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Introduction to Vedic Meditation
If you have a mere inkling that you would like to learn to meditate, but keep talking yourself out of it… please set up an Intro Talk to learn how meditation can help you.
Vedic Meditation helps reduce the accumulated stress of day-to-day life from your physiology. It helps to awaken creativity, increase energy and improve sleep. In addition, it helps us adapt and navigate challenges and learn to engage in life with more stability, clarity and joy.
Before learning meditation, you will need to attend an Introductory Talk. This is a 30-minute information and question/answer session, free of charge, designed for anyone interested in learning more about Vedic Meditation -- a simple, effortless and highly beneficial practice that absolutely anyone can learn.
The Four Day Course
The Four Day Course of Vedic Meditation is the next step in your practice. Consisting of four consecutive days of in-person instruction with Suzanne, you will take your practice deeper with four daily 90-minute classes.
Private Consultation
Sometimes it helps to have guidance and input from a trusted and experienced Teacher or Mentor.
If you want to have a one-on-one meeting with Suzanne to discuss any personal questions or issues about work, cultivating creativity or
your Vedic Meditation practice and techniques,
any of the concepts from Advanced Courses
or any other concerns, please schedule a session using the link below.
Private Rounding Instruction
What is a Round?
A Round consists of performing a specific sequence of Yoga Asanas, gentle poses and postures, designed to prepare the body for stress release; a breathing technique called Pranayama, prana meaning "life force" and yama meaning "to administer"; followed by our usual eyes-closed Vedic Meditation practice, and then a short resting period. Instruction takes about an hour and a half, and the Round itself takes about an hour.
Rounding gives the body and mind an opportunity to release deep-seated stresses, while stirring our natural inclination toward bliss. The Asanas prepare the body for releasing stress and the breathing technique settles the mind and body before meditation, so that one can achieve a deeper state of rest during the eyes-closed practice.
The aim of a Round is to accelerate the beneficial effects of our regular meditation by further facilitating the unwinding of stress and fatigue from our physiology.
To schedule a Private Rounding Instruction session, or a session with a group of meditators click below to see available dates/times.
Group Meditation, Talks & Retreats
Daily Meditation
Join us on Zoom and in person every Monday - Friday from 4:00-4:30pm EST. Check the Talks and Courses calendar for the most up to date information to connect.
Sunday Deck Talk & Meditation
Every Sunday, Suzanne hosts Sunday Deck Talk and Meditation, a virtual meditation session on Zoom from 9:00am - 10:00am EST. Each session includes lively discussions and question/answer style learning. Refer to the Talks and Courses calendar for the schedule.
Rounding Retreats
Rounding is an industrial strength advanced technique that combines simple yoga asanas and breath work with our meditation practice. It is designed to dislodge our deepest stresses.
Advanced Courses
Exploring the Veda 1-6
The blueprint of creation, the Veda is the ancient record of spiritual experiences. Vedas are the source of the arts and sciences of Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, meditation and Indian philosophy. Knowledge of the Veda is said to confer mastery of all the laws of nature, because the Veda is structured as universal knowledge available within everyone’s consciousness.
Mastering the Siddhis 1-6
A Siddhi is an extraordinary human power, a rare capability to interact with the laws of nature to manifest desires and the power to engage the laws of nature in order to live in accord with them from within one's deep level of bliss consciousness.
Advanced Techniques
If you have been meditating regularly for over 12 months, then you are able to receive an advanced technique. Advanced technique courses are held in person, at either the East Village or at the Fire Island location, and are designed to allow meditators to enjoy higher states of consciousness more quickly, as they enable the mind to access and maintain “Ritam” (the subtlest and most creative level of thinking) more easily. Advanced technique sessions are conducted as a private course.