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Welcome to Northern Beaches Meditation Centre
Modern day living, even on the northern beaches, can be insanely busy. It is increasingly impossible to find peace and calm in the eye of the storm of everyone’s real life situations.
The Northern Beaches Meditation Centre has been established as a unique specialist meditation centre to answer that need. The centre’s foundation courses are meditation, mindfulness and awareness based, and are specifically orientated towards every aspect of life on the beaches – helping the community, business, students and of course you.
Our meditation classes are designed to make meditation accessible to everyone. We teach a range of simple meditation techniques and styles that you can practice anywhere and easily integrate into your life.
Stress, fatigue and tension often rob us and all those living around us of our clear thinking, creative, energetic, happy and healthy self. When this happens we’re unable to enjoy our lives to the fullest and can feel a sense of something lacking or incompleteness.
We believe that meditation is a life skill that can easily be learnt and practiced with broad reaching positive effects – primarily for you, but also helping your family, your friends, our society and our world.
The centre is spacious, calm and comfortable equipped, bringing together many experienced and qualified teachers who offer a variety of styles of meditation. Whether you are a beginner wanting to learn the basic meditation skills or you are interested in a particular style of meditation, there is something for your needs.
Perhaps you want to strengthen your practice or learn a different style of meditation? Or you may want to enjoy the benefits of meditating in a group. Whatever your intention there is something to learn and you’ll find the group dynamics and discussions are as valuable as the instruction.
The centre also offers individual tuition, wellbeing workshops, retreats and courses for corporate sector, schools , nursing homes and other community groups.
What is Meditation and Mindfulness Practice
Meditation and mindfulness practice are increasingly being recognised as valuable skills for achieving a balanced life.
Meditation is the practice of quieting the mind. The word meditate stems from the Latin root meditatum, meaning ‘to ponder’.
Depending on the style practiced, broadly speaking meditation is holding ones attention on a subject, object or process. Through the practice of meditation you can train your mind to achieve a greater state of peace and calm.
Through the inner understanding and stillness that meditation offers you can find emotional balance, gratitude and happiness in your daily life. It enhances personal insights and taps into the innate potential for self-healing and wisdom that we all have. Through meditation you can begin to understand what we call the true self.
This allows us to live more consciously in this ever changing world.
Mindfulness Practice is moment by moment awareness. It allows you to be awake and fully present to your life bringing greater insight into the way you manage yourselves. In essence mindfulness practice can bring you more in tune with how to be a human being as opposed to a human doing.
Benefits gained from meditation and mind fullness practice:
Although meditation and mindfulness practice are not complicated to learn the benefits will only be obtained with regular practice and persistence.
Some of the benefits that can be experienced are:
- Reduced stress, anxiety, anger and tension
- Less emotional turmoil
- More joy, love and spontaneity
- Greater sense of self awareness, self understanding and self acceptance
- Deeper sense of meaning and purpose
- Improvement in concentration, clarity of thought and memory
- Increased ability to solve problems creatively
- Increased sense of humour, the ability to see the light side of things
- The ability to address addictions and other self-defeating behavior
- Improved sleep and the ability to know when to rest
- Lower blood pressure and cholestrol
- Improved intimacy with friends and family members
Penny McGahey
Penny McGahey is the founder of the Northern Beaches Meditation Centre in Sydney. Having experienced the profound benefits of meditation she was motivated to establish a unique northern beaches centre that purely focused on meditation and mindfulness practice.
Her inspiration has resulted in a ‘place on the beaches’ where people can come to learn and understand that meditation is not mystical. That with guidance and practice these skills can effectively change our living patterns and our life balance.
She has firsthand experience of the work life balance challenge having spent 25 years on the northern beaches juggling a busy life filled with family, a successful business and finding her own self.
She knows that the balance that can be found through the skills of meditation and mindfulness practice can allow people to access happier, healthier and more harmonious lives.
Penny believes that every individual in the world has a unique contribution to make and through meditation and mindfulness practice we can find a way to access our true potential.
She is a qualified Meditation Facilitator with almost 10 years experience in meditation and has a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. She is a member of the International Meditation Teachers Association (INTA) as well as the Australian Teachers of Meditation Association (ATMA). As a working, qualified Remedial Massage Therapist she is also an accredited member of the Australian Tradition Medicine Society ATMS.
Penny’s down to earth approach and her commitment to involve participants make her a popular and engaging teacher.
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