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Commencing on Monday 1st February at 6.30pm, we will be holding our weekly Group Meditation Meetings at the Centre in Double Bay. For those of you who would prefer to attend these meetings via Zoom, that option is still available. If you would like to attend these meetings via Zoom, please contact us and we will email you all the details about how you can connect online.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon.
With love,
Limor
From Monday January 11th 2021, our weekly Group Meditation Meetings will be held online only via Zoom rather than also at the Centre in Double Bay. If you would like to attend these online meetings, please contact us and we will email you all the details about how you can connect.
Looking forward to seeing you online soon.
With love,
Limor
The final group meditation meeting for 2020 will be held at 6.30pm on Monday 14th December.
Please come along to enjoy group meditation and advance your understanding and practice of meditation.
We look forward to seeing you there.
The first group meditation meeting for 2021 will be held at 6.30pm on Monday 11th January.
For those of you who are unable to attend at the Centre, group meditation meetings are also available online via Zoom at 6.45pm.
You can always check our meeting schedule via the website: Double Bay Meditation Meeting Times
Wishing you all the very best over the festive season and a Happy New Year.
With love,
Limor
My brilliant and inspiring teacher, Thom Knoles is offering his course entitled; Power of Speech to Vedic Meditators worldwide.
This course was originally conducted by Thom in 2010 and is now being released as a recorded course. The course is being offered to Vedic Meditators as a self-study course with 2 live Q&A sessions with Thom.
The dates and times of the live Q&A sessions for Sydney are:
Sunday November 1st, 4am to 6am
and
Sunday November 1st, 10am to 12pm
- Replays of both these sessions will be available -
I attended this course in 2010 and I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge about the manifesting power of speech. The knowledge you will learn on this course will be very practical and will be able to be integrated into your daily life.
For all the course details and to register, please click here: Thom Knoles Power of Speech Course.
For any further enquiries about the course, please contact Thom's Managers, Susan Chen and Peter Spoerri at: info@thomknoles.com
With love,
Limor
A photo of the group of meditators who attended the recent Weekend Retreat in beautiful Bowral.
Participants learnt and practised 'Rounding'. 'Rounding' combines a simple sequence of yoga positions (asanas) and a Vedic breathing technique (pranayama) with meditation.
The depth and restfulness of meditation is multiplied exponentially as meditators extend the number of rounds through each day, from three to five to seven and beyond, diving deep into Nature and the Unified Field.
It was 3 days of deep rest, advanced knowledge, delicious food and fun.
Thank you to the highly conscious group who attended.
Long Weekend Retreat - Bowral, September 2020
All Vedic Meditators are invited to attend this Long Weekend Retreat in beautiful Bowral, Southern Highlands from Thursday 10th September (6.30pm) to Sunday 13th September (2pm).
During the Retreat, you will learn and practise 'Rounding'. ‘Rounding' combines a simple sequence of yoga positions (asanas) and a Vedic breathing technique (pranayama) with your current meditation practice.
The result is an 'industrial-strength' program designed to enhance the restfulness of meditation, release your deepest stresses and expand your consciousness.
In addition to advancing both your meditation practice and waking state experience of life, you will come away from the Retreat feeling refreshed and revitalised for months to come.
For further details, please click here: Weekend Retreat
Commencing on Monday 15th June at 6.30pm, we will be holding our weekly Group Meditation Meetings at the Centre in Double Bay. For those of you who would prefer to attend these meetings via Zoom, that option is still available. If you would like to attend these meetings via Zoom, please contact us and we will email you all the details about how you can connect online.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon.
With love,
Limor
All Vedic Meditators are invited to attend the Advanced Course entitled Exploring the Veda.
The knowledge and tools you will learn on this course will fast track your growth to higher states of consciousness, transform your waking state experience and help you realise your life purpose.
The Exploring the Veda course is conducted in 6 instalments in a non-residential setting.
Instalment 1 will take place as follows:
Friday July 17th, 2020 - 4pm to 9.30pm
Saturday July 18th, 2020 - 12.30pm to 6.30pm
Sunday July 19th, 2020 - 1pm to 5pm
Each instalment will be facilitated by Stephanie Colman at her centre in Bondi. There will be a 1½ hour Q&A session with Limor Babai at the Double Bay Meditation Centre after each instalment.
For further details about the course, please click here: Exploring the Veda.
If you have completed or are in the process of completing the Exploring the Veda Course then you are eligible to attend the life-changing Mastering the Siddhis Course.
Instalment 1 will be facilitated by Limor Babai on July 11th and 12th, 2020 at the Double Bay Meditation Centre.
For further details about the course and to view the dates, please click here: Mastering the Siddhis.
Evolution means progressive change.
There is no progress in life without change.
From the Vedic perspective, we need to embrace the following 5 elements if we wish to have optimal growth to higher states of consciousness.
STABILITY
means being unshakable and is a product of the mind having grounded itself in Being. Stability gives us the capacity to continue to grow our repertoire of capabilities and is an outcome of practising Vedic Meditation.
