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Meditation is the new black
Who would have thought the it crowd this millennium would be finding meditation?
Russell Brand, Ellen, Madonna, Oprah lead a growing critical mass.
And it seems there is hardly an Olympic athlete or elite sportsperson that isn't practising some form of meditation.
In surfing, for example, 11 times mens world champ, Kelly Slater, and 5
times womens world champ, Stephanie Gilmore meditate daily.
Whilst the hippies of the 60's might have been seen as kooky and marginal for doing it, meditation is now positively mainstream and thankfully the weird gurus and creepy cults might also be on the way out.
The Meditation So
ciety of Australia has developed what they call "Open Source Meditation" which seems to amount to a distillation of lots of different meditation techniques. But what's open source about it is that like open source software it is offered freely and without obligation. Sunirmalya Symons, one of the authors of the free online meditation course, says that over 500,000 people in 120 countries have done the course.
"It's not that we are critical of the old gurus and cults, it is just that their time has passed. Meditation is no longer something you need to have faith in, it is science, common sense and the methods are completely logical and need no magical Guru to explain."
Transcendental Meditation is still the most popular meditation group in the world with apparently up to 5 million practitioners and in the meditation world, old school, with gurus and pricey courses but there is no denying their influence. For more see meditation.org.au or tm.org
Who would have thought the it crowd this millennium would be finding meditation?
Russell Brand, Ellen, Madonna, Oprah lead a growing critical mass.
And it seems there is hardly an Olympic athlete or elite sportsperson that isn't practising some form of meditation.
In surfing, for example, 11 times mens world champ, Kelly Slater, and 5
times womens world champ, Stephanie Gilmore meditate daily.Whilst the hippies of the 60's might have been seen as kooky and marginal for doing it, meditation is now positively mainstream and thankfully the weird gurus and creepy cults might also be on the way out.
The Meditation So
ciety of Australia has developed what they call "Open Source Meditation" which seems to amount to a distillation of lots of different meditation techniques. But what's open source about it is that like open source software it is offered freely and without obligation. Sunirmalya Symons, one of the authors of the free online meditation course, says that over 500,000 people in 120 countries have done the course.
"It's not that we are critical of the old gurus and cults, it is just that their time has passed. Meditation is no longer something you need to have faith in, it is science, common sense and the methods are completely logical and need no magical Guru to explain."
Transcendental Meditation is still the most popular meditation group in the world with apparently up to 5 million practitioners and in the meditation world, old school, with gurus and pricey courses but there is no denying their influence. For more see meditation.org.au or tm.org