The Meditation Center

Cancelled for August 7th - Wednesday Mornings In Person and Via Zoom Gentle Hatha Yoga (Drop In)
2024-08-07 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Cancelled for August 7th
Cynthia Gran is teaching on August 14th
WEDNESDAY MORNINGS IN PERSON AND VIA ZOOM

GENTLE HATHA YOGA (DROP IN)

Time: 10:30am to Noon
Instructors: Rosann Chamberlain, Sig Martell, and Susan Guthrie
Fees: $12.00/class ($10.00 for seniors and students)

Wednesday Mornings In Person and via Zoom – Gentle Hatha Yoga (Drop-In) with Sig Martell and Rosann Chamberlain
2024-08-07 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-08-14 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-08-21 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-08-28 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-04 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-11 10:30 - 12:00
WEDNESDAY MORNINGS In Person and Via Zoom – GENTLE HATHA YOGA (DROP IN)

Time: 10:30am to Noon
Instructors: Sig Martell, Rosann Chamberlain, and Susan Guthrie
Fees: $12.00/class ($10.00 for seniors and students)
DROP-IN HATHA CLASSES (ONGOING)
Everyone is Welcome! These classes are for all levels. Instructors excel at leading the class in relaxation, gentle asana (yoga positions) and pranayama (breath). Relieve stress, achy joints, improve balance at all levels and increase your sense of well being. No registration necessary, just show up.

Thursday Satsang In Person at TMC and via Zoom: Unity, a Forest of Old Growth Trees" Atma-Tattva-Avalokanam with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma) PsyD, E-RYT 500 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. CDT
2024-08-08 19:00 - 20:30
Thursday Satsang In Person at TMC and via Zoom – August 8, 2024
“Unity, a Forest of Old Growth Trees” Atma-Tattva-Avalokanam
with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma) PsyD, E-RYT 500
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. CDT

5:30-6:45 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Hatha Yoga with Chu Chen
6:15-7:00 p.m. – Vegan Soup
7:00-8:00 p.m.: “Unity, a Forest of Old Growth Trees”
Atma-Tattva-Avalokanam with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma)
8:00-8:30 p.m.: Meditation Guided by Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma)
Join Stoma in a discussion of “Unity” an old growth forest with a complicated network of communication among individual trees… Atma-Tattva-Avalokanam or “watching for the essence of atman everywhere around you”, awareness of Atman the Self.
Stephen Parker (Stoma) was initiated in the Himalayan Yoga tradition by Swami Veda Bharati and was given the initiate name Stoma in 1971. Among the first teachers certified by the Himalayan International Teachers’ Association, H.I.T.A., he began teaching hatha-yoga in 1974. Stoma is a Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500-hour level of the Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500). A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, he serves on the faculties of the Meditation Center in Minneapolis and the Sadhanamandir and Sadhaka Gram ashrams in Rishikesh, India.
He is also a senior faculty member of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition Teachers’ Training Program. He has lectured on yoga, meditation, and spiritual practice in the U.S. and Canada as well as in Caribbean countries, Holland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, South Africa, Korea, Hong Kong, and India. In 2004 he helped originate and teach the first course on yoga in an American medical school at the University of Minnesota Academic Medical Center. In 2007 he received took preliminary vows of renunciation from Swami Veda and the Shankaracharya of Karvirapitha.
Stoma has been a licensed psychologist in private practice in St. Paul, MN since 1985. He also served as Adjunct Assistant School Professor of Counseling and Psychological Services at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN. He has taught on the faculty of the Introductory Workshops of the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis. In addition to authoring journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Parker edited volume two of Swami Veda’s definitive scholarly work on the “Yoga-sutras of Patanjali” and he has been a peer review editor for the “Journal of Men’s Studies,” the “American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,” and the “International Journal of Yoga Therapy.”
To support the work of The Meditation Center and register you can donate here (suggested donation $15.00) for Thursday Satsang or make a general donation by clicking on the “donate” button on the “Support TMC” website page.
Or donate through PayPal.
Note: There is parking available for TMC visitors
in the St. Boniface lot across the street from the Center.

