Welcome to the School of Meditation. Since 1961 everyone who’s walked through our door has done so with one common aim - to learn, enjoy and share the benefits of meditation.
Here we help you understand what meditation is, how to practise it and how you can apply it to your life beyond our door. Visit us and find out for yourself what meditation can do.
Learn to Meditate
Evening Stillness
A guided meditation available to everyone: Tuesday evenings 7.00 to 8.00 pm.
Open Door
Public guided meditation sessions, open to all. Online during the health crisis.
Four Week Course
Guided meditation, exploration of what has been experienced, learning about a lasting meditation practice.
Straight to Meditation
One to one meeting, teaching of mantra, lifetime membership and ongoing support.
What is Meditation
Meditation is any process that stills the mind and brings the attention to nothing but what is here in the present moment.
People find that with the focus on the here and now, fears and anxieties about things that happened yesterday or might happen tomorrow can simply be let go. You can feel more at one with the world instead of feeling at odds with it. And life can be viewed with an easy understanding and clarity where it might otherwise seem difficult and complicated.
Regularly practised, the meditation can lead to that ease of understanding and clarity becoming more and more part of your everyday.
About the School
The School of Meditation is 59 years old and has taught meditation to thousands of people. It’s a non-profit, registered charity based in London but also has branches around the UK as well as further afield in Greece and Holland.
The meditation we teach comes from an ancient Indian tradition called Advaita Vedanta. It involves sitting quietly in a relaxed uncomplicated position and repeating a mantra in your head. No contortions, no chanting, no burning of incense. All you need is a relatively quiet space and a chair.
The process of learning the meditation is delightful and simple. It doesn’t require you to follow any particular philosophy or figurehead or special diet, just the mantra. And when the mantra’s received, so is membership of the school. Not for a term, or a year, but for life. In return, the school makes no demands of members, it’s purely there for them to use as much or as little as they wish in mutual support of their practice.
Four Week Introductory Course
This weekly course starts on Wednesday 13 January 2021 and run every Wednesday until 3 February. Each session will begin at 7.00pm and finish at 8.00pm. Due to Covid restrictions in London, these sessions will take place online via Zoom.
The course is designed to give people the experience of stillness and quiet, using guided meditation exercises. Open discussion of the group's experience of these exercises is encouraged. The course is also a preparation for those interested in taking up meditation.
Cost : £50
To book a place please click the date below.
Enquiries: 02076036116 / 447341702034 or message info@schoolofmeditation.org / @SoM_London
Wednesday - 24th February 2021Wednesday - 24th February 2021
Open Door
Discover a deep, inner rest - an enduring part of the mind that is beyond our normal cares and worries.
Due to social distancing requirements, we have replaced our normal Open Door meetings with online sessions, which are available to everyone.
You can join a simple guided meditation every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday morning at 11am, and at 7.00pm on Thursdays. If you want, you can remain anonymous.
Those who have been enjoying Open Door sessions may like to contribute to the School’s costs by donating through the following link. Donate Now
The link to the meetings is:
https://zoom.us/j/99539766942?pwd=bVdSOU94V3RiMDhkaHg1UlVnckJ0dz09
If prompted, use the passcode 'som'.
For Zoom Instructions - click here
Stay apart in body and together in consciousness.
Evening Stillness
A guided meditation
These sessions are for complete beginners and long-term meditators alike. You will be guided through some elementary processes that will give you a very real taste of deep meditation. You are welcome to attend as many sessions as you wish. If at some point you decide that you'd like to learn a technique for meditating regularly on your own, you can arrange this at the end of a session.
These guided meditation sessions take place on Tuesday evenings, 7.00-8.00pm. Due to the renewed Covid restrictions in London, these sessions take place online via Zoom.
Sessions resume on Tuesday 5th January 2021.
Enquiries: School's office on 020 7603 6116 or Text/WhatsApp +447341702034
Cost is £5.00
Places are limited to 12 per evening.
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Tuesday - 19th January 2021
Straight to Meditation
If you would like to go straight to learning meditation and join the school or, having attended a couple of Evening Stillness sessions, would like to be given the method, then you can book an appointment through the office.
Having learnt to meditate you will have lifetime membership of The School and receive one to one guidance for as long as you require. You will be welcome to join a termly group for a small fee or continue to attend Evening Stillness and Open Door sessions.
Contact one of our administrators, Lucinda or Tom, at the contact information below to arrange a date and time.