“Meditation is a specific technique for resting the mind and attaining a state of consciousness that is totally different from the normal waking state. In meditation, you are fully awake and alert, but your mind is not focused on the external world or the events taking place around you. Neither is your mind asleep, dreaming, or fantasizing. Instead, it is clear, relaxed, and inwardly focused.”
This is a beginning level course in the practice of meditation as taught in the Himalayan Tradition. The goal is to provide students with the tools and methods necessary to begin a personal meditation practice and will, with continued practice, lead to a calm, clear and pleasant mind. The course is a combination of lecture, discussion and in-class guided practice.
Students will learn how to sit properly, how to use breathing to calm, focus and quiet the mind, and relaxation techniques which are helpful for calming both body and mind - all as a preparation for meditation. In addition students will learn to use mantra as a tool for accessing and deepening the meditative state.
Via Zoom
Classes will be recorded
5 week course meets October 19-November 16
The Himalayan Tradition is an unbroken tradition of yoga meditation in which the teachings of the Himalayan masters of meditation have been passed on from master to student for 1,000’s of years.
Wesley is a long time student and teacher of meditation who began teaching at the request and under the guidance of Sri Swami Rama, the founder of the Himalayan Yoga Meditation Society.
Suggested reading:
Rama, Swami. Meditation and Its Practice. Honesdale, PA: Himalayan Institute Press, 1992, 1998