Getting started
What happens in meditation?
Meditation is a simple exercise where we try to quieten the mind and enter into a more peaceful and illumining
Meditation Classes Oxford
Throughout the year we offer free meditation classes, for those wanting to learn meditation or deepen their existing practise. Our next course will be in February 2026
About Us
The Sri Chinmoy Centre in Oxford have been offering free meditation classes since 1981, we have enabled many to find their first steps towards inner peace and happiness. Our classes are suitable for those seeking to deepen their meditation experience and make it part of a daily journey of self-discovery.
Why Meditate?
Happiness
Meditation can give a happiness that doesn’t come from outer success, but the inner joy.
Our Meditation Classes
- How to make meditation part of your daily life
- How meditation can help discover more of your inner being
- Relax from the stresses of life
- Discover your life purpose.
- Sri Chinmoy’s Path of the Heart
Recent Activities and Blogs
How to meditate
Meditation and everyday life
In one sense meditation is a retreat from the world. We close our eyes, sit still and try to escape
Getting started
Finding time for meditation
One of the challenges in developing a regular meditation practise is finding the actual time to meditate. We have 24
Books on meditation
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Video introduction to Oxford Meditation
A short video to introduce Tejvan Pettinger – one of the class givers and some of the things you might
