Meditation

Through regular practice of active meditation in your daily routine, you’ll discover a newfound sense of joy and fulfilment in your everyday tasks. Regular mindfulness practice has the potential to alleviate stress, enhance sleep quality, bolster mental well-being, and alleviate issues such as anxiety, addiction, and trauma. Additionally, it can lead to improvements in your intimate relationships and overall quality of life.

Saraha has been practising and guiding meditators in these methods for many years and holds a deep sincerity in introducing them with the depth of understanding that the meditations and the participants deserve. He takes great care in explaining the methods in all their dimensions, allowing the meditator to fully engage and commit to the experience.

“Traditional forms of meditation which emphasise stillness and solitude can be quite difficult for the more modern Western mind because of our fast-paced lives. Sitting still for an hour isn’t that easy. However, with Osho Active Meditations, you don’t start from a place of stillness. Instead, you start from a place of movement, allowing for the full expression of emotions until everything is released. Then you go into stillness which will feel much easier, fun and playful – a very different way to get into stillness in meditation.”

— Saraha

Osho Active Meditations taught by Saraha

Dynamic Meditation

For the first 10 minutes, meditators are to vigorously inhale and exhale through the nose using the whole body as a ‘pump’. The next stage is to completely let go into a full verbal and physical catharsis. Whatever the body wants to do should be allowed and should be total and without inhibition. This stage is followed by ten minutes of jumping up and down on the spot, hands raised above the head with the heels landing firmly on the floor, and as that impact is felt, the Sufi mantra ‘HOO’ is bellowed from deep in the belly, sending an energetic pulse up through the body and out through the crown chakra. At the end of this stage, the music abruptly ends with a gong and the shouted instruction ‘Stop!’ Meditators then freeze completely in position, without any movement at all and simply watch. Just witnessing the moment –remaining present and alert without any thoughts wandering off. Just experiencing the gaps… the silence.

Kundalini Meditation

This involves fifteen minutes of shaking the body, another fifteen of free expressive dance followed by the silent sitting and lying down phases of silent witnessing. The shaking element in Kundalini meditation is like the TRE treatment in trauma recovery where you are shaking out of your body any latent stress and trauma.

Nadabrahma Meditation

The mediator hums for 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes divided in two parts; place both hands on the chest and move hands and arms outward, in a circular motion. Then for the next stage reverse the process and move the hands inward. For the last 15 mins, you sit still in complete silence. The humming sound produces Melatonin in the body which calms down the mind and induces a trance-like state. It can also be used in a couple’s meditation with a sheet over them to form a cocoon. Both partners hum together to create synchronisation in breath and sound to reach a state of oneness.

Other Meditations used by Saraha and influenced by Osho

Chakra Breathing Meditation

Although originally developed by Osho as an individual meditation, his disciple Maneesh innovated it by making it a “Couple’s Meditation”. There are still three stages of breathing through the seven chakras, but doing it as a couple – sitting cross-legged, face to face, sitting cross-legged back-to-back, both partners are rubbing and undulating their spines together and moving the Kundalini energy upwards and then finally the last stage is in the lovers embrace, with arms and legs interlocked the couple become one body and spirit.

Universal Heart Meditation

Developed by Ma Ananda Sarita also a disciple of Osho. The mediation begins with the haunting sound of Mongolian Tuvan or throat singing; following this is an absorbing Shamanic Trance movement, where the couple stand opposite each other and visualise breathing in and out of each other’s chakras, creating an infinity loop gradually ascending to the crown chakra. At that point they imagine a cloud of energy, bursting forth, releasing a downpour of Divine grace enveloping their entire bodies.

Why Meditate?

When we practice these meditations regularly over time, we begin to live our entire lives more meditatively. Whatever task or action we undertake, we do it with much greater awareness and presence. Meditativeness becomes our state of being, and through that state, positive life changes happen without any effort at all. We simply feel more serene and at peace in whatever we are doing and that creates space inside, a sense of perspective and objectivity to ourselves and our lives. This inner change also creates a ripple effect, allowing us to build better connections with our partners, our families, and our communities.

“Meditation doesn’t have to be very serious, sitting cross-legged in the lotus position for hours upon end.

It can be done anywhere, anytime for example while eating and drinking, driving to work or smoking a cigarette, all can become forms of meditation if one learns to bring their full presence and awareness to it.

Life has experienced being present. And that is something that we can work with and draw upon in our sessions to make it a more regular occurrence.”

— Saraha Premraj

“Meditation is just being

delighted in your presence;

meditation is a delight in your being.

It is very simple – a relaxed state

of consciousness where you are

not ‘doing’ anything.”

OSHO