Providence

The Providence, Rhode Island Centre is located in East Providence, a stone's throw away from the scenic East Bay Bike Path. We meet for weekly meditations and represent varied professions including a RISD professor, an entrepreneur/engineer, a financial administrator/manager at Brown University, a librarian, a security guard who runs an after-school "Chess Smarts" program for children that has won the Rhode Island state championship in the last 3 out of 5 years, and a retail employee.

Meditation Classes

Meditation Classes are held in Rhode Island and Seekon throughout the year. For information on our free meditation courses please contact us!

Since we are only several hours away from New York City, members and seekers can also attend meditations at the Centre International Headquarters in New York. Our Rhode Island Centre Leader, Vijali, is an accomplished theatrical director within the Sri Chinmoy Centres and play rehearsals and performances are a regular activity within the Providence Centre. Our members also come from varied backgrounds, the majority being New England natives, although Ganapati (right in photo below) was born in Africa and another woman in our group, Sharika, is Cape Verdean.

We offer free classes in meditation at locations such as libraries, senior centres and local health food stores. The Providence Centre also takes part in the various community activities of the Sri Chinmoy Centres such as Cape Verdean aid for The Oneness- Heart-Tears and Smiles, the World Harmony Run and sponsoring local road races. Over the years, the World Harmony Run torch has been held by Rhode Island governors, mayors,  U.S. Congressmen from Rhode Island as well as hundreds and hundreds of school and summer camp children.

The Providence Centre exemplifies active involvement and service to the state at large. We have participated in the Bristol 4th of July Parade with a prize- winning float, undertook a project to plant trees in every community across the state, and offered numerous educational sessions on the World Harmony Run in elementary schools, boys and girls clubs and town sponsored recreational youth programs. Mirroring our location in the smallest state of the Union, we feel our centre also is characterized by a small-town caring and supportive friendly feeling.

Please feel free to visit some of the Providence Centre members' homepages and websites to further explore this East Coast American centre.

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