Join us for Meditate Bethesda
Learn TM now with up to 50% off until November 12. It’s part of our initiative to help more people heal toxic stress, boost resilience, and enjoy inner peace.
What is the TM technique?
Evidence-based benefits
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Increase mental clarity & creativity
Through improved brain function, you’ll gain a broader perspective and enjoy more focus and creativity to make progress towards your goals.
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Reduce stress & anxiety
Find increased resilience to stress and the ability to handle challenging situations calmly. Research has shown the TM technique is also effective for PTSD and ADHD.
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Get better sleep & health
Enjoy a deep rest that enlivens the body’s natural healing response, improving heart health, immunity, sleep quality, and stress-related conditions.
Book a TM course
How to learn
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In-person
Visit a TM center for 2 hrs on 4 consecutive days for personalized one-on-one instruction & small group follow-up sessions.
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Hybrid
Visit a TM center once for personalized one-on-one instruction, then complete the following sessions remotely.
Follow-up program
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Continued support
Get in touch with certified TM instructors all across the U.S. to ask your questions and receive additional support and guidance.
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Access to the TM app
With videos and key takeaways, the TM app is filled with resources to be confident and consistent with your new TM practice.
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Group meditations
Online and in-person group meditations help you stay on track with your meditation goals and build connection with your local and global TM community.
TM course fee
Save up to 50% on the TM course fee until November 12 thanks to the Meditate America campaign, made possible with the assistance of generous donations.
As a non-profit organization, we want to make TM available to everyone who wants to learn. We're inviting those who can support this initiative to help make scholarships available to those in need.
The TM course fee can be paid in 4 installments, and a reduced price is available for full-time students.
Select your reduced fee
Limited-time offer
The TM course fee includes:
- Personalized one-on-one instruction
- 3 group sessions with your instructor and other course participants
- Continued support from certified TM instructors, including personal tune-ups
- The TM app (including a custom timer, access to daily group meditations and other TM events, a library of videos and knowledge, and much more)
- A satisfaction guarantee
- Access to TM centers around the world
Scholarships
Can’t afford the course? Apply for a scholarship here.
Certified TM instructors
The authentic TM technique can only be learned from a certified TM instructor in a course carefully personalized for each individual. All certified TM instructors have successfully completed an intensive in-residence TM Teacher Training Course, and they maintain their certification through ongoing professional courses.
Support the teaching of TM
Help us to reduce stress and improve the quality of life for people in need throughout the nation. Your donation will help us teach TM to first responders, veterans, and those requiring financial assistance. When donating, you can choose whether you wish to support TM teaching activity in your TM center, or, where it is needed the most in the United States.
Questions? Ready to book a TM course?
Contact the Bethesda TM Center
Call: (301) 770-5690
Address: 5504 Edson Lane, Rockville, MD. 20852
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Common questions
Meditate America is a nation-wide initiative, in collaboration with the David Lynch Foundation. To boost creativity, energy, and revitalization—as well as reduce toxic stress—the TM course is available for up to 50% off until November 12.
TM is taught by a non-profit organization committed to making TM’s benefits available to as many people as possible. To honor this mission, the TM course fee can be paid in 4 installments, and a reduced price is available for full-time students.
In addition, with generous donations, we make scholarships available to first responders, veterans, and those in need of financial assistance.
Imagine trying to learn a musical instrument or sport. You know how valuable it is for a good teacher to show you the proper technique. Similarly, individualized instruction by certified TM instructors ensures a personal and intuitive learning experience, allowing students to learn the technique with ease and precision, and to establish a lasting TM practice. There is no other way to learn the authentic TM technique — and there is no evidence that anything else provides the full range of benefits documented in the published research on TM.
The TM technique allows your mind to naturally transcend, or easily settle inward, to quieter and quieter levels of thought, until you experience the most silent and peaceful level of your own awareness.
No problem at all. Unlike other forms of meditation, the TM technique involves no concentration, no control of the mind, no contemplation, no monitoring of thoughts. It is completely effortless.
The TM technique's effectiveness is the same whether you believe it will work or are completely skeptical. That's because it automatically and effortlessly allows your active thinking mind to settle down to a state of deep inner calm.
In mindfulness meditation you monitor your thoughts, feelings, breathing, and bodily sensations, without judging them. This keeps your mind engaged on the active level of thinking, as do many other forms of meditation. What we don’t often realize is that, beneath the active surface, the mind already has a deep level of calm, like the settled depth of the ocean beneath the waves. The Transcendental Meditation technique facilitates transcending –effortlessly opening our awareness to this deeper, peaceful level of the mind.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose life's work was to revive and demystify the timeless knowledge of meditation, and verify its effectiveness through the lens of modern science, began teaching Transcendental Meditation in the 1950s. After refining and systematizing the teaching of TM, Maharishi began a movement to make the technique available worldwide. He oversaw the training of thousands of instructors and established a non-profit foundation to preserve the authenticity of the TM technique for generations to come.