UPCOMING EVENTS
Ajapa Japa 2 – Online Course
Online Course – 6 weeks starting October 28th 2025
This course in ajapa japa is for those who took part in the first course last year and those who already have a good deal of experience with the technique of ajapa japa.
Japa is the conscious repetition of mantra, ajapa japa is the spontaneous repetition of mantra, when the mantra comes of its own accord, accompanied by breath and awareness of the psychic pathways. Japa comes from the mouth or mind and ajapa comes from the heart.
This second immersive course will explore the technique more deeply, going into full rotation of awareness in the pathways of the spine and the front of the body, combining this with the practices of ujjayi pranayama and kechari mudra. It is essential that you are already familiar and comfortable with both practices and have some understanding and experience of their effects.
Such practices are designed to take us to deep states of awareness and meditation, naturally turning our attention inside without fighting with the mind. All we need to do is follow the technique and expand the awareness to embrace all that arises whilst maintaining connection with the technique. This sustained and extended pratyahara will lead us to dharana.
The course will run for 6 weeks, sessions will be weekly and online, with recordings of the practice available for your sadhana. Participants will be expected to be practicing daily at home in between the weekly sessions.
Sessions will be approximately one hour, including some preparation before a longer sitting practice of ajapa japa. It is of course preferable at this stage of practice that sitting still for 30 minutes or more is comfortable.
Please email to sign up or if you have any queries:
Feel free to let others know who may be interested.
Dates and Times:
Tuesdays: October 28th , November 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, December 2nd.
Time: 00.00 midnight, Indian Standard Time. Please check the local time where you are. Sessions will be approximately one hour.
Contribution: Full – 90 or Concession – 72. Same whether Euros or Pounds. If the concessionary rate is not manageable and you are very keen to do the course then please do contact me.
Go well for now and look forward to seeing you soon
Omomom
RETREATS
Dates and venues for 2026 retreats will be announced soon…
PAST EVENTS
Ganesh Chaturthi – Mantra and Yantra Online
Tuesday August 26th 2025, 11.30 am UK time
Online session:
Ganesh Chaturthi is a day in the Indian calendar where the popular elephant headed deity is worshipped. The festival usually lasts several days and the culmination involves immersing icons of Ganesh in water. It is a huge festival in India and amongst Ganesh worshippers around the world, with plenty of good food, music, dancing and communities coming together to share their devotion.
On this occasion we will tune into the frequencies with the chanting of mantras dedicated to Ganesh and drawing and painting a Ganesh Yantra as an invocation and offering.
Ganesh is well known as the remover of obstacles, but he has also been known to be the creator of obstacles, such is the mystery of the path of life. His role has changed over the years influenced by many factors, but what remains is the most loved and accessible of the deities and what he represents.
The timing of the session corresponds with the main puja time of the festival.
Creating a yantra is an offering and an invocation of the deity in an abstract form, tuning into, and harnessing these energies can assist in the navigation of life on this material plane.
This session will be approximately three hours and will be donation based, suggested is 36-60, whether euros or pounds.
A list of materials needed for the drawing and painting is below.
The session will not be recorded.
Feel free to share this with others who may be interested.
Please email to sign up or if you have any queries:
Material List for Yantra Drawing and Painting
- Drawing compass
- Paper – if using watercolour paint then watercolour paper is necessary. 140gsm thickness or more, cold pressed is preferable as it has texture, hot pressed paper is smooth. Other drawing paper is ok if using colour pencils. Size of paper can be A3 or A4. Regular ‘printer paper’ is not good enough quality.
- Pencils – a lighter H or 2H and a darker HB/B/2B
- Ruler or straight edge
- Eraser and sharpener or fine sand paper for compass leads
- Watercolour paints – a small set is useful, or colour pencils or watercolour (aquarelle) pencils.
- Gouache/Tempera paints are also ok, they are more opaque in finish
- Brushes – a thinner and wider one is useful
For the puja process, a flower, water, a jyoti/candle, incense and if you wish some prasad (offering) to Ganesh – a small sweet something to share!
Online – Starting November 26th, 2024
Ajapa Japa – Meditation with the spontaneous mantra of the breath.
Japa is the repetition of mantra and Ajapa japa is the spontaneous repetition of mantra. It is a lifelong practice and can take us from initial stages of pratyahara to deep states of meditation. It is a simple practice, and once we have learnt its components we can practice without external guidance.
It utilises the breath, the mantra of breath and awareness of subtle pathways in the body, together with ujjayi and kechari mudra. We add these ingredients one by one until absorbed in them simultaneously, and then it is just a matter of practice!
There will be six sessions of about one hour each, containing some preparation before doing a practice of Ajapa japa. It will develop over the six weeks. Sessions will be recorded and participants are advised to practice daily in between the weekly sessions, during this short course. The six practices can then be repeated over six months.
