Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation was brought to the world by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and has been learned by well over six million people. His life’s work was to revive and demystify the timeless knowledge of meditation, and verify its effectiveness through the lens of modern science, and began teaching in the 1950s. After refining and systematising the teaching of TM, Maharishi began a movement to make the technique available worldwide. He oversaw the training of thousands of teachers and established a non-profit foundation to preserve the authenticity of the TM technique for generations to come.
The Maharishi Foundation is the official foundation in the UK who teaches the authentic Transcendental Meditation brought to the world by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This total knowledge has been passed down from teacher to student, teacher to student verbally throughout the ages and the teachers today teach in exactly the same way so the purity of the teaching has been kept and is why it works today. The Maharishi Foundation® is a non-profit organisation which is a registered educational charity number 270157 (England and Wales) XR20456 (Northern Ireland) and SC041919 (Scotland).
Transcendental Meditation Hampshire is the only Hampshire local official and authentic website for Transcendental Meditation and is affiliated to the Maharishi Foundation.
All the teachers are certified teachers and our National Office, Maharishi Foundation, has a complete list of all the certified teachers. (01695 51213).
Learn Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation, as founded by Maharishi, is a simple, effective mental technique which allows the mind to transcend and settle to the simplest, most powerful state of awareness. It does not involve any effort, mental control or active thought process. It is practised silently with eyes closed and sitting comfortably.
TM is not a religion, no concentration, does not involve ‘clearing the mind’, focusing on breathing or mindfulness.
Contact Liz on 01420 476000 or hampshire.uk@tm.org to book a free introduction to TM.
Evidence based Benefits of Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation unfolds the full potential of life and extensive research has found it reduces stress and anxiety resulting in more inner peace, creativity, better health, better sleep, success, happiness, gaining higher states of consciousness and more.
Stress which hinders creative thinking and dynamic activity, is naturally dissolved – resulting in improved personal and professional relationships, increases mental clarity and creativity, better health, more happiness and success – thereby giving more fullness of life leading to higher states of consciousness – enlightenment. To find out more please register for a free talk by emailing hampshire.uk@tm.org. Visit our Free Talks on TM page for dates.
Local Certified Teacher of TM
Liz Court learned Transcendental Meditation in 1967 and gained so much from the technique that in January 1970 she went to Rishikesh, India to train under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to become a teacher. On returning from India she taught in Watford and started the Harrow Centre. When she returned from working for Maharishi in Europe at his invitation, she taught in Guildford and started the Hampshire Centre. She says it is a privilege to teach Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and a great joy to see the changes that take place in students after they learn. This is so inspiring that she still continues teaching and running the Hampshire Centre today. This year (2025) she celebrates being an accredited teacher of TM for 55 years.
“After our Certification course Maharishi told us that after all these years we now have all the Vedic Total Knowledge”.
Steps to Enlightenment through Transcendental Meditation
Maharishi explained to us over the years that there are 7 States of Consciousness. The first three we already experience ie Waking, Dreaming and Sleeping. When we learn Transcendental Meditation we experience Transcendental Consciousness followed by Cosmic Consciousness, God Consciousness and then Unity Consciousness which is the state of Enlightenment. To find out more please register for a free talk by emailing hampshire.uk@tm.org. Visit our Free Talks on TM page for dates
Authentic Tradition
Before Maharishi Mahesh Yogi passed away he planned the future of the International Transcendental Meditation (TM) organisations. He chose Dr Tony Nader (Maharaja) as being the next in line of the Vedic Tradition as he was accomplished in knowledge. Dr Tony Nader is a medical doctor, neuroscientist, and international scholar with mastery in both modern science and timeless Vedic wisdom.
The Origin of Thought
Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi
Dr Tony Nader On Transformative Productivity
Meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi –
Dr Tony Nader
Transcendental
Meditation
In Action
Dr Fred Travis – Transcendental Med. Develops The Brain
David Lynch Explains
Transcendental
Meditation
Free intro and more to Transcendental Meditation
Free introductory talks and more on Transcendental Meditation are held regularly over Zoom.
The course to learn the technique can be taken in two different ways.
- The first day of learning, when the student actually learns how to practise Transcendental Meditation is face to face one to one with the teacher and then is assisted with videos which are downloaded onto the student’s mobile phone. They then link up with the teacher each evening at 8.00pm for more information and having their meditation checked.
- Consists of face to face one to one on the first day of learning and then three consecutive days of 1.5 hour sessions after learning which may be shared with other students.
Contact Liz on 01420 476000 or email hampshire.uk@tm.org to book a free introductory talk on Transcendental Meditation. See dates under the heading “Talks on Transcendental Meditation”.
Bob Roth’s introduction to Transcendental Meditation
Proven benefits for Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation has the largest and strongest body of research of any programme to develop human potential including many white papers.
- More than 600 scientific studies
- Conducted at 250 independent universities and institutions in 33 countries.
- Published in over 100 of the world’s leading scientific journals many of them peer-reviewed.
- Benefits have been shown in every aspect of life: mind, body, behaviour, and society.
Letters from Rishikesh
This book takes the form of excerpts from letters Liz Court wrote to her mother during her period in Rishikesh, India when she trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The epub version includes authentic photographs and sounds which will add to the flavour of this special time and place.
“When those of us who were with Maharishi in Rishikesh are no longer here, generations to come will always ask the question, ‘What was it like to be with Maharishi in India?” – Liz Court