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LET’S MEDITATE FOR 21 DAYS
16 March to 25 May 2026
Every Monday & Wednesday
Presented in English with support in Nordic and European Languages.
Free online courses to discover the peace and joy within for mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. Daily live and recorded sessions for everyone – Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Sessions. No previous experience in meditation required.
Do as many sessions as you wish – no need to do all the sessions.
“When you become the Spirit, your attention gets enlightened into collective consciousness – it becomes, because this Spirit in you is the collective being.” – Shri Mataji (founder)
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16 March to 25 May 2026
Every Monday & Wednesday
Berlin 8PM, London 7PM, New York 2PM, Sydney 4AM
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16 March to 25 May 2026
Every Monday & Wednesday
Berlin 8PM, London 7PM, New York 2PM, Sydney 4AM
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2026 Series 2: Live and recordings of 'Let's meditate for 21 Days' - 16 March to 25 May 2026
Establishing our self-realisation.
We will meditate on our central channel, asking our Kundalini to take us into the silence of the present moment and help us to transform from within.
“Meditation is the only way you can grow.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Overcoming our conditionings.
When our left channel clears out, we are free of our old habits of thinking and acting which prevent us from fully enjoying the present moment.
“We become very powerful within ourselves. We have compassion for ourselves. We don’t do anything that destroys us, like any bad habits.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Getting things done without effort.
When our right channel clears out, we realise that we can rely on the Divine energy to take care of all our problems.
“Develop that dignity and that love and that understanding, that etiquette of a divine person, that sweetness, that gentleness of a divine person.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Kundalini–the mothering energy
The Kundalini is the pure desire within us to ascend. She nourishes, purifies, and enlightens our divine qualities.
“This power is your own. She’s actually your mother, individual mother and She has got everything recorded about you within Herself and She is your own energy. She has to just rise and get you connected with this all-pervading power, then you realize how great you are.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
The power of childlike innocence.
When we connect with the subtle power of innocence within us, we begin to see the obstacles in our path fall away.
“An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Pure inspiration
When desire and attention are purified, inspiration strikes!
“Once you are in thoughtlessness, you will get all inspirations, all powers.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Emerging from our shell
A bird is “born twice.” First it is born as an egg, bound by the shell, and at the right time it breaks free. We are like the egg before Realization, and like the bird after Realization.
“Our ego and superego makes us an egg. We are like a shell. It has to be there, to have our I-ness; to have our freedom to choose between right and wrong. And then when we mature the Mother can break the shell and you become a second person, the person who is twice born. This is what is really baptism.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Where is your attention?
When your attention is enlightened, it becomes powerful.
“This is the miracle — that human beings have turned their attention to their spirit. Then you are amazed how things work out.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Peace and well-being come from within
Satisfaction comes from your Spirit.
“One cannot enjoy anything until he achieves contentment.” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Becoming dignified and facing ourselves.
As we clear our Void, the area of our guru principle, we become empowered to act in a moral and dignified way. We are better able to face and correct ourselves.
“Progress comes when you put your step forward, you put your foot firmly on that point and then put the second step forward, like as you climb on a mountain.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Respect Your Self Realization.
Even though getting our self realization is effortless, we can only grow in our awareness and knowledge if we practice Sahaja Yoga every day.
“It should be your own — that you should be able to maneuver yourself, you should be able to handle it yourself, should be your own power which should express it. I just cannot say, ‘Alright, done. Now you are a member of Sahaja Yoga.’” – HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
The Light of the Spirit
Before realization, we live in a world of confusion. After we receive the awakening of our Kundalini, the light of the Spirit shows us the absolute truth, which we feel in our hands as a cool breeze.
“This is what is Self-realization – you become just the master. You don’t have to consult anyone. You know it. You have to just consult your Spirit through your vibratory awareness, and you know it.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Have confidence in your new awareness.
In Sahaja Yoga we awaken the divine qualities of the Heart chakra. In the Left Heart we awaken love and compassion, in the Center Heart we develop our sense of security and inner strength, and in the Right Heart the sense of responsibility.
“You can gradually experience. With the experience, try to put the experience in your heart, and have faith in that experience. What were you? What have you become now?” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Doing what is right with grace, dignity and decency.
We will learn about and meditate on the subtle Divine qualities of the Right Heart.
“If you have to achieve the benevolence of the world… we have to have the transformation of human beings.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Collectivity.
We can enjoy true collectivity if we know how to balance ourselves and use compassion and wisdom in our relationships.
“After you get your realization you enter into a new awareness of collectivity. You become the collective consciousness.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Guilt robs us of our energy.
Guilt is a way to judge ourselves and keep repeating our mistakes. When the left Vishuddhi is clear, we are able to see ourselves with compassion and correct ourselves.
“We have to be pleasantly placed towards ourselves. We have to respect ourselves. We have to be happy about ourselves. This is the first thing – is not to feel guilty about anything. Just believe that you have done nothing wrong which cannot be dissolved by this great power of forgiveness.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
The power of speech to give love to others.
We can use our voice to dominate and hurt others, or to soothe and comfort others. In a meditative state, we don’t react with anger or criticism, but we elevate and inspire with our words and deeds.
“Diplomacy is not convincing anybody with intellect or by temper or anything but it is to melt away another person by your goodness, by your good words, by your sweet words, by your forgiving nature.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Asking for forgiveness.
When we are trapped in our habits and conditionings, we can make mistakes. To clear our Back Agnya, we have to admit our mistakes and ask for forgiveness from the Divine.
“Some conditioning could be coming from anything. You face yourself directly. You don’t have to sit down and analyze yourself but you just see it clearly.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
The Narrow Gate.
The balloons of ego and superego, the culmination of all our attention on the future and the past, prevent the Kundalini from reaching Sahasrara. As our Agnya chakra clears, these balloons are reduced, allowing us to get above our thoughts at Sahasrara. When we are completely silent — without thought — we are in reality.