Via Zoom – Sunday Morning Guided Meditation with Swami Radha Bharati
2024-08-11 08:20 - 09:30, 2024-08-18 08:20 - 09:30, 2024-08-25 08:20 - 09:30, 2024-09-01 08:20 - 09:30, 2024-09-08 08:20 - 09:30, 2024-09-15 08:20 - 09:30
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.

Cynthia Gran Is Teaching - Wednesday Mornings In Person and Via Zoom – Gentle Hatha Yoga (Drop In)
2024-08-14 10:30 - 12:00
Cynthia Gran is teaching on August 14, 2024
WEDNESDAY MORNINGS IN PERSON and VIA ZOOM

GENTLE HATHA YOGA (DROP IN)

Time: 10:30am to Noon
Instructors: Rosann Chamberlain, Sig Martell, and Susan Guthrie
Fees: $12.00/class ($10.00 for seniors and students)
DROP-IN HATHA CLASSES (ONGOING)
Everyone is Welcome! These classes are for all levels. Instructors excel at leading the class in relaxation, gentle asana (yoga positions) and pranayama (breath). Relieve stress, achy joints, improve balance at all levels and increase your sense of well being. No registration necessary, just show up.

Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom: “The Wisdom Tradition: Yoga, Christianity and the Divine Feminine” with Gary Gran, CYT, DAy. - August 15, 2024
2024-08-15 19:00 - 20:30
Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom
The Assumption of Mary – August 15, 2024
“The Wisdom Tradition: Yoga, Christianity and the Divine Feminine”
with Gary Gran, CYT, DAy.
7:00-8:30 p.m.

5:30-6:45 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Hatha Yoga with Michael Snodgrass
7:00-8:00 p.m.: “The Wisdom Tradition: Yoga, Christianity and the Divine Feminine” with Gary Gran CYT, DAy.

8:00-8:30p.m.: Meditation Guided by Swami Radha Bharati

8:30 p.m.: Evening Prayers
The development of wisdom is a central theme in Christianity, yoga, Ayurveda and Buddhism, with deep roots in ancient culture. Wisdom denotes a deep knowing, a gnosis, that comes from Silence. Our main theme on this night of the Assumption of Mary will be to trace the presence of Holy Mother Wisdom in the Christian scriptures.
In yoga science, wisdom is called prajna. In the Buddhist tradition, the Perfection of Wisdom is called Prajna-paramita. Ayurveda tells that to go against wisdom, prajna-paradha, is unwise! In the Jewish tradition, wisdom is called Hokmah. And in ancient Greece, wisdom was known as Sophia. Indeed, the ancient philosophers were lovers of Wisdom, Sophia being the root of the word philosophy.
Please join us for this prayerful reflection on our Mother Wisdom.
“One who doesn’t know the beginningless sound of Wisdom, the highest point of heaven where the gods dwell, what do they know of Wisdom?
Only those who sit quietly with focused minds know this inner truth.”
Rig Veda 1.164.39
“Meditating on Her is understanding in its perfect form, and anyone keeping awake for Her will soon be free from care.” Wisdom 6:15
“For in the end you will find rest in Her and She will take the form of joy for you.” Ecclesiasticus 6:28
~
“God the Silence and Mother the Silence, entwined …
you are rapt in listening.
Listen how they sing their listening…
Serenade by you with vow to become a song sung to same entwined entity who, since before locus and time, has been ever serenading to you.
In mindfulness of ascending notes of symphonies breathing cadences of gnosis, silence your serenade so it never ceases. Sing your silence that silence sing you.
May you be a song.”
From Serenade God with a Song of Silence by Swami Veda Bharata
~
Gary Gran, CYT, DAy.
Gary first began to appreciate the depth of the Christian tradition when listening to Swami Rama, Swami Veda, and Swami Jaidev talk on the yogic interpretation of the Christian scriptures at the old Glenview center.
Gary and his wife Cynthia have been treading the Himalayan path since the 1970s. They met at the Glenview Center in Illinois and have served the tradition in various capacities over the years. They are both certified yoga teachers and Ayurvedic educators. They have published more than eighty articles on yoga, meditation and Ayurveda.
To support the work of The Meditation Center and register you can donate here (suggested donation $15.00) for Thursday Satsang or make a general donation by clicking on the “donate” button on the “Support TMC” website page.
Or donate through PayPal.
Note: There is parking available for TMC visitors in the St. Boniface lot across the street from the Center.

