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George Teaching a Meditation Class Meditation teaching is one of the things I do. I like to do it and I think I do it well. I've been teaching meditation for a relatively long timesince 1983. If you want to know a little more about my background, you can read all about me here. I began teaching meditation in 1983, beginning with the Mudrashram®Master Course in Meditation. I have taught this class regularly from that time onwards. In 1999, I developed a professional workbook for this class, which participants in all my new classes receive. [If you've taken this class since 1999, you also receive a certificate of completion. It's really cool!] In 1984 I taught a class called "A Consumer's Guide to Meditation" for Learning Annex. This was my first teaching experience at a public venue. I was surprised at the response to my adthe four times I taught the class, I had a nice turn out. In 1985, I started a new phase of my meditation teaching: I started giving Light Sittings. There is never any cost for Light Sittings. During these silent meditations, the Masters of the Mudrashram® meditate upon those present and send them the Light.
I've taught several workshops, too. Several I haven't done since I first taught them.These include
People always ask me about the Flying Workshop. They ask me, "do you teach people to levitate?" I tell them that you don't levitate with your physical body, but your consciousness, with what we call the attentional principle. In this class and the Attunement Meditation workshop, your consciousness leaves the body and you go up to your Soul, what some people call the Higher Self. Up there, you learn to receive and minister the Light. I taught the Mudrashram® Advanced Course in Meditation for the first time in 1987. I had one student! I later captured a lot of what was taught in this free-wheeling, three-day class in the part two of the book, The Yoga of the Seven Mudras: Introducing the Mudrashram System of Integral Meditation. I worked on writing the book for the next year and one half after I taught the class. I taught the Advanced class again to members of what I call my core group, students who have been meditating with me regularly over the last two to three years, in 2000. This time, I wrote a workbook to go along with the class, and it was much more structured this timetaught this time over four Sundays. After I did the Advanced class the first time, when I had completed my program in Alcohol Drug Counseling at UCLA Extension, I started weekly groups from 1987 to 1990 for "Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families." I drew upon a lot of the evocative exercises I learned in my classes at UCLA Extension, and pulled in some of the Psychosynthesis material I had gathered from my earlier studies.
I got really involved in writing and didn't do a lot of teaching for the next few years. Let's see, I did some lectures at the Whole Life Expo during the late 1980s and early 1990s. I also gave a presentation at Babaji's Parliament of Yoga and World Religions in 1993. Here's the text of the talk. Then in 1994, I came out with a fun workshop that combines some of my psychic stuff with meditation. It's called, How to Read Your Own Past Lives Workshop. There's a handout that I used to give out at this workshop that I've put on this website. You can read it if you like by clicking here.
OK, so where were we? From 1994 to 1997 I was in graduate school while working full time. As you can guess, I didn't do a lot of teaching during that period. Then, I started work on my 50 lesson correspondence course for meditation for the next two and one half years. [When it's ready for subscription, I'll let you know on this web site. So come back and visit us every couple of months to see what's new.] I spent so much time on this project, my friends began to think I was a mole. But the mole came out of his burrow again in 1999 at least once a month. That was when I started teaching the Satsang Program. [This course is now available in a home study version for those who have completed The Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation. It has 16 compact disks and a workbook.] When the first draft of the correspondence course was done, I resumed teaching meditation again in 2000. I had regular classes and taught two workshops: The Way of the Heart Workshop and the Karma Workshop. To learn more about these workshops, click here. In June and July of 2002, I taught four new workshops for my most advanced meditation students. These workshops were
In 2003 I taught my first professional workshop for psychologists and psychotherapists. It's called The Meditation for Therapists workshop. I will continue to teach my core workshops and classes, and develop new ones. If what I teach interests you and resonates with your inner sense of truth, come join us!
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