“Kundalini, when she reaches the Agnya Chakra and when She opens Agnya chakra, then you can be in thoughtless awareness. Then you don’t think – thinking just stops. You watch everything, just watch, but you do not get involved into what you are watching. You just watch and that watching itself gives you the growth within.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
The Thousand Petalled Lotus.
At Sahasrara our ignorance and confusion is transformed into pure understanding and knowledge. No longer separate and isolated, our individual attention joins the collective attention — the Divine attention. We rise above all the limitations of our human awareness. The culmination of our seeking, at Sahasrara we are comforted and redeemed.
“Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the Divine Power cannot come to you.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
Divine Sounds of the Chakras.
We will review what we covered in Session 2 and then have a session of “bija mantras.” Bīja means ‘seed’ and bīja mantras are single syllable sounds which resonate with the divine qualities of our chakras to clear them.
“Sanskrit has come out of Kundalinî’s movement when She makes a sound. All was recorded by the great saints and like that every chakra has got vowels and consonants according to the number of sub-plexuses they have — you can say petals they have — and all of them make the alphabets of Sanskrit language.” — HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Founder.
2026 Series 1: Recordings of 'Let's meditate for 21 Days - 1 to 21 February 2026
Experience the silence within
We will experience the awakening of a divine mothering energy within us that gently takes us into a state of silence.
“Meditation is such a soothing thing, such a beautiful way of connection with the Divine, that all your problems get solved in that meditative mood.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Expand the silence of meditation
Learn how to calm your attention, reduce your thoughts, and increase your enjoyment of inner silence.
“Like a wheel which is moving, and if your attention is on the wheel, on the periphery, then your mind is all the time moving. But if you jump on the axis of the wheel, it is silent.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Inner peace and balance
Our attention can move into the past, the future, or be stable, quiet, and settled in the present. In a state of balance we are able to surmount inner and outer obstacles to becoming our true selves.
“The Spirit will shine on an attention which is steady. Steady it. By balancing you bring a steadiness to it. Balance your thoughts, balance your eyes, balance your desires.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
We are all so beautifully made
Our attention can move into the past or the future, making it a challenge to meditate. We will learn about the three energy channels, and how to balance them so that we can be in the present, and on the path to our spiritual ascent.
“You are an instrument most beautifully made, absolutely so beautifully made that once you discover it, you will be amazed as to what you are.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Inner transformation through meditation
We discuss the innate qualities of the subtle energy centers (chakras) within us. We will learn how we can imbibe these qualities in our daily lives through Sahaja Yoga meditation.
“The first thing should be to watch yourself, that you are not reacting but you are experiencing and enjoying the silence, the subtleties, the beauty, the glory of your being.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Using the natural elements
In Sahaja Yoga we use the natural elements of water, earth, fire, ether, and air to deepen our meditation. The foot soaking technique helps us clear our subtle system and increases our enjoyment of the meditation.
“Only in meditation you are in the present and you grow in your spirituality.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
What are you feeling?
We will steady our attention and learn to identify and clear out the imbalances affecting our subtle being. Gradually, we’ll go deeper into our own subtlety, silence, and self-knowledge.
“Your hands start feeling the cool breeze. They start feeling the chakras of yourself and chakras of other people. With your hands you can raise the Kundalini, with your hands you can give realization. These hands become powerful things.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Cooling down the right side channel with ice
We will demonstrate the cooling effect of ice to steady our attention and make us less reactive.
“All this temper becomes so cool and so beautiful. It’s very surprising. A very dynamic person becomes extremely compassionate.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Clearing the left side channel – Interactive Workshop Day
When our left channel clears out, we can feel how much we are loved by the Divine.
“Freedom must have wisdom behind it. So both the sides, the movements on both the sides, are wrong. So what is all right? In the center. Is not to get conditioned by anything and not to be ego-oriented.“ — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
This will be an interactive workshop in smaller virtual rooms with experienced Sahaja Yoga practitioners. You’ll learn techniques to clear your subtle system and go deeper into meditation. This interactive workshop is only available on the Zoom platform.
SAFETY NOTE: We will use a candle to clear our left channel of imbalances. As a safety precaution, do not do this treatment if you are wearing loose clothes or near anything that might catch fire. Take great care. You can sit on a chair or on the floor.
WHAT TO BRING: Before the start of this session, please have these items available:
– A small candle in a holder or secured to a plate
– Matches or a lighter
I am my own teacher
We become our own gurus through the daily practice of Sahaja Yoga. We stop arguing with ourselves. We accept and follow our own inner guidance. We leave behind all extreme behavior, whether it’s over-indulgence or over-strictness.
“You have to be your own guru means you have to guide yourself. You have to treat yourself as your disciple and you have to trim yourself.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Restoring our childlike innocence
We will focus on the first energy center, the Mooladhara Chakra. In Sanskrit, “Mooladhara” means support of the root. This chakra is the base of the subtle system. Its innate qualities are purity, innocence, joy, and wisdom.
“This innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Connecting to our pure desire to ascend
Swadhishthana, the second chakra, is the center of creativity, pure knowledge, pure desire and pure attention. The power of pure desire within us guides our spiritual journey. Opening this chakra helps us to let go of our need to control, so we can allow the divine power to work things out.
“Thinking, thinking thinking, planning, planning, planning, planning, running. Ultimately the whole joy has disappeared.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Feeling contented in our daily lives
The third chakra, the Nabhi, is where our seeking for spiritual evolution originates. When this chakra clears, we experience our own divine qualities of satisfaction, generosity and peace.
“There can be no peace in the world until there is peace within.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Unconditional love
Let’s collectively open our Heart Chakra so we can feel our innate qualities of love, compassion, security and fearlessness.
“You become the source of joy, not that you only receive the joy but you become the source of joy, the source of bliss and the source of peace. Wherever such a person goes, it just soothes.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Watch without reacting
We will put our attention on the Vishuddhi Chakra to strengthen our sense of self-respect and respect for others. The power of this chakra also helps us to be a detached witness of the drama of life.
