What is Darkness Meditation? We have presented this meditation since 2005. Each year people have come to meditate in the complete darkness – some for one or two times and many for the entire week.  We will present the meditation both online and in person.

This ancient meditation technique was given by the Mystic Shiva to his Beloved Shakti.  It has also been practiced in other schools of meditation.  It is a meditation where you stare with open eyes into the darkness.

Why do we offer the Meditation? The absence of light can be a primal source of relaxation and inner nourishment.

If you come to the Center please make sure you are feeling 100% well as the room has less ventilation since there is foam inserted in the windows and cloths hanging to make the room completely dark.

How do we do it? The Schedule – 

• From  7pm – 7:15 pm we will Dance.  This will help us move from the mind into the body as preparation for sitting in the Darkness.
• 7:15 pm Each of us will move into the space that has been prepared for the darkness meditation. If you are doing this online bring the device you have zoom on near to the place you will go to sit in the darkness – so you can hear the instructions and a variety of Quotes we read each night helping us to dive deeper into the darkness.
• 7:20 pm – 8:30 pm We will go over the instructions and read a quote on meditating in the darkness.  Then we will all  turn off our lights and begin the meditation of staring into the darkness.  The eyes will remain open the whole time while you sit in the darkness.  The spine should be straight – you can sit on a chair so you are comfortable – keeping the spine straight helps keep alert and awake.  
• Afterwards, at your own time come upstairs to hang out or open your zoom camera and we can just hang out together for awhile.
• If you attend online here are some suggestions for creating your own space for the Darkness Meditation.
• It’s good if you have time, to set up and practice before the first day of the darkness meditation begins.
• Bathrooms without windows are easy to set up.  To see if it will work for you, turn off all the lights in your house or apartment.  Close the door of the bathroom and put a towel at the bottom of the door.  This usually makes a perfect dark room space.  Of course you will have to use your own creativity where you will sit.  It should be a place that can get wifi so that you can bring your zoom computer or phone in – or that you can set outside the door making sure that you can hear us read an introduction to the meditation and also an insightful quote about the benefits of sitting with eyes open staring into the darkness.
•  Window can work if you can cover the window with foam, styrofoam cut to fit the window or a curtain or shade that will black out the space.
• You can use Eye Masks. We bought  Manta Sleep Masks from Amazon. They are100% Blackout Eye Mask – Zero Eye Pressure – Adjustable Eye Cups.
• Some people do the darkness meditation session with a quilt or blanket over the head and found it worked perfectly.
• Also you can pull the shades/curtains. And cover your head with something that makes the room totally dark and that you can still breath.

Cost: If you come to the Center the Cost is $15.00 a session. A package of 7 nights is discounted to $75.00.  

The cost for online is $8.00 per meditation If you buy a meditation pass of 10 meditations – it’s $8.00 per meditation.  If you use up the 10 meditations within the month, the pass will become a monthly pass.     

If you attend online & have a Meditation Pass, we will post the zoom link here. 

 ZOOM Meeting Link – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84283784182

DIAL IN Information to join via Phone Call. (Meeting ID: 84283784182 and Password: 1234

Please only attend this Event if you are 100% well.

As Osho was leaving his body he said to put on his Samadhi (where the ashes of a Enlightened Person are located) ‘Never Born Never Died Only Visited this Planet’.  Even while dying an Enlightened Being passes on teachings…

What is Satsang? “Satsang means, in close proximity to the truth; it means, near the truth, it means near a master who has become one with truth – just being near him, open, receptive and waiting. If your waiting has become deep, intense, a deep communion will happen. The master is not going to do anything. He is simply there, available. If you are one he will flow with you. This flowing is called satsang. With a master you need not learn anything else. If you can learn satsang, that’s enough – if you can just be near him without asking, without thinking, without arguing; just present there, available, so the being of the master can flow in you.” -Osho

Why do we offer Satsang? Satsang is a wonderful opportunity to meditate with a community of “seekers.” It is also a beautiful support to celebrate this life, with music, with silence, with the amazing words of a mystic like Osho, and with celebration in dance and connection with caring people!

