MEDITATION
Meditation is an essential tool to quiet the body, mind and emotions, allowing one to enter a deep and quiet place within one self. Through this process we merge our individual sense of self with the Higher Self or Cosmic Entity. This way we experience our profound interconnection with all that is, and realize our true spiritual identify.
Cosmic Mindfulness offers weekly guided meditations, beginner’s classes and advance personal instruction in traditional Yogic meditation techniques and spiritual practices.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Heartspace Guided Meditation
Every Wednesday
12:00pm – 1:00pm Eastern on ZOOM
Let Us Move Together: Prabháta Samgiita Program (Songs from the New Dawn)
First Saturday of the Month
12:00-1:30pm Eastern on ZOOM
In collaboration with Ananda Seva
Open Community Meditation + Potluck
Sunday, April 14, 2024
10am – 12pm ET (in-person)
Followed by potluck
Yoga, Sound & Bhakti Journey followed by Kirtan & Veg Potluck
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Starting at 1:30pm ET (in-person)
Followed by potluck at 6:00pm
In collaboration with Ottawa Meditation • Justine Hoang • Gabia Aurora • OMBuds Kirtan • Anj Merriam
FEATURED EVENT
Yoga, Sound & Bhakti Journey followed by Kirtan & Veg Potluck
Saturday, April 6, 2024
1:30-3:30 Yoga + Sound Bath
4:00-6:00 Kirtan
6:00-8:00 Veg Potluck
In collaboration with Ottawa Meditation • Justine Hoang • Gabia Aurora • OMBuds Kirtan • Anj Merriam
Come join us for this multifaceted journey where you will encounter some key elements to help raise your vibration and send you into the realm of tranquility and bliss! We will follow up with a break to set up for the kirtan; people who are coming for the kirtan should plan to arrive between 3:30 and 4:00. Next, all are welcome to contribute and share in a potluck style meal!
FEATURED EVENT
Let Us Move Together
Prabháta Samgiita Program (Songs from the New Dawn)
Saturday, April 6
12:00-1:30pm Eastern on ZOOM
In collaboration with Ananda Seva
Iowa City author Andy Douglas (Alok) will read from Songs of the New Dawn: Selected song-poems of Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. “Andy Douglas’s stirring ‘transpirations’ echo a world of transcendental beauty. These poems bring to an English-speaking audience some of the 5018 Bengali songs composed by Shrii Prabhát Ranjan Sarkar between 1982 and 1990, songs that came to be known as Prabháta Samgiita, Songs of a New Dawn. An extraordinary spiritual master, Shrii Sarkar once defined mysticism as ‘the never-ending endeavor to find a link between the finite and the infinite.’ Each song glows with this spirit of ceaseless search, and Douglas’s renditions beautifully capture the delicacy of feeling and simplicity of the original Bengali.” – Dr. Ayesha Irani, Assoc Prof of Asian Studies, UMass Boston
Andy Douglas
Andy Douglas is a writer and musician, and has been a student of P R Sarkar’s teachings for 40 years. He holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from University of Iowa. He is the author of The Curve of the World: Into the Spiritual Heart of Yoga, and Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life of a Community Prison Choir.
andydouglas.net
“Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life of a Community Prison Choir”
“The Curve of the World: Into the Spiritual Heart of Yoga”
Let Us Move Together is a free monthly program with unique offerings. This program is open to everyone and begins with the singing together of uplifting, spiritual songs leading into a short silent meditation. The meditation will be followed by the presentation.
About Ottawa Meditation
Meditation helps us to bring our awareness back to center in the principle of consciousness. Instead of focusing our attention in object and be drawn outward, we can use an object that can help us go in our consciousness, This object is the breath. The breath is where body mind and spirit meet.
Chakras are subtle energy centers which mediate the experience of consciousness and control our mental propensities. Becoming aware of our chakras we can use them to shift our meditation to a deeper level.