Sangham (Sanskrit: संघम्) – "a sacred gathering; a confluence of many streams into one living river. OR “community”, “union”, “assembly of the wise”)Sangham is the meeting place where ancient wisdom traditions, contemporary healing, and living transmission flow together as a single, evolving current.
Sangham is a sanctuary for sincere seekers—where timeless spiritual technologies meet grounded contemporary frameworks for inner growth. Founded by Swami Ramarishi (Michael Kaplan), Sangham bridges ancient breath and body practices with modern psychological insight and community-based healing. Physically based in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa; the Sangham space offers regular workshops, classes and spaces for connection and discovery.In a time of growing disconnection, Sangham offers pathways to remember what was once natural: living spiritual connection, embodied practice, and conscious community. Through breathwork, meditation, movement, and reflection—our methods are time-tested, yet newly applied.Founded by Swami Ramarishi, a South African-born facilitator, writer, and practitioner of yogic and meditative disciplines. His background blends formal psychology training with over a decade of group facilitation and mentorship. Following a powerful spiritual calling, he entered extended silence and practice in the Indian Himalayas. There, under the guidance his spiritual master, Sangham was born.
Meditate with us:
We offer curated guided meditations every week through our Whatsapp channel for free. Each guided meditation is based on an ancient, time-tested and scientifically verified approach of meditation. Each method is given not merely as a guided practice, but also with a short talk explaning the history and context of the practice and how it works. Beyond this, Q&A's relating to each method are also shared. You can join the Whatsapp Channel by clicking the button below:
For those who have experienced the taste of meditativeness offered through the Whatsapp channel, and who wish to go deeper and really create an independent daily practice, we are currently putting the final touches on a 6 week, deep intensive online meditation course which will be offered through weekly video conference calls. This is designed to help you not only deepen your familiarity with an array of interconnected methods of meditation, but bring your daily practice into daily life. If you would like to get an early-bird pre-signup discount on this exclusive offering, please contact us below!
For those of you who are situated in Cape Town, South Africa; we also offer guided weekly Sunday evening meditation workshops. During these evenings you will be guided through some preparatory exercises to help you drop in, and then offered some method by which to move into the meditative state. We then end our sitting with a sharing of tea and light vegetarian snacks, with the opportunity to share. If you are interested in participating in this in-person gathering and Southern Suburbs is accesssible, please use the contact form below. Donations are accepted on voluntary basis, in the form of service to the space or monetary contribution.
Practice in the Sangham Space
The Sangham Space is physically located in Rondebosch, Cape Town in South Africa. We offer a variety of in person classes every week including Hatha Yoga, Pranayama, Mixed Medium Active Meditations and Silent Sitting Meditation. We also offer rare once-off workshops such as Sufi Whirling Meditation, Chakra Meditation, Poetry Sharing Evenings and more, usually on special request.You can be updated with each weeks schedule of available classes by joining the Whatsapp Channel below.
We can also run classes, workshops and multi-day retreats on-demand. If you have a group of willing participants, you can request us to come to you, or organise to use the Sangham Space itself, or find a third party venue that accomodates properly. Sangham is not limited to particular geography, even if you are outside of Cape Town, or South Africa, we can organise a Sangham retreat near you if there are enough commited people wanting it. If you represent such a community of people, either locally or abroad, please get in touch through the form below to discuss logistics.
Personal Guidance
The vast majority of what Sangham is here to offer cannot be valued in monetary terms. It's too invaluable, too ancient and too esoteric to be measured financially. For example, all the methods of meditation we are teaching through the Whatsapp channel could easily be sold at a high premium. But our intention is that the maximum number of people should have access to these methods. Because they were created for the good of humanity, not for business purposes. Certain offerings however, due to the time and resources they require, necessitate a financial cost being attached to them. For the seeker without means, everything that is essential for progress on the spiritual path, is accessible through Sangham without cost. That said, money is also a form of energy which is necessary and useful in the modern context. As such, we have put together some offerings specifically for those who have financial ease, to help them utilise this towards their growth and ultimate wellbeing.Towards this end, for the first time ever, formally and publically, we are offering personal, one to one guidance sessions. For many years I have guided and mentored people, taking them through intensive psychological and spiritual transformations. Now, for the first time, this is being made more widely available. Each guidance session is 90 minutes, giving time for a deeper discussion and reflection. I will work with you through a variety of mediums, psychological and spiritual both, to help guide you through a particular problem or set of obstacles in your path. Or otherwise move into clarity out of confusion.This is not a service which I am putting any effort into advertising, my skills and the value of what I have to offer here, speak for themselves. Each session is charged at $150 USD and the money is used towards the upkeep of Sangham and bringing the tools of transformation to as wide an audience as possible.
Contact Us
If you are interested in pre-signup for the meditation course, personal guidance or just reaching out to say "Hello", this is the place to do so! Alternatively, you can contact us through one of our social media handles below!
Thank You
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