Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom: The Meditation Center's Holiday Program 2024, "Celebration of the Season of Silence, Light, and Hope" December 19, 2024
2024-12-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom
December 19, 2024
The Meditation Center’s Holiday Program 2024
“Celebration of the Season of Silence, Light, and Hope”
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Holiday Program Schedule
Details to come

World Meditation Day and Winter Solstice Observance at TMC - December 21, 2024 - 6:00-11:30 a.m.
2024-12-21 06:00 - 12:30
A Morning Program at The Meditation Center
Honoring the First World Meditation Day
In Person and via Zoom
Saturday: December 21, 2024
6:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
On this Winter Solstice day join us at TMC to reflect, contemplate, and meditate.

World Meditation Day Morning Schedule at TMC
Join Emilio Bettaglio and Eric Ness for a Morning of Silence, Gentle Yoga, Meditation, and Contemplation.
6:00-7:00 a.m. Morning prayers, silent meditation, chanting OM (Zoom)
7:00-7:30 a.m. Gentle Meditative Hatha Yoga with Eric Ness (Zoom)
7:30-8:30 a.m. Silent Breakfast
8:30-10:30 a.m. Silent Japa (Personal Mantra, Saumya Mantra, Ganapati Mantra), Silent Walk (optional and weather permitting), Meditate, Contemplate, Read, Relax, Rest, Reflect, Mindfully Enjoy a Cup of Tea,
10:30-11:30 a.m. – Hatha Yoga Class and Meditation with Emilio Bettaglio. There will be 30 minutes of “Joints and Glands” exercises followed by 30 minutes of guided meditation (Zoom)
Read here the Saumya Mantra
Read here the Ganesha Gayatri and Ganapati Mantra.

Loving Invite to the First World Meditation Day
by Dr. Divya Gupta
Join us and meditate within the Tradition of the Himalayan Masters and with all Sadhakas of the AHYMSIN Sangha
…The World Meditation Day shall serve as another opportunity and reminder for us to reconnect with the sacred, ancient yoga meditation tradition of the Himalayan Masters that we are all a part of and that beckon upon us to “practice, practice, practice”, as our Gurudeva Swami Rama has said….
Read here the entire invitation courtesy of the AHYMSIN December 2024 Newsletter.

Via Zoom – Sunday Morning Guided Meditation with Swami Radha Bharati
2024-12-22 08:20 - 09:30, 2024-12-29 08:20 - 09:30, 2025-01-05 08:20 - 09:30, 2025-01-12 08:20 - 09:30, 2025-01-19 08:20 - 09:30, 2025-01-26 08:20 - 09:30, 2025-02-02 08:20 - 09:30, 2025-02-09 08:20 - 09:30 and 14 more dates
Via Zoom – Sunday Morning Guided Meditation
with Swami Radha Bharati
8:20 A.M. – 9:15 A.M.
Join for Morning Prayers: 8:20-8:30 a.m.
Sunday Morning Meditation: 8:30-9:15 a.m.

Join Swami Radha Bharati on Zoom for a guided meditation on Sunday from 8:20 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom: "Relax, Rest, and Recover" with Swami Ma Radha Bharati and Lori Beron; Lighting of Hanukkah Candles on the Second Night of Hanukkah with Nikki Strong and Daniel Hertz at 8:30 p.m.- December 26, 2024
2024-12-26 19:00 - 20:30
Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom
December 26, 2024
“Relax, Rest, and Recover”
with Swami Ma Radha Bharati and Lori Beron
7:00-8:30 p.m. CST
Lighting of Hanukkah Candles on the second night of Hanukkah
with Nikki Strong and Daniel Hertz at 8:30 p.m.
Everyone is welcome!

5:30-6:45 p.m.: Gentle Hatha Yoga – Cancelled
7:00-8:00 p.m.: “Relax, Rest, and Recover”
with Swami Ma Radha Bharati and Lori Beron
8:00-8:30 p.m. Guided Meditation with Swami Radha
8:30-8:40 p.m.: Lighting of Hanukkah Candles on the second night of Hanukkah
with Nikki Strong and Daniel Hertz
8:40 p.m.: Evening Prayers

Relax, Rest and Recover from the hustle and bustle that typically comes with Christmas: Swami Radha Bharati and Lori Beron will be leading practices to help you let go of tension and stress in your body and mind. No lectures. Nothing is required of you. Yoga mats, cushions and blankets are available at the Center or bring your own. Just come to TMC or participate via zoom. Since you will be lying down on the floor in shavasana for a while, you may want to cover yourself with a blanket or shawl and use a cushion under your knees and a small pillow under your head. After the practices we will sit for meditation.
Practices: (approximately 45 minutes or so)

Tension and Release
Systematic Relaxation
61 Point Blue Star
Shitali Karana relaxation
Yoga Nidra Conscious Rest
followed by Guided Meditation

To support the work of The Meditation Center and register you can donate here or make a general donation by clicking on the “donate” button on the “Support TMC” website page.
Or donate through PayPal.
There is parking available for TMC visitors in the St. Boniface lot across the street from the Center.

