The Instructor

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Surja Tjahaja​ holds a MBA degree from the University of Southern California. He is especially interested in how meditation promotes neuroplasticity and healing. A BRAINET board member (associated with OHSU), Surja draws upon scientific understanding in his teaching as well as his 20 years of meditation practice and chaplaincy experiences. He currently teaches meditation in the Portland, Oregon area and online.

The Approach

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My classes are open to people of all abilities, backgrounds, and health conditions. Although Eastern culture offers many forms of meditation, my approach is systematic and non-religious and offers a practical way of doing things in everyday life. For example what is stress? How do we overcome it? What is thought and thinking? What exercises can we do so that we can comprehend the true nature of thought and are not enslaved by it?
See recent profiles of Surja Tjahaja in the Lake Oswego Review, West Linn Tidings,  Clackamas Review & Estacada News.


Notable quotables from Surja:

Meditation is a response to a sense of urgency.
Death is certain for all of us.
Only Its timing is uncertain.
Wouldn't It be nice to be happy for the rest of your life?
Why wait?