Deepening Breath, Deepening Meditation

Dates: May 16-18, 2025

“The breathing process is a powerful variable, which has an enormous impact on the tension level of your body, as well as on the calmness and clarity of your mind.”

“…without breath awareness a deep state of meditation is impossible.”

“Breath awareness enables us to experience deeper levels of consciousness that are normally beyond the reach of the conscious mind.”

“When you practice meditation regularly and punctually….the mind becomes one-pointed, and starts to fathom the subtler dimensions of life. These are the symptoms of deepening meditation.”

Quotations by Swami Rama

This weekend program is designed to deepen and develop your personal breathing and meditation practices.

Program begins on Friday at 4:30 p.m., and ends on Sunday at noon (participants are invited to stay for Sunday lunch).

Breathing practices over the weekend will include:

1. Diaphragmatic breathing in the crocodile posture, shavasana (corpse), and sitting posture.
2. Cleansing breath and pranayama practices such as kapalabhati, bhastrika, ujjayi and brahmari
3. Nadi shodhanam and sushumna application

Meditation practices:

1. Stillness in the sitting postures
2. Systematic relaxation in sitting postures
3. Spinal breath
4. Use of mantra or sacred sound

Facilitator: Ma Tripurashakti

Dates: As noted.  Application form is required.

Program fee: rs. 1,500 per person

Boarding and lodging single occupancy: rs.1,700 per person per day

Boarding and lodging double occupancy: rs.1,200 per person per day [Note: Single occupancy charges will be applied if there is no one to share the room.]

Registration: Please fill out the online application form on the Registration page. You will be contacted by email after your form is submitted.