"Mauna Amavasya Observance" New Moon Silence Day - January 29, 2025
2025-01-29 06:00 - 21:00
Wednesday: January 29, 2025
“Mauna Amavasya Day”
New Moon Silence Day Observance
6:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Join us for a day of immersion into the vastness of blissful silence during the auspicious day of “Mauna Amavasya,” on Wednesday, January 29th.
“Mauna Amavasya” is observed during this special day of No Moon which offers transformative opportunities through silence practice.
‘You may join for the entire day or at any point during the program for however much time you are able to stay. The schedule will start at 6:00 a.m. with Morning Prayers in the Himalayan Tradition, and will include practices such as silent Joints and Glands exercises, pranayama, unguided meditation, guided subtle body practices. The program will conclude after evening meditation and evening prayers at 9:00 p.m.

MAUNA AMAVASYA
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
SCHEDULE
6:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
In Person Only Event
(A bell will be rung at scheduled start times)
Participants may attend all or part of the program while maintaining silence throughout the day.
Please RSVP for your intended participation.
6:00-7:00 a.m.: Morning Prayers in the Himalayan Tradition, Silent Meditation.
7:00-8:00 a.m.: Silent Pranayama, Joints and Glands.
8:00-10:00 a.m.: Communal Breakfast Prep and Cleanup.
10:00-11:00 a.m.: Contemplative Walking (indoors or out, weather permitting).
11:00-12:00 Noon: 108 Nadi Shodhana, Silent Meditation.
12:00-1:00 p.m.: Lunch–Vegan Soup, Bread, Fruit, Cleanup.

1:00-3:00 p.m.: Digestive Breathing, Individual Participation in Japa (Personal, Saumya, Ganapati, Purash Charana.)
3:00-5:00 p.m.: Subtle Body Practices (guided), Meditation (silent)
5:00-6:30 p.m.: Help Prepare Light Supper and Cleanup.
6:30-8:00 p.m.: Individual Participation Japa (Personal, Saumya, Ganapati), journaling.
8:00-9:00 p.m.: Meditation and Evening Prayers.

The focus throughout the day will be on “Ganapati Mantra” for enhancing and stabilizing our practice as we travel through this “Decade of Loving Transformation”, as well as “Saumya Mantra” for inner calm, love and compassion that has been indicated as a worldwide sangha practice until February 10, 2025

"Mauna Amavasya Day" a New Moon Silence Day on Wednesday, January 29, 2025
2025-01-29 06:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
“Mauna Amavasya Day”

Join us for a day of immersion into the vastness of blissful silence during the auspicious day of “Mauna Amavasya,” on Wednesday, January 29th.
“Mauna Amavasya” is observed during this special day of No Moon which offers transformative opportunities through silence practice.
‘You may join for the entire day or at any point during the program for however much time you are able to stay. The schedule will start at 6:00 a.m. with Morning Prayers in the Himalayan Tradition, and will include practices such as silent Joints and Glands exercises, pranayama, unguided meditation, guided subtle body practices. The program will conclude after evening meditation and evening prayers at 9:00 p.m.
MAUNA AMAVASYA
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
SCHEDULE
6:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
In Person Only Event
(A bell will be rung at scheduled start times)
Participants may attend all or part of the program while maintaining silence throughout the day.
Please RSVP for your intended participation.
6:00-7:00 a.m.: Morning Prayers in the Himalayan Tradition, Silent Meditation.
7:00-8:00 a.m.: Silent Pranayama, Joints and Glands.
8:00-10:00 a.m.: Communal Breakfast Prep and Cleanup.
10:00-11:00 a.m.: Contemplative Walking (indoors or out, weather permitting).
11:00-12:00 Noon: 108 Nadi Shodhana, Silent Meditation.
12:00-1:00 p.m.: Lunch–Vegan Soup, Bread, Fruit, Cleanup.

1:00-3:00 p.m.: Digestive Breathing, Individual Participation in Japa
(Personal, Saumya, Ganapati, Purash Charana.)
3:00-5:00 p.m.: Subtle Body Practices (guided), Meditation (silent)
5:00-6:30 p.m.: Help Prepare Light Supper and Cleanup.
6:30-8:00 p.m.: Individual Participation Japa (Personal, Saumya, Ganapati), journaling.
8:00-9:00 p.m.: Meditation and Evening Prayers.

The focus throughout the day will be on “Ganapati Mantra” for enhancing and stabilizing our practice as we travel through this “Decade of Loving Transformation”, as well as “Saumya Mantra” for inner calm, love and compassion that has been indicated as a worldwide sangha practice until February 10, 2025

In Remembrance of Swami Ma Gita Bharati, Beloved Spiritual Guide and Teacher - Gathering at TMC on February 12, 2025, 6:30-8:45 p.m.
2025-02-12 18:30 - 20:45
In Remembrance of Swami Ma Gita Bharati
Beloved Spiritual Guide and Teacher
October 26, 1933 – January 30, 2025
Join us in person at TMC in the Hall of the Tradition and via Zoom
to remember and honor Swami Ma Gita.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
6:30 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.

