0often an instantaneous relief of whatever problem they may have had previously.\u00a0 It was very satisfying to know that we had made a difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No-one left without feeling the Cool Breeze, and right up to the last minute people were coming to take their Self-realisation.\u00a0 A few women\u2019s organisations asked for introductory meditation sessions to be held at their own venues. We also left flyers and brochures on the community centre\u2019s information table for any future visitors to the centre.<\/p>\n

A special thank you to Aunty Joy whose initial research\u00a0had made it possible for Sahaja Yoga to contribute towards the celebrations for International Women\u2019s Day 2008, \u201cWomen\u2019s Business: Celebrating 100 Years of Paid and Unpaid Work\u201d sponsored by Burwood Council.\u00a0 We would also like to thank the staff of Burwood Council for making our participation an enjoyable event.\u00a0”<\/p>\n

Greta and Melike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Greta and Melike for their report on the\u00a0joyful day at Woodstock Community Centre in Burwood, Sydney, \u00a0where Sahaja Yoga participated in Burwood Council\u2019s 2008 International Women\u2019s Day celebrations.\u00a0 “Everything in Sahaja Yoga is always sahaja, i.e. spontaneous, and this day wasn\u2019t any different. Room 2, upstairs, was allotted to us.\u00a0 Just as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,7,12,1],"tags":[162,188,237,321,652,394,423,447,448,469,654,495,501],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-33","category-films","category-personal-experiences","category-uncategorized","tag-chakra","tag-cool-breeze","tag-film","tag-kundalini","tag-meditation","tag-peace","tag-realisation","tag-sahaja","tag-sahaja-yoga","tag-self-realisation","tag-shri-mataji","tag-spirit","tag-spontaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-a2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}