Hi, I'm Blaise DeAngelo.
A fast-paced and demanding career working alongside some of the most notable musicians of our generation spurred me to try almost everything under the sun for relief—therapy, exercise, journaling, psychedelics, sleep coaching, reiki, acupuncture, supplements, apps, retreats—you name it.
In 2016, a mentor let me in on the secret that all of the highest performers were using to maintain sanity of mind, support their creativity, and find rest when sleep wasn’t available—meditation.
I told her I'd been using an app, and she laughed, and told me to get proper training.
It was the greatest gift I'd ever gotten myself.
As my sleep, energy levels, mood, and creativity improved, I started to think more about the unique occupational hazards facing people like me in creative industries—stress, poor sleep, constant travel and isolation, improper nutrition, anxiety, depression, fear of criticism—and what I could do to help.
An opportunity soon arose to train as a teacher with one of the highest ranking swamis in the world, Shri 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Maharishi Vyasanand Giri Maharaj, the right-hand man to the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the world-famous Indian guru known for teaching The Beatles and inspiring their White Album. After years of more than 3,000 hours of rigorous training, including almost 100 days of up to 14 hours of meditation per day, I'm proud to be a Vedic Meditation teacher in the gold standard of the prestigious Shankaracharya tradition of India, with the blessing of Shri Shri 1008 Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Swami Kailashanand Giri Ji Maharaj, Supreme Authority of the Vedic Tradition and the undisputed and preeminent Master of all the Masters of India. I am one of less than 120 teachers in the world to meet such criteria.
Being intimately familiar with the challenges faced by those in creative industries after having spent more than a decade working with A-list talent, I've dedicated my teaching to supporting all who wish to learn, with a special focus on creative industries.
Press
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"Why Skrillex’s Label Manager Quit To Start A Wellness Retreat In Ibiza" By Annabel Ross
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"Ben Turner, Blaise James Fight for Wellness, Launch Remedy State Retreat at IMS" By Kat Bein
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"Remedy State Just Launched A Very Chill Wellness Retreat In Ibiza" By Jasmine Kent-Smith​​​
My Teacher
My teacher, Shri 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Maharishi Vyasanand Giri Maharaj, known humbly in the West as Thom Knoles, is one of the 12 highest ranking swamis in the world. After receiving a full scholarship to Georgetown University at the age of 16, he soon dropped out and traveled to India to begin working with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968, where the now-famous photos of John Lennon and The Beatles, the Farrow sisters, Donovan and more in India were taken. He spent the next 26 years traveling the world with Maharishi, as he taught more than 100,000 people the art of self-transcendent meditation before his retirement, and researching neuroscience and consciousness at Maharishi European Research University (MERU), receiving an honorary Doctor of Science of Creative Intelligence (D.Sci) doctorate in 1978.
In addition to being the only Westerner honored with the title of Maharishi, Thom is also a thought-leader in the field of neuroscience, holding a PhD from Georgetown University, and a celebrated speaker on the potential of the brain and health of the body, the relationship between quantum physics and human consciousness, and the 5,000 year-old body of wisdom known as the Veda—knowledge governing the laws of nature and human consciousness from which yoga, meditation, and ayurveda are derived.
Over the course of almost 50 years as a teacher, Thom has mentored three U.S. presidents, numerous heads of state, countless visionary Fortune 500 founders and CEOs and Nobel Prize laureates, and spent almost a decade teaching exclusively in the world’s roughest prisons. He’s trained nearly 50,000 people to meditate. Today, he resides in Flagstaff, AZ and selectively trains about 20 teachers per year.