Full Moon Havan at TMC (Fire Ceremony) and Global Full Moon Meditation - August 19, 2024
2024-08-19 18:30 - 20:45
“August Full Moon Havan”
TMC’s Back Yard with Emilio Betagglio
August 19, 2024
6:30—8:45 p.m

6:30-7:30 p.m. – Havan (Fire Ceremony)
7:30-8:45 p.m. – Soup and Socializing
9:00-10:00 p.m. – Global Full Moon Meditation

The fire havan is an in-person only event. It will not be zoomed.
The dried twigs brought to TMC on Guru Purnima will be offered to the fire tonight.
You can still bring a bundle of sticks tonight, the evening of the havan.
Some etiquette: The havan kunda, fire pit, is the shrine for the fire deity Agni and needs to be approached as such; having freshly cleansed, with an open heart and mind, and wearing clean clothes; no shoes close to the havan kunda. All offerings are made with the right hand and with a loving attitude of letting go and from the heart. Once seated for the ceremony, it’s important to remain there until the conclusion.
A Quote from Swami Rama
“Best student is he who takes from the teacher—not he who gives. The scripture also tells you what you should give to your teacher. It is never said that you should give a large check, your entire bank balance. No! You give dry twigs—a bundle of dry twigs to your teacher. That’s the symbol that “I have nothing to give you. You don’t need anything for yourself. I know I cannot do anything for you. These dry twigs represent my karmas. There are some samskaras which are very hard on me, trouble me, torture me. Will you please burn them?” Has he got power to do this? Yes. But it’s not his power. He uses the power of the tradition to help the student. It’s not his power.”

These twigs are offered as food for Agni who will, on behalf of the Lineage and the Guru force, burn them and transmute what they represent into prayers.
In case you have not brought twigs to TMC and are interested in participating tonight, there is still time to bring them. Drop them off at TMC today or in person this evening Prior to offering them, Swami Radha will bless the twig bundles.
Mantras for the Havan (Fire Ceremony)
21 recitations Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha
108 recitations of Akhanda Mandala
21 recitations of Saumya Taraa
21 recitations Maha Mrityunjaya
1 recitation of Purna Ahuti
Mantras available for print here.
Global Full Moon Meditation
Monday, August 19, 2024
In Person Viewing at TMC and Via Zoom
9:00-10:00 p.m. CDT
This Global Full Moon Meditation will begin guided by Swami Radha Bharati flowing into a silent meditation until 10:00 p.m.

Date Change Cancelled for August 19th...Begins August 26th - Via Zoom Summer 2024 Series - Kaivalya Pada with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma) Psy.D., 500-RYT
2024-08-19 19:00 - 21:00
New Dates: Cancelled for August 19, 2024…begins August 26, 2024
“Yoga Sutras” Summer 2024 Series – Kaivalya Pada
Via Zoom
with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma) Psy.D., 500-RYT

Mondays: August 26, September 9, 16, and 23, 2024
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Class will not meet on September 2, 2024
Begins at 7:00 p.m. with Meditation guided by Stoma
Study of the “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma) Psy.D., 500-RYT

Chapter 4, the Kaivalya Pada

Cost: $55.00 for the series
$15.00 for drop-in
If you live in a time zone that does not allow for you to attend the Yoga Sutras sessions in real time, register for the 4-week series and you will be sent Vimeo links to the recorded sessions as soon as they are uploaded to Vimeo

Cost: $55.00 for the 4-week series
$15.00 for a single session
Register here for all four sessions
Register here for a Single Session on August 26, 2024
Register here for a Single Session on September 9, 2024
Register here for a Single Session on September 16, 2024
Register here for a Single Session on September 23, 2024
If you live in a time zone that does not allow for you to attend the YogaSutras sessions in real time, register for the 4-week series and you will be sent Vimeo links to the recorded sessions as soon as they are uploaded to Vimeo.