ADAPTABILITY
means having adaptive responses to demands or changes of expectations rather than stress or fight-flight responses. This is enhanced by the practice of Vedic Meditation.
INTEGRATION
means being able to integrate into our lives new, innovative and useful knowledge that enhances our repertoire of capabilities.
PURIFICATION
means being able to let go of rigid attachment to obsolete and irrelevant ways of behaving that are no longer helpful to us or serve the evolutionary process and are therefore holding us back.
WILLINGNESS TO GROW
means having a willingness to look at new ways of doing things and that means embracing change enthusiastically. To what extent am I willing to be a tool of evolution?
As Vedic Meditators, we need to check in on these 5 areas regularly to ensure that we are not retarding our progress in any way. By doing this we will make sure that we are living a sustainable lifestyle and therefore our survival will be a spontaneous by-product. According to the Vedic Worldview, survival is a product of the extent to which one progresses and evolves.
With love,
Limor
My brilliant and inspiring teacher, Thom Knoles will be conducting an Online Advanced Knowledge Course for Vedic Meditators worldwide. The course is entitled; Awaken the Vast Consciousness Within.
The dates and times for Sydney are:
Saturday June 6th, 8am to 11.30am
Sunday June 7th, 8am to 11.30am
PLUS
Sunday June 21st, 8am to 10am - Q&A and Group Meditation
Thom is a true Master of the Knowledge that accompanies our Vedic Meditation technique and I encourage you to attend this course from the comfort of your own home. I will be attending, and I look forward to seeing your smiling faces on the course via Zoom.
If you would like to attend, you can use the following Discount Code to receive a U.S.$50 discount off the course fee.
Discount Code: LIMOR50
For all the course details and to register, please click here: https://knowledge.thomknoles.com/
For any further enquiries about the course, please contact Thom's Managers, Susan Chen and Peter Spoerri at: info@thomknoles.com
With love,
Limor
Vedic Meditation gives us the opportunity to step out of Object Referral Consciousness, and to embrace Self Referral Consciousness.
Object Referral Consciousness is characterised by the conviction that someone (or something) other than oneself is the source and the cause of our happiness; likewise, someone (something, many people, many things) other than oneself is the source and the cause of our unhappiness or our circumstances in life. Object Referral Consciousness doesn’t take responsibility for one’s own experience and attributes blame on others: the opinion is that; ’I am not responsible for my suffering; the behaviours and shortfalls of others is the cause of my suffering’. Consequently, to minimise suffering, it is believed that absolutely everything must be controlled; all experiences, all thinking, all actions, all attitudes, in all people. This is obviously not sustainable because there is no body and no thing that was purpose built to make us happy.
During the practice of Vedic Meditation, we allow the mind to naturally and effortlessly de-excite, settle down and experience bliss consciousness. Consistently experiencing this, over time, yields a state of baseline inner happiness or true and lasting happiness which is one of the features of Self Referral Consciousness.
Self Referral Consciousness is the sustainable approach to happiness because it is based on:
- tapping into the source of happiness within (the type of happiness that is not circumstantial).
- and then attracting to our lives all of the desirable things and circumstances that reflect our true state of happiness.
In this model, we cultivate our happiness from within; it’s lasting - no matter what is happening around us.
Self Referral Consciousness is characterised by the following understanding, based on experience:
‘I am Totality; my consciousness is cosmic, It inhabits not only this human body, it inhabits all bodies and all things.
I am Self-sufficient.
I am Nature’s intelligence Itself,
I am the fountainhead of all creativity.
I cannot be made happy; I have Self-sufficient happiness.’
With love,
Limor
“What more can I do for the world?” is the spontaneous implicit question of the capable person.
Every meditator develops greater capability day by day, and wants naturally to know what more can be done to bring;
greater peace to a world that is suffering,
greater wisdom to the lives of those surrounding oneself,
more happiness to one’s family and loved ones.
It turns out that the best thing we can do for anyone else is simply to be in the highest possible state of consciousness, ourselves, at all times. For that, regular twice-daily meditation is a must. Its cumulative effect is well-documented and self-evident.
Support of Nature in our actions is evidence of one’s relevance to evolution. Stressed and needy behaviour is not relevant to a stressed and needy world. Capability and relevance, and good health and longevity all are infinitely correlated. Higher consciousness is their basis.
Suffering results from thoughts and actions that fail to be relevant to evolution; socially relevant, ecologically relevant -relevant to our fellow humans’ evolutionary needs.
Every meditator contributes most to the collective by settling down into that simplest form of awareness twice daily and thereby fine-tuning oneself to live spontaneously in accordance with the evolutionary need of the time. And through contact with all those who surround us, we are able to make a positive contribution to the world.
With love,
Limor
The Veda proclaims that "the individual is Cosmic”.
When we practise Vedic Meditation and the individual mind contacts Being, it learns to stop the false assumption that the individual and the Universe “are separate”.
