The AUM Meditation

AUM stands for (A)warenes (U)nderstanding (M)editation. The process was initially a 48-hour meditation marathon, yet has over the years since the 1970s been distilled down to its essence, lasting 2,5 hours. It is a 13-phase active and social meditation. Active because you get active before potentially entering naturally into the silence of beingness (inactive). Social because you interact and consciously project what is within you.

The AUM meditation allows you to explore and express the polarities within you in a safe environment. The polarities of love-hate, sadness-joy and insanity-sanity.

If you feel tense, emotionally charged, isolated, and/or numb, then this meditation might be exactly what you need to do. You can learn to express and eventually master your feelings, (re-)connect to life, dis-cover the power within you.

The 14. Phases (guided by music)

1. Negativity: Expressing your NO! Connecting and expressing your aggression and anger while freely associating verbal expressions.

2. Reconciling: apologizing for the hurt you might have caused.

3. Positivity: Expressing your YES! Expressing your love through appreciation and hugs.

4. The Second Wind: In this phase, you run on the spot with your knees as high as possible and your hands towards the sky and think you can’t keep on going. Just as you think you can’t anymore you are carried by a second wind.

5. Kundalini shaking: In this phase, you allow your body to shake—letting your bodies become liquid.

6. Insanity: Allowing yourself to express the insanity within you. Confront your fear of going mad by expressing any madness within you.

7. Dance: Dance freely

8. Sadness: Allow your sadness. Allowing any suppressed sadness to surface.

9. Joy: Allowing the joy within you to surface. Laugh, smile, jump and en-joy.

10. Dance of the Lovers: We are sexual beings. Our being is rooted in sex and, therefore, a natural part of our being. In this phase, you get to let your sensuality, your Eros, guide you into dancing by yourself or with anyone else present.

11. AUM Chanting: Forming a circle, holding hands and chanting the mantra AUMMMMMM.

12. Silence…: Just sitting silently, effortlessly resting into your being.

13. Namaste: „I recognize you in me. I recognize the Buddha in you.“

14. Sharing: sharing your experience with a small group of peers