Everyone is welcome!

The Summer 2024 series of the “YogaSutras” with Stoma is being offered to anyone who desires to learn more regarding the gifts of meditation and yoga given through this text.

Everyone is welcome!
Join Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma) for this special ongoing study of the text, the “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.” We will the study the fourth chapter, the “Kaivalya Pada.”
We also will be using as texts either “The Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali,” or “The Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali with Bhasvati,” both by Swami Hariharananda Aaranya. Or you can use any commentary on the “YogaSutras” that you have available.

Global Full Moon Meditation via Zoom from Palatine, August 19, 2024, 9:00-10:00p.m. CT
2024-08-19 21:00 - 22:00
Monday, August 19, 2024
Global Full Moon Meditation Via Zoom
9:00-10:00 p.m. CDT
This Full Moon Meditation via Zoom will begin guided by Swami Radha Bharati followed by a silent meditation until 10:00 p.m.
This event is courtesy of the Palatine Himalayan Yoga & Meditation Center – HYMC.
To get the Zoom link and for more information aregarding the global full moon meditation schedule
visit HYMC’s website here.
“You are lovingly invited to sit in meditation for an hour wherever you are, in your home or with friends. Total beginners and longtime practitioners, non-initiates and initiates are welcome. If you cannot sit for the entire hour, sit as long as you are able; as Swami Veda has said, ‘Let the quietness of the mind continue even after you rise..’” (Courtesy of AHYMSIN.org January 2023 newsletter).
Everyone is welcome!
“Yoga Philosophy views the mind as Universal field; its waves passing through us and becoming our individual minds. This Universal mind is a radiant force and is also known as a Universal Guru within.”
“When all sit together at the same time even in different parts of the world, they connect to the Universal Guru mind and generate a strong field, like so many magnets being joined together and forming a much stronger magnet; the strength of each then equals the combined strength of all.”
– Swami Veda Bharati –

Register Now!!! - 4-Seminar Series - "Practical Psychology of a Successful Sadhana" via Zoom with Phil Nuernberger, PhD - Sponsored jointly by Milwaukee HYMC and TMC in Minneapolis
2024-08-21 19:00 - 21:00
Sponsored jointly by
the Milwaukee Himalayan Yoga and Meditation Center &
The Meditation Center in Minneapolis

“Practical Psychology of a
Successful Sadhana”
via Zoom
with Phil Nuernberger, PhD
4 Seminars – 2-2.5 hours each
Wednesdays: May 22, June 19, July 17, and August 21, 2024
7:00-9:00 p.m. CDT

All Four Sessions: $108.00
A Single Session: $30.00
Register here
for all 4 sessions or any single session

I: Body, Mind, Jiva: Where is Your Identity – May 22nd
Let’s talk about what we actually become caught in the veil of samskaras, attachments, and beliefs.
II. The Powerful Mind: Your Finest Instrument – June 19th
A practical look at the mind’s resources and how to dance with them.
III. Creating and Sustaining Balance – July 17th
A successful spiritual life is the first and essential step to a successful transition to the next adventure. We explore ways to establish real harmony in life.
IV. Joyful Freedom – August 21st
The ways and means of actually gaining enlightenment. “It takes great effort to be something. It takes no effort to Be.”

Phil Nuernberger, Ph.D. is a direct disciple of H.H. Sri Swami Rama and was personally trained by Swamiji since 1970. Dr. Phil is one of the few Americans to receive initiation by Swami Rama into the highest levels of the tantric tradition of the Himalayan Sages. With his Master’s instruction and blessing, Dr. Phil has been teaching and initiating others in this tradition since 1972. He was instrumental in helping Swamiji build the Himalayan Institute, and served on its Board of Directors until 1992.
Dr. Nuernberger is author of six books. The most recent are Eternal Self , Freedom’s Path: The Dancing Soul, The Warrior Sage: Life as Spirit, as well as, Strong and Fearless: The Quest for Personal Power and From Loneliness to Love: A Journey of Spiritual Awakening.

Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom:"Our Collective Vision for 2025 and The Decade of Loving Transformation" with Swami Ritavan Bharati - August 22, 2024
2024-08-22 19:00 - 20:30
Thursday Satsang In Person at TMC and via Zoom – August 22, 2024
An Evening with Swami Ritavan Bharati
“Our Collective Vision for 2025 and The Decade of Loving Transformation”
7:00-8:30 p.m. CDT

5:30-6:45 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Hatha Yoga – Our beloved ashramite, Chu, will be guiding this session.
Join Chu for a beautifully guided hatha class before he leaves TMC at the end of August.
7:00-7:30 p.m.: Meditation Guided by Swami Ritavan Bharati
7:30-8:30 p.m.: An Evening with Swami Ritavan Bharati
“Our Collective Vision for 2025 and The Decade of Loving Transformation”
8:30 p.m.: Evening Prayers

We are blessed with the love and light of our guru-guided path through those words: Love, Serve, Remember. We remain steadfast to continue on the path of light serving selflessly as our expression of gratitude. The essence of sacrifice is giving selflessly. It is a complete expression of love in the true sense. We have learned to be content with our essential needs fulfilled using our resources in service of others. We are all here for a purpose; it is an ongoing spiritual process. We are all here for spiritual liberation and to serve that mission. This spiritual path, the Guru’s mission, is alleviating pain and suffering in the world; and to recommit to our path of Mantra-Meditation, Honoring the Sacredness of Life.

To support the work of The Meditation Center and register you can donate here (suggested donation $15.00) for Thursday Satsang or make a general donation by clicking on the “donate” button on the “Support TMC” website page.
Or donate through PayPal.
Note: There is parking available for TMC visitors in the St. Boniface lot across the street from the Center.

Via Zoom Summer 2024 Series - Kaivalya Pada with Dr. Stephen Parker (Stoma) Psy.D., 500-RYT
2024-08-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-09-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-09-16 19:00 - 21:00

Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom: "At Home, Inside and Out, Feng Shui for Heart and Space" with Michelle Skally Doilney - August 29, 2024
2024-08-29 19:00 - 20:30
Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom – August 29, 2024
“At Home, Inside and Out Feng Shui for Heart and Space”
with Michelle Skally Doilney

5:30-6:45 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Hatha Yoga
7:00-8:00 p.m.: “”At Home, Inside and Out, Feng Shui for Heart and Space” with Michelle Skally Doilney
8:00-8:30 p.m.: Meditation Guided by Swami Radha Bharati
8:30 p.m.: Evening Prayers

How do we see ourselves reflected in our living and working spaces? How do our conscious and unconscious thoughts affect our physical spaces? What do we love about where we live, and what are the challenges? Everything is energy – the stories and emotions behind our objects, spaces, selves and our actual objects, spaces, selves.
Join Michelle to explore the connection between space and self. Interactive time to learn about your own space and what you can do to make it more comfortable and useable for you, in practical, everyday use and also to further your deeper work.
Bio:
Michelle Skally Doilney is a student and initiate in the Himalayan Tradition since 1997. She is a Certified Feng Shui Consultant, working with private and corporate clients, and teaching practical do-it-on-your-own Feng Shui since 2003. Michelle is currently consulting and teaching using feng shui and writing practice and is working on several writing projects drawing from her love of travel and photography, and from her yoga and Feng Shui experiences.
www.practicalenvironments.com
To support the work of The Meditation Center and register you can donate here (suggested donation $15.00) for Thursday Satsang or make a general donation by clicking on the “donate” button on the “Support TMC” website page.
Or donate through PayPal.
Note: There is parking available for TMC visitors min the St. Boniface lot across the street from the Center.

