2025 FREE Meditation Classes
Our beginners 4-week series begin in February on Tuesday nights but leading into this we will have a few Introductory classes for beginners. If you like these then you can join the February classes to further your practice
Introductory class 1: Tue 10 December 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Introductory class 2: Tue 17 December 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Tuesday 24 December 6pm – A Christmas meditation with singing. Everyone is welcome!
Introductory class 4: Tue 7 January 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Introductory class 5: Tue 14 January 6.30pm – 7.30pm
NEW 4-week series – Tuesdays 11, 18, 25 February & Tuesday 4 March 2025 7pm – 8.30
You don’t need to bring anything with you, and as always, all our classes are free of charge. Sri Chinmoy believed that meditation is our birthright, and we shouldn’t have to pay to awaken something that is already part of us.
Venue: Sri Chinmoy Centre, 87 Pembroke Road, Coorparoo (entrance is at the back door off Grace St). There is only on street parking available so you may need to leave extra time to find a park. We also have limited space in our classroom, so please register your interest early.
If you would like to register for the upcoming class, please use the contact form stating which classes you are interested in and please give a phone number or call 0450765315. Someone will respond to your registration and you will have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.
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Follow up classes
For those who love the group meditation format, there will be follow-up classes one evening a week for the following 6 weeks. These classes are for those wishing to deepen their spiritual practice and pursue their meditation in a group atmosphere, learn extra techniques for focusing the mind, learn how meditation enhances your heart qualities and heightens your intuition and many more tips.
About our classes
We are all students of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian meditation teacher. While he was alive, most of us were fortunate to spend time with him, either in New York where he lived or during one of his many trips to Australia and New Zealand. Through practical exercises and personal example, he taught us how to concentrate, meditate and contemplate. He would tell us that meditation is not like instant coffee; it cannot be perfected overnight. It requires many years of practice to be able to quiet the mind and enter into a deep, meditative state. However, the benefits of meditation are felt from the early stages. We have all experienced a newfound peace in our lives and a sense of inner joy that we had never felt before.
Sri Chinmoy also showed us that meditation can be expressed in many different ways. He himself was a prolific poet, composer and artist, as well as a musician, weightlifter and athlete. Meditation permeated everything that he did and also gave him the inspiration to explore many creative fields and continually try and transcend himself within them. For Sri Chinmoy, meditation was not something that could be confined to a small portion of the day. It overflowed into everything that he did and touched everyone whom he met.
From his deep meditation, Sri Chinmoy acquired tremendous inner and outer peace. He shared this peace at his free Peace Concerts around the world and also through his writings and art. In our classes, we continue to share this experience. Sri Chinmoy’s hauntingly beautiful “Flute Music for Meditation” creates the perfect atmosphere for our talks and exercises. We also use daily meditation cards containing short aphorisms by Sri Chinmoy.
Another way in which Sri Chinmoy expressed the peace of meditation was through his songs. At our classes, we often teach seekers a few of these short, mantric songs as a way of invoking a calm and focused inner state. Sri Chinmoy’s art provides yet another dimension. One of his favourite emblems was the soul-bird. He drew literally millions of these birds. He used to tell us that each human soul was like a bird, winging across the sky with infinite freedom, unaffected by earthly worries and concerns. A very popular exercise involves meditating on these glorious forms.
For those who would like to see a genuine spiritual teacher meditating and teaching his students, we have a range of videos of Sri Chinmoy meditating and interviews with him about the inner life.
Sri Chinmoy has left us a rich legacy to share with all those who would like to learn the essentials of meditation.
Our classes will cover:
- Practical Tips for Meditation
- Relaxation & Breath Control
- Guided Visualisations
- Quietening the Mind
- Understanding Heart Meditation
- Open-eye Concentration
- Chanting and Mantras
- The Role of a Guru
- Music in Meditation
“When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us.” Sri Chinmoy