Meditation classes in South East

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.

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.

Karen Haddon teaches the full eight-week MBSR program — weekly 2.5-hour classes plus a seven-hour retreat day — in person and online, alongside Mindful Self-Compassion, workplace and schools programs, and one-to-one coaching. The course runs $695 with payment plans and hardship rates offered without fuss, and a free fifteen-minute consult settles whether it's the right fit.

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.

More than thirty-six classes a week across Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Hatha and Yin, seven days a week — including Mysore-style self-practice from 5.30am for the before-work crowd. The six-week Beginners Foundations course is the structured way in if you've never stepped on a mat.

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.