WHAT KIND OF MEDITATION DOES HAMSA MEDITATION CENTER TEACH?

Hamsa Meditation Center provides a supportive friendly environment for you to learn how to meditate and also learn how to use meditation to improve your day-to-day life.

Caren Prentice, our founding teacher, began her practice of Kriya Yoga over twenty years ago and is currently training in advanced practices with her Tibetan Buddhist Teachers. Over the years she has studied and trained in Mindfulness, Stress Reduction, Kashmir Shaivism, Vipassana, also known as Insight Meditation, and various other types of meditation.

She has found that having a “Toolbox” or “First Aid Kit” or “Treasure Chest” filled with many types of meditation techniques has proven invaluable. Meditation is always beneficial, but the technique to work with extreme fear or anxiety is not necessarily the best technique for settling into presence or cultivating loving kindness. There are times when a Guided Visualization is most effective and times when settling our attention on the breath is what’s needed. Add to this the very human reality that the technique that helps you move through anger may not work at all for someone else.

So what do we teach? Let’s let Caren take it from here.

“I teach what I use and I encourage our teachers to teach what they use. I have found teachings and techniques from many traditions THAT WORK and that’s what I share with my students.

Here at Hamsa, we are not Buddhist or Hindu or Shaivite or Mindfulness or any other kind of label. We explore the techniques and teachings from different traditions and teach you how to adapt and use the techniques in ways that work for your personality, your body, your lifestyle, and your belief system.

Yes! You can keep your own religions and philosophies, or lack thereof. I will share the teachings as I’ve understood them from my guru and my teachers but they are never shared as dogma or doctrine. I encourage you to take them with a grain of salt and test them out for yourself to find what works for you.

Ultimately, the wonder of meditation is that there is a technique for everyone. The fun is in figuring out what techniques work best for each person and then using meditation to become kinder, happier, and less judgmental so we can be of benefit to those around us.