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The Evolution of an Artist: Creativity, Consciousness, and Transcendental Meditation
2025-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Online
With Ashia Fredeen
Are you a Creative and looking to unfold your full creative potential?
In this live online session, filmmaker and Transcendental Meditation Teacher Ashia Fredeen will talk about the profound connection between creativity and consciousness. Within everyone, beyond the most subtle level of thought, there is a field of infinite energy, creativity and intelligence. This field is the source of our thoughts, our creativity, as well as the source of all matter.
During the practice of Transcendental Meditation, the mind settles down effortlessly to this state of pure, silent bliss within us, and very naturally, we start to enjoy more happiness, vitality, and creativity in our life. This is fundamental to an artist.
During this session, Ashia will talk about her own personal experience of inner transformation from “Art lover” to “Artist” that came as a result of her practice of Transcendental Meditation.
Ashia spent endless hours of her youth in creative pursuits, including dance, music, drawing, and acting, but it was her TM practice that had a profound effect on her relationship with creativity. She’ll share a conversation she had with filmmaker David Lynch during her time as a film student, dive deep into the creative process, and explain how TM is the best tool to unlock your own creativity.
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Because the session is designed for non-meditators, it will not include a 20-minute group TM.

Dive & Dash: Weekly 20-Minute Group TM
2025-10-21 17:30 - 18:00, 2025-10-14 17:30 - 18:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto TM Centre, 100 Front Street West (Retail floor - below main lobby, Toronto, On, M5J 1E3, Canada
Join us each week for a 20-minute Group TM at the Toronto TM Centre.
The group is growing every week, so please be sure to register so that we know there’s room for everyone.
The group meditation begins promptly at 5:30 pm, so please arrive and be seated at least a few minutes ahead of time.

Toronto TM Essentials: Accelerate Your Personal Growth
2025-10-21 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-19 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto TM Centre, 100 Front Street West (Retail floor - below main lobby, Toronto, On, M5J 1E3, 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.

Creating Coherence Meeting
2025-10-21 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Online
With TM Teacher John Cowhig and Special Guest Sarah Bence
A Sanctuary for Girls: Thailand’s Dhammajarinee Witthaya School (DWS)
Join us this Tuesday, 21 October, to hear the inspiring story of an ideal school saving the lives of at-risk girls.
Dhammajarinee Witthaya School (DWS) is a remarkable free boarding school in Thailand dedicated to orphaned, impoverished, and at-risk girls. These are children who would otherwise have no safe housing or access to quality education.
Led by the courageous Buddhist nun, Dr. Aunampai Passakchai, DWS supports over 1,000 students from kindergarten through grade 12. But this is more than just a school — it’s a sanctuary. In this safe haven, vulnerable girls are shielded from poverty, trafficking, early pregnancy, and hardship. They are empowered to become educated, confident, and compassionate young women.
A Model for Success

The school has offered the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhis® program since 2006, with profound results for both students and teachers.
90% of DWS graduates go on to attend university, in stark contrast to only 5% of low-income students in Thailand.
These girls emerge with the skills and self-assurance to lead independent and fulfilling lives.

Our special guest: Sarah Bence is the Director of Development at DWS. She will share stories, videos, and updates from the school, showcasing how their programs transform young lives and create a warm, nurturing environment where students thrive both academically and emotionally.
In addition to her role at DWS, Sarah teaches TM in Scotland and serves as the Head of Fundraising and Partnerships for the David Lynch Foundation UK. She has a strong background in nonprofits and philanthropy, with a special focus on girls’ equality, education, social entrepreneurship, and homelessness.
Please join us this Tuesday, October 21st, 2025, at 2 pm ET (11 am PT) to learn about this powerful model of an ideal school.
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Méditation de groupe quotidienne pour créer de la cohérence
2025-10-21 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-20 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-19 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-18 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-17 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-16 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-15 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-14 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) and 1 more date | On
Avec le professeur de MT
Joignez-vous à nous chaque jour pour une puissante méditation de groupe en ligne dédiée à la Création de Cohérence pour le Canada — et au-delà.
En nous réunissant chaque jour à la même heure, nous amplifions notre conscience collective et rayonnons la paix et l’harmonie dans l’environnement. Comme l’a magnifiquement dit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, « il n’y a qu’une unité, une totalité unifiée, une loi naturelle totale, dans la conscience unifiée transcendantale ».
Les participants ont exprimé leur gratitude et leur sentiment de solidarité, ce qui en fait une expérience véritablement unificatrice. Joignez-vous à nous pendant 20 minutes chaque jour, votre participation contribue à l’évolution pacifique de notre pays et du monde.
L’événement a lieu tous les jours à 14h00 ET / 11h00 PT.
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Creating Coherence Daily Group TM
2025-10-20 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-19 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-18 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-17 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-16 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-15 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Online
With a TM Teacher.
Join us every day for a powerful online group meditation dedicated to Creating Coherence for Canada — and beyond.
By coming together at the same time each day, we amplify our collective consciousness and radiate peace and harmony into the environment. As Maharishi Mahesh Yogi beautifully put it “There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.”
Participants have expressed their gratitude and sense of connection, making this a truly unifying experience. Please join us for 20 minutes every day, your participation contributes to the peaceful evolution of our country and the world.
The event takes place everyday at 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
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Deep Dives: Group TM & Knowledge Session
2025-10-19 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto TM Centre, 100 Front Street West (Retail floor - below main lobby, Toronto, On, M5J 1E3, Canada
Join us each week for a Group TM & Knowledge session at the Toronto TM Centre.
The group meditation begins promptly at 5:30 pm, with participants from our preceding TM Essentials class.
After the knowledge session, stay to enjoy some tea and refreshments. It’s a great opportunity to connect with our community of meditators.