“The detachment takes place because you become one with the Spirit which is not attached, which gives you that light, that detachment from where you can see the whole thing just as a drama going on.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Forgiveness
To open the Agnya Chakra, let’s learn to forgive. This clears the subtle pathway to be connected to the all-pervading power of the Divine.
“When you forgive a person, what do you do? You accept the situation, to begin with, and secondly you forgive what you think has been done wrong to you. But because nothing can be done wrong to your Spirit, you just forgive because you are the Spirit.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Clearing, Balancing and Meditation Workshop
This will be an interactive workshop in smaller virtual rooms with experienced Sahaja Yoga practitioners. You’ll learn techniques to clear your subtle system and go deeper into meditation. This interactive workshop is only available on the Zoom platform.
Integration
At Sahasrara we can let go of all our worries, opinions, and frustrations. We can offer them to the silence above the top of the head. This is where our attention joins the universal, Divine attention.
“Sahaja Yoga is like building first the pinnacle of the building, and then the foundation. Opening your Sahasrara was the first thing that was achieved. And then in the light of Sahasrara you have to watch yourself and see for yourself.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Meditation is a state of mental silence
We enhance the experience of meditation by going deeper into the silence within us. Discover the power of a mantra, or prayer in Sanskrit, to clear our chakras and strengthen the state of meditation.
“Meditation is the only way you can enrich yourself with the beauty of reality. There’s no other way. I cannot find any other way but meditation by which you rise into the realm of divinity.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Going beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness
We will sustain longer periods of silence using the techniques learned so far.
“If you can achieve that point, where you watch everything without reacting, you are in reality. And then only the penetration into the subtleties of your surroundings, of your relationships, your friendships — the whole universe — dawns upon you.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
How to prolong the state of thoughtless awareness
Our focus will be on taking full advantage of our self-realization by going deeper into the meditative state. We’ll explore the power of music to sustain complete inner silence.
“Now this happening of achieving thoughtless awareness is very simple and easy. But to maintain that point is difficult. We still react and we think. Anything you see, you react. To get to that point in thoughtless awareness is first to change your attention…. Try to witness everything…. You start enjoying everything that is there. Even a small blade of grass you can enjoy.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
This is just the beginning
In our last session of this series, we integrate all that we have learned. We look within ourselves and see how much we have grown in our awareness. You’ll find out what comes after this course to continue further with your journey in meditation. If you have missed a few sessions, don’t worry because this entire course is available on our YouTube channel.
“If you can go into meditative mood, you are in contact with this Divine Power. Then whatever is good for you, whatever is good for your society, for your country, all is done by this Divine Power…. Just if you meditate you are one with this Divine Power.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
2025 Series: Recordings of 'Let's meditate for 21 Days' - March to Nov 2025
“Meditation is such a soothing thing, such a beautiful way of connection with the Divine, that all your problems get solved in that meditative mood.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Download “Affirmations for Self Realization”
We place our right hand on our torso and head in certain places, such as the left hip and the forehead. In Sahaja Yoga, these actions and affirmations connect our sincere desire to become our true selves to our own power to become our true selves. The result is a state of meditation, free from thoughts about the past or the future. This is Self Realization. This process is covered in Day 1’s session recording below.
Learn how to calm your attention, reduce your thoughts, and increase your enjoyment of inner silence.
“Like a wheel which is moving, and if your attention is on the wheel, on the periphery, then your mind is all the time moving. But if you jump on the axis of the wheel, it is silent.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Download “Raising the Kundalini & Giving a Bandhan.”
Begin and end your meditation with the movements described on this page. They help to bring your attention into the present and sustain the state of calmness and inner silence. These techniques are demonstrated in Day 2’s session recording below.
“The Spirit will shine on an attention which is steady. Steady it. By balancing you bring a steadiness to it. Balance your thoughts, balance your eyes, balance your desires.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Download Foot Soaking – A step by step guide
Foot soaking is a clearing technique that will greatly enhance your state of meditation. The technique helps relieve your energy centers of any negativity affecting the subtle system. The negativity is transferred to a basin of salt water. It can be done in the evening, at the end of the day, or any time. It’s very beneficial when it becomes part of your daily routine.
Our attention can move into the past or the future, making it a challenge to meditate. We will learn about the three energy channels, and how to balance them so that we can be in the present, and on the path to our spiritual ascent.
“You are an instrument most beautifully made, absolutely so beautifully made that once you discover it, you will be amazed as to what you are.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Thoughts are generally about the past or the future. Sahaja Yoga Meditation helps us to establish ourselves in the present, without any thought. We balance the left and right channels of our subtle system using these techniques. They are demonstrated in Day 4’s session recording below.
We discuss the innate qualities of the subtle energy centers (chakras) within us. We will learn how we can imbibe these qualities in our daily lives through Sahaja Yoga meditation.
“The first thing should be to watch yourself, that you are not reacting but you are experiencing and enjoying the silence, the subtleties, the beauty, the glory of your being.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Download the Subtle Energy System
Download What do you feel on your hands?
In Sahaja Yoga we use the natural elements of water, earth, fire, ether, and air to deepen our meditation. The foot soaking technique helps us clear our subtle system and increases our enjoyment of the meditation.
“Only in meditation you are in the present and you grow in your spirituality.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
We will steady our attention and learn to identify and clear out the imbalances affecting our subtle being. Gradually, we’ll go deeper into our own subtlety, silence, and self-knowledge.
“Your hands start feeling the cool breeze. They start feeling the chakras of yourself and chakras of other people. With your hands you can raise the Kundalini, with your hands you can give realization. These hands become powerful things.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
We will demonstrate the cooling effect of ice to steady our attention and make us less reactive.
“All this temper becomes so cool and so beautiful. It’s very surprising. A very dynamic person becomes extremely compassionate.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga
Download Ice Treatment handout
Using Shri Mataji’s photograph for meditation
We have found that by meditating in front of Shri Mataji’s photographs, our Subtle system comes into balance and is cleared through the positive vibrations that are emitted from her photographs. As result, we become more relaxed and calmer as we experience the inner joy of the Spirit in our heart. We follow the traditional respect and protocol of not placing our feet pointing towards the meditation table and meditate with shoes removed. We can sit on a chair or floor, whichever is the most comfortable.
