Free Introductory Meditation Courses - Meditate in Auckland

Meditation: The Inner Awakening

Free Upcoming classes in Mt Eden. Register now to get started on your inner journey to happiness!

What are the deeper goals that lie beneath our lives? Lasting happiness and peace are the universals we all share. Meditation is the fast track, the time of awakening, the longing to find your peaceful inner space.

Our upcoming free courses offer the methods, knowledge and inspiration you’ll need to explore the many paths of meditation – you only need the sincerity to try and the determination to practice.

Our course instructors have decades of personal experience to share with you, and each of the structured free evenings will cover a range of techniques and essential meditation secrets. You’ll also enjoy the company of like-minded people who, like yourself, are seeking the inner treasures that our spiritual life always brings.

Option A – An Introduction to Meditation

This free course offers a structured 4 part program covering the ABC’s of learning meditation, and introduces many lifestyle positives supporting your practice.

The focus is on meditation exercises, helping you to cultivate a quiet mind, calm breath, still body. The evenings are welcoming and encouraging, inviting participation and questions and featuring several guided meditation techniques each evening.

These evenings also provide an overview of the many paths, introducing the main branches of yoga along with mantras and simple visualisations.

When:Consecutive Mondays, Thursdays, May 5, 8, 12, 15. 7:30-9pm nightly

Venue: Sri Chinmoy Centre, 89 Dominion Rd, Mt Eden. Entry is through the side door just around the corner in Tawari Street.

Registration: Registration is required to accommodate numbers attending. Please register on the contact page below, or text your name, number attending to Ailsa 021 892 153.

NOTE: No new admissions after the second evening please, as this is a structured, progressive course. Plentiful local street parking.

Option B – A five step, 5 evening Challenge

When: Consecutive Tuesdays, May – June, 7pm – 8:30pm nightly.

Venue: Sri Chinmoy Centre, 89 Dominion Rd, Mt Eden.
Entry is through the side door just around the corner in Tawari Street.

Step One: Tuesday May 27
Stress – sharing 5 simple meditation exercises to cope with stress utilising breath-work and visualization.

Step Two: Tuesday, June 3
Mantras and chants – using the power of sacred sound to discover silence. This session introduces several easy mantras that open the spiritual heart and deepen our meditation.

Step Three: Tuesday June 10
The four pillars of Yoga – hatha, karma, jnana, bhakti.
A deep dive into exploring the principle paths of yoga and their various wisdom teachings and practices.

Step Four: Tuesday June 17
Lifestyle upgrade – putting it all together.
Meditation is part of an inner awakening and an evolutionary step up to what are some of the lifestyle positives enabling this? A look at nutrition, physical exercise and further meditation secrets.

Step Five: Tuesday June 24
Finding clarity and direction in your own inner journey.
An overview of the wide canvas of spiritual paths and their teachings and disciplines. An introduction to the recommendations and guidelines offered by the late Indian spiritual Master, Sri Chinmoy.

Registration: Registration is required to accommodate numbers attending. Please register on the contact page below, or text your name, number attending to Ailsa 021 892 153.

Option C – An Introduction to Meditation

Begin your personal journey towards self-confidence and the discovery of your unique capacity to be the best version of yourself with this comprehensive introduction to meditation.

All the tools you need to start your own home practice will be shared including the use of mantra, creative visualisation and the role of the spiritual heart.

When:Monday May 26th 6.30pm to 8pm
Venue: Pt Chev Community Centre, 18 Huia Road, Point Chevalier

Registration: Registration is required to accommodate numbers attending. Please register on the contact page below, or text your name, number attending to Hridayinee 027 335 7252.

Songs of the Soul – A Free Concert

Join us in a memorable and inspiring evening of music, mantras and sacred chants. Songs of the Soul features a selection of songs drawn from the vast musical legacy of the late Indian spiritual master Sri Chinmoy, whose thousands of meditative, peaceful compositions awaken and nourish the spiritual essence of our being.

