Introductory Seminar for Individual Meditation (IM) – 6th of July 2024 ONLINE
Time: 6th of July 2024, Saturday, 10-18h (CET)
Location: ONLINE – more info after sign-up
Host: Dr. med. Kai Gutzeit – Medical Doctor & Meditation Teacher for Individual Meditation
Costs: 150€
Application: meditation@drgutzeit.de or +491713148651 (number of participants limited)
Meditation is more popular than ever, it can easily be called a global trend – the availability of mindfulness apps, -websites, books, podcasts and meditation-courses is booming. But unfortunately often only little remains of the original idea.
This seminar is primarily dedicated to the question:
WHAT IS MEDITATION – AND WHAT IT IS NOT?
In particular, this seminar is about “the teaching of the noble mind” aka “Individual Meditation”.
This teaching is based on scientific evidence and focuses on the maintenance and development of mind-functions.
The decline of mind-functions which normally occurs through ageing can be stopped and even reversed through the application and practice of this teaching. It enables everyone to create the best version of themselves. The implementation of this personal development is based on the so-called “5 ingredients to a good life”.
CONTENT
Theory of meditating
- What is meditation?
- History of meditation
- scientific results of research about meditation
- What are the benefits of meditation?
- Belief systems and meditation
- Personal development through meditation
- stages/locations of personal development
- the role of a master of meditation
- the 4 big truths of meditation
- What is enlightenment?
Practice of meditating
- Preparation
- Physical posture while meditating
- The small hindrances of meditating
- The big hindrances of meditation
- the purpose of daily meditation-practice
- Retreats
- Traveltours for further development
- Every participant of the seminar receives a personalised individual meditation in accordance to their current state of development and the annual season
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE SEMINAR?
The Intro-Seminar is designed as a starting point to a 3 month practice period. The new knowledge from the seminar can be integrated and applied into daily practice.
Once a month there will be a online meet-up with a mini-lecture to share ideas, discuss and ask questions.
If you then wish to continue and go deeper with your practice and development, I offer meditation-adjustments to receive a new individualized meditation-exercise along with more theoretical and practical explanation every 3 months, along with the change of the seasons, either individually or in small groups. These adjustments will cost 150 Euros every time.
In Summer and in Winter there are 9-day-silent-meditation-retreats in Serbia and Germany under the guidance of meditation-master Prof. Milenko Vlajkov.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The origins of the “teaching of the noble mind” aka “Individual Meditation” are rooted in the 9th century AD in Tibet. Since then the teaching has been continuously passed on from one lineage-holder to the next. In the course of the last 12 centuries these masters of meditation completed and developed the teaching further and further, in order to allow people develop themselves into their own best version through its practice.
The primary rule of the teaching is “no dogma”, the secondary rule is that every new lineage-holder questions the teaching and updates it to current time and place. Through this process there have been well over a hundred updates.
The last update happened from 1971 until 1984 when current lineage-holder and master of meditation Milenko Vlajkov learned and received the teaching from a Tibetan doctor and Rinpoche. Since then Vlajkov has accomplished to wrap the Eastern wisdom into a western scientific dress, underpinned by the many results of scientific research of recent years. Vlajkov’s future successor is Ksenija Popadic, by now also a master of meditation, who is under personal instruction and guidance of Vlajkov since 2006.
Milenko Vlajkov has written several books about meditation and personal development.
Among them in English:
