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World Peace & Prayer Day – Honoring Sacred Sites

World Peace and Prayer Day- Honoring Sacred Sites is both an event and a global meditation. It starts with a sacred fire – to be honored for four days in the Lakota Indian tradition, from June 19th through June 20th, in the Hudson Valley, New York – and ends with a global meditation wave.

The fire will be placed by Chief Arvol Looking Horse and the ceremony attended by the Sage Boy riders, the Buddhist walkers and the World Peace Prayer Society. On the 21st, there’ll be a host of speakers, inc...

Global Peace Prayer & Meditation

Global Peace Prayer and Meditation – aCall to Unite our Hearts as One This is a 24-hour synchronized global meditation that is to start at Mt. Fuji where, the organizers anticipate, ten thousand people will gather for a three-hour ceremony of meditation and prayer for peace. The ceremoney begins on Saturday, May 17that 9 pm Eastern time in the US – which is Sunday morning at 10 am in Japan – and the idea is that others will carry it forward, encircling the global there for 24 more hours.

So,...

Deva & Miten’s New 21-Day Meditation Journey

Deva and Miten have done it again – they’re offering another, all new 21-day meditation journey, The Spirit of Mantra.

As with their first journey, each day opens with Deva and Miten talking about the significance of the day’s mantra, followed by a short meditation.

Deva and Miten’s mantra descriptions are inspiring – they are, after all,the queen and king of chant – and by the same token, their Journey is very much a chanted one, which is to say that the meditations are all chanted mantras set...

Med Mob – What’s That?

Med Mob is a loose network of people who organize highly visible, public meditations at prominent places — the Eiffel Tower, London Bridge, and Central Park – on likely dates, such as solstice and equinox, for example. It’s kind of an Occupy Wall Street for meditators.

These are often done as synchronized global waves, but also pop up on special occasions unique to a locality. For example, here in beautiful Austin, Texas, Med Mob organized a few large meditations at the opening of the state le...

Earth Day 2014

Earth Day 2014! This is a super short post just to let you know that Unify is leading an Earth Day global synchronized meditation.

They invite all to join them at on April 22nd at 6:00 pm(where ever you are) to create a wave of beautiful intention across our planet.

For more about UNIFY and the meditation, you can check out the website here:

Unify – Earth Day

Oprah and Deepak – Another Sweet Journey

Oprah and Deepak have another 21-day journey coming up. They did three of these last year – Desire and Destiny, Relationship, and Perfect Health – each sweet in it’s own way, and this one is called Finding Your Flow.

The journeys have all had the same structure. Each day, Oprah does a little introduction about the principle du jour (such as gratitude, surrender, clarity of vision), then Deepak goes into the subject at greater length and at the end leads you through a ten-minute meditation.

They...

Mantra Meditation – A New Addition!

A new tutorial on mantra meditation and how to meditate! I recently added this to the Beautiful Meditation website and wanted to mention it on the blog. Mantra meditation is a wonderful practice, one of the great classic meditative traditions – the fruit of generations of meditators sharing their experiences and discoveries. It is also an excellent meditation technique for beginners because it’s so very easy to do.

Mantras are especially good at displacing verbal thought, being verbal themselv...

Arianna Huffington – On Becoming Fearless

Arianna Huffington is offering a free 21 day meditative journey centered around becoming fearless an excerpt from the audiobook edition of her book, On Becoming Fearless…in Love, Work and Life, starting Monday, March 31st.

If, like me, you live in a juniper forest under a rock and you haven’t heard of Arianna Huffington, you may wonder who she is. As a friend of mine put it, “She’s this really cool chick who started a really good blog and turned it into a wildly popular newspaper.”

Come to find...

Good Meditation Posture – A New Addition to the Website!

When I was eleven, my mother sent me to charm school, where we learned to apply makeup (I had arrived!), walk with heads held high (books balanced on top), sit in a lady-like way (feet crossed at the ankles) and generally behave like the ladies our mothers hoped we would become.

The term meditation posture can evoke a similar feeling – the idea of a proper but somewhat artificial way of doing things, proscribed by tradition.

In fact, good meditation posture is not about anything artificial at a...

Equinox!

Equinox! It’s here! This is an awesome day to meditate and there are several global meditations going on.

Wildmind Buddhist is broadcasting a loving kindness meditation on their UTube channel. It starts 15 minutes before the precise moment of Equinox (16.57 UTC) which as Wildmind so kindly details, translate to the following times.

UK, Thursday, March 20, 4:42 – 5:12 PM

Western Europe: Thursday, March 20, 5:42 – 6:12 PM

US (EST): Thursday, March 20, 12:42 – 1:12 PM

Brazil (DF): Thursday, March 20,...