Dive & Dash: Weekly 20-Minute Group TM
2025-06-11 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-06-18 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-06-25 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-07-02 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-07-09 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-07-16 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-07-23 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-07-30 18:45 - 19:30 (America/Vancouver) and 5 more dates | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
Join us each week for a 20-minute Group TM at the Vancouver TM Centre.
Refresh, recharge and relax with a group TM.
Group meditation starts promptly at 6:45 pm.

TM Essentials: How to Get the Most From Your TM Practice
2025-06-11 18:45 - 20:30, 2025-08-13 18:45 - 20:30 | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
Understand the factors that can influence your TM experience and help you gain the most benefits from your practice. You will learn practical tips that will help you enjoy the mental, physical, and emotional benefits of TM.
The session will culminate with an incredibly insightful talk by Maharishi on Love: Expansion of the Heart.
Maharishi weaves together a unique understanding of the body’s sensory mechanisms, physiological reactions, and metabolic processes related to the growth of the heart and our capacity to love.
Maharishi’s talk is certain to give you a whole new perspective on the journey to higher states of consciousness.
This session will be particularly helpful for new and returning TM practitioners – and a great refresher for long-time practitioners.

TM Essentials: Accelerate Your Personal Growth
2025-06-18 18:45 - 20:30, 2025-08-20 18:45 - 20:30 | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
Learn how you can accelerate your personal growth by deepening and refining your TM practice. This presentation will include an introduction to:

TM Retreats (yoga, breathing exercises, and extended TM practice)
Advanced Techniques and TM-Sidhis
TM communities to connect with other TM practitioners

We’ll also discuss the value of group TM for the individual and society – and why it’s worth taking the time to join group TM sessions.
This talk includes video presentations by Maharishi on Advanced Techniques and TM Retreats.

Online TM Check-In with Ashia Fredeen - Cancelled
2025-06-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Join TM Teacher Ashia Fredeen for an online TM Check-In and knowledge meeting.
To stay a strong practitioner of TM, it’s really important to continue to grow in knowledge and understand the experiences that we’re having. It also helps us to be more regular in our TM practice!
This session is for:
-new meditators who can’t attend the TM Essentials Sessions regularly
-new meditators who have completed the 4 TM Essentials Sessions and want to continue learning more about the TM Technique
-any meditator who wants to understand their TM Practice and experiences more deeply
-anyone who is having trouble being regular with their TM practice
Meeting Details:
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PT / 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM ET
Knowledge Topic: Progress Vs. Pressure – How TM Brings Fulfillment
Includes a 20 min Group Meditation.
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https://tm-org.zoom.us/j/81623139666?
Meeting ID: 816 2313 9666
Password required to join this session. Access this session with the same Zoom password provided to you by email from tmevents@tm.org or through the Vancouver TM Centre newsletter.

TM Essentials: Discover Your Full Potential
2025-06-25 18:45 - 20:30, 2025-08-27 18:45 - 20:30 | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
There is more to life than waking, sleeping, and dreaming. As TM practitioners we have begun to experience a fourth state of consciousness known as transcendental consciousness or samadhi.
However, that’s not the end of the story. Maharishi has delineated the knowledge of the progression of enlightenment into seven states of consciousness.
In this session, Maharishi describes the hallmarks of these seven states of consciousness. He provides a concise explanation of how each state of consciousness has different qualitative changes in perception and sense of self.

TM Refresher & Inspiration Session
2025-06-29 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-30 18:45 - 20:45 | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
Led by Ashia Fredeen
Are you looking to revitalize your Transcendental Meditation practice? Our TM Refresher Classes are the perfect opportunity to deepen your understanding of TM and get back on track if you’ve fallen out of a consistent meditation routine.
Our Refresher Classes include a comprehensive review of the dos and don’ts of TM and provide you with a solid foundation to ensure you practice correctly and regularly.
In addition to reviewing fundamental TM principles, you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions and receive personalized guidance to enhance your practice. The session includes a full 20 minute group TM session.

Annual Guru Purnima Celebration - Salt Spring Island
2025-07-10 14:00 - 15:30 | World Peace House
Guru Purnima is known as the day of the Guru – a teacher of total knowledge. So, once a year on the full moon of July we celebrate and honour our teachers.
Come join us for a celebration at our retreat centre World Peace House, on Salt Spring Island! The celebration will include the ceremony of gratitude, cake, and a video of Maharishi talking about his own teacher, Guru Dev.
There will be a TM Retreat for Sidhas happening at the house and they will be joining the celebration. Time will be carefully observed so they can remain on their retreat schedule, so please arrive in a timely manner.
Location: World Peace House, 293 Armand Way, Salt Spring Island, BC
Time: Thursday, July 10, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
A small donation to support World Peace House would be greatly appreciated.
We look forward to celebrating this special day with you!
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Annual Guru Purnima Celebration - Vancouver TM Centre
2025-07-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
According to Vedic knowledge, each day dawns with a different quality of Nature’s Intelligence. On the auspicious day of Guru Purnima, the first full moon after the Summer Solstice, a specific quality of Natural Law is most awake and enlivened.
Guru Purnima is known as the day of the Guru – a teacher of total knowledge. So, once a year on the full moon of July we celebrate and honour our teachers.
Maharishi always referred back to his teacher Guru Dev who revived the knowledge of living fullness of life. This fullness of life comes from accessing the innermost Self. Guru Dev’s teaching was to attain knowledge of the Self through direct experience, offering Transcendental Meditation as the technique for achieving that direct experience.
Join us on Thursday, July 10, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM to celebrate this special occasion of Guru Purnima.
This special event will include:

The ceremony of gratitude (flowers will be provided, but we encourage you to bring one or two flowers of your own)
20-minute Group TM
A recording of Maharishi speaking about Guru Dev
Cake and Tea

We look forward to celebrating this special day with you!

Summer Movie Night - "A Taste of Utopia"
2025-07-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
Come to the Vancouver TM Centre to enjoy some popcorn and the documentary A Taste of Utopia. Do you have a favourite snack you like to eat while watching a movie? Feel free to bring it with you!
MOVIE SYNOPSIS
A Taste of Utopia is a collective narrative exploring the Maharishi Effect: the positive influence large groups of meditating experts can have on society when practicing Transcendental Meditation and its advanced techniques together.
The narrative begins with the largest peace assembly in recent history, held in Hyderabad, India, last January, featuring dialogues with some of its 10,000 participants—including meditators, scientists, and leaders of the TM Organization. The documentary examines the scientific foundations of this phenomenon, offering a historical perspective on major past experiments, demonstrations, scientific publications, and successful stories.
The film explores the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who posited that consciousness is a fundamental field of nature—like electromagnetism or gravity—that can be stimulated and influenced through meditation techniques, affecting even non-meditators and mitigating negative social trends.
Examples of success in history are many, and this documentary recounts some of them. One above all: the invaluable testimony of former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano who, after introducing Transcendental Meditation in his country, quickly achieved an end to a 13-year civil conflict and created unprecedented economic and cultural growth.
Suggested Donation at the door: $5

"Reminiscing about Maharishi and the Founding of MIU" with Keith Wallace and Nat Goldhaber - Online
2025-07-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
“Reminiscing about Maharishi and the Founding of Maharishi International University” with Keith Wallace and Nat Goldhaber

Join us for this rare opportunity to hear Keith and Nat reminiscing about the time they spent working closely with Maharishi in the 1960’s and 1970’s and the roles they played in the founding of Maharishi International University.
Keith Wallace, PhD was the founding President of Maharishi International University and established the first Maharishi AyurVeda clinics in the United States. He is the author or co-author of over 60 scientific papers on TM and his seminal papers published in Science (in 1970), the American Journal of Physiology (1971), and Scientific American (1972), showed that the Transcendental Meditation® technique produced a fourth major state of consciousness different than waking, sleeping, or dreaming.
Nat Goldhaber, MA, EdD (H.C.) learned TM in 1965 and met Maharishi for the first time shortly after that. He started the TM Center in Berkeley in 1966, where thousands of students came to learn TM. In 1971, he proposed and helped found Maharishi International University, where he presently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees.
We imagine that this conversation will take us to delightful and unexpected places, through the decades and into the future, exploring our favourite topic, Transcendental Meditation
**Note: If you would like to join a 20-minute Group Meditation please join the meeting at 4:30 pm PT.

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TM Essentials: TM Is Guided by Nature
2025-08-06 18:45 - 20:30, 2025-09-03 18:45 - 20:30 | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
This session is an integral part of mastering the technique and practice of TM.
Every TM practitioner should attend this session early in their practice to have the critical understanding of how to prevent inserting effort and unnaturalness into the TM technique.
This session is only offered in person with a Certified TM Teacher and includes the following:

A detailed discussion of our growing body of experiences in the light of the primary driver of transcending
A video with Maharishi explaining aspects of forces of nature involved inside our TM practice and outside in our personal growth and evolution
A full 20 minute group TM

This session helps shatter any inclination towards individual inception, interference, or effort in our TM technique. And helps us spontaneously live a life more in accord with all the laws of nature.
Be sure to attend this Essentials session.

TM Refresher & Inspiration Session
2025-08-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
Led by Ashia Fredeen and Anne-Mareike Chu
Are you looking to revitalize your Transcendental Meditation practice? Our TM Refresher Classes are the perfect opportunity to deepen your understanding of TM and get back on track if you’ve fallen out of a consistent meditation routine.
Our Refresher Classes include a comprehensive review of the dos and don’ts of TM and provide you with a solid foundation to ensure you practice correctly and regularly.
In addition to reviewing fundamental TM principles, you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions and receive personalized guidance to enhance your practice. The session includes a full group TM session.

"The Future of the Global TM Organization" - Online
2025-08-31 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
“The Future of the Global TM Organization” with emerging leaders of the TM Organization

Join us to hear TM Teachers from the US and Canada who participated in The Building the Future Together Summit in July as they discuss their experiences at the Summit, their backgrounds, and the future of the TM organization.

The Building the Future Together Summit which occurred at Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in Vlodrop, The Netherlands in July, was an energizing, productive, and harmonizing experience, which brought together hundreds of TM Teachers from all over the world. There were 29 teams composed of mentors, leaders, facilitators and team members that met together each day to explore ways to take the global TM organization into the future in a sustainable and uplifting way.

Speakers:

Ashia Fredeen (Host) – Co-Director, Vancouver TM Centre
Emily Fitz Randolph – Co-Director, Los Angeles TM Centre
Josh Hendrix – Director, New York City TM Centre
Aalok Shrivastava – TM Sidhi Administrator, Toronto TM Centre

**Note: If you would like to join a 20-minute Group Meditation please join the meeting at 4:30 pm PT.

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