What is Meditation?
Meditation is a thoughtless condition, the state of total awareness of the mind.
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Meditation teaching & spiritual guidance
Discover yourselfand findliberation
When you know your inner truth you become capable of knowing the truth of the whole universe. Seven days — one on one, as a couple, or in a small group — with Swami Ashok Samdarshi.
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Dhyana
Prana
Vipassana
Sankalpa
Antar Mouna
Nada
Santosha
Samadhi
Where to begin
Discover Yourself – Who am I?
Without knowing your self, All knowledge is Futile’ – Who Am I? “When you know your inner truth you become capable of knowing the truth of the whole universe”. Discover the answer during this 7-days intensive meditation course.
Why be aware?
Awareness is inclusive of everything without reacting to anything. That is why it lets you fully enjoy whatever is happening in your life without suffering it.
Why Meditate?
Meditation brings deep transformation of the body, breath, mind and emotions. It brings fresh, joyful and peaceful energy to our life.
7 days intensive meditation
Who teaches
Taught one on one, in couples and in small groups, in a non-conventional and joyful way
Swami Ashok Samdarshi offers authentic meditation teaching and spiritual guidance one on one, in couple sessions, and in small groups of five to ten people. His teaching rests on three roots — the eight limbs of Patanjali, the hundred and twelve techniques Shiva gives in the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, and Buddha's vipassana — carried forward through Osho, Gurdjieff, Zen, J. Krishnamurti, etc.
An Osho disciple with a Master's degree in Organic Chemistry, he integrates Eastern practice with a contemporary scientific approach. The result is deliberately experiential: understanding of the inner and outer world, what to do with thoughts and emotions, and how to release energetic and emotional blockages permanently.
- One on one, couple and small group classes — never more than ten
- Theory and experience together, not practice alone
- Blockages released at the root, not managed at the surface
- Continuing guidance after the course ends
What is taught
Eight ways into the same quiet
Patanjali's Eight Limbs
The yoga sutras taken as a meditation method rather than as philosophy — how to follow the eight limbs in order until the meditative state is not something you enter but something you are in.
Shiva's 112 Meditation Techniques
From the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, where Devi asks what reality is and Shiva answers with a hundred and twelve methods. A few are chosen for you. A few are enough.
Vipassana
Buddha's method: watching, without adding anything to what is watched. The most direct of the three roots and usually the hardest to leave alone.
Osho Meditations
An hour of active and non-active technique with music. The body moves first — so that the stillness which follows is arrived at rather than imposed on a mind that was never asked.
Meditative Breath Work
Pranayama taught as meditation, not as exercise. The one part of the nervous system you can address directly, treated with corresponding care.
Meditation Through the Five Senses
Looking, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting turned from habits into doorways. The senses of knowledge become senses of freedom.
Chakra Cleansing & Balancing
Working through the centres, with particular attention to opening the heart. Held as a working map, never as a diagnosis.
Releasing Energy Blocks
Physical, mental and emotional blockages, released at the root rather than managed at the surface. This is the part of the work most people arrive without expecting.
Breathe
Soften
Observe
Release
What the work changes
Transformation of body, breath, mind and emotions
The focus is on the experiential and transformational side of meditation, taught in a spiritual-scientific way, rather than on simply handing over practices and hoping.
Observe without reacting
The central skill, and the one everything else rests on. Watching what arises without stepping in to approve it, correct it or push it away.
Release what is blocked
Physical, mental and emotional blocks cleared at the root — including, for those who want it, the karmic level.
Live in harmony
Attachment and desire loosen on their own once awareness is steady, and relationships and nature stop being something to manage.
Samdarshi Vision in numbers
2001
On the path since
112
Meditation techniques of Shiva
8
Limbs of Patanjali Yoga Sutra
7
Days of intensive meditation
What you can join
Courses, sessions and guidance
Only the intensive has a fixed fee. The rest is arranged in conversation.
7-Day Intensive Meditation Course
4 hours 30 minutes a day, in three sessions — one on one, as a couple, or in a small group of five to ten. Theory, practice and sharing, plus an hour of active and non-active meditation with music.
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Spiritual Consultation
One on one, as a couple, or in a small group, in person or over a call. For direction, for difficulty, or for a practice that has stopped moving.
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Energy Healing & Chakra Treatment
Chakra cleansing and balancing, heart opening, and the release of physical, mental and emotional blocks at the root.
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Osho Meditation Session
A single active and non-active technique with music. The shortest way to find out whether any of this is for you.
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Workshops & Seminars
Group meditation, facilitated workshops and talks — as taught in Osho ashrams, schools and villages across India.
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Continuing Spiritual Guidance
The course does not end on the seventh day. Guidance continues afterwards, at whatever interval your practice actually needs.
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Where the work actually happens
Who teaches
Your teacher
Swami Ashok Samdarshi
Meditation teacher · Spiritual guide · Energy healer
An Osho disciple on the path since 2001, with a Master's in Organic Chemistry behind him. Teaches one on one, in couples and in small groups of five to ten, from Patanjali, Shiva and Buddha, and leads the seven-day intensive in Goa, Rishikesh and Dharamshala.
In their words
What students say afterwards
Filmed at the end of the seven days, and written by hand before leaving. Nothing here was asked for.
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Alex Ganbich, Russia
Maria, Belgium
Isaac, Israel
Diana, Spain
Letters left at the end of the week
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Classes with you are very deep, and most of the time I was feeling like we are talking heart to heart.
Aleksandra Langiewicz Poland · 7-day course, May 2019
One of the most fruitful and richest trainings I have ever done. And most importantly, I found a friend.
Monika Slovakia · 7-day course, Bhagsu Nag, June 2019
When I saw your flyer, directly I felt: this guru will help me. And in fact — I have no regrets.
Maria Belgium · 7-day course, Bhagsu, June 2013
You gave me tools to experience the world as it is. Thank you for helping lift the veil of thought and illusion from my consciousness.
Jac Ireland · 7-day course, March 2018
I will never forget the laughter meditation and how I felt after it. You are a very important piece of the puzzle I am trying to solve: life.
Yuval 4-day course, January 2018
Journal
Notes between sessions
Meditation is not concentration
Concentration narrows; meditation widens. One is the mind working hard at a single point, the other is the mind not working at all. A short note on why the difference matters from the very first sitting.
Awareness includes everything and reacts to nothing
Most of what we call attention is really preference — we attend to what we like and edit out the rest. Awareness is what remains once that editing stops, and it is why nothing has to be endured.
The chemistry of meditation
Before the path there was a laboratory. What an organic chemist notices about meditation is that the body is not a metaphor — breath, mind and emotion are one system, and moving one of them moves the others.
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This course is for anyone looking for transformation and liberation in their life.
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