Self-sufficiency is the product that comes from the mind incorporating the inner bliss of Being into our waking state experience. Self-sufficiency allows us to have adaptive responses to demands (changes of expectation) and find within ourselves solutions to life's challenges because fears and doubts about “the world out there, including the people” somehow determining what we experience start diminishing.
Bad decisions are based in fear, which, itself, is a case of mistaken identity.
The home of all the laws of nature, the place wherein perfect balance resides, is within us, beyond thinking, in Being, the direct experience of which attunes us to nature’s way.
Suffering in all its forms, including both individual and collective suffering, comes about when, wittingly or unwittingly, we live in ways that violate the evolutionary need of the time.
As humans upon this Earth we have a unique opportunity to rediscover our truly-never-lost oneness with nature’s intelligence, expressed in our capability to live life in bliss, attuned spontaneously with the laws of nature. This is the true meaning of Self-sufficiency which results in an evenness of mind in pleasure and pain, loss and gain, victory and defeat.
Practising Vedic Meditation twice every day develops Self-sufficiency in a natural, effortless and spontaneous way.
With love,
Limor
As the Coronavirus and the fear associated with it makes its mark on our lives, I wanted to list some of the positive things that we can do as Vedic Meditators.
There is no doubt that all our lives have gone through and are going through change as a result of the virus but as Meditators we have the ability to adapt much more gracefully to these changes.
Some positive things we can do:
Sensibly follow all the advice about personal hygiene and safe physical distance that is being provided by the medical community so as to minimise the risk of contracting the virus.
Keep our immunity strong by making our twice daily meditation program not negotiable. If you have learnt how to round (Vedic Yoga Asanas + Pranayama) then add these before meditation once or twice a day. One of the most important things we can do to make our immunity strong is to reduce stress. Our meditation technique is a supreme tool for eliminating stress from the physiology.
Make a choice not to entertain negative thoughts and fear. When we meditate, we access the deep inner field of Bliss. This yields a state of true and lasting happiness even when there is fear in the collective consciousness. This inner field of Bliss is available to us when we are in activity and we can make the choice to favour it rather than ruminating in negative thoughts.
Put our attention on the positive and see this time as an opportunity for inner reflection, study (read + listen) and expansion. Meditating twice a day will stabilise Being in your awareness. Being is our inner Self. Stabilising Being in our awareness naturally makes us calm.
Please remember that the vast majority of people fully recover from the virus. And the instruction from our meditation tradition is: If you are ill in bed, you should meditate as much as is comfortable. That means, for as long as you feel to each time with no time restrictions and for any number of times per day.
Please feel welcome to be in contact with me if I can assist you in any way.
With love,
Limor
Due to the Coronavirus and this time of physical distancing, commencing on Monday 23rd March, we will be conducting our Weekly Group Meditation Meetings online via Zoom rather than at the Centre in Double Bay. If you would like to attend these online meetings, please contact us and we will email you all the details about how you can connect online.
Looking forward to seeing you online soon and wishing you strength and good health.
With love,
Limor
The final group meditation meeting for 2019 will be held at 6.30pm on Monday 16th December.
Please come along to enjoy group meditation and advance your understanding and practice of meditation.
We look forward to seeing you there.
The first group meditation meeting for 2020 will be held at 6.30pm on Monday 13th January.
You can always check our meeting schedule via the website: Double Bay Meditation Meeting Times
Wishing you all the very best over the festive season and a Happy New Year.
With love,
Limor
Vedic Meditators who are mothers of babies or young children can follow Mothers Program.
Mothers Program entails putting the needs of your babies/young children first and fitting meditation in around them. A mother can “catch as catch can” with meditation. That means; a mother can meditate any number of times a day and for as long as she likes each time – 10 mins, 20 mins, 30 mins etc.
She can meditate while breast feeding, before bed or anytime she has a chance to. The deep rest a mother will gain from extra meditation will help combat the sleep deprivation that accompanies caring for babies.
This podcast of my teacher, Thom Knoles speaking about meditation for mothers is very inspiring. He elaborates on Mothers Program: https://www.underthehoodpodcast.com/thomknoles2/
With love,
Limor
photo Gerald Forster/WelcomeEarth
My brilliant and inspiring teacher, Thom Knoles will be conducting a Retreat in Rishikesh, India from January 8th - 18th, 2020.
All Vedic Meditators are invited to attend.
For further details please click here: Thom Knoles Rishikesh Retreat 2020
For any further enquiries, please contact Thom's Managers, Susan Chen and Peter Spoerri at: info@thomknoles.com
Initiator Training is a dynamic and transformative process designed to train practitioners of Vedic Meditation to be professional Initiators - teachers in our Vedic tradition.
The next Initiator Training course will be conducted by Limor Babai, Thom Knoles, Christian Bevacqua and Lauren Godfrey in Rishikesh, India from January 26th to April 19th, 2020.
Initiator Training is a full time 12 week residential program.
For further details, please click here: Initiator Training 2020
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