If you wish to use Shri Mataji’s photograph, then it’s best to place the photo in a frame and use a small candle in front of the photo when meditating.
Shri Mataji’s Photo No 1
Shri Mataji’s Photo No 2
When our left channel clears out, we can feel how much we are loved by the Divine.
“Freedom must have wisdom behind it. So both the sides, the movements on both the sides, are wrong. So what is all right? In the center. Is not to get conditioned by anything and not to be ego-oriented.“ — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
This will be an interactive workshop in smaller virtual rooms with experienced Sahaja Yoga practitioners. You’ll learn techniques to clear your subtle system and go deeper into meditation. This interactive workshop is only available on the Zoom platform.
SAFETY NOTE: We will use a candle to clear our left channel of imbalances. As a safety precaution, do not do this treatment if you are wearing loose clothes or near anything that might catch fire. Take great care. You can sit on a chair or on the floor.
WHAT TO BRING: Before the start of this session, please have these items available:
– A small candle in a holder or secured to a plate
– Matches or a lighter
We become our own gurus through the daily practice of Sahaja Yoga. We stop arguing with ourselves. We accept and follow our own inner guidance. We leave behind all extreme behavior, whether it’s over-indulgence or over-strictness.
“You have to be your own guru means you have to guide yourself. You have to treat yourself as your disciple and you have to trim yourself.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Download the Void – Self-Mastery
Download the Subtle Energy System
Download What do you feel on your hands?
We will focus on the first energy center, the Mooladhara Chakra. In Sanskrit, “Mooladhara” means support of the root. This chakra is the base of the subtle system. Its innate qualities are purity, innocence, joy, and wisdom.
“This innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Download the Mooladhara Chakra
Download the Subtle Energy System
Download What do you feel on your hands?
Swadhishthana, the second chakra, is the center of creativity, pure knowledge, pure desire and pure attention. The power of pure desire within us guides our spiritual journey. Opening this chakra helps us to let go of our need to control, so we can allow the divine power to work things out.
“Thinking, thinking thinking, planning, planning, planning, planning, running. Ultimately the whole joy has disappeared.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Download the Swadisthana Chakra
The third chakra, the Nabhi, is where our seeking for spiritual evolution originates. When this chakra clears, we experience our own divine qualities of satisfaction, generosity and peace.
“There can be no peace in the world until there is peace within.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Let’s collectively open our Heart Chakra so we can feel our innate qualities of love, compassion, security and fearlessness.
“You become the source of joy, not that you only receive the joy but you become the source of joy, the source of bliss and the source of peace. Wherever such a person goes, it just soothes.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
“The detachment takes place because you become one with the Spirit which is not attached, which gives you that light, that detachment from where you can see the whole thing just as a drama going on.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
To open the Agnya Chakra, let’s learn to forgive. This clears the subtle pathway to be connected to the all-pervading power of the Divine.
“When you forgive a person, what do you do? You accept the situation, to begin with, and secondly you forgive what you think has been done wrong to you. But because nothing can be done wrong to your Spirit, you just forgive because you are the Spirit.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Clearing, Balancing and Meditation Workshop
This will be an interactive workshop in smaller virtual rooms with experienced Sahaja Yoga practitioners. You’ll learn techniques to clear your subtle system and go deeper into meditation. This interactive workshop is only available on the Zoom platform.
At Sahasrara we can let go of all our worries, opinions, and frustrations. We can offer them to the silence above the top of the head. This is where our attention joins the universal, Divine attention.
“Sahaja Yoga is like building first the pinnacle of the building, and then the foundation. Opening your Sahasrara was the first thing that was achieved. And then in the light of Sahasrara you have to watch yourself and see for yourself.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
We enhance the experience of meditation by going deeper into the silence within us. Discover the power of a mantra, or prayer in Sanskrit, to clear our chakras and strengthen the state of meditation.
“Meditation is the only way you can enrich yourself with the beauty of reality. There’s no other way. I cannot find any other way but meditation by which you rise into the realm of divinity.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
We will sustain longer periods of silence using the techniques learned so far.
“If you can achieve that point, where you watch everything without reacting, you are in reality. And then only the penetration into the subtleties of your surroundings, of your relationships, your friendships — the whole universe — dawns upon you.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Our focus will be on taking full advantage of our self-realization by going deeper into the meditative state. We’ll explore the power of music to sustain complete inner silence.
“Now this happening of achieving thoughtless awareness is very simple and easy. But to maintain that point is difficult. We still react and we think. Anything you see, you react. To get to that point in thoughtless awareness is first to change your attention…. Try to witness everything…. You start enjoying everything that is there. Even a small blade of grass you can enjoy.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Our focus will be on taking full advantage of our self-realization by going deeper into the meditative state. We’ll explore the power of music to sustain complete inner silence.
“Now this happening of achieving thoughtless awareness is very simple and easy. But to maintain that point is difficult. We still react and we think. Anything you see, you react. To get to that point in thoughtless awareness is first to change your attention…. Try to witness everything…. You start enjoying everything that is there. Even a small blade of grass you can enjoy.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
We will meditate on our central channel, asking our Kundalini to take us into the silence of the present moment and help us to transform from within.
“Meditation is the only way you can grow.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
When our left channel clears out, we are free of our old habits of thinking and acting which prevent us from fully enjoying the present moment.
“We become very powerful within ourselves. We have compassion for ourselves. We don’t do anything that destroys us, like any bad habits.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Getting things done without effort
When our right channel clears out, we realise that we can rely on the Divine energy to take care of all our problems.
“Develop that dignity and that love and that understanding, that etiquette of a divine person, that sweetness, that gentleness of a divine person.”
— Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Emerging from our shell
A bird is “born twice.” First it is born as an egg, bound by the shell, and at the right time it breaks free. We are like the egg before Realization, and like the bird after Realization.