Progress vs Pressure
2025-10-19 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Toronto) | Online
With TM Teacher Ashia Freedeen .
In this session, Bob Roth and Mario Orsatti discuss how maintaining calmness in the face of pressure allows for maximum progress in life. They discuss the concepts of calm, pressure, and progress as it relates to the significant neurophysiological and psychological improvements gained through the regular practice of TM.
They will comment on a video where Maharishi gives his insight that for maximum progress in our life, dynamic activity supported by silence is required — not passive calmness. The silence regularly experienced through TM creates a change in neurophysiological functioning over time that transforms pressure into progress.
A live discussion and Q&A with certified TM teachers will follow the pre-recorded video presentation.
Begins with a 20-minute group TM.
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Maharishi Yoga Asanas Instruction
2025-10-19 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-17 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Toronto) | Online
Led by Maharishi International University faculty.
Learn Maharishi Yoga Asanas and Pranayama to promote the integration of mind, body, and spirit.
Designed to be practiced before your Transcendental Meditation, Yoga Asanas are a gentle series of postures to complement your meditation. They help to remove stress, strengthen flexibility, improve health, and prepare your body for TM.
Pranayama, a breathing exercise, helps to settle the body and mind for an even deeper TM experience.
In this class you will learn:

Maharishi Yoga Asana postures
Pranayama, deep breathing exercises
How to integrate Asanas and Pranayama into your daily routine

Whether you’re completely new to yoga or an advanced practitioner, this class will give you the instruction you need to add the Maharishi Yoga Asanas to your TM routine.
Requirements:

Instruction in Transcendental Meditation
Comfortable sports or yoga clothes
A yoga mat or thick blanket
A settled environment

This 1-hour class will be followed by a 20-minute online group TM
At this time, this class is being offered as a free service.
► Register here
Watch a recording here.

An Enchanted Evening of Songs and Stories with Wayne Melvin
2025-10-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada
Join us for a one-of-a-kind fundraiser event featuring an eclectic mix of original songs and stories brought to life with vibrant, multi-layered videos. Trains, clipper ships, legendary highways, mountains and oceans, New York’s Greenwich Village, strangers knocking at your door, angels, saints and more – the stuff of myths and legends.

Wayne Melvin, TM Teacher, historian, and master storyteller wrote the lyrics for the songs. Lloyd Litke, his long-time friend, and professional musician composed the music and sings and plays the songs. Wayne and Joan Melvin, his sister, use her powerful photographs, antique postcards and other historical images, and various other visual media to create multi-layered videos to accompany the music. Wayne will introduce the songs/videos and give some commentary to each of them, as well as answer your questions and trade stories.
This event is a fundraiser for our local nonprofit, Permanent Peace Society, which supports the functions of the Vancouver TM Centre. Come show your support for a great cause and make a difference in promoting peace and harmony in our community. Everyone is welcome, so bring your friends and family!
Minimum donation: $20 (children attend free). Click below to donate and register.

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TM Essentials: Accelerate Your Personal Growth
2025-10-15 18:45 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver TM Centre, 328 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3X2, Canada

Dive & Dash: Weekly 20-Minute Group TM
2025-10-15 18:45 - 19:30 (America/Vancouver) | 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.

Toronto TM Essentials: How to Get the Most From Your TM Practice
2025-10-14 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto TM Centre, 100 Front Street West (Retail floor - below main lobby, Toronto, On, M5J 1E3, 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, “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.

Creating Coherence Meeting
2025-10-14 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Online
With TM Teacher John Cowhig and Special Guest Tom Factor
Tom Factor, Maharishi’s secretary in the early 1970s, also helped the TM organization’s pioneering use of communications technologies. He will illustrate that history — from letters in the mail and telephones, to videotaping and fax machines, all the way to today’s internet, online forums, and AI.
The event will begin with a 20-minute group meditation at 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
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