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Overview of the course

Seven days — one on one, as a couple, or in a small group

Swami offers authentic meditation teaching and spiritual guidance one on one, in couple sessions, and in small groups of five to ten people. Over seven days you are guided through different meditation techniques based on the teachings of ancient masters like Shiva, Buddha and Patanjali, and more contemporary masters like Gurdjieff, Osho, Zen, J. Krishnamurti, etc.

The course includes Osho active and non-active meditation practices, and techniques built on the five senses of knowledge and the five senses of action. Your senses of knowledge — eye and looking, ear and hearing, nose and smelling, skin and touching, tongue and tasting — are what will help you discover yourself. Your senses of action — mouth and speaking, hands and doing, feet and walking, the anus and letting go, the sex organ and creating — are where that awareness is carried into everything you actually do.

It is theoretical as well as experiential. The main focus is a deep understanding of the inner and outer world, how to handle thoughts and emotions through meditation technique, and how to release energetic and emotional blockages permanently. Swami teaches in a non-conventional and joyful way, so the learning and the transformation are something you can enjoy.

The three roots

Swami teaching is especially based on Patanjali, Shiva and Buddha

  1. The eight limbs of Patanjali Yoga Sutra

    How to follow the eight limbs of yoga as a meditation technique in their own right, until the meditative state stops being somewhere you go and becomes somewhere you are.

  2. Lord Shiva's meditation practices

    How to meditate through some of the hundred and twelve techniques given by Lord Shiva in the ancient text of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. A few, chosen for you, are enough.

  3. Buddha's teaching

    How to meditate according to Buddha's method — vipassana. Watching, without adding anything at all to what is being watched.

Key points of the course

What the seven days cover

The course works on four levels at once. Each day touches all of them rather than moving through them in sequence.

Mind level

  • What meditation is
  • How to meditate
  • How to raise your awareness
  • How to observe without reacting
  • The process of inspecting (observation) the meditation
  • How to decrease attachment and desire

Body and body action level

  • Meditative breath work (pranayama)
  • Meditative exercise and asana (posture)
  • Performing actions with awareness
  • Meditation techniques through the five senses
  • Increasing the sensibility of the senses (senses of freedom)

Energy level

  • Chakra cleansing and balancing
  • Heart chakra opening
  • Releasing energy blocks (physical, mental and emotional)

And also

  • Philosophy
  • Tips and sharing
  • The chemistry of meditation
  • Harmony in relationship and with nature

The methods

What you will actually be taught

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.

How the week is organised

Ten doors: five that let the world in, five that put you back into it

A part of the course is built around the ten instruments the tradition calls the indriyas — five senses of knowledge and five senses of action. Each is taken up as a meditation in its own right, until the senses stop being habits and become what Swami calls the senses of freedom.

Five senses of knowledge

Eye and looking, ear and hearing, nose and smelling, skin and touching, tongue and tasting. These are what will help you to discover yourself.

  1. Eye Looking

    Most of what we call seeing is recognition. The eye lands, the mind supplies a name, and the looking quietly stops. The practice is to keep looking after the name has arrived.

  2. Ear Hearing

    Letting sound arrive instead of going out to meet it. Everything given the same attention, none of it sorted into wanted and unwanted.

  3. Nose Smelling

    The most direct sense and the least used. Smell reaches memory before thought can intervene, which makes it an unusually short route back into the present.

  4. Skin Touching

    The largest organ, and the one always reporting. Feeling the whole surface at once is enough to interrupt almost any train of thought.

  5. Tongue Tasting

    Eating slowly enough to actually taste. It sounds like nothing at all. Try it for one whole meal and notice how seldom you have done it.

Five senses of action

Mouth and speaking, hands and doing, feet and walking, the anus and letting go, the sex organ and creating. Awareness that survives only while you sit still is not much use. These are where it is tested — and where performing actions with awareness is learned.

  1. Mouth Speaking

    Watching what wants to be said before it is said — and sitting with the particular silence that follows a sentence you chose not to speak.

  2. Hands Doing

    Ordinary work given exactly the attention the work requires and not a fraction more. This is where most practice is either kept or lost.

  3. Feet Walking

    Walking meditation. Weight moving from heel to toe, the ground meeting you each time, no destination doing the walking for you.

  4. Anus Letting go

    The body gives its own instruction in release every single day. What has finished its work is let go of completely, without argument and without keeping a little of it back. Taken as a meditation — the pelvic floor felt, the downward movement of apana followed, nothing forced and nothing held — it becomes the plainest teaching of the week: the mind can release a thought, a resentment or a fear exactly the way the body releases what it no longer needs. The tradition puts this among the ten deliberately, and it is treated here with the same seriousness as the rest.

