A three-minute walk from bustling Ayala Avenue (“Wall Street of the Philippines”) in the central business district that boasts the highest daytime population in the country, there is a place dedicated to silence.
Brahma Kumaris Makati Center. It has stood in Makati City for over forty (40) years, a quiet, unflinching witness to constant changes around it.
Stepping inside, you wonder if the mind ceased normal cognition or has in fact slid up a notch to mellow overdrive. You note more, if subtler, colors as though streaming from behind the physical eyes, hushed sounds that melt into one another, a soft sensation that recalls the comforts of childhood.
Then you hear it. “Om shanti. Welcome.” You look, and another set of eyes meets yours with happiness. You are expected. You may remember this moment years later as possibly your first, fleeting experience of meditation.
What Raja Yoga Teaches
There’s more.
Raja Yoga Meditation takes you deeper than physical encounters. From pleasant surprises to sustained strength, from serendipitous discoveries to palpable power in understanding the one truth that matters: You are a soul.
You are the being inside the body who leads the mind to a big-picture understanding of everything it experiences. More importantly, you are the one who makes the choices. Raja Yoga reconnects your current realities with perfect abilities that are always just waiting for your command. It is your built-in protection from sorrow of every conceivable form, level and magnitude.
You are the one who decides to stay in fulfillment and self-sovereignty. For ever.
Meditation for complete beginners
People come to the center for various reasons: some to understand the nature and kinds of thoughts; others to create and sustain inner calm; still others to cultivate and sustain positive thinking. Or simply to sit alone in a peace-full place.
Previous experience in any meditation technique, mastery of difficult postures and/or a flawlessly quiet mind are not requirements when signing up for basic lessons.
The free introductory course traditionally covers explanations of principles, guided reflections, and enough time to get used to this practice that is done with open eyes to begin with— the better for easy assimilation into daily routines.
Continue online or visit regularly
The dedicated “Meditation in Makati” regularly publishes a full guide to Raja Yoga beginner meditation classes, ongoing programs and coming events. Or you may contact the Makati Center directly and start your journey even before visiting, via short guided meditation videos available online.
Meditation is woven into all programs and events under the multi-faceted umbrellas of Positive Thinking, Inner Calm, Stress Management, and Healthy Mind, Healthy Body.
To better serve our immediate community of corporate professionals and office workers, BPO and IT service employees, retail industry and commercial staff, academics and students, Makati Center customizes programs for companies and organizations.
Majority of the requests, notably for interfaith gatherings and wellness activities, indicates meditation as a priority.
The Makati Center is Raja Yoga Meditation’s first home address in the Philippines. From here, Brahma Kumaris has served many parts of the country, planting the seeds for all current existing centers and study places.