With performers sharing their favorite songs and several simple guided meditations, the free concert guides its audience back in to a stillness and silence beyond the mind, back in to our heart space where music and meditation are one.

In a world hungry for peace, spiritual music has always been a powerful way of uplifting, uniting and inspiring humanity – music is a universal language that speaks to our hearts and souls, bringing us closer together.

Performances include songs by Mukti Giti, a women’s instrumental and vocal group, and interactive mantric songs inviting audience participation.

Sri Chinmoy writes: “Music will play a most important role in bringing about world oneness, for music embodies the universal heart, the oneness-heart. Music is the universal language. We do not have to learn any particular language to communicate with others if we can play soulful music. Soulful music carries the beauty and fragrance of silence … the heart is receiving the beauty and light of the higher world of silence.”

Venue: the Fickling Centre, 546 Mt Albert Rd, Three Kings. Entry is opposite City Fitness Gym and below the Mt Roskill Library.

When: Monday May 19; 7.00pm.

Free admission, reservations are encouraged to ensure seating. Call or text name and number attending to: Ailsa 021 892 153.

November Weekend Retreat

You’re invited to a very popular weekend out in the nearby Waitakere Ranges, a gravel road off Bethells Road taking you away from cellphones (no reception!), mental clutter, work and life’s usual dramas. Starting Friday evening, this two night retreat is an immersion in activities, meditations, trail hikes and local beaches, music, vegetarian food and new friendships that offers nothing less than an evolutionary jump in your spiritual life. This is a stage 2 w/shop – a requirement for participants is to have first attended one of our introductory meditation courses so you have some familiarity with our meditation guidelines.

When: November 14-16th, Friday to Sunday afternoon.

Venue: Held at the beautiful Aio Wira Retreat Centre in Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges.

Aio Wira offers a variety of accommodation options – single rooms, twin share rooms, bunkrooms, and we try to accommodate everyone’s specific requests. We can accommodate 24 participants.

Our organisers are offering their services freely – the costs are only those charged by the Aio Wira Centre for two nights accommodation and full use of all facilities, which include spa and sauna. We don’t have a one-night only option at this stage. Costs can be advised a little later once confirmed, and will include all vegetarian meals. Own transport preferable, though ride sharing to and fro may be possible.

For further information and cost updates, please message Jogyata. Email: jogyata@slingshot.co.nz or text/call: 0221887432

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Meditation FAQ

This Q&A comes from a very nice recent meditation interview with course instructor Jogyata Dallas, shared with Verve magazine:

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Our class instructors

Meet a few of our regular class-giving team here in Auckland (We also frequently invite guests from abroad, so do keep an eye out for them!)

Jogyata Dallas

Jogyata has taught meditation for over 30 years and is the author of several books about the subject and his encounters and experiences with Sri Chinmoy. He lives in Auckland but teaches in many other countries. His workshops combine humor, personal anecdotes and guided meditations and reflect his sincere love of his subject.

Preetidutta Thorpe

Preetidutta has been a national level sailor and still loves the ocean as a place for meditation and happiness. She’s an adventurer, marathoner, trail runner and longtime meditator, and a member of a relay team that carries a peace torch around New Zealand and the Pacific islands every year to promote world peace. She runs free introductory courses in Auckland every year.

Hridayinee Williams

Hridayinee has studied and practised meditation for many years and shared her love of meditation in workshops offered throughout several countries.

She brings mantras and music to her courses and belongs to several Auckland a capella performing music groups. “Emptying the mind and finding stillness is difficult for most people – music fills the mind, displaces thought and replaces it with beauty…”

Daniel Rubin

A trail runner and fitness enthusiast, Daniel shares his love of nature with guided meditations that draw on images from nature and landscape.

He covers a wide range of meditation techniques with a focus on practice.

Some of spiritual master Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy can be explored here: www.srichinmoy.org

I meditate
So that my mind
Cannot complicate
My life

Sri Chinmoy