  5. Genitals (sex organ) Creating

    The centre life itself is made from, and the strongest energy a human being carries. Tantra treats it as neither sin nor entertainment. It is not suppressed, which only turns it sour and pushes it underground, and it is not spent unconsciously, which leaves nothing behind. The Osho contribution here was to stop treating it as a problem to be managed and start treating it as fuel that can move upward through the centres. What is taught is awareness in the middle of it — watching desire as it rises, staying present instead of absent, and letting the energy rise rather than only discharge. Discussed plainly, with respect, and only as far as you want to take it.

The purpose

Four things the course is for

  1. Learn meditation techniques

    Enough of them, tried properly, that you leave knowing which two or three are genuinely yours.

  2. Discover yourself and find liberation

    The stated aim, and the reason the week is built the way it is.

  3. Clear mental, emotional and energetic blocks

    Not managed at the surface. Released, and permanently.

  4. Learn to clean karma at the root level

    The deepest of the four, and the one that continues long after the seventh day.

Is it for me?

I am new to meditation. Can I join?

Yes — and also if you are not new

  • Designed for anyone who wants to explore the world of meditation
  • Equally suited to spiritual seekers taking practice to the next level
  • Ideal for anyone looking for transformation and liberation in their life
  • Focused on experience and transformation, not on delivering practices

Not suitable for

  • People suffering from major health issues
  • People recovering after major surgery
  • People younger than eighteen

The course is highly individual and has therapeutical aspects. If you are unsure whether it is right for you, say so in your first message — an honest no is a perfectly good outcome.

What is included

Everything in the seven days

  • 7 days of intensive teaching

    One on one, as a couple, or in a small group of five to ten — from the first day to the last.

  • 4 hours 30 minutes every day

    Three sessions of an hour and a half. Enough time for a practice to actually take hold.

  • Theory, practice and sharing

    Every session holds all three — the practice, the understanding behind it, and what actually happened when you tried it.

  • Meditation with music

    The first session of each day is practised with music, active and non-active.

  • Energy healing treatment

    Chakra work and the release of blocked energy.

  • 100% support throughout

    For the whole week, not only during class hours.

  • Continuing guidance after

    The seventh day is not the end of the relationship.

Please note

  • The course is non-residential — food and accommodation are not included
  • No certificate is issued at the end
  • The course is highly individual and has therapeutical aspects

The daily schedule

4 hours 30 minutes a day, in three sessions

Every session carries all three parts — theory, practice, and the sharing of what actually happened. The first is practised with music.

  1. First session

    1 hour 30 min — with music

    Theory, practice and sharing of experience.

  2. Second session

    1 hour 30 min

    Theory, practice and sharing of experience.

  3. Third session

    1 hour 30 min

    Theory, practice and sharing of experience.

What it costs

Three ways to take the seven days

The same seven days, the same teaching. What changes is who else is in the room.

One on One

€500 for the complete course

The whole week arranged around one person, and the form the teaching was built in.

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Couple

€900 for two people

Taught as a pair rather than as two students who happen to share a room.

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Group

€350 per person

In a small group of five to ten. Never larger, because larger stops being teaching.

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The fee covers the teaching, the energy healing treatment, full support during the week and continuing guidance afterwards. The course is non-residential, so food and accommodation are not included, and no certificate is issued.

When

Event calendar — the 7 days intensive meditation course

Each course runs as a fixed seven-day window. Goa through the winter; Rishikesh and Dharamshala through the summer.

Goa

Arambol

10 November – 10 March

November

  • 10 – 16 November
  • 20 – 26 November

December

  • 1 – 7 December
  • 11 – 17 December
  • 21 – 27 December

January

  • 2 – 8 January
  • 12 – 18 January
  • 22 – 28 January

February

  • 2 – 8 February
  • 12 – 18 February
  • 22 – 28 February

March

  • 2 – 8 March

Rishikesh

Upper Tapovan

April – September

April

  • 1 – 7 April
  • 11 – 17 April

May

  • 1 – 7 May
  • 11 – 17 May

June

  • 1 – 7 June
  • 11 – 17 June

July

  • 1 – 7 July
  • 11 – 17 July

August

  • 1 – 7 August
  • 11 – 17 August

September

  • 1 – 7 September
  • 11 – 17 September

Dharamshala

Upper Bhagsu

April – September

April

  • 21 – 27 April

May

  • 21 – 27 May

June

  • 21 – 27 June

July

  • 21 – 27 July

August

  • 21 – 27 August

September

  • 21 – 27 September

The dates repeat on the same pattern each year. If none of them fits, write anyway — something can usually be arranged.

Where

Learn at the best places with Swami

Three places, two seasons. Which one you come to depends on the time of year — and each address opens in a map.

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This course is for anyone looking for transformation and liberation in their life.

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