Upcoming TM courses in Rotterdam
Four consecutive days: day one one-to-one with your teacher, then three group sessions.
What independent sources say
“Transcendental Meditation is a simple, natural technique … this form of meditation gives deep rest to the body and the mind experiences inner peace, without using concentration or effort.”
Mayo Clinic
“Perhaps its greatest benefit is that it is relatively quick to learn and easy to master — no weeks or months of practice before you see results.”
Forbes
“A 2009 study found that Transcendental Meditation helped reduce stress in students, while another showed it helped lower blood pressure, anxiety, depression and anger.”
Cleveland Clinic
About your TM teacher Gerrie Lucassen
Gerrie teaches the Transcendental Meditation course in Rotterdam and has been a certified TM teacher since 1978. In Gerrie's own words:
I learned TM as a student, because a friend who meditated told me he saw colours better since he had started. That seemed a great reason to me. The introductory talk didn't say much to me, because back then it didn't seem spiritual enough. Alongside my practical degree in spatial planning, you could find me at guest lectures in theology, on the Kabbalah, the Upanishads and the like. The colours did it!
I started, and meditated very irregularly. Then I tried something else and discovered the difference: with TM everything happened by itself and without effort, while that other technique kept making me doubt myself, was difficult and very theoretical. And I did see the results of TM in other people. After this insight, and after my studies, I became a TM teacher in 1978.
Until 2004 I worked mainly in administration at national and international level. I still work part-time for the international organisation (MERU, Vlodrop). As a TM teacher I work for Rotterdam: I teach the course at my home in Schiedam and have taught hundreds of people TM. My students get a lot of personal attention. Courses are small (four students at most, but we don't wait for a full group) and I am very flexible about times and days of the week. We simply get the diary out. So if there is no course date on the website, that doesn't mean a course can't be arranged.
And what do my students tell me? It surprises me every time, because experiences both during and outside meditation can be so different. One of the loveliest, to me: "I now simply look forward to my day in the morning (and I didn't before)." It can be that simple.
Besides TM, I paint a lot, make collages and am a qualified Vedic Art teacher. During the exam season I work for the Dutch State Examinations.
TM has brought me closer to myself and taught me to sense better what I want. After so many years I find it quite hard to say anything about it, because you get used to it. I think I can sum it up best in the words of my mother, who said to me: "At least you're always happy."
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