How do we do it? In this Online/Live Satsang, each musician will play a solo piece, followed by a short period of silence. The music helps us settle and attune ourselves with the sounds outside of us, which – along with the silence – then becomes the vehicle to move deeper into meditation.
After the music we will listen to part of an Osho discourse. Listening to Osho speak can be in itself a meditative experience.
After the discourse, there will be more music to move us into celebration.
Then we have a vegetarian Potluck for those who bring a veggie dish to share. Please bring enough food to share with 5 or 6 people.  If you are a couple, bring either two dishes or a larger amount of one dish.  That way we make sure there is enough food for everyone.

Osho expressed another meaning of satsang in the discourse series called The Perfect Way, (# 7)
“…This is satsang. This is prayer. This is meditation. When I am all alone within myself and when there is no thought, no thought of anyone, I am in the company of my Self. When the outer world is absent, inside there is the company of one’s Self. In that “companionless-ness” and solitude, in your pure being, the truth is realized because in your innermost being you yourself are that truth.”

Expectations in Meditations 

ZOOM Meeting Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85943252304

DIAL IN Information to join via Phone Call Meeting ID: 85943252304  and Password: 1234

If there is a problem here is the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85943252304

“We are creating an opportunity to be with one another for an extended period of time – 10 days! The format of the “Tao Experience” workshop allows ANYTHING to be explored! And as the facilitators, we can help guide and expand upon whatever inquiry shows up! We’ll explore what feels important to the group.

That could, for example, include:
An exploration of “Fear” – what it is and how to deal with it. We can also look at our experience of life being not good enough, and yet, not bad enough; and how this going back and forth leads us to need diversions to avoid the pain of never arriving where we think we would like to be!

We’ll also able to explore the inner critic, which is ESSENTIAL to being more kind with ourselves and others! And we can look at where and how does seeking pleasure and avoiding pain come into and affect our lives? The list of explorations will contain whatever the participants want!

And, we will also share meditations, both active and passive with you, as well as shorter ones that Osho shared with us over the years, that will help us find our way into more silence and relaxation and watchfulness!

It will be 10 days of EXPLORATION of ALL these possibilities and more – creating an integrated tapestry of new understandings and revelations of what is really happening in the deeper levels of our lives! It will be a very fluid opportunity to experience WHATEVER comes up!”

The first weekend is Jan 31- Feb 2 Friday Evening 7pm – 10pm; Saturday 8:30am- 8:30pm;  Sunday 8:30am-5pm

The next four weekday evenings Feb 3 – 6 Monday – Thursday,  7pm-9pm

The second weekend is February 7-9 Friday Evening, 7pm – 10pm; Saturday 8:30am- 8:30pm;  Sunday 8:30am-5pm

The price is $525.per person, and the early bird price is $450. thru Jan 20th. There is a special

This workshop is facilitated by two certified meditation teachers, Subhan Schenker and Shanti Schenker-Skye. They have been Osho disciples for over 45 years each. They also have a combined 70 years of workshop and meditation facilitation experience!! They are the co-directors of the World of Meditation Center in Seattle, Washington, which was established in 1979. They have facilitated workshops around the world – in Asia, Europe, Mexico and the US

More Information about “The Tao Experience!”

In October, 1979, Subhan did a unique workshop in Osho’s Ashram in India, which was called “The Tao Group.” It was a major turning point in his life! Until then, he had heard the word “flow” and the Taoist term “the Way” – a term used to describe the Taoists’ guiding principal. But he had no real understanding of what they meant! This workshop gave him the living experience of their meaning! He tasted what it was like to go WITH life, instead of fighting it or pushing it.  And that experience has stayed with him to this day!

That is why he began facilitating this workshop, in the U.S. and in Mexico. And that is why he wants to offer it to YOU!

We will be putting up all the schedule.