The national peak body in Australia representing meditation and meditation teachers.

Our aim is to support professional education and leadership that fosters connection and community through the practice of meditation.

Meditation as an integral part of life.

We are not affiliated with any particular meditation philosophy or style. Our members are representative of the vast diversity of approaches to meditation, mindfulness, contemplation and reflective practices.

 

Meditation Australia

  • sets peer-reviewed standards
  • maintains a register of qualified meditation teachers, and
  • promotes continuing professional development and ethical conduct.

WHAT IS MEDITATION?

Meditation is an umbrella term for a range of practices designed to cultivate a calm, concentrated, and absorbed state of mind. “Meditation’ can describe both a practice and a state, and derives from the Latin word meditari which means ‘to reflect upon’.

The broad variety of meditation practices derives from their different aims, which can be therapeutic, developmental or spiritual and the different objects on which one can meditate. These include: breath awareness, visualisation (creative imagination and visual objects), mantra (including music and natural sounds), physical sensations and inner feelings, movement (including yoga, tai chi and dance), contemplation (including prayer, affirmation, quiescent introspection and reflection), stillness, mindfulness (sati), insight meditation (vipassana), and choiceless awareness (open monitoring).

We are delighted to introduce our newest member of the Meditation Australia Council – Al Jeffery.
As an integrative psychotherapist, meditation guide and community-builder, Al has supported thousands of people worldwide to restore connection in their lives, leadership, and communities.
He is a renowned facilitator, writer, speaker, and co-founder of Cornerstone, a Melbourne/Naarm-based community of practice creating pathways toward healing and transformation. As a queer man, haiku poet, leadership virtuoso, and martial artist, Al’s love for integrating the diverse and transgressive is alive in all he touches.
And of course Al is a long standing practitioner and teacher of meditation.
We look forward to Al’s unique
contributions to the Meditation Australia Council, and know you will all join us in welcoming him most warmly.
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