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🌺 Bhakti Retreat 01 - Meditation 01 - Followed by Q&A | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 66 min | This practice opens with a wonderful guided meditation leading us to witness the body, breath and mind before witnessing Amma’s love enveloping us and flowing out to the entire world. It is followed by answers to many thoughtful questions.
🌺 Bhakti Retreat 01 - Meditation 02 - Followed by Q&A | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 54 min | Unwinds the body and mind with meditation, and addresses many questions, such as: How can I dedicate work or school to the divine when actually it’s for myself? How can we go beyond the mistaken reasoning that we are the doer?
🌺 Bhakti Retreat 02 - Meditation 01 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 27 min | A profound and heart opening meditation, guiding us through relaxing and witnessing the body, part by part. Then, we observe the breath and thoughts. Our inner world quiets and we let Amma’s love permeate us and the world.
🌺 Bhakti Retreat 02 - Meditation 02 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 23 min | Swamiji leads a meditation, showing how we first relax the body, breath and mind, bringing inner stillness. He guides us to visualize Amma turning into a golden light that enters our whole being through the third eye.
🌺 Bhakti Retreat 03 - Meditation 01 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 23 min | Here we become so deeply relaxed that visualizing Amma’s form may become easy. Swamiji leads us to her form as golden light that enters our third eye, our entire being, and then radiates out to envelop the entire world.
🌺 Bhakti Retreat 03 - Meditation 02 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 24 min | After guided relaxation, we learn to allow the mantra “Om” to deeply penetrate every cell of the body, every thought and breath. Swamiji guides us to a deep silence where we abide in a nourishing presence for some time.
🌺 Mantra Japa Meditation | Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 49 min | Starting with Amma’s beautiful images about mantra dissolving the mind, Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya guides us through physical relaxation and different forms of gross to subtle mantra japa practice until the mantra melts us into silence.
🌺 Walking Meditation - From Gratitude Retreat | Swami Shantamritananda Puri
⏱️ 49 min | Swamiji opens this profound guided walking meditation by speaking of the importance of gratitude to Mother Nature—valuing her as much as our own mother. When our mental outlook improves, the environment flourishes.
🌺 White Flowers of Peace Meditation | Led by Amma
⏱️ 27 min | Amma recommends this powerful practice for inner and global peace. Relaxing fully, we chant Ma and Om on our breath before sending flowers of peace to all forms of nature and ourselves.
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🌺 Amritapuri Sunrise Meditation
⏱️ 30 min | Surrounded by the sounds of Amritapuri—birds, ocean, and wind—we can connect with this holy place by simply viewing and focusing on it. Enjoy a lovely view of the backwaters and sky as the sun rises.
🌺 Being Mother’s Child | Padma
⏱️ 8 min | In this lovely meditation, we can directly experience Amma’s love expressed through nature which sustains, protects and nourishes us, loving us unconditionally. We connect through a sitting and walking meditation.
🌺 Embracing All of Creation | Br. Rishi Chaitanya
⏱️ 13 min | This inspiring guided meditation calls forth Amma’s mention of nature as a temple that embraces and surrounds us. You can dive very deep into yourself either by being in nature or by watching the scenes in this video.
🌺 Embracing Mother Nature | Padma
⏱️ 10 min | Settling deeply into the ground of your own being, Padma guides us into a place of childlike yet ancient connection with nature. By releasing our worries and tensions to this loving, wise presence, we can be free.
🌺 Guided Meditation on the Backwaters | Br. Rishi Chaitanya
⏱️ 35 min | Filmed in the ashram backwaters that surrounded Amma’s own childhood days filled with communion with God, Br. Rishiji reminds us how Amma would kiss the little ripples of water and call out to the clouds and breeze as the divine Mother.
🌺 Japa Meditation in Nature - Instructions | AVA Staff
⏱️ 30 min | Provides simple instructions for doing mantra japa in nature. Includes practices for gardening, sitting, or even spring cleaning! Provides instructions both for people who have a mantra from Amma and those who do not.
