Meditation Centers
 Mahasi Meditation Center
Mahasi Meditation Centre is located in Hermitage Avenue near
Kaba Aye Pagoda Road of Bahan Township. There are more than
one hundred buildings in the compound for the meditation
teachers (Kamahtanasaria) and Yogis (Meditation trainees).
 Panditayama Shwe Taung Gone
It is located on Thanlwin Road in Golden Valley Avenue,
Bahan Township. There, well qualified meditation teachers
who can speak English are giving training to the Meditation
trainees in this center.
 Chan Myae Yaiktha
Chan Myae Yeiktha Meditation Center is founded by one of the
International Theravada Buddhism leader Ashin
Jannakkavivunssa. It is located on the Kaba Aye Pagoda Road.
Additional Information
Both men and women Yogis are being provided with modern and
traditional facilities in hostels. Foreign Yogis who are
practicing full-time vipassana meditation must follow the
rules and regulations. All meals (without dinner) and
accommodation costs are always free for all foreign Yogis
during the period of their stay and taking meditation at the
centre.
 Breakfast
and lunch are served at the centre for the vegetarian or
non-vegetarian Yogis. Every Yogi must keep the eight
precepts including abstain from eating solid food after
12:00 noon. There will not be any evening meal. However soft
drinks are allowed. All Yogis must keep the eight precepts
during the period of their stay at the Meditation Centre and
these rules would be explained by the meditation teachers.
All Yogis would be guided and trained by the meditation
teachers throughout the course and be able to learn the
compulsory meditation knowledge and basic Buddhism. It is
comfortable to wear Myanmar longyi for both of men and women
Yogis in the period of the meditation in those meditation
centers.
Meditation in Yangon
Day-1 Yangon (Arrival)
Upon your arrival, our representative would welcome you and
transfer you to the hotel. After check in at the hotel, if
time permits, visit to Shwedagon Pagoda (the world’s massive
Buddhist religious monument) in the sunset time. Dinner
would be served at the restaurant and overnight stay at the
hotel in Yangon.
Day-2 Meditation Center
After breakfast at the hotel, proceed to the meditation
center. We would provide you some of your major requirements
during your period of meditation stay in this center.
Note: Normally, most of the
meditation centers have programs for at least minimum 3 days
for the Yogis who are willing to practice meditation at
those centers. It would be depending on your schedule and
should notify to our company prior to your arrival.
Yangon (Departure)
After breakfast, transfer you to the airport for your onward
departure flight.
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