“Our ego and superego makes us an egg. We are like a shell. It has to be there, to have our I-ness; to have our freedom to choose between right and wrong. And then when we mature the Mother can break the shell and you become a second person, the person who is twice born. This is what is really baptism.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Kundalini–the mothering energy
The Kundalini is the pure desire within us to ascend. She nourishes, purifies, and enlightens our divine qualities.
“This power is your own. She’s actually your mother, individual mother and She has got everything recorded about you within Herself and She is your own energy. She has to just rise and get you connected with this all-pervading power, then you realize how great you are.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The power of childlike innocence
When we connect with the subtle power of innocence within us, we begin to see the obstacles in our path fall away.
“An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Pure inspiration When desire and attention are purified, inspiration strikes!
“Once you are in thoughtlessness, you will get all inspirations, all powers.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Collectivity
We can enjoy true collectivity if we know how to balance ourselves and use compassion and wisdom in our relationships.
“After you get your realization you enter into a new awareness of collectivity. You become the collective consciousness.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Where is your attention?
When your attention is enlightened, it becomes powerful.
“This is the miracle — that human beings have turned their attention to their spirit. Then you are amazed how things work out.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Peace and well-being come from within
Satisfaction comes from your Spirit
“One cannot enjoy anything until he achieves contentment.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Becoming dignified and facing ourselves
As we clear our Void, the area of our guru principle, we become empowered to act in a moral and dignified way. We are better able to face and correct ourselves.
“”Progress comes when you put your step forward, you put your foot firmly on that point and then put the second step forward, like as you climb on a mountain.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Respect Your Self Realization
Even though getting our self realization is effortless, we can only grow in our awareness and knowledge if we practice Sahaja Yoga every day.
“It should be your own — that you should be able to maneuver yourself, you should be able to handle it yourself, should be your own power which should express it. I just cannot say, ‘Alright, done. Now you are a member of Sahaja Yoga.’” — Shri Mataji
The Light of the Spirit
Before realization, we live in a world of confusion. After we receive the awakening of our Kundalini, the light of the Spirit shows us the absolute truth, which we feel in our hands as a cool breeze.
“This is what is Self-realization – you become just the master. You don’t have to consult anyone. You know it. You have to just consult your Spirit through your vibratory awareness, and you know it.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Have confidence in your new awareness
In Sahaja Yoga we awaken the divine qualities of the Heart chakra. In the Left Heart we awaken love and compassion, in the Center Heart we develop our sense of security and inner strength, and in the Right Heart the sense of responsibility.
“You can gradually experience. With the experience, try to put the experience in your heart, and have faith in that experience. What were you? What have you become now?” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Doing what is right with grace, dignity and decency
We will learn about and meditate on the subtle Divine qualities of the Right Heart.
“If you have to achieve the benevolence of the world… we have to have the transformation of human beings.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Guilt robs us of our energy
Guilt is a way to judge ourselves and keep repeating our mistakes. When the left Vishuddhi is clear, we are able to see ourselves with compassion and correct ourselves.
“We have to be pleasantly placed towards ourselves. We have to respect ourselves. We have to be happy about ourselves. This is the first thing – is not to feel guilty about anything. Just believe that you have done nothing wrong which cannot be dissolved by this great power of forgiveness.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The power of speech to give love to others
We can use our voice to dominate and hurt others, or to soothe and comfort others. In a meditative state, we don’t react with anger or criticism, but we elevate and inspire with our words and deeds.
“Diplomacy is not convincing anybody with intellect or by temper or anything but it is to melt away another person by your goodness, by your good words, by your sweet words, by your forgiving nature.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Asking for forgiveness
When we are trapped in our habits and conditionings, we can make mistakes. To clear our Back Agnya, we have to admit our mistakes and ask for forgiveness from the Divine.
“Some conditioning could be coming from anything. You face yourself directly. You don’t have to sit down and analyze yourself but you just see it clearly.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The Narrow Gate
The balloons of ego and superego, the culmination of all our attention on the future and the past, prevent the Kundalini from reaching Sahasrara. As our Agnya chakra clears, these balloons are reduced, allowing us to get above our thoughts at Sahasrara. When we are completely silent — without thought — we are in reality.
“Kundalini, when she reaches the Agnya Chakra and when She opens Agnya chakra, then you can be in thoughtless awareness. Then you don’t think – thinking just stops. You watch everything, just watch, but you do not get involved into what you are watching. You just watch and that watching itself gives you the growth within.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The Thousand Petalled Lotus
At Sahasrara our ignorance and confusion is transformed into pure understanding and knowledge. No longer separate and isolated, our individual attention joins the collective attention — the Divine attention. We rise above all the limitations of our human awareness. The culmination of our seeking, at Sahasrara we are comforted and redeemed.
“Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the Divine Power cannot come to you.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Divine Sounds of the Chakras
We will review what we covered in Session 2 and then have a session of “bija mantras.” Bīja means ‘seed’ and bīja mantras are single syllable sounds which resonate with the divine qualities of our chakras to clear them.
“Sanskrit has come out of Kundalinî’s movement when She makes a sound. All was recorded by the great saints and like that every chakra has got vowels and consonants according to the number of sub-plexuses they have — you can say petals they have — and all of them make the alphabets of Sanskrit language.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Our evolution so far has brought us to great heights of creativity and technology. When our central channel is enlightened and the Sahasrara is open, we continue to evolve and realize our full potential.
“In our evolution, whatever we have achieved has come in our awareness. That means it should become a part and parcel of our awareness. Like, as I can see you, I can feel you, in the same way you should be able to see. And through that light we should be able to explain each and every thing.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Overcoming Lethargy
We will work on clearing our left channel to remove the heaviness that keeps us stuck and unable to enjoy the present. And we will focus on the positive transformative qualities of our left side.
“On the moon line if you go too far it can be destructive. Because if you sit in the house doing nothing… then you start thinking too much, and this thinking is just the desire energy working out, no action.”” — Shri Mataji [Mumbai, India, 10 January 1988]
Developing Dynamism
We will practice techniques to clear the right channel, so that we can accomplish amazing things without inflating our ego.
“The love that I’m talking about, the divine love, makes you not only strong but dynamic. It is the greatest luminous power that we can think of…. The dynamic power of love can transcend all the evil powers of the world.” — Shri Mataji [1973.08.28]
The Principle of the Child Within Us
We focus on the power of a mantra to awaken and strengthen the divine principle of the child within us. We also demonstrate how to remove the obstacles we face.
“All those things or obstacles which block or stop you from reaching your depth should be removed by loving yourself, by watching yourself and by understanding that I have this problem within. I have to remove this problem.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Pure knowledge
Pure knowledge is connected to our own self-awareness and subjective experiences after we receive our self realization. These experiences clarify and correct whatever we learn through books, discussion and analysis.
“In our evolution, whatever we have achieved has come in our awareness. Like, as I can see you, I can feel you, in the same way you should be able to see. And through that light we should be able to explain each and every thing.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Generosity
When the Nabhi chakra is clear, we feel complete contentment. Then we don’t need to cling onto material objects to feel fulfilled. We realize the true value of things is in giving them to people as expressions of our love.
“Somebody likes a particular thing – you go all the way to get it and give that small thing, very small thing, to the person and the joy, not out of the money that you have spent, but the feelings you have expressed of knowing what that person would love.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The wisdom of the Adi Gurus is within us
In Sahaja Yoga, ten aspects of the guru are awakened in the Void. In meditation, we discover the wisdom of great sages is within us.
“Your dharma is the way your attention is.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Keeping our Attention on our Spirit
The Kundalini, our power of pure desire, has connected us to our Spirit. How can we keep our attention focused on our Spirit in everyday life?
“After establishing your sustained attention on the Spirit you will develop a state where you’ll be in a complete state of witnessing with joy.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi [Guru Purnima Seminar Part 2: Assume your position 1983.07.23]
Strengthening our Left Side
We will focus on clearing our left channel and making it stronger so we can be more confident in our own spirituality and know that we are full of love. “You reach a stage where I have to tell you that faith is not mental, it is not emotional, it is not physical, but it is a state of your own being which we can call as a spiritual state.
In the spiritual state, nothing can disturb you, nothing can overpower you, nothing can dominate you.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Restoring over child like innocence
You have to go beyond this mind. And to go beyond this mind the most helpful thing is Kundalini awakening.
An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.– Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Finding peace and quiet inside ourselves
The world of work and the world created by the media distracts us from the peace that is within ourselves. Today we will go deep into meditation, free of thoughts and reactions.
“You don’t have to worry for anything, don’t have to think about anything, you don’t have to plan about anything. Only thing is, you have to jump into it, just jump into it and know that you have become part and parcel of the reality.” – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Becoming Fearless
As we strengthen our divine qualities, nothing can pull us off balance. Nothing can tempt us, and nothing can dominate us.
“You get rid of all your fear, but you do not dominate anyone. You love. In your love you are secure. It is not by domination but the security that you are love, you are compassion.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The Breakthrough
We have received our self-realization through Sahaja Yoga. We can now experience an internal transformation that comes with this breakthrough when we honor and maintain it through meditation.
“We are seekers of truth, and we are seekers of peace within, silence within, the love within, and that power that gives you, empowers you, to love others.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Speaking with a Clear Vishuddhi Chakra
When our fifth center is clear, our speech reflects our love and compassion.
“What is the essence of this diplomacy? It is benevolence. You have to achieve the benevolence of the whole humanity.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shri Buddha
Buddha means the one who is enlightened. We will meditate on the teachings of Buddha and focus on the Right Agnya chakra where the divine principles of his teachings become enlightened within us.
“When Buddha was tired, finished… then he got his realization. When you stop your efforts then only you will get your realization.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Small Victories
For some people, dramatic changes happen quickly when they start practicing Sahaja Yoga. For many of us, however, improvements in our meditation and daily life come in small steps. Let’s celebrate every small step!
“Only from your heart you have to feel it, that you have to mature into it, you have to come up to it. Once you put your heart to it everything will work out because the whole force is coming from your heart, because in the heart resides the Spirit.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Not Reacting
When we don’t react, we maintain our inner balance. In a state of witnessing we allow the truth of a situation to emerge.
“Now with Realization what happens, the Spirit doesn’t take note of all this stimulus…. It is just witnessing the play as a drama and a joke. It doesn’t react to it as human beings do. And that’s how the stress stops, drops out.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The connection between meditation and health
There is a direct connection between balancing our subtle system and maintaining our physical health. Together through meditation we can improve our physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
“Once you come to Sahaja Yoga, you become one with the Divine. The force starts flowing through you and you become radiant. You become much younger. You start looking healthier and your temperament becomes very happy.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Being in Sahasrara
We will focus on being in and staying in Sahasrara.
“Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the Divine Power cannot come to you.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Clearing our Chakras and Getting to Silence
Today we collectively balance our left and right sides and remove blockages in our chakras. This enhances our enjoyment of collective meditation.
“We are here to become those unique personalities which are required to raise the humanity to a higher state. So you have to be now responsible for yourself. You have to look after yourself.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The Elements and Nature
We will explore our subtle relationship to nature and learn the mantras for the five elements – earth, fire, water, air and ether. “In Sahaja Yoga it’s one of the biggest mantras for all the Western people. They should all the time say to all the trees, all the nature around: “I am not guilty.” Your ecological problem will improve because then you won’t do wrong things to spoil your ecology.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
RESOURCES - Meditation guides, music, videos and audios
Meditation Guides to download, meditative music, video and audio meditations and more resources and materials from these Course are available here.
Some information here is very ‘advanced’, so you should ensure you have completed the whole course and are regularly meditating so you can appreciate the information. Please don’t hesitate to ask questions about the material via our WhatsApp groups.
- How to Meditate at Home – The aim of every meditation is to feel balanced, relaxed and reach the thoughtless state and sustain yourself there as long as you can. This guide show you steps for your morning and evening meditations.
