Weekly Meditation Classes
INNER PEACE IN 2025
DROP-IN CLASS LOCATIONS
Meditate in Palm Beach
WEDNESDAYS 7PM-8PM
Palm Beach Community Centre
Palm Beach Aquatic and Community Centre, Thrower Drive, Palm Beach
With Resident Teacher Gen Tsalden
OUR PALM BEACH CLASS IS TAKING A BREAK FROM WED 17 SEPT UNTIL 2025
Meditate in Robina
THURSDAYS 10AM – 11AM
THURSDAYS 7PM – 8PM
Meditation Classes at our Centre in Robina
Ganden Kadampa Buddhist Centre With Resident Teacher Gen Tsalden
Meditate in Runaway Bay
SATURDAYS 10.30AM – 11.30AM
Runaway Bay Community Centre
Lae Drive, Runaway Bay
With Resident Teacher Gen Tsalden
THE HEALING POWER OF MEDITATION
STARTS WED 17 SEPTEMBER - special two-week course!
The special meditations of taking and giving are powerful methods to purify the potentialities of non-virtuous actions that cause us to experience serious diseases; to accumulate a great collection of merit or good fortune; to ripen our potentiality to be able to benefit all living beings; and to purify our mind. Join us for this special two-week course to learn these ancient secrets for a strong, peaceful mind, and a happy life.
Cost:$15* (Centre members free) Buy a 4 or 10 class pass and save.
Our drop-in classes are suitable for everyone and consist of simple guided meditations and teachings.
MEDITATE BY THE BROADWATER
Free Morning Meditation
(NO MEDITATION SATURDAY 28 JUNE)
Saturdays 7.30am – 8am
Casuarina Grove Picnic Area, Broadwater Parklands
Start your weekend with some inner peace. Please bring your own chair or mat.
With Resident Teacher Gen Lhachog.
Free Lunchtime Meditations - Every Wednesday 12.30pm to 1pm
No meditation Wednesday 10 September
Enjoy a break from your busy day and join us for 30 minutes of inner peace, with simple meditations and quiet time.
With Buddhist Teacher Dave Broadbent.
Now is the time for inner peace.
Purchase a Class Pass and save on individual classes. Valid for 12 months.
Our Resident Teacher
Gen Kelsang Tsalden
Gen Kelsang Tsalden is a fully ordained, western Buddhist nun and Resident Teacher of Ganden Kadampa Buddhist Centre on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Ordained in 2006 by her Teacher – fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, Gen Tsalden has studied and practiced Kadampa Buddhism for almost 20 years, both in Australia and the UK.
With 14 years experience as a Resident Teacher Gen Tsalden imparts a deep, personal experience of the practice of Buddhism in daily life. Her clear, warm and light hearted delivery of profound, life-changing Buddhist teachings, has seen a new generation of young Gold Coasters discovering and using these practical, logical and helpful instructions, to solve their daily problems and increase their happiness and peace of mind.
Other Teachers
Mary Caldwell
Mary (Mazzi) Caldwell is a Buddhist teacher from our community, and also the Centre’s Education Program Coordinator. With her natural kindness and sincerity she shares Buddhist wisdom from her own experience, encouraging others to transform their lives through meditation.
Dave Broadbent
Dave Broadbent is a Buddhist teacher from our community, and also the Centre’s Admin Director. Dave is warm, kind and humble, and has deep faith in Buddhist meditation as he has direct experience of its protective power during the various challenges of life. Dave teaches the Wednesday lunchtime free meditation class at our Centre in Robina.
NOT FEELING WELL?
To keep everyone safe, we ask that you don’t come to classes if you are feeling unwell or have any symptoms of illness.
TIMES:
Please arrive by no later 5 minutes prior to you class commencement time so that you can be seated and settled for the start of class.
No food or drinks are permitted (water is fine).