The Sri Chinmoy Centre (est 1983) is a leading teaching centre in meditation. Our many free meditation courses are very practical and are designed to teach you how to make meditation a part of your own life, thus, will enable you to discover firsthand the many benefits of meditation. You will learn life skills essential to achieving a peaceful and happy inner life – and so a fulfilling outer life. What we offer Free meditation classes and workshops: CBD schedule • Suburban schedule • Other cities in NZ and Australia Peace Concerts Several free concerts are offered in Auckland every year, featuring the unearthly beauty of Sri Chinmoy’s meditation music. Use the form below to enquire about upcoming concerts. Weekend Adventures If you like the great outdoors, you’ll enjoy our weekend excursions out into the Waitakere Ranges. Most weekends we have walking / jogging options over some of the 300kms of bush trails and walks. Meditation and physical fitness Sri Chinmoy strongly encouraged us to keep ourselves fit, and felt that sports (especially running) was an important part of an integral spiritual life. Join our 2 mile fun run: Offered every Saturday or Sunday morning at different parks and locations– an informal free run to promote physical fitness and self-transcendence. Sri Chinmoy also encouraged us to organise races for the general public; a few times a year we organise races ranging from kid’s 2.5k races to half-marathons at the Auckland Domain and the War Memorial Park, Mt Roskil. Check out our Auckland race schedule Sri Chinmoy Spiritual master, poet, writer, artist and world peace dreamer, Sri Chinmoy was born in 1931 in Bengal, India and spent more than twenty years of his early life in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram under the tutelage of numerous great Indian teachers and scholars. In 1964 he travelled to New York City to share these teachings and insights with seekers in the West, making this city his home until his final days in 2007.