Meditation in Perth

A volunteer-run meditation centre teaching Raja Yoga meditation through free introductory courses, public talks and workshops, with an ongoing Thursday evening class for those who have completed the intro course. All courses, classes and retreats are offered free of charge.

Lyndal runs a monthly women's circle on the last Saturday of the month, 7–9pm, at the Fremantle Yoga Centre space on Petra Street. Evenings move through grounding meditation with sound, yin yoga, a cacao ritual and guided sharing by candlelight, with themes following the seasons and moon phases.

A retreat centre on ten acres of bushland in the Perth hills, with a seasonal creek, native forest and an octagonal yoga shala. Alongside weekly classes it runs a monthly one-day silent retreat, longer weekend retreats through the year, self-guided personal retreat stays and long-form teacher training. Retreat days fold in bush walks on the property.

The Western Australian licensee for Master Choa Kok Sui's pranic healing system, affiliated with the Institute for Inner Studies. Runs pranic healing sessions and the full course ladder — Basic through Advanced, Pranic Psychotherapy, Psychic Self Defence, Feng Shui and Crystal levels — plus weekly Meditation on Twin Hearts and monthly full-moon meditations at venues around Perth.

Euphemia teaches small-group workshops from Hamilton Hill: Reiki levels one to three ($200–$390), a six-week Awaken & Raise Your Vibration course ($320), a reiki and chakra balancing weekend ($350) and a $30 pendulum workshop, with online meditation and journaling at $10 a week. Healing sessions include sound meditation, clairvoyant readings and aura drawings.

The Buddhist Society of WA's purpose-built retreat centre in a Darling Scarp valley beside Bodhinyana Monastery — sixty single rooms with ensuites, a large meditation hall and covered walking-meditation halls. Weekend and nine-day residential retreats are led by monastics, with long days of sitting and walking practice; experienced practitioners can arrange mentored self-retreats of a week or more.

Eric Harrison has taught meditation in Perth since 1987 — some twenty-five thousand students on — with an approach that is deliberately rational and practical, free of spiritual framing. Day-long mindfulness workshops run one Saturday a month ($210, $150 concession) and include his textbook and guided audio for home practice.

A not-for-profit centre teaching modern Buddhist meditation, with its home in East Fremantle and weekly drop-in classes across the metro — Joondalup, Kingsley, Bayswater, Baldivis and free lunchtime sessions at the WA Museum. Drop-ins are $15, need no booking, and assume no background whatsoever.

Weekly crystal-bowl sound journeys at three venues across the metro — Trigg by the beach midweek and Sunday, with Fremantle and Victoria Park sessions on Sundays. Casual drop-ins run $44 and a three-session intro pack takes the edge off deciding. A guided meditation opens each session before the bowls take over.