OSHO KUNDALINI MEDITATION

led by Joanna Melnyk

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• Sunday November 3rd from 4pm to 5:30pm

• Register in Mindbody

• $22 in advance // $25 day-of

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OSHO Active Meditations – Welcome… Dance to Catharsis

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Osho – a contemporary mystic… represents a revolution in making meditation, mindfulness, awareness, consciousness… simply turning up for your own life, available for modern people.

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His active meditation techniques, supported by scientific studies, are designed to first observe and release the accumulated stresses of body and mind through movement. By witnessing our thoughts and feelings it is easier to experience the thought-free, relaxed, silent state, and we can then apply it into our daily lives.

Osho based his techniques on ancient Tibetan, Indian, Chinese, Japanese sources, and modified the meditations to meet transformation needs of people living in industrial societies, saturated with multitude of stimuli, and exposed to modern lifestyle diseases.

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In meditation – (Sanskrit Dhyana), energy flows inside and reveals human nature beyond all conditionings (Buddhist Sunyata). Peace, energy and joy cannot be found with inventions of modern civilization, but through self-knowledge.

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Osho Kundalini Meditation (60 min.) – consists of four stages: shaking (15 min.), dancing (15 min.), be still, sitting or standing (15 min.), be still, lying down (15 min.).

Being fully immersed in the shaking and dancing of the first two stages helps to “melt” the rocklike being, wherever the energy flow has been repressed and blocked. Then, that energy can flow, dance and be transformed into bliss and joy. The last two stages enable all this energy to flow vertically, to move upward into silence. It is a highly effective way of unwinding and letting go.

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The meditation will be done to specific music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages. Allow at least two hours after a meal, wear comfortable clothing. Specific instructions will be provided.

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The session will start with a recorded talk by Uttam Kumar Mishra, who will share his experience in meditation and provide tips on the presented technique.

Uttam was born into a Brahmin family in India. At the age of fourteen he read the Bhagavad Gita and decided to devote himself to meditation. As a child he lived in a village, a simple life, subject to rules of nature. He spent much time at the Shiva temple, where he met various Indian saints and sadhus. He noticed early that life without meditation was meaningless, so he traveled in India, wandered around the Himalayas, visited ashrams and teachers, including Zen masters, to acquire the art of meditation. Finally, his thirst was quenched by Osho. Uttam says that he was looking for a glass of water and what he got is an ocean. He lives in Pune, India, near Osho’s ashram. For years he has been conducting meditation workshops in India, Japan, China, Korea and Europe. He studied at Bihar School of Yoga and kriya yoga at the Kaivalyadhama. He holds degrees in physics and journalism.

The workshop will be led by Joanna Melnyk, a physical therapist, who has learned and practiced various Osho meditations in ashrams in India, and retreats in the United States.