Sahaja Yoga Meditation

SAHAJA YOGA NZ What is Sahaja Yoga meditation? Sahaja in Sanskrit means 'born within' and yoga means 'union with self'. Sahaja Yoga meditation is based on ancient knowledge and was developed as a current practice by its founder Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in 1970. This meditation practice helps become thoughtless by awakening our own inner energy, the Kundalini. Sahaja Yoga meditation does not require any special clothing or poses. Practitioners who run the meditation classes do so on a voluntary basis to share the benefits they've experienced themselves. Since the foundation of Sahaja Yoga is our own inner energy, the Kundalini, the knowledge and experience of Sahaja Yoga is always 100% free and unconditional. What are the benefits of Sahaja Yoga meditation? A more relaxed state of mind Rai et al. (n.d.) found that Sahaja Yoga meditation led to a wakeful hypo-metabolic state that decreased sympathetic nervous activity related to the fight or flight response and increased parasympathetic activity that's responsible for rest and relaxation. Improved attention A study by Barrós-Loscertales et al. (2021) showed that Sahaja Yoga meditation increased functional connectivity (FC) between ventral and dorsal frontal regions within brain networks related to attention and cognitive control. It reduced FC between the left insula and the bilateral mid-cingulate as well as between the right angular gyrus and the bilateral precuneus/cuneus cortices, leading to weakening of mind wavering. Shri Mataji Founder of Sahaja Yoga Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi discovered, through her own experience, the practice of Sahaja Yoga meditation in 1970. Since then, she devoted her entire life to helping people across the world realise their true self and awaken their own inner energy - the Kundalini. While Kundalini is well described in various ancient scriptures, it is considered sacred knowledge and therefore not common. Ancient sages have known to pass it on to their disciples but it wasn't believed to be possible to spread it knowledge en masse.