Advanced Knowledge
with Rachel Gross and Barron Hanson
Elevate your consciousness state. Deepen your practice. Immerse in supreme wisdom. Learn new techniques. Reawaken universal knowledge within. Ask the big questions. Nurture your baseline of bliss. Dissolve decades of social conditioning. Fine-tune your thinking. Accelerate expansion. Align with nature. Shape your world. Learn to relax and enjoy.
How Can I Expand My Practice?
If you are enjoying your regular Vedic Meditation practice and are ready to for the next step, there are a number of options for you. Scroll below to learn more about instruction in Rounding, Rounding Retreats, Advanced Techniques, Exploring the Veda, and Thom Knoles' Podcast: The Vedic Worldview.
ROUNDING
Rounding is an advanced technique designed to purify the mind and body by facilitating deep rest. The process consists of a specific sequence of gentle yoga poses (asanas), balancing breath work (pranayama), meditation, and lying down. A typical round is about one hour long. A round is typically performed on a yoga mat and doesn’t require any special equipment or skills. Comfortable clothes can be worn.
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Our next learn to round workshop at the Be Here Nowra Studio will be:
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4pm - Sun 16 Feb 2025
ROUNDING RETREATS
On a rounding retreat, you will complete several rounds a day, and in this way, will let go of exponential amounts of stress. A weekend’s Rounding Retreat can be the equivalent of six months of twice-daily meditation practice. You'll also enjoy ayurvedic food, advanced knowledge sessions, making new friends and reconnecting with nature.
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Our next Retreat will be in The Blue Mountains with Joh Jarvis:​​​
Wed 27 / Thur 28 - Sun 31 Aug 2025
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
After every 12 months of regular and consistent practice, meditators looking to deepen their experience and accelerate their evolution are eligible to receive an advanced technique.
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Akin to upshifting and enjoying a smoother and faster ride while on the highway, advanced techniques are designed to take one’s awareness to the layer of consciousness that comprises the interface between thinking and pure silence. Repeated exposure to this subtle layer of consciousness allows us to integrate the incredibly charming state that we experience in our deepest meditations into the waking state of our everyday lives.
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Advanced Techniques are taught over two separate one-hour appointments. In the first private appointment, you receive your advanced technique. The second session then occurs within 10 days following the first session and involves checking your advanced technique and its correct usage, either privately or in a group setting.
EXPLORING THE VEDA
When we find ourselves feeling charmed to dive deeper into our practice, to fast-track our growth into higher states of consciousness, and to transform our experience of the waking state in nearly every way, then it's a pretty unambiguous sign that we're ready to embark on the journey of Exploring the Veda, a series of six non-residential retreat-style knowledge weekends.
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Often described by meditators as deeply profound and even transformational, these weekends consist of listening to recordings made by our inspiring and blissful teacher, Thom Knoles, who is recognized as one of the world's foremost masters of Veda and its true meaning and application in today's modern world.
In these recordings, Thom distills the whole of the Veda — known to be the blueprint of creation and to confer mastery of all the laws of nature — in a very relatable and applicable way. He delves deeply into the Vedic Worldview and draws out pearls of wisdom with life-changing practical application.
THE VEDIC WORLDVIEW
If you haven't already given it a listen, we highly recommend diving into our teacher, Thom Knoles', podcast: The Vedic Worldview. With hundreds of episodes, Thom goes in-depth on topics from relationships to quantum mechanics and consciousness, all based in the wisdom from the Tradition our meditation practice comes from. Thom's unique insights make it one of the top meditation podcasts available today, and listening is sure to accelerate your own personal evolution towards higher states of consciousness. If nothing else, we promise it won't be boring :-)
Your Teachers
Rachel Gross and Barron Hanson are qualified Vedic Meditation Initiators, both trained by Thom Knoles as part of the Shankaracharya Tradition of India. They each bring their individual flavour and charm to advanced knowledge, not only by teaching it but living it. They enjoy sharing knowledge together as a team and collectively run Be Here Nowra - Community Happiness Project and HERE in Nowra Vedic Festival. They proudly live and teach in Nowra.
