Offerings For Meditators

Expert Rounding instruction

Rounding is an advance technique that significantly deepens our regular twice-daily 20-minute meditation. It includes yoga postures (asanas), breathwork, meditation, and deep rest. Each course of instruction lasts 2 hours and includes expert guidance, take-home notes, as well as tea and snacks.

Special Techniques

These are techniques for people battling with addictions, eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia, bingeing), oral fixations (smoking, intense nail-biting), physical pain, and/or ongoing emotional anguish—fear, anger, sadness, mania. You must be consistently practicing Vedic meditation for four months prior to learning Special Techniques. Please get in touch for more details.

Advance Technique

Advanced techniques are for those who are impatient to speed up their evolution. It is like shifting the car from fourth gear to fifth gear on the highway and allows the meditator to integrate the state experienced in our deepest meditations into more of the waking state.

Meditators can receive an Advanced Technique after 12 months of regular meditation practice. For each subsequent Advanced Techniques, a minimum of 12 month interval is required for maximum results.

The Advanced Technique is taught over two separate one-hour private appointments. In the first appointment you will receive your advanced technique. Your second appointment is booked 1 - 3 days following the first and involves your advanced technique and its correct usage being checked.

Exploring the Veda

The Veda is an umbrella body of knowledge that is source and cornerstone of Vedic Meditation, yoga, Ayurveda (holistic medicine and practices), and Eastern philosophy.

Thom Knoles (Maharishi Vyasananda Saraswati) is recognized as one of the world’s foremost teachers of the Veda’s true meaning and application. In a six-seminar course, Thom delves deeply into the Veda and draws out pearls of wisdom that many have described as life-changing. Students of Exploring the Veda learn techniques for deepening meditation, for correcting the mistakes of the mind and heart, and for manifesting the life experiences that reveal true fulfillment.

Course are held on evenings and weekends in 10 – 16 hour seminars. They are conducted in a “semi-retreat” format, which means that students come together with a qualified teacher, listen to the lectures, then have a Q&A session. Each course includes healthy vegetarian meals, profound rest and knowledge, take home notes as well as group meditations.

There are 6 Installments of Exploring The Vedas.

Mastering the Siddhis

Twenty-seven centuries ago, Patanjali, the great Seer (maharishi) cognized his masterpiece, The Yoga Sutras.

A sutra is a consciousness formula. Yoga is the experience of unity between one's individual mind with cosmic mind. In his treatise, Patanjali describes the method for achieving mastery between one’s individual potential and universal laws of Nature. Very few masters have fathomed the simple truths of Patanjali's teaching and techniques, and consequently his teaching had faded into obscurity until recently.

A siddhi is an extraordinary human power, a rare capability to interact with the laws of Nature in order to live in accord with them. Once mastered, the siddhis are considered to be the most powerful and advanced technique in a meditator's repertoire.

The course is presented in six installments. Though it is not necessary to finish the series to derive lifelong benefit, they must be done in sequential order as there is an elaboration of knowledge. Each installment includes about 7 ½ hours of recorded lecture by Thom Knoles (Maharishi Vyasananda Saraswati) and personal guidance from a qualified teacher. The course is usually done over two days; in-person study is always our preference.

Prerequsites: This course is designed for the advanced Vedic meditator. The prerequisite for Mastering the Siddhis is completion of the companion part of Exploring the Veda . I.e. Completing Exploring the Veda, Part 1 prior to undertaking Mastering the Siddhis, Part 1.

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