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
Discovering Inner Stillness
We offer two regular opportunities to experience the inner stillness that is found in meditation.
Evening Stillness: Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7.00 to 8.00 pm.
Open Door: Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 11am to noon and Saturday morning 12.00 noon to 1pm.
8 Week Introductory Course
Wednesday evenings. Guided meditation, exploration of the experience, learning a lasting meditation practice, developing that practice. The next course starts on 11 September.
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 57 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.
Evening Stillness
How you can experience stillness in meditation for yourself.
Evening Stillness sessions at the school are regularly available to everyone. On Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7.00pm you can join complete beginners and long term meditators alike and be guided through some elementary processes that’ll give you a very real taste of deep meditation. You’ll also get a chance to chat with people who’ve been meditating for years and ask them why.
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.
Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7.00 - 8.00pm
Cost: £5.00
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Open Door
Open Door sessions are available to everyone. On Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 11am and on Saturdays at 12 noon you can join complete beginners and long term meditators alike and be guided through some elementary processes that’ll give you a deep experience of meditation. You’ll also get a chance to chat with people who’ve been meditating for years and ask them why.
You are welcome to attend as often as you wish. Sessions are free, but we appreciate a small donation towards the costs.
Each session lasts one hour. Refreshments are available at the end.
Sessions run throughout the year except for bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year. Just turn up to our house at 158 Holland Park Avenue.
Eight Week Introductory Course
The course is designed to give you the experience of stillness and quiet, using guided meditation exercises. Open discussion of the group’s experience of these exercises is encouraged and there is the opportunity to meet some experienced meditators during the supper break. The course is preparation for those wanting to take up mantra meditation, and includes being taught a technique for you to practise regularly at home.
Wednesday evenings 7.00pm to 9.15pm
Cost - £250.00
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Wednesday - 11th September 2019Straight 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 Taste of Meditation evenings free of charge.
Contact our administrator, Tessa at the contact information below to arrange a date and time.