OSHO DYNAMIC MEDITATION

led by Joanna Melnyk

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• Sunday June 29th from 12:30pm to 2:15pm

• Please pre-register in Mindbody

• $30 in advance // $33 day of

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Dynamic is an active type of meditation. It is a fast, intense, and thorough way to awaken your inner presence and cleanse your heart and mind. It has many health benefits. It helps to release emotional blocks, purify the body and mind, increase awareness, empower and center oneself, activate authentic voice. Osho active techniques help go beyond what Western psychology calls the “shadow”, and Vedanta includes in the broader concept of “maya”. The shadow is an area of ​​the human psyche that exists outside of consciousness, a "warehouse" of projections, displacements and repressions that compulsively manifest themselves as neuroses, delusions, phobias etc… These techniques help to uncover physical and mental blockages and integrate these areas with consciousness. Dynamic is a way to release and let go of whatever needs moving through. The inner quiet that comes after the active stages is well worth the effort.

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This meditation is done to specific music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages. It lasts one hour and consists of five stages: chaotic breathing (10 min.); letting go of everything that needs to be thrown out (10 min.); jumping with arms up, shouting mantra Hoo (10 min.); stop and observe (15 min.); celebrate with dance (15 min.).

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Specific instructions and modifications, if needed, will be explained, allow some time after eating, wear comfortable clothing.

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The session will be introduced 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. 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.

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

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