Thursday Satsang In Person at TMC and via Zoom: Presentation of a Recorded Audio Talk by Dr. David Frawley at SRSG: "Ritual, Sacred Space, and Sacred Time" (the Timeless Presence) Introduction by Emilio Bettaglio and Michael Smith - September 5, 2024
2024-09-05 19:00 - 20:30
Thursday Satsang In Person at TMC and via Zoom – September 5, 2025
Presentation of a Recorded Audio Talk by Dr. David Frawley at SRSG:
“Ritual, Sacred Space, and Sacred Time”
(the Timeless Presence)
Introduction by Emilio Bettaglio and Michael Smith
7:00-8:30 p.m. CDT

5:30-6:45 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Hatha Yoga
7:00-8:00 p.m.: Presentation of a Recorded Talk by Dr. David Frawley at SRSG:
“Ritual, Sacred Space, and Sacred Time”
(the Timeless Presence)
Introduction by Emilio Bettaglio and Michael Smith
8:00-8:30 p.m.: Meditation Guided by Swami Radha Bharati
8:30 p.m.: Evening Prayers

Join us on Thursday, September 5, 2024 to hear Dr. David Frawley’s profound recorded talk. There will be time for discussion, comments, and questions.
From Dr. Frawley’s 2013 talk
“…as Swami Veda says, the chitta-prasādana. And here “ritual” also means “right action,” because action done with awareness becomes a ritual. And in this regard, everything in the universe follows a certain organic rhythm or order, which is a ritual, and which also is a yajna(sacrifice) – or we can say, creating the right lifestyle, routine or rhythm to our lives. We have biological rituals, like eating, breathing and sleeping. Everything we do has some sort of ritual connection.

And our yoga sādhana should also have its own ritual order. And ritual is also the foundation of the bhakti-yoga, or the devotion. These actions done in worship of the deities become a ritual: mudrā (sacred gesture), pūjā, yajna, mantra, the recitation the divine names. It has that ritualistic component where your action follows a certain structure designed to have a certain beauty…”
…So it’s very important that we have that sacred dimension to what we do. And then here also [it is important to understand that] yoga only works in sacred space and sacred time. It does not work in chronological time, and it doesn’t work in property, you know, space that is owned by somebody. So we need to create our own sacred space and our own sacred time in order to do the practice. And ritual is a way of creating sacred space and sacred time…

To support the work of The Meditation Center and register you can donate here (suggested donation $15.00) for Thursday Satsang or make a general donation by clicking on the “donate” button on the “Support TMC” website page.
Or donate through PayPal.
Note: There is parking available for TMC visitors in the St. Boniface lot across the street from the Center.

Thursday Satsang In Person and Via Zoom: "Listening Circle" with Maja Radovanlija, September 12, 2024
2024-09-12 19:00 - 20:30
Thursday Satsang In Person and via Zoom – September 12, 2024
“Listening Circle” with Maja Radovanlija
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. CDT

5:30-6:45 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Hatha Yoga with Sunita Gangopadhyay
7:00-8:00 p.m.: An Evening of Music with Maja Radovanlija
6:15-7:00 p.m.: Vegan Soup
8:00-8:30 p.m.: Meditation Guided by Swami Ma Radha Bharati
8:30 p.m.: Evening Prayers

Join Maja Radovanlija, (Professor of guitar and improvisation at the University of Minnesota;music/ethnomusicologist) for an evening of beautiful music. Come and enjoy the evening with uplifting harmony and vibrations. Come and gather…listen…listen…listen…with an open heart.

Maja Radovanlija was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), in 1975. She studied classical guitar for almost 20 years in Eastern Europe, Vienna and Bloomington, IN. Along the way, Maja collaborated with musicians in a variety of genres and became interested in improvised music through Balkan traditional music, jazz, intuitive free improv, and experimental music. Some of the projects and ensembles Maja works with on regular bases are Szilard Mezéi ensemble, Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, Ensemble Studio6, MM Guitar duo, Linda Chatterton-MRadovanlija guitar/flute duo, and Satu Jiwa improvised music collective. Maja’s recent projects are Jeleche trio (traditional Balkan music), and collaborations with improvisers such as Milana Zarić, Molly Sturges, and Matt Rahaim.
To support the work of The Meditation Center and register you can donate here (suggested donation $15.00) for Thursday Satsang or make a general donation by clicking on the “donate” button on the “Support TMC” website page.
Or donate through PayPal.
Note: There is parking available for TMC visitors in the St. Boniface lot across the street from the Center.