🌺 The Love Behind the Creation | Br. Rishi Chaitanya
⏱️ 14 min | As we learn not just to remember the Creator, but to feel this presence within all of nature, Br. Rishiji gently guides us—through beautiful natural scenes—into a deep state of love and gratitude for all of creation.
🌺 The Ocean Within | Br. Rishi Chaitanya
⏱️ 15 min | This profound guided practice begins by drawing us into Amma's early vision of the ocean as “Ma” and “Om”. It then leads us to deeply feel, embody, and ultimately dissolve into this ocean as pure, undifferentiated consciousness.
🌺 Sunset Meditation Practice | Br. Rishi Chaitanya
⏱️ 24 min | This soothing guided meditation leads us into a profound state of stillness. Listening to the sounds of the Amritapuri ocean, we experience “Ma” and “Om” in a new context, feeling the vastness of nature’s embrace.
🌺 Watering the Seeds of Compassion | Br. Rishi Chaitanya
⏱️ 14 min | This inspiring guided meditation provides a deep meditative experience. Br. Rishiji guides us into profound relaxation of body and mind where we can experience the latent seeds of compassion within us open and blossom.
🌺 White Flowers of Peace & Nature Meditation | Swami Shubamritananda Puri
⏱️ 29 min | This beautiful variation guides participants into a deep state of relaxation, utilizing nature sounds to draw the mind inward. The meditation includes Ma Om Meditation and the White Flowers of Peace visualization.
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🌺 Beds and Containers Meditation | Amritaculture
⏱️ 9 min | Enjoy a beautiful soundtrack with profound insights gently guiding you to your true essence under and between crowding thoughts. This meditation encourages us to use any practice that works for us to cultivate ourselves and our gardens.
🌺 Creating a Garden Meditation | Amritaculture
⏱️ 5 min | This gentle guided practice prepares you internally to establish a garden. You are invited to visualize a variety of plants flourishing as you contemplate the essential elements of light and space, paralleling the cultivation of your own inner landscape.
🌺 Garden Meditation | Amritaculture
⏱️ 10 min | Experience a remarkable journey of guided meditation where we establish a profound connection with the earth, rooting ourselves like a child in a mother's comforting embrace. This practice then leads us to feel the sacred shakti energy as it ascends from our toes to the crown of our head.
🌺 Love and Earth - a Guided Practice | Amritaculture
⏱️ 10 min | This absolutely exquisite guided meditation connects us to ourselves and the living, loving earth. We are guided to tune with the temperature of the earth and its subtle life, feeding creation and our own selves.
🌺 Nature Meditation | Amritaculture
⏱️ 5 min | This meditation, written by Swami Jnanamritananda Puri and blessed by Amma, is narrated in a contemplative way. Fall into the depths of your deepest self by connecting with the senses in nature and then the subtle Silence available underneath.
🌺 No-Dig Beds Meditation | Amritaculture
⏱️ 9 min | Beginning with a guided relaxation, we learn to link physical garden waste to our personal doubts, fears, or feelings of being stuck. This practice utilizes these elements to cultivate a healthy garden while connecting with the sky as an internal space of witness consciousness for our growth.
🌺 Planting Meditation | Amritaculture
⏱️ 10 min | Gathering our materials, we feel our attention drawn deep within by an external sound. Our hearts reach for the source of this call… The Divine Mother. We connect fully with her, and her guidance inspires us where each sapling gets planted.
🌺 Soil Meditation | Amritaculture
⏱️ 7 min | This deeply grounding practice begins with guided relaxation, leading into the sacred sound of “Om” as it resonates through the soil, nature, and the entire world. By recognizing the consciousness within every element and microbe, we settle into a state of profound reverence.
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🌺 Taming the Unruly Mind - Guided Meditation | Br. Madhavamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 28 min | By experiencing the connection between the body’s relaxation and the softness of the mind, discover the wisdom of coming to our senses through attention. This practice includes a full guided relaxation of body and mind, leading to deep stillness.
