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.

Course Contribution: $250

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.

Course Contribution: Sliding Scale

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.

Course Contribution: Sliding Scale

Exploring the Veda

The Veda is the root beneath every branch—the ancient body of universal knowledge from which yoga, Ayurveda, much of Eastern philosophy, and Vedic Meditation all emerge. Within it lives a profound worldview—one that illuminates the laws of nature and the human mechanics of suffering and fulfillment.

Exploring the Veda is a six-part course of recorded seminars by Thom Knoles, recognized as one of the world's foremost teachers of the Veda's true meaning and application. In India, Thom carries the title Shri 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Maharishi Vyasanand Giri Maharaj—conferred by the most ancient monastic order, and not bestowed upon a householder in over 2,000 years. In the Vedic tradition, there is no higher recognition.

In these seminars, Thom sets out to explain “all about everything." He draws out pearls of wisdom that speak directly to the way we think, love, and move through the world—enriching the very texture of how we live.

Since the world is so heavily changed by the way we perceive it, learning to see clearly may be the most transformative thing a human being can do.

Students of Exploring the Veda learn:

• How to correct the mistakes of the intellect that cause suffering

• How to be a deliberate architect of happiness

• The true nature of time, love, and universality within individuality

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Course Contribution Per Segment: $800

Mastering the Siddhis

Twenty-seven centuries ago, Patanjali, the great Seer 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.

Once mastered, the siddhis are considered to be the most powerful and advanced technique in a meditator's repertoire. Thom’s groundbreaking approach is an unique and contemporary guide to this ageless wisdom.

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 Exploring the Veda: Part 3. Click here for 2026 schedule.

Course Contribution Per Segment: $1250

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