STAMBHA LIFE ACADEMY
Philosophy & Meditation
Meditation Initiation Weekend events
NEELAKANTHA MEDITATION
Neelakantha Meditation is an elegant, powerful and deeply effective meditation practice for systematically exploring and progressively journeying into the deeper spaces of Consciousness. It is a practice that brings about transformation, healing, and benevolence in your life. It is a daily meditation practice that is governed by the principle of effortlessness, which is easy to learn and practice and is accessible to everyone.
Transform and grow in the direct experience of your own deepest reality and live everything that you are meant to live.
Journey into the deeper spaces of consciousness to more fully access freedom, creativity, ease, clarity, and riches of life itself.
Easy to learn and practice, and is governed by the principle of effortlessness.
A beautiful and elegant practice which does not involve concentration, controlling the mind, or other forms of effortful manipulation of awareness.
Develop deep insight, steadiness, love, and increasing delight in daily life.
It is a practice that anyone can learn. It does not require that you have any particular beliefs, any previous study or specific background in order to learn it and practice it with great benefit.
Beings who have had difficulty meditating in the past are surprised at how easily and deeply they can meditate after learning Neelakantha Meditation.
Neelakantha Meditation allows you to establish a direct connection to your own deepest reality and reconnect with your innate nature of freedom, creativity, clarity, bliss and everything wonderful in life.
Neelakantha Meditation
Initiation
A Foundation for a Lifetime of Deep Meditation Practice
A Formal Initiation with Ezgi Taslidere
This course is the beginning of a lifetime of practice. You will learn the practice itself and the specific context and foundational principles underlying the practice, which is rooted in SvaTantra – the Tantric teachings of the ultimate freedom of Consciousness. You will be receiving:
PERSONAL INSTRUCTION
ONGOING SUPPORT
A LIFETIME OF PRACTICE
Foundational Course of Practice & Study
Formal, personalized Initiation into the practice of Neelakantha Meditation, including expert instruction of the theory and understanding of the practice
Ongoing support for your practice through your local teacher Ezgi, and through local Monthly Neelakantha Meditation Gatherings in our STAMBHA Web where also Additional Supporting Practices are taught
Attendance at Day Two (Post-initiation Theory Lecture) of any subsequent Initiation Event at no cost in order to refresh and strengthen your practice
The process of stabilizing your practice and continuing to deeply learn the theory of the practice
Access to the Online library of Blue Throat Yoga, which includes pre-recorded teachings and study materials to support your practice and understanding
Special Live Satsang Teleseminars through Blue Throat Yoga for all Neelakantha Meditation practitioners
Original scholarly translation and commentary on classical Tantric texts by renowned scholar Paul Muller-Ortega including the Śiva Sūtras, the Pratyabhijñā-Hṛdayam of Kṣemarāja and more that directly enliven your meditation experience
Opportunity to uplevel your meditation experience with Advanced Initiation after 18 months of practice
Eligibility to attend life-changing Retreats / longer Gatherings in retreat format
Neelakantha Meditation Gatherings
Once you receive your initiation and attend your post-initiation theory lecture, you will be welcome to attend the meditation gatherings (currently monthly) for free. To register for the gatherings please click here.
** After your initiation, every time a Neelakantha Meditation Event is offered, you would also be welcome to join the post-initiation theory group LECTURE for free.
Neelakantha Meditation Weekend Events
Please see the upcoming event below and you may register on this page.
If you do not find a weekend event below that works for you currently, then you may register via the 1:1 Meditation Initiations page, and we will setup your initiation as soon as a group forms.
Upcoming Events
Winter 2025
Meditation Initiation Weekend Event
Individual Neelakantha Meditation Initiations and Lecture
with Ezgi Taslidere
February 8-9, 2025
[ONLINE via LIVE STREAMING]
NEELAKANTHA MEDITATION INITIATION
A Foundation for a Lifetime of Deep Meditation Practice
A Formal Initiation with Ezgi Taslidere
The pre-initiation group LECTURE will be offered on Saturday February 8th: 09:30-11:15. The lecture is mandatory to attend for everyone who receive their formal personal instruction to Neelakantha Meditation.