Chakra Series with Dr. Dale Buegel:Chakras-Mūlādhāra and Svādiṣṭhāna on Saturday, September 14, 2024
2024-09-14 10:30 - 12:30
Sponsored Jointly with Milwaukee HYMC
Register now for the session
on September 14th.
Chakra Series with Dr. Dale Buegel
via Zoom
These workshops are being offered in person in Milwaukee AND via Zoom.
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Register here for September 14th
Cost: $30.00 per session
Cost: $90.00 for all 3 sessions
Zoom links and recordings will be sent to those who sign up.
This workshop series will focus on the relationship between two or more chakras, their energetics, the relationship of their elemental essences, and methods to study the chakras and their relationships.
Register here for all 3 sessions
Chakras – Mūlādhāra and Svādiṣṭhāna
Saturday, September 14
Familiarity with these chakras through personal practice benefits from engaging the subtle senses as well as understanding the relationship of these chakras to physical structures, elemental essences, saṃskāras, Brahmā granthi, and to consciousness.
Register here for September 14th
Chakras – Maṇipūra and Anāhata Chakras
Saturday, October 12
In this workshop we will continue exploration of methods of study applied to this pair of chakras, the two flames of these chakras, as well as Viṣṇu granthi.
Register here for October 12th
Upper Granthi and the Minor Chakras
Saturday, November 9
This third workshop in the series will study more in-depth methods of working with saṃskāras and their relationships to the chakras, the role of the element ākāśa and the void, and the relationship of ājñā chakra to Rudra granthi.
Register here for November 9th
Zoom links and recordings will be sent to those who sign up.

Sunday Book Study Group Via Zoom with Swami Ma Radha Bharati, Michael Smith, and Jim Nelson
2024-09-15 10:00 - 11:30
Sunday Book Study Group Via Zoom
with Swami Ma Radha Bharati, Michael Smith, and Jim Nelson
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Swami Radha, Jim, and Michael will continue the study of spiritual topics in the fall of 2024. The Book Study Group is reading “Guru Disciple Relationship Volume-I by Swami Veda Bharati. Join us for very interesting discussions. Everyone is welcome.

Meditation I Hybrid Class: "Learning the Basics" with Paul Emerson, Ph.D. Tuesdays: September 17 – October 22, 2024
2024-09-17 18:30 - 20:00
Meditation I Hybrid Class : “Learning the Basics”
Tuesdays: September 17 – October 22, 2024
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Instructor: Paul Emerson, Ph.D.
Cost $75.00 for the six-week series.
Register here.
Section 1: (live at the Meditation Center, can zoom in when you can’t make it)
Section 2 (zoom only – zoomed from the Meditation Center)
If you have already taken Meditation I and would like to attend this class, the cost is $37.50. Email us at info@themeditationcenter.org stating your intention to retake Meditation I and we will register you at half the cost.
This class introduces the student to the basics of meditation in the Himalayan Tradition. Relaxation techniques, pranayama (yogic breath), ideal sitting postures, and the use of mantra will be taught to help the student focus the mind and relax the body. Beginning Raja yoga philosophy is also included in this class. Treat yourself to the many benefits of a regular meditation practice.
Paul Emerson is a biomedical engineer with a Ph.D. He is the authority on the physiology of breathing for The Meditation Center and has been teaching yoga for over 30 years. Paul has worked as a research scientist, has been a manager of clinical research with a major biomedical company and a university instructor. In addition, he holds eight patents in the areas of dialysis and sleep therapy. he is a scholar of ancient yoga texts. Paul was certified by the Rockford School of Yoga and began teaching in 1975.
