This is an introductory workshop for people with little or no meditation experience who would like to learn more about meditation. In this workshop we will explore a variety of simple, short and powerful forms of meditation that you will be able to apply to your life. Our natural state of being is relaxed and blissful. Meditation is a practice which, when used on a regular basis, can lead us back to the inner peace that is inherent within us. When one practices short meditations regulary, the short moments extend into one flow so it becomes a way of living.

There is no mysterious aspect to meditation. To some extend, we all meditate every day in different ways. When we put our focus onto something and experience a gap in our thoughts, a place where time does not exist, we enter a meditative state. Before we fall asleep, we enter a meditative state. When we move our awareness from mind-based activity like thinking and worrying to our sensations, it can be form of meditation. Meditation is simple yet profound.

Benefits of meditation are numerous - stress reduction, improved health and well being are only a few examples. Research has shown that meditation can contribute to an individual's physiological and psychological well-being. Dr. Herbert Benson, a Western medical researcher, shows in his well-documented projects that meditation tends to lower or normalize blood pressure, pulse rate and the levels of stress hormones in the blood.

Date: Saturday, June 30th
Time 6:30 - 9:30pm
Facilitator: Ma Anada Sanghavasini
Cost: $42

Please call 279-9555 to reserve your spot. We do require that you register for our events so that we may prepare for the number of attendants as well as we know who to call should any changes have to occur to the event - thank you!