Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
By Shri Mataji’s blessings, it has been an incredible start to 2022 with so many online programs and support initiatives being initiated.
We would like to share key highlights from these initiatives:
- Online Courses
- Online Ashram and Newsletter for Seekers
- Makar Sankranti public event
- Thank You Shri Mataji
Online Courses
Current courses
The Victorian, New South Wales and Western Australian collectives have been hosting 21 Days of Meditation courses on Zoom and YouTube with wonderful participation and feedback from seekers around world. A great number of the collective are also joining in at all levels to support the courses. Course participants are offered support from local and international yogis as mentors, to assist them with their spiritual journey and growth in Sahaja Yoga.
Here are the websites for the current Courses
- Victoria: December 2021 Course, freemeditation.com.au/dec2021
- New South Wales: January Course with ongoing programs, freemeditation.com.au/jan2022
- Western Australia: February Course – now in Week 2, freemeditation.com.au/feb2022
Planned Courses
The following International collectives are scheduled to host a 21 Day course over the coming months…
- March 2022 – Hosted by USA and Canadian collectives.
- April 2022 – Hosted by Malaysia and Singapore collectives.
- May 2022 – Hosted by New Zealand collective.
The Australian webcast and course team will be supporting these collectives with training, documentation, websites, and hosting and delivery platforms.
Course landing page
A Course landing page has been created to list all the current, planned and completed courses, with their websites and daily session recordings. This page is a good site to promote to the public:
Courses website: freemeditation.com.au/courses
Online Ashram and Newsletter for Seekers
All courses now offer ongoing mentoring for participants – which is a very important aspect of retaining and nurturing seekers. Participants are encouraged to seek out and join the collective in their own country/city. Where this is not possible, a mentor can now invite a participant to join our online collective.
Online Ashram
To further nurture seekers who have attended the beginners, intermediate and advanced course series, an ‘Online Ashram’ site has been created that hosts weekly programs, in the same style and format as our own weekly collective programs. The sessions are promoted as “Shri Mataji’s Lectures with meditations, mantras and music”. Small Pujas are included in the sessions.
The Ashram weekly sessions are hosted by the Brisbane course team with support from Australian and International hosts.
If you are in contact with a seeker who has been introduced to the in-depth spiritual knowledge of Sahaja Yoga and the devotional aspect we have towards H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi then please share the link below to the Ashram website (yogis.com.au/ashram)
Newsletter
Participants can also register for our Australian collective newsletter which has information about Australian and International collective programs, Pujas, projects and events. The registration link is also on the Ashram website.
Makar Sankranti
A series of innovative online public programs were hosted by the Victorian collective to celebrate Makar Sankranti on Friday 14th, Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th January 2022.
To celebrate this special time, the collective presented a series of public workshops covering Creative Arts, Mother Earth and Ecology, Harvest Festivals and guided Meditations. The event received funding from the Victorian State government.
Watch the recordings from Makar Sankranti event at freemeditation.com.au/sankranti2022
Thank You Shri Mataji
We thank our Divine Mother, Her Holiness Shri Mataji, for Her continued blessings and guidance of our online activities. May we always please Her in our actions and dealings with seekers and with each other.
Please contact us if you have any questions at [email protected]
Jai Shri Mataji!
With Love
Brett (Australian Coordinator) and Australian Webcast team