Types/Schools of Meditation instruction?

[Naiad780]

What are some various types of meditation/energy work instruction?

For instance, most large cities have Zen Buddhist temples where you can practice zazen sitting.  What else is commonly available?  

Someone suggested Qi-Gong, which I'm looking into.  Someone else said yoga or Tai Chi, but I've only found classes that are primarily for exercise and do not focus on meditation.  

Any other thoughts?

[Sabre]

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[Sabre]

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[Tom]

If you are interested in Sahaja Yoga, which focuses on kundalini, this might be useful:

DENVER
Website: http://www.yogacolorado.org
Please call Olga Orbidan at (303)470-0683 or email olga_orbidan@hotmail.com for more information.

  Meeting Locations

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  Meeting Room, 3rd floor
  LoDo, 16th & Wyncoop
  Saturdays at 2:00-3:30pm
  Tel: (303)470-0683, (303)471-0143
  EMail: olga_orbidan@hotmail.com, olegkot@mail.ru
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[Naiad780]

If you are interested in Sahaja Yoga, which focuses on kundalini, this might be useful:

DENVER
Website: http://www.yogacolorado.org
Please call Olga Orbidan at (303)470-0683 or email olga_orbidan@hotmail.com for more information.

Thanks!  Do you work with this group?

[J.K.]

I happened to be reading about this just last night.  (  The Masters and the Path  )

There have been and still are many different schools of yoga, each having it's own methods.  Each belong to one of the seven Rays so that they must be regarded as complimentary, and not as rival methods of practice.  Each great teacher expounded a method for one type of ego - a fact so well known among the Hindu's that they are always liberal and tolerant in their thought, and consider it perfectly right for a man to follow that which suites his temperment.

From Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga

There are several forms and paths of yôga that include meditation (Raja Yoga), devotional prayer (Bhakti Yôga), selfless service to others (Karma Yoga), practices for discrimination of truth and reality (Jnana Yoga), and even meditational forms of exercise and bodily upkeep (Hatha yoga, a part of Raja Yoga). Yôga, as codified by Patanjali, is also one of the six major schools of Hindu philosophy and as such specifically refers to Raja Yôga, the royal path of divine meditation on the one Brahman.

Seems a bit confusing in that there are so many kinds, but perhaps there will be a breadcrumb trail from there based on what you find right for your personality...  

[Tom]

I'd like to try Sahaja Yoga, particularly because one person with activated kundalini can activate it in another person. Like using a lit candle to light another candle. The reason for selecting that particular group is that it meets in Denver. Based on the web site in your profile, Naiad780, that is where I think you are from. I'm in Iowa City.

[Naiad780]

I'd like to try Sahaja Yoga, particularly because one person with activated kundalini can activate it in another person. Like using a lit candle to light another candle. The reason for selecting that particular group is that it meets in Denver. Based on the web site in your profile, Naiad780, that is where I think you are from. I'm in Iowa City.

That's funny, I used to live in Iowa City, too.  I'll check out that group, thanks!

[HigherSelf]

http://www.geocities.com/advancedyogapractices/