
About our Meditation classes
Free meditation classes in Philadelphia, PA
Throughout the year the Sri Chinmoy Centre of Philadelphia offers a number of free workshops and events designed to help you create or support your meditation practice. Our programmes are based on the philosophy and teachings of Sri Chinmoy and include introductory meditation classes, weekend 'urban retreats', live concerts of meditative music, as well as workshops on creativity, Vedic chanting, meditation and sports.
To learn about our next set of workshops and classes, kindly see our Philadelphia Meditation website.
Meditation means our conscious growth into the Infinite. When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, silent mind and allow ourselves to be nourished and nurtured by Infinity itself. – Sri Chinmoy
About us
The Centre is located in the heart of Philadelphia's historic colonial district and offers meditations and free workshops on Sundays for the local area.
Aside from offering meditation classes, the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Philadelphia has hosted Sri Chinmoy a number of times over the course of several decades. His November 1st, 1996 Peace Concert at the CoreStates Spectrum had an audience of 10,000, the largest US Peace Concert ever given. His last visit was in 2006, when we hosted Sri Chinmoy's standing room only free concerts at Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. 6,000 people came from all over the eastern seaboard to hear and experience Sri Chinmoy's meditative music.
Sri Chinmoy had a special love for Philadelphia, which he called the “spiritual capital of America.”
America’s capital, from the spiritual point of view, is Philadelphia. Philadelphia – the name itself is a ringing bell. As soon as I hear the word ‘Philadelphia’, no matter who utters it, I hear a bell ringing .... Philadelphia for me always carries Divinity’s Reality. It is very, very haunting and, at the same time, illumining and fulfilling.
Sri Chinmoy in Philadelphia - a timeline
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
O sweet city of brotherly love.
O God-perfection below, above.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
Your world-attention Liberty Bell
Proclaimed the death of our bondage-hell.
O freedom-lovers' utopia!
Philadephia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
– Sri Chinmoy
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