Siddho and her first encounter with meditation

I remember the first time I went to meditate in Milan, in a room, in a basement, in a side street off Via Andrea Costa. I was 21 years old.

I was excited and very embarrassed. I had received the invitation from a friend, whom I had only recently known, but who had caught my curiosity towards Osho who was then known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

This person had forgotten a book by Osho at my house, which I had read all in one night, "The Inner Revolution" and I was electrocuted!

I went down those stairs with my heart pounding, I was in the unknown, I didn't know exactly where I was going... who I would meet, and what I would do. And perhaps my unconscious sensed that I was heading towards something inexplicably important...

I was greeted by a sannyasin dressed in orange with a necklace around his neck and a beard... bright eyes, very jovial, who hugged me as if I were an old friend. The lights were dim, and the room was completely empty, with a candle on a small table and a picture of Osho.

Osho Kundalini meditation

Osho's photo attracted me a lot, a mix between "I've known you forever" and "who are you?"...

Almost without realizing it, I stood for minutes in front of that photo, and I felt transported into an empty dimension of the mind... everything was so new and strange, that the mind stopped commenting...

At that precise moment the sannyasin who had welcomed me explained Kundalini meditation to me. Sitting all around leaning against the walls there were 4 or 5 other people, certainly more experienced than me. I listened to the explanation in an altered state of consciousness... everything in its incredible simplicity was "much" to be absorbed.

And so I had my first kundalini: it was May 1978. I felt light, with my body freer than I normally perceive it, and the thing that amazed me was that in the end, getting up after 15 minutes of silence, I felt a joy inside, without any reason...I perceived a silence that didn't embarrass me, an inner silence, and this deeply fascinated me, this was the great discovery!

Joy without an external reason... Silence and peace.

I felt joy and I was in a bare room, with strangers smiling and embracing each other, and I was a little apart, bewildered and at ease at the same time...

Love and meditation have met

My mind didn't understand, it didn't pigeonhole, but that evening my heart started looking for that thing that is not tangible, but that the heart feels: love without an object.

Yes, because those unknown people, without telling me almost anything, made me feel at home. We had shared a meditation, we had shared silence, and the impalpable atmosphere was love.

Love and meditation, two sides of the same coin.

I left after a few months for Poona - India - and I met Osho and from that moment my life... met the song worth living for...

Since that distant 1978, my life has been a simple and continuous search for how to live in a space where there is silence, love, meditation and wholeness. Yes, one of the keys to life I received from Osho is "Live totally" "Live HERE AND NOW". We often get lost, in the midst of a thousand occupations in which we identify, involved in relationships that move us away from our centre, but by now I know that it doesn't take much to return "home" inside. And it brings me joy to share this trust with others.

Osho has given us so many meditation techniques, and for many years I have been conducting days that I have called to the ESSENCE in which we experience different Osho meditation techniques, and also guided meditations that lead to deep relaxation and healing.

The body and dance are the basis of Osho's active meditations, studied and created for modern Western man, so that silence happens effortlessly, like a dew on your Being.