Read Swami Ma Gita’s obituary here.
6:30-7:30 p.m: Havan Officiated by Emilio Bettaglio
7:30-8:00 p.m.: Community Meal with Swami Gita’s Favorite Foods
8:00-8:45 p.m. Sharing Stories and Remembrances of Swami Gita
9:00 p.m.: Global Full Moon Meditation with Swami Ritavan

If you are able, recite the Gayatri mantra as many times as you are able
for Swami Gita’s transition through February 12, 2025

Obituary of Gloria Weber (Swami Ma Gita Bharati)
age 91, passed away peacefully on January 30, in Minneapolis.
Gloria was the last surviving child of the John J. and Mary (Mayme) (Thomas) Zweber family. She was predeceased by her parents, sisters, Lenora Christensen, Josephine and Cecelia Zweber (infants) and brothers, Wilfred, Charles, Vincent, Roy, Emmery, Clinton, Roman and Harold Zweber. She is survived by many nieces and nephews. Mass of Christian Burial on Friday, April 25th at 11 a.m. at St. Nicholas Catholic Church, 51 Church St., Elko New Market, MN. A gathering of family and friends will begin one hour before the service.
Gloria was born on October 26, 1933, in New Prague, MN and grew up on her parents’ farm near New Market. She attended St. Nicholas Grade School in New Market and graduated from Good Counsel Academy in Mankato in 1951. She joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) community and earned a Bachelor of Education degree. She taught as a nun at several elementary schools in MN, including her last assignment as principal of St. Stanislaus School in St. Paul.
Gloria left the SSND community in 1970 and lived in St. Paul where she transitioned to a career in social work and completed her MSW degree. Her lifelong passion for social justice issues was central to who she was as a person and guided her professional career.
As she approached her retirement, Gloria became involved in the Himalayan Yoga Tradition, spent time in India and had a long association with the Meditation Center in NE Minneapolis. Through mentoring and special training she became a Swami with the given name of Swami Gita Bharati during a ceremony in India in 1999. Later in life she resided at the Meditation Center as a Resident Swami until 2018, when she moved to Minnehaha Senior Living in Minneapolis.
Memorials can be sent to The Meditation Center, 631 University Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413 or School Sisters of Notre Dame, 11 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 310; Mankato, MN 56001. Or the donor’s choice.

Maha Shivaratri Observance Via Zoom on Wednesday: February 26, 2025 from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
2025-02-26 19:00 - 21:00
Maha Shivaratri Observance Via Zoom
“The Great Night of Shiva”
Wednesday: February 26, 2025
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Shiva is the Lord of the meditator, the very identity of the meditator. The earliest iconography in human history is a meditative one as divinity sitting in the meditative posture. It is the iconography of Shiva. It is that one by whose grace we are drawn to a life of renunciation to go up the mountain, for he is the dweller of Mount Kailasha, the dweller of the highest mountain within us; the head. From his matted hair, the gushing river of inspiration , knowledge and wisdom flows. The very river descends from the highest of the heavens, comes right into our fontanel, and from there flows downward into the seven worlds (chakras), the seven continents, the seven oceans and becomes our very kundalini. That Shiva. To him I dedicate myself today and chant, “OM NAMAH SHIVAYA”
Join Swami Ma Radha Bharati for a Maha Shivaratri program of inward observation and contemplation.
7:00 p.m: Introduction by Swami Ma Radha Bharati
7:15 p.m.: Swami Veda’s recording of Manas Puja (Internal Sacrifice)
8:00 PM: Swami Veda’s recording of 1,000 names of Shiva
Read here…Swami Veda’s, “1996 Shivaratri Address”

"Bountiful Bouquets of Love Contemplations" Spring Fundraiser 2025 Saturday: May 17, 2025, 10:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m.
2025-05-17 10:00 - 12:30
Mark Your Calendars…

“Bountiful Bouquets of Love Contemplations” Spring Fundraiser 2025
Please join your Meditation Community on Saturday, May 17, 10:00 a.m – 12:30 p.m.
for the Center’s Spring Open House!
Our goal this spring is $ 75,000!!!
The weekend will be full of wonderful opportunities to celebrate Spring season.
Fundraiser Schedule
Meditation with Swami Radha – 10:00 a.m.
Children’s Hatha Yoga with Radhya and Soma Means – 10:30-11:00 a.m.
Hatha Yoga with Cynthia Gran – 10:30 a.m.- Noon
Book sale!
Delicious lunch and snacks!
Come to TMC and stop by the Northeast Farmers Market across the street at St. Boniface’s parking lot or visit the Art-A-Whirl events throughout the NE Minneapolis’ Art District.
Hatha Yoga Music Stories Book Sale
Meditation & Merriment!
Tea and Community!

Everyone is Welcome!
Bring Family and Fiends
Love Serve Remember
Donate Here to TMC!
Or donate through PayPal.