Formal Personal Initiations will be offered on February 8th Saturday following the pre-initiation group lecture, throughout the day. You are welcome to choose an individual 1:1 time slot that works for you. Please check the registration form for available time slots. The individual slots are 0:35 hr. Please reserve your session as soon as possible.
The post-initiation group LECTURE* will be offered on Sunday February 9th: 17:00-20:00. The lecture is mandatory to attend for everyone who receive their formal personal instruction to Neelakantha Meditation.
SCHEDULE
(all times are listed in CET)
Saturday February 8, 2025
9:30-11:15 PRE-INITIATION GROUP LECTURE*
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Individual Initiations - Formal Personal Instruction Slots** - 1:1
The slots are offered throughout the day after the lecture, as of 11:30 CET.
**Slots are first come first serve. Please reserve your spot as soon as possible. Please choose the first/earliest open slot, if possible for you. As the slots will be offered back to back.
*The pre-initiation group lecture is mandatory for everyone who receive their formal personal instruction to Neelakantha Meditation.
Sunday February 9, 2025
17:00-20:00 Post-Initiation GROUP LECTURE*
LECTURES*: Both are mandatory to attend for everyone who receive their formal personal instruction to Neelakantha Meditation.
The Post-Initiation Group Lecture is open to all NMI initiates for free.
(If you have received your NMI initiation with Ezgi another time, or with Paul in June during Paul’s event in Zurich or somewhere else with another Authorized Neelakantha Meditation Teacher, you are most welcome to attend. You may then register through the gatherings schedule.)
INVESTMENT:
Course Tuition: CHF 500.- (for residents of Euro Zone: EUR 450.-, for US residents USD 450.-)*
or in 2 monthly installments of CHF 250.-, or in 3 monthly installments of CHF 175.- (first payment at the time of registration)
(Please contact us if you need other installment options. We would be happy to support you.)
*The investment is according to your location of current residence (where you currently live).
**For credit card payments, there is an additional processing fee.
Please fill in the following form to register:
Ezgi Taslidere, Ph.D.
is an authorized teacher of Neelakantha Meditation, as taught in Blue Throat Yoga.
For info about Ezgi please click here.
Blue Throat Yoga
Blue Throat Yoga is a School for Meditation Studies designed to help you establish deep freedom and joy in everyday householder life, founded by Professor Paul Muller-Ortega.
Paul Muller Ortega, Ph.D.
Professor Paul Muller-Ortega, Ph.D., is recognized internationally as one of the world's most highly respected and renowned academic scholars in the field of Indian Religion and Hindu Tantra. He is the founder of Blue Throat Yoga, which teaches the elegant Svatantra philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism and the practice of Neelakantha Meditation.
For more than fifty years, Paul has been a pioneer in the technology of Consciousness, lecturing and teaching about meditation and Indian philosophy to hundreds of thousands of people in North and South America, Europe, and India. Through his books, articles, essays, commentaries, and translations, Paul has earned a reputation for his unparalleled scholarly authenticity, as well as being a charismatic teacher with a remarkable capacity to convey esoteric truths and teachings in ways that are fully accessible, relevant, and comprehensible to the western mind. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book, The Triadic Heart of Shiva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta on the Non-dual Shaivism of Kashmir, (State University of New York Press, 1989) in which he examines the "Heart" as the mystical core of Consciousness. He is also one of the co-authors of Meditation Revolution as well as numerous scholarly articles on aspects of Tantric Studies.
Professor Paul Muller-Ortega earned his undergraduate degree at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California after many arduous years of studying Sanskrit, Indian religions, and Asian philosophy and culture. For twenty-five years he was a Professor of Religion at Michigan State and then the University of Rochester, and was known for his passionate and innovative teaching style and enrolled-to-capacity classes. He has been a practitioner and teacher of meditation for more than fifty years. He has formally studied with several of the greatest meditation masters of our time, and subsequently has organized and taught hundreds of meditation seminars disseminating potent practices of meditation to thousands of individuals. With this rare combination of training, experience, skill, spiritual practice, and profound insight, Paul takes his students on a profound guided tour of consciousness that is inspiring, life changing and enlightening.
More Information about the Meditation and the Founder of Blue Throat Yoga, Paul Muller-Ortega: bluethroatyoga.com