Meditation 101

A class to learn the basics of meditation, the benefits and simple tips for getting your meditation practice started. Discover how a consistent meditation practice can bring more joy into your life.

Primordial Sound Meditation is a healing practice that allows us to experience inner calm and deep relaxation. For thousands of years, people have used meditation to move beyond the mind's busy activity and emotional turbulence into profound peace and expanded awareness. 

Primordial Sound Meditation is a powerful meditation technique rooted in the Vedic tradition of India. Chopra Center co-founders Deepak Chopra and David Simon revived this ancient practice of sound meditation and made it available in a format that’s easy to learn.

When you learn Primordial Sound Meditation, you will receive a personal mantra. A mantra is a specific sound or vibration—which when repeated silently—helps you to enter deeper levels of awareness. A Sanskrit term that translates as "vehicle of the mind," a mantra truly is a vehicle that takes you into quieter, more peaceful levels of the mind. The mantra you will receive is the vibration the universe was creating at the time and place of your birth, and it is calculated following Vedic mathematic formulas. 

Smudging could be described as a spiritual house cleaning. As you ground and center yourself through your meditation practice it also important to keep the space you occupy clear and grounded. Smuding is an ancient tradition of burning herbs to clear negative energy and invite peace and clarity to your home or space. Smudging can be done in homes, offices or any space you would like to welcome positive energy into.