VEDIC MEDITATION
WHAT IS VM?
OVERVIEW
To speak of meditation is like speaking of exercise — there are many varieties, and if you seek a genuine experience, it’s important to know the real deal from the myriad dilutions and garden-variety types.
Vedic Meditation is the Rolls Royce of meditation practices — an effortless mantra-based mental technique passed down for 5,000 years through a lineage of masters including Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the world famous Indian guru known for teaching The Beatles and inspiring their White Album.
“There are other keys, but a master key is enough to open all the locks." —Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Vedic Meditation comes from the Vedas, the ancient body of knowledge governing the laws of nature and human consciousness from which yoga, meditation, and ayurveda have been passed down.
You’re probably here because you’re not finding fulfillment from other techniques, and that’s because without the use of a personalized mantra, our experience can only be surface-level — mildly relaxing at best and often filled with thoughts and restlessness.
For those who are primarily interested in saving money, there are innumerable relatively ineffective yet cheap varieties of meditation out there.
For those who seek a transformational experience, read on.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
I'M GLAD YOU ASKED
When we're overloaded with the demands of daily life, our body goes into a fight-or-flight response, triggering a flood of stress chemicals designed to protect us from physical danger. This stress is stored in the physiology for life — potentially decades.
Every day we accumulate stress, it’s like putting bricks into the trunk of our car. With each brick, the car gets slower, the gas mileage declines, the ride becomes less comfortable, and the inside of our car gets damaged.
Since neither sleep nor exercise has been shown to release stress more quickly than we accumulate it in today’s demanding world, the number of bricks in our trunk is increasing every day, even if we are getting 8 hours of sleep, eating healthy and exercising.
Vedic Meditation, on the other hand, is capable of releasing stress more quickly than it's accumulated.
We just sit comfortably in a chair for 20 minutes twice a day and effortlessly repeat our personalized mantra mentally. By providing a level of rest 2-5x deeper than the deepest phase of sleep, Vedic Meditation systematically dissolves layers of deeply held stress accumulated over a lifetime and restores natural balance to our mind, body and soul, allowing each to perform at their peak.
With each passing day, the number of bricks of stress accumulated in the trunk of the mind is now decreasing, paving the way for an increasingly better life experience every day we wake up.
WHY SHOULD I PRACTICE?
WELL...
Meditation is restful and blissful, but that’s not why we practice it. We practice it because it evolves how we are in our daily life. The aim is not to become great meditators — it's to have great lives.
We have a ton of demands today and less time to deal with them. Our battery is getting drained more quickly than ever, and we need a technique for charging it even quicker. Science shows stress consumes 98% of our thoughts and is responsible for 98% of disease and illness.
Sleep is not enough rest to remove stress as fast as we take it in — meditation is.
VM provides deep rest quickly, so we can get back to our lives. As we rest, release stress and enliven our minds, we become more effective.
Unless we do this regularly, stress governs our behavior and our health and makes us behave in socially irrelevant ways.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
BENEFITS TO YOU
Vedic Meditation offers innumerable benefits, from improved sleep to heightened creativity and energy levels, increased vitality and immunity, balanced emotions and enhanced cognitive and physical performance
It would be impossible to list all of the benefits of VM in one place, since the technique has such a fundamentally transformational effect on all aspects of our life and being, but the list below offers a snapshot of benefits Vedic meditators frequently report.
Relief from depression
Release of anxiety
Resilience to stress
Sustained happiness
Enhanced creativity
Increased energy
Improved relationships
Better sleep
Relief from headaches
Improved memory
Heightened learning ability
Balanced emotions
Improved cognitive ability
Stronger immunity
More vitality
Improved circulation
Reduced risk of heart disease
Reverse aging
Heightened focus
Clarity of mind
Faster reaction time
Increased self-esteem
Deeper sense of purpose
Permanent flow state
BENEFITS TO OTHERS
In addition to the benefits available to each individual, VM offers a host of benefits to those around us — our friends, partners, parents, children, coworkers, pets, etc., as well as humankind at large. By removing deeply held stress and cultivating a permanent backdrop of bliss in our lives, we become more capable of supporting those around us and more capable of contributing to society as a whole.
Our relationships improve, our performance at work improves, our family life improves, and people who come into contact with us generally have more positive experiences.
BENEFITS TO THE WORLD
Practicing meditation is the most socially responsible thing you personally can do to make the world a better place. By removing lifetimes of stress accumulated in our physiology, