Free Meditation Classes
The New Zealand Sri Chinmoy Centre has been offering free meditation classes throughout New Zealand since 1983. These include ongoing introductory courses and follow-on continuation programmes in Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch throughout the year. In addition to our free meditation corses is a range of complementary activities including weekend workshops, concerts of meditative music, yoga and conscious cooking workshops, and occasional weekend retreats. All of our meditation courses are entirely free throughout at the personal request of our meditation teacher, Sri Chinmoy.
Each of our introductory course options normally feature between 4-6 sessions and cover a carefully structured and progressive series of guided meditations. Our focus here is on teaching the essential steps to establishing a successful home practise.
Options include an ‘early bird’ one week intensive offering five consecutive 7:00 am – 8:15 am morning workshops; a 5:45 – 7:00 pm early evening course series; and our more popular 7:30 – 9:00 pm evening programme.
Each complete course introduces a broad range of techniques, enabling each person to become acquainted with several different approaches to meditation and to explore their preferred method of practise.
Our course content is drawn from Sri Chinmoy’s best-selling publication, Meditation: Man-Perfection in God-Satisfaction, a comprehensive, excellent guidebook that leads the reader from the very first beginning steps to advanced levels of practise. Written with the simplicity and clarity that are hallmarks of Sri Chinmoy’s teachings and writings, Meditation: Man-Perfection in God-Satisfaction is also available online and from many bookstores, from The Blue Bird gift shop in Auckland and The Lotus-Heart in Christchurch.
“Meditation is a divine gift. Meditation simplifies our outer life and energises our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity” – Sri Chinmoy.
For more information, please visit our Meditation in New Zealand page. Brochures regarding our current and upcoming classes, running events and public concerts are available from our cafés or you contact us through the New Zealand Sri Chinmoy Centre Contact Form.
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