Asheville Meditation Group

08/18/2025

RIGHT NOW is a great time to support the Asheville TM Center's RELIEF FROM WITHIN project. We were granted matching funds for whatever donations we raise through August 31. This is so we can continue offering TM scholarships to people in our region most impacted by Hurricane Helene. We hope to offer as many scholarships as possible on a case-by-case basis. In the months after Helene, we've waived the course fee for over 400 people.
You can contribute here:
https://davidlynchfoundation.donorsupport.co/page/Asheville
🙏THANK YOU FOR HELPING US BRING RELIEF TO WNC!

As part of the David Lynch Foundation's Meditate America initiative, hundreds of people in Western North Carolina who were impacted by Hurricane Helene have learned Transcendental Meditation. This gift was made possible by donations from local meditators. Those who learned the TM technique reported....

10/27/2024

Always worth revisiting the story of the Beatles time with Maharishi in India. It's an old article but a timeless topic: how the Beatles produced (what many believe to be) their finest work, the White Album, after diving within to access the source.

Maharishi and the Beatles

by Tom Ball

The New York Times article, "The Man Who Saved the Beatles," written in response to the passing of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (February 5, 2008), is a good starting point in retelling one of the epic stories of our time.

Transcendental Meditation Classes Asheville. Studies: TM best technique for stress. The only meditation recommended by American Heart Association.

10/07/2024

Apart from water, food, shelter, there's another form of disaster relief that's vitally important: relief from the stress, anxiety, and trauma. To this end, the Asheville TM Center wishes to make Transcendental Meditation available to at no cost to everyone in our area who feels the need—especially those most directly impacted by the disaster.

Thanks to generous donations from our local meditating community—and in conjunction with the David Lynch Foundation—for the next two months we are offering the standard TM training without charge (or on a donation basis for those in a position to give back).

Please help spread the word in Western NC. So many people here desperately need this!

The TM course involves four 90-miinute training sessions over four consecutive days, can be done all in-person or, in part, remotely, and comes with a lifetime of free follow-up and support.

To learn how this simple, effortless, natural meditation technique is different from other forms of meditation, please visit https://live.meditateamerica.org

You can DM me or contact the Asheville TM Center for more info: 828-254-4350.

09/15/2024

https://www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/together-as-one/

Maria Shriver's wonder post about Meditate America.

I sat down to meditate the other morning. It was still dark outside, so I lit a candle next to my chair to provide some light, some warmth, and some company. Then I began. The practice of sitting in silence, in meditation, or in prayer has been around since the

11/05/2022

Invitation To Help Create A More Peaceful,
Coherent National Consciousness

Do You Practice (Or Have You Learned) The TM-Sidhi® Program?

A national campaign is underway to establish 3000 people practicing the TM-Sidhi program at the same time, every day, morning and evening — from wherever you are — to create an influence of harmony and coherence in national consciousness. If you’ve learned the TM-Sidhi program and would like to practice at the same time as thousands of others who are currently participating, please call 888-532-7686 for details.

Practicing the TM-Sidhi program together, even remotely, has been found to increase bliss in one’s personal life and create a measurable influence of harmony in society.

What is the TM-Sidhi program?

The TM-Sidhi Program is a natural extension of Transcendental Meditation and accelerates growth to higher states of consciousness.

During Transcendental Meditation, we learn to dive within and experience the silent, unbounded reservoir of energy, intelligence, and creativity that resides deep within everyone. For more information about the TM program, visit TM.org or call 888-Learn-TM.

In the TM-Sidhi Program, we begin to think and act from this profound level of awareness, so that our thoughts and actions become more effective and fulfilling. The TM-Sidhi Program is derived from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the TM prpgram.

How does the TM-Sidhi program promote peace and societal coherence?

Extensive research, including 50 scientific demonstrations and 23 studies published in peer-reviewed journals, has verified that this approach creates a measurable influence of positivity throughout society. For example, studies show that 1% of a population practicing the TM technique — or the square root of 1% practicing the TM-Sidhi program in a group — reduces societal stress, crime, and conflict, and improves the overall quality of life.

For a common-sense explanation of how this “field effect of consciousness” works, please visit https://www.gusp.org/defusing.../theoretical-foundation/.

For a summary of the scientific research, please visit https://www.gusp.org/.../lowering-societal-stress.../.

04/14/2022

👉David Lynch Launches $500 Million World Peace Initiative (link below). The money will help to train "thousands of university students to become expert meditation activists" and "establish a legacy of lasting global peace"
https://people.com/movies/david-lynch-launches-500-million-world-peace-initiative-exclusive/

02/27/2022

09/11/2021

Memoirs and autobiographies are an abundant resource for accurate self-reports from people who found, often suddenly and without warning, that a veil lifted from before their eyes revealing the world as they had never seen it before, “inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful,” “spotless and pure and glorious,” “glittering and sparkling,” as many practitioners of Transcendental Meditation have expressed it .

Excerpt From
One unbounded ocean of consciousness

Art: Seung-Hwan Chung

09/02/2021

I’m looking forward to speaking at Harvard University for the event hosted by Harvard Business School, Sept. 29. See you there!

Please register here:

http://www.hbsab.org/s/1738/cc/21/page.aspx?sid=1738&gid=8&pgid=73578&crid=0&calpgid=13&calcid=1270

02/02/2021

http://tm.org In this introductory video, Bob Roth describes the Transcendental Meditation® technique in depth. What you'll learn:• What TM is• What TM is no...

01/19/2021

Medical experts say health care workers are experiencing higher rates of burnout, exhaustion and even PTSD as they continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. One group is trying to change that. Caption: WLOS. Tom and Jeanne Ball, directors at the Asheville TM Center, have joined the national Heal The....

01/18/2021