🌹 SETUP A MEDITATION ALTAR IN YOUR HOME
Materials Required
– Shri Mataji’s photograph in a frame (recommended natural material)
– Candle and candle stand
– A clean pedestal or table for the photograph and candle
Having this simple and beautiful setup at your home will not only help you get into the practice of meditation, but will also create a positive balance and energy in your home.
Try it yourself and see the difference…
🌹 USING SHRI MATAJI’S PHOTOGRAPH FOR MEDITATION
We have found that by meditating in front of Shri Mataji’s photographs, our Subtle system comes into balance and is cleared through the positive vibrations that are emitted from her photographs. As result, we become more relaxed and calmer as we experience the inner joy of the Spirit in our heart. We follow the traditional respect and protocol of not placing our feet pointing towards the meditation table and meditate with shoes removed. We can sit on a chair or floor, whichever is the most comfortable.
If you wish to use Shri Mataji’s photograph, then it’s best to place the photo in a frame and use a small candle in front of the photo when meditating.
You can download Shri Mataji’s photos from the section below “RESOURCES – Shri Mataji’s Photos for Meditation” or contact us at [email protected]
Use this Guide to learn simple meditation and balancing techniques to help you experience the peace of true meditation. If this is your first meditation, then please follow the ‘Affirmation for Meditation’ steps for your Self-Realisation to activate your inner-being.
The Subtle System
Our Subtle System consists of 3 Channels and 7 main Chakras. The right and left channels are the physical support of our sympathetic nervous system and the central channel is the physical support of our parasympathetic nervous system.
Energy Centres – the Chakras:
1. The Mooladhara Chakra (Innocence)
1a. The Kundalini (Mothering energy)
2. The Swadishthan Chakra (Creativity)
3. The Nabhi Chakra (Peace)
3a. The Void (the Guru principle)
4. The Anahatha Chakra (Love and Compassion)
5. The Vishuddhi Chakra (Collectivity)
6. The Agnya Chakra (Forgiveness)
7. The Sahasrara Chakra (Integration).
Energy Channels – the Nadis:
A. The Right Channel (Physical and mental activity)
B. The Left Channel (Emotions and desires)
C. The Central Channel (Ascent and spiritual growth)
- Our Right channel (yellow line), governs our physical, creative or mental activity. It is the channel of action and the future.
- Our Left channel (blue line), manages our emotions and desires. It is the channel of our past.
- The Central channel (white line), manages our autonomous functions ( heartbeat, etc…). The Kundalini energy rises up the central channel when we receive our Self-Realisation. It is the channel of our spiritual evolution, the Present.
- The Chakras – the Sanskrit word “chakra” means “wheel”. These energy centers or chakras ( numbers 1 to 7 in above diagram) correspond to our main nervous plexuses in the body. Each chakra has its own qualities.
By regular practice of Sahaja Yoga meditation, you obtain the knowledge of your chakras, how to improve and look after them, in a very natural and spontaneous way. Your innate qualities start to manifest themselves. You can feel the state of your subtle system and by using simple techniques, you can maintain it in a balanced state.
We give guidelines of these techniques in our weekly classes in your local area. They are always free. Find free classes in your country.
Self-Realisation
Out of all the energies that sustain us, there is one which is the mother of all other energies. This dormant is of a spiritual nature. It manifests the love that the Divine has for us.
It is called Kundalini and she exists within everyone as a great potential of inner wellbeig. This living energy is waiting to reveal itself to us. Sahaja Yoga meditation starts with the natural awakening of this energy. The spiritual energy that is within us is called Kundalini.
The Kundalini resides in the sacrum bone. This is the triangular bone which is located at the base of the spinal column. When this energy awakens, it activates the central channel and passes through the chakras to come out and can be perceived as a flood, gush, spurt (of coolness) in the fontanelle bone area. Once this energy has been awakened we can perceive its manifestation in a concrete way. A new state of awareness is established within us.
Self-Realisation – the Awakening of the Kundalini mother energy.
As soon as we have felt the condition of our chakras, we can improve them. We have the tools to progress easily with discrimination in our spiritual evolution.
The Kundalini awakening is an indisputable discovery. For the first time, we have the chance to change ourselves and become independent.
Introduction to the three channels of our Subtle System by Shri Mataji.
Videos
Selection of videos about Sahaja Yoga meditation and its many techniques to assist with balancing and clearing the subtle system to ensure peaceful and joy meditations free from thoughts.
How to prepare for the Footsoaking
‘Footsoaking’ is a clearing techniques to bring balance to your inner subtle system and energy centres.
Please have the items below available so you can participate in Footsoaking sessions:
Items required:
- A Footsoak bowl: A plastic or metal bowl for soaking your feet. It should be deep enough so you can put your feet flat in it and cover your ankles, if possible. Fill the Footsoak bowl with cool or warm water.
- Half a cup of table or cooking salt. (Not Epsom salts)
- Jug or bottle of clean water to rinse your feet when finished.
- A towel/cloth or paper towels to dry your feet after rinsing your feet.
Footsoak treatment
(We’ll show you how to do this treatment during the webcast.)
How to prepare for the Candle Treatment
The Candle treatment is used to clear our ‘left channel’ of imbalances. As a safety precaution, do not do this treatment if you are wearing loose clothes or near any combustible materials. Take great care. You can sit on a chair or the floor for this session.
Please have the items below available so you can participate in the Candle Treatment session:
- A small candle in a holder or secured to a plate.
- Matches/lighter.
Candle treatment
(We’ll show you how to do this treatment during the webcast session.)
The Hamsa chakra, which is part of the Vishuddhi and represented by Canada, is situated between the eyebrows, and has the qualities discretion and discrimination; It’s also called the Lambica chakra.
Treatment for the Hamsa is to put a few drops of slightly warm melted purified butter (Ghee) with a dropper into your nose and sniff it up. It avoids dryness of the inner lining. Apply it at night before sleeping.