🌺 Patience, Perseverance & Enthusiasm - Pranayama & Meditation | Br. Yoga Chaitanya
⏱️ 19 min | Starting with some pranayama breathing exercises to calm the mind and clear the aura, we experience the increasing quiet of the mind. This is followed by a short meditation, coming back to the breath as needed.
🌺 Be Courageous - Guided Meditation | Vivek
⏱️ 32 min | Vivek guides us into relaxation, where we can then enjoy stillness for some time. Mix relaxation and alertness, connecting with Amma or any image of the divine, asking for grace and gratitude on this inward journey.
🌺 Be Courageous - Metta Meditation | Vivek
⏱️ 16 min | This beautiful guided meditation teaches loving kindness toward everything and everyone including ourselves. Guided into our heart centers, we release negativity and cultivate love toward everything. This is a beautiful practice to do daily!
🌺 Understanding & Exploring our Fears - Meditation 1 | Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 26 min | Using a soothing tamboura drone to keep our minds focused, Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya takes us through a wonderful full body guided relaxation. Then comes deep breath awareness in the nostrils, chest etc. He then infuses the breath with the mantras Ma and Om.
🌺 Understanding & Exploring our Fears - Meditation 2 | Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 28 min | Starting with a relaxing body scan from head to toe, this practice then incorporates the Ma and Om mantras into the breath. As witnesses to the vibrational mood, we internalize a devotional bhajan before settling into profound silence.
🌺 The Search for Happiness - Meditation 1 | Bri. Sandramrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 41 min | Letting go of all tension in the body and mind, we begin with chanting the sacred symbol Om. We focus internally on the feeling of the breath from nostrils to belly before infusing the breath with the divine Ma and Om.
🌺 The Search for Happiness - Meditation 2 | Bri. Sandramita Chaitanya
⏱️ 23 min | You are gently guided into a state of presence and relaxation, allowing all tension to fade away. As you move beneath the constant chatter of desire and resistance, you begin to discover the silence and sense of oneness that is always present beneath the surface. This guidance offers a beautiful opportunity to dive deeply within yourself.
🌺 Exploring Meditation Techniques followed by MA OM Guided Meditation | Br. Satswarupamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 30 min | By withdrawing the senses, we are guided to a deep state of witnessing the mind itself. From this deep place, experience Ma and Om from a new depth.
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🌺 Finding our Purpose - Meditation 1 | Br. Madhavamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 18 min | Noting how the relaxation of the body softens the mind, Br. Madhavamrita Chaitanya guides us through relaxation of the body part by part. Infusing Ma and Om on the breath, we experience them in a new way from a place of deep stillness.
🌺 Finding our Purpose - Meditation 2 | Br. Madhavamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 21 min | Discover the lake of inner silence. Relaxing the body and withdrawing the senses helps us to find the silence beneath all sound. Then, we sit for some time with the mantras Ma and Om before ending with prayers for all.
🌺 Outwitting the Planets - Meditation 1 | Bri. Yoga Chaitanya
⏱️ 32 min | Guiding a physical relaxation, Br. Yoga Chaitanya then teaches a simple pranayama technique called Baistrika (bellows breathing) to oxygenate the blood. This stills the mind. From this stillness, we chant Ma and Om with the attitude of the supreme witness.
🌺 Outwitting the Planets - Meditation 2 | Bri. Yoga Chaitanya
⏱️ 37 min | After guiding a deeply relaxing body scan, Br. Yoga Chaitanya leads two pranayama exercises. Use the resulting softness of the breath to experience *Ma* and *Om* on a more subtle level, gently permeating the nervous system.
🌺 Outwitting the Planets - Meditation 3 | Bri. Yoga Chaitanya
⏱️ 28 min | In this practice, Br. Yoga Chaitanya guides a systematic body scan, then teaches us to anchor the pranic energy in the spine, using the two previous and one new energizing and detoxifying pranayama technique. We then sit briefly in profound stillness.
🌺 Obeying the Guru - Guided Meditation | Vivek
⏱️ 28 min | Here, Vivek helps us to deeply internalize Amma’s guidance to decide to be happy, noting that our very nature is happiness. He guides the Ma Om meditation, allowing the qualities behind those sacred mantras to penetrate us.
