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Create a quiet mind, build a peaceful world.
Teaching and Meditation Classes
The power and grace of simple meditative stillness is perhaps the greatest gift you can offer yourself. The experience of it forever reshapes your sense of self and your relationship to existence.
For as long as human civilization has existed, meditation has been among its most powerful and effective tools for spiritual evolution and self realization.
Meditation is, in fact, the simplest and easiest thing in the world to do, which is precisely why it is so challenging for most people. The anxious noise and nervous chatter of the thinking mind stands in direct opposition to the levels of trust and existential calm needed to achieve authentic inner stillness.
My approach to teaching meditation is shaped by a very broad view of its many possible applications, a vast experience with human diversity and a unique understanding of how to find the best techniques to suit the needs and goals of any particular person.
I was first introduced to the foundational concepts of Vedic meditation and Ashtanga yoga in 1972 from my father and from teachers he inspired who themselves had been taught by Maharishi Mehesh Yogi. Maharishi was one one of the first Indian yogis to actively promote meditation and yoga in the United States as both a spiritual endeavor and practical method for cultivating inner tranquility and physical well being. It was a time in the US when such endeavors were generally held in suspicion and people were very quick to judge, however yoga and vedic meditation felt extremely natural and perfectly logical to me and I continued to practice and to use the methods that I had learned as a means for achieving extraordinary states of consciousness and deep, expansive calm.
While I never developed a regular, disciplined practice at that age, I used meditation often in a variety of ways, including schoolwork, stage performance, distance running, etc.. It was a great help and was in many respects my secret super power for transcending fear, fatigue, negative self-talk, self limiting beliefs and unhealthy neurotic habits. To this day I remember sitting in a meditation class in my junior year of highschool… listening to the teacher, Mr. Jenkins, and feeling the earth shift beneath me when he explained that most human beings would never even recognize the way the neurotic mind occupied their consciousness with endless mental chatter. What he said then has stuck with me through my entire life and I have held the memory of it as a major turning point in my life as a meditator… What he said is that any person who could successfully silence the incessant yammering of the thinking mind for as little as 2 full seconds was a person who could change the world. After years of inconsistent practice, I had already mastered that capacity… So then I set out to see what would happen if I trained to be perfectly silent and still for 5 seconds… then 10… then 20… then… I can’t pretend to have changed the world but I certainly changed how I experienced and interacted with existence and existence, in turn, has clearly responded to the changes in me.
In the years that followed my initial introduction my father taught me to expand on those skills and taught me the use of meditative self-hypnosis and intentional manifestation techniques which I honed and practiced into my adult years.
I have traveled and studied at length with meditators, mystics and spiritual masters in Japan, China, India, Nepal, Tibet, Europe, United States, Central and South America.
Over the course of 50 years I have studied and taught a variety of classic meditation techniques including: Vedic, Zen, Buddhist along with a wide variety of non-traditional methods.
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