Meditation with Markus Atmananda
Satsang Wednesdays at 19.30 – 21.00
Monday meditation 19.30 – 20.30
Satsang Wednedays
Wednesdays at Ashtang Yoga Shala and Online 19.30 – 21.00
Markus Atmananda invites you to a peaceful evening of meditation, reflection, and open conversation. Together, we explore how to be fully present and discover the natural ease that is already here. You are welcome whether this is your first time meditating or you have years of experience.
The Art of Meditation
Mondays at Yoga Kendra in Malmö, Sweden.
19.30 – 20.30 (Start 2nd of March)
This class offers an introduction to meditation as a living, embodied practice. Through mantra, silence, and simple guidance, we learn to rest in ourselves and cultivate clarity and presence in daily life.
Participants may experience:
• Inner calm and clarity
• Reduced mental and emotional tension
• Greater presence and self-awareness
Open to beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
Common Questions
How can non-dual meditation help me in my everyday life?
It helps you step out of constant inner struggle.
Most people live caught in their thoughts and emotions.
Something happens, and the mind immediately starts reacting:
worrying, judging, blaming or feeling overwhelmed.
This creates tension, stress, and dissatisfaction.
Through this practice, reactions lose their hold.
You are not pulled into every thought and feeling.
Space appears.
And with it, ease.
You become less reactive.
Less overwhelmed.
More present.
And over time, you discover that peace is not something you need to achieve.
It is what remains when you stop fighting yourself.
I think I understand the teachings. Why do I still struggle so much in my life?
Because understanding is not seeing.
You can understand the words and still believe every thought.
As long as you take thoughts and emotions personally, struggle continues.
The shift happens when you start observing your experience instead of arguing with it.
What am I actually supposed to do in meditation?
From the ego’s point of view, there is nothing to “do” in meditation.
Notice your experience of the present moment.
Notice the body.
Notice thinking.
Notice emotions.
Notice without a story.
You are not here to fix yourself or create silence.
Meditation is what remains when the doer relaxes.
Why does it feel like my mind is getting louder when I start meditating?
Because you are finally looking.
Before, the noise was there. You were just distracted.
When you sit, you meet your habits, fears, and avoidance.
Sit with them. See how they come and go.
Where does real happiness come from?
From being present.
From meeting this moment without resistance.
Not waiting for something else.
Not trying to improve yourself first.
When you are fully here, ordinary life is enough.
That is peace.
What is the biggest obstacle in this practice?
Arrogance and ignorance.
Arrogance is thinking you already understand.
Ignorance is not seeing how your patterns still run you.
Together, they keep you stuck.
Stay humble and honest, and they will be overcome.
How do I know if I’m progressing?
You notice it in simple ways.
The mind becomes more quiet.
You are less easily triggered.
You recover faster when you are.
You can feel emotions without immediately feeling like a victim of them.
You stop blaming circumstances and people so much.
Instead of being overwhelmed by your inner life, you start to be with it.
There is more space.
More balance.
Less drama.
That is progress.
Is the goal to get rid of the ego?
No.
The ego is not something you can remove.
It is a pattern of identification.
Trying to destroy it is just the ego trying to improve itself.
Instead, see it.
Ask, “To whom is this happening?”
When you really look, there is no solid center. There is just awareness.
Stay as awareness.
It is revealed that the ego was never real.
Do I need a teacher, tradition, or belief system?
Belief systems are usually not helpful.
They easily become something you hide behind.
Something you repeat instead of looking.
You start believing ideas instead of investigating your experience.
That keeps things on the surface.
At the same time, a small amount of faith is needed.
Not faith in concepts.
Not faith in a system.
Faith in your own capacity to see.
Faith that it is worth staying with this moment, even when it is uncomfortable or confusing.
A teacher can help point.
A tradition can give context.
But in the end, you have to look for yourself.
No belief system can do that for you.
Truth is not something you adopt.
It is something you recognize.