🌺 Obeying the Guru - Metta Meditation | Vivek
⏱️ 15 min | This beautiful loving kindness meditation cultivates gentleness and kindness toward everyone, including ourselves. It fosters unconditional positive emotions like trust, love, happiness and compassion toward all beings.
🌺 Regaining Our Innocence - Meditation 1 | Br. Madhavamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 20 min | Gently draw your attention inward, letting it settle on each of your senses. Bring a soft awareness to the sensation of breathing, whether at the nostrils or in the rise and fall of the chest. Gradually, you are guided into deeper layers of quiet and stillness.
🌺 Regaining Our Innocence - Meditation 2 | Br. Madhavamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 21 min | Br. Madhavamrita Chaitanaya guides us into the present moment through breath and physical awareness. Feel the wellspring of love burst forth from within to flow into the world, ourselves and the whole of the universe.
🌺 The Art of Prayer - Meditation 1 | Jyothirup
⏱️ 21 min | Tuning into Amma’s presence, we witness our breath and relax into it. Jyothiriup guides us to infuse this breath with the sacred mantras Ma and Om. This takes us deeper and deeper into the vibrations and the meaning behind them.
🌺 The Art of Prayer - Meditation 2 | Jyothirup
⏱️ 22 min | Adjusting your postures for alertnes and relaxation, close your eyes and bring awareness to the breath. Breath is your best friend, always here. Noticing the breath more and more deeply, inhale Ma and exhale Om in silence.
🌺 The Importance of Surrender in Spiritual Life - Meditation | Br. Madhavamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 14 min | This meditation is a guided manasa puja, a visualization of worship. With devotion, imagine the Divine Mother before you. Pray for full surrender. With devotion, wash her feet, decorate her, and let your deepest, innermost prayers fall forth at her feet.
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🌺 Bhakti 01-01 - 108 Names & Manasa Puja, Q&A | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 51 min | Swamiji guides us in the simple but highly effective form of visualization called manasa puja, or mental worship. He follows with the 108 Names of Amma and conducts a lively Q&A session on many common concerns
🌺 Bhakti 01-02 - 108 Names & Manasa Puja, Q&A | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 49 min | In this version of the mental worship, Swamiji invokes the idea of the mood and intention we bring to this sacred visualization. He conducts the 108 Names and culminates with deep answers to age-old questions.
🌺 Bhakti 02-01 - Manasa Puja and 108 Names | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 30 min | In this devotional practice, we tune ourselves into a more subtle plane and surrender all of our mental thoughts. With grace, what we are mentally worshipping will manifest and we will feel peace and oneness.
🌺 Bhakti 02-02 - Manasa Puja and 108 Names | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 33 min | During mental worship, it is natural that different thoughts will come, but Swamiji tells us not to worry. Have the attitude of disinterest to those thoughts. With an attitude of surrender, tune into the subtle plane where Amma exists.
🌺 Bhakti 03-01 - Manasa Puja and 108 Names | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 44 min | Swamiji reminds us that meditation is merely tuning into something which is already present and guides us to focus the mind on Amma’s Divine presence. His beautiful guided meditation invokes inner peace and devotion.
🌺 Bhakti 03-02 - Manasa Puja and 108 Names | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 31 min | Mental worship is an act of complete dedication and devotion. We dedicate everything we have to the Divine Mother with a resolve that whatever we are offering to Amma, will get purified and come back to us.
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🌺 Walking Meditation - Gratitude Retreat | Swami Shantamritananda Puri
⏱️ 46 min | Invokes Amma’s loving words on the qualities of nature. Swamiji guides us to embody nature’s compassion in the way we live and walk, planting her qualities of selflessness, peace and renunciation in each step.
🌺 Walking Meditation - Learn to Surrender Retreat | Swami Shantamritananda Puri
⏱️ 53 min | Swamiji explains the relationship between walking and sitting meditation. While walking, we can deeply heighten our awareness. Because we’re in motion, we can more easily become settled in awareness of our breath and mind.