Affirmation to clear and strengthen the Hamsa is: “Shri Mataji, by Your Grace, please give me the power of discrimination.”
Shri Mataji talks about the Hamsa Chakra
Advise from Shri Mataji about the Hamsa Chakra
“It is, you know, placed between the two eyebrows and two eyes represent the left and the right side. So this centre is very much guided by our eyes, by our ears, by our nose, tongue, teeth, throat. Is a very important centre because the Vishuddhi, which has to look after sixteen petals, which, sixteen petals, which look after all these ear, nose, throat, different, different organs within us, also it has to communicate with the Viraat. So it has to pass through this centre of Hamsa Chakra. Hamsa Chakra is the very pivotal centre, which expresses auspiciousness in our awareness. That means, if this centre is alert and awakened, then we immediately know what is auspicious and what is not auspicious, or we can call it, we get the Divine Discretion… the light of the Spirit, which shines through your Hamsa Chakra, gives you wisdom. Wisdom doesn’t mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn’t mean that! Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything, to enjoy it, this is Wisdom. And that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.” (1992/09/13)
“Now, how can we improve our Hamsa then? It’s a big problem, because if our Hamsa is sick, is over-conditioned. The Kundalini cannot work on it; it just gives up. Now, so for Hamsa we use all these physical things. Like I said, put the ghee in the nose. Keep it in a way that it is nourished properly. Because Kundalini, if it tries to too much attack the Hamsa, it will have a problem. Problem because, as it is most of our time we spend in such a manner that your Hamsa things become – what you call the epithelial cells, the linings – become dried out. When the Kundalini rises, She may try to create a problem more for that dryness – maybe. So it is kept out, but it has an effect in the sense that even if there is a light outside, it can fall inside.”
“So it’s not the Kundalini directly that affects your Hamsa. It is like when the Kundalini awakens, you yourself see now that a person is, whether he is fair complexion or dark complexion, he is a human being. You reason it out and Hamsa clears up. Then you see yourself that, “Oh, I’m very egoistical.” You start seeing yourself through your Agnya, start seeing that, “I’m so conditioned.” So you reason it out, and that’s how you correct your conditionings. This is what is Hamsa chakra.”
Selection of videos by Shri Mataji on her teachings about Sahaja Yoga, Self Realisation, meditations, the subtle system, chakras and other spiritual matters.
Using Shri Mataji’s photograph for meditation
We have found that by meditating in front of Shri Mataji’s photographs, our Subtle system comes into balance and is cleared through the positive vibrations that are emitted from her photographs. As result, we become more relaxed and calmer as we experience the inner joy of the Spirit in our heart. We follow the traditional respect and protocol of not placing our feet pointing towards the meditation table and meditate with shoes removed. We can sit on a chair or floor, whichever is the most comfortable.
If you wish to use Shri Mataji’s photograph, then it’s best to place the photo in a frame and use a small candle in front of the photo when meditating. Please contact us if you’d like us to email you other photos of Shri Mataji (in different sizes) for your meditation at [email protected]
Meditation Photos
All images are in jpg format and are ready for printing. For best print quality, use a high resolution printer or take the files, on a USB stick, to a digital photo lab for printing.
Image sizes available
- 4″ x 6″ (10cm x 15cm) 1800 x 1200 pixels. Average file size for each image is approx 250KBs.
- 6″ x 8″ (15 x 20cm) 2400 x 3200 pixels. Average file size for each image is approx 350KBs.
How to download: To download an image, right-click on the ‘Download’ link and save the file to your computer or device.
Using Shri Mataji’s Photograph
Short video of Shri Mataji explaining why we use her photograph for meditation.
Meditation Card
This Meditation Card contains general instructions on how to meditate with a photo of Shri Mataji and the Affirmations exercise.
“From Mantra to Silence” Booklet
This booklet will help you learn more about the subtle system and how affirmations and mantras can strengthen your meditation experience. Learn how to further enlighten your own inner system; how to identify and clear your subtle blockages; and how to deepen and enjoy the silence of thoughtless awareness.
The Subtle System
Within every human being there is a Subtle System that comprises of energy centres and channels which look after our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being. During the Course, you will experience to how to enlighten, nourish and balance the System.
Diagram of The Subtle System
Animation of the Kundalini (Mothering energy) rising
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About the Course
Free online courses to discover the peace and joy within for mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. Daily live and recorded sessions for everyone – Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Sessions. No previous experience in meditation required.
Do as many sessions as you wish – no need to do all the sessions.
Through Sahaja Yoga meditation, we awaken our inner energy that gently brings about positive change within us – we feel more balanced, peaceful and joyous. As you participate in the daily sessions, you will notice the gap between your thoughts increasing and you will feel more relaxed, peaceful and spiritual.
Newcomers and regulars will learn how to meditate and experience true meditation. Over the 21 days, you’ll be guided daily by our online team through the three levels of knowledge and meditation experiences from beginner to intermediate to advanced. Daily program includes guided meditations with clearing and balancing sessions, talks by Shri Mataji (founder), music and discussion on the topic of the day.
About Sahaja Yoga Meditation
Millions around the world are enjoying our free Sahaja Yoga Meditation since it was started by HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi on 5th May,1970. Her meditation enables en-masse Self-Realisation. Self-Realisation is the key to thoughtless awareness, also known as mental silence, and is the basis of good health and well-being. Sahaja Yoga meditation provides this experience. Sahaja Yoga Meditation is always free and is practiced in more than 100 countries.
24/7 Channel and daily meditations
While you are waiting for this Course to commence in March 2025, please enjoy these meditations which provide an excellent insight into our meditation.
Live meditation 24/7
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2 minute by Shri Mataji
Shri Mataji will awaken your inner being so you can start doing Sahaja Yoga meditation.
3 minute quiet meditation
Sit quietly for 3 minutes with your hands palm-up on lap. Eyes can be open or closed.
More details
- This event is hosted by Sahaja Yoga meditation practitioners from the Nordic and European countries.
- Watch the 2026 21 Day Course on YouTube
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