In our experience people frequently come to meditation groups for reasons like these:

• Seeking Community
• Seeking Calm, relief, peace and quiet
• spiritual seekers looking for growth

Our discussions and meditation sessions are created with this awareness, and to be accessible and beneficial for beginning meditators and those just curious.

But we won’t directly target these issues that bring people to try meditation. We’re not going to sit down and meditate with the intent of finding relief from the difficulties of everyday life. “Don’t worry, just sit like this and all your worries will melt away.” No, not like that. Instead, peace will be a result, a side effect our exploring states of meditation.

At the center of most meditations will be an idea or thought or process or experiment that points toward answers to the Big Questions, such as “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?”, “What is my purpose in this life?”. Why these questions? Why this search for some sort of basic Truth? Here is why we approach meditation like this:

Once you’ve realized the nature of Who and What you are, the sufferings and difficulties and struggles of your daily life will be seen in a new perspective. They do not disappear, but the nature of the burden of suffering changes entirely. And then meditation will be natural.

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Our meditation sessions and most of our work will have this as a foundation:

• The truths of my experience
• Meditation processes and tools widely shown to be effective
• The teachings of vedanta and classical yoga, including:
  • Sadhguru
  • Sivananda Saraswati and his students, primarily Satchitananda and Vishnudevananda
  • Yoga Sutras, by Patanjali
  • Bhagavad Gita
  • Viveka Chudamani, by Adi Shankara
  • Other poems and works by Adi Shankara
  • Advaita Vedanta as expounded by Swami Sarvapriyananda’s teachings on Vedanta
  • Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, as expounded by Dhyanse