Free Five-Week Meditation Workshop

This workshop is organized by the Sri Chimnoy Center. If you are new to meditation and are looking to learn it for free, by all means, give it a go. It gives you some prospective on things, the instuctors are most pleasant and I would most definitely recommend it for those who seek to get into meditation at no cost.
Why i take points off: the shrine to Sri Chimnoy, and all the religion/​cult like paraphernalia makes me slightly uneasy. Meditation is a legit neuro stress management technique, there’s no need to package it into any of this.
The room gets very full and this is a public school gathering hall (ps 020 Anna Silver) so it’s a pretty large audience — during the meditation, the phones will go off, there may be coughing and other miscellaneous distractions.
The bottomline: this is a once a week 5 week workshop: how you benefit from it depends on a large part whether you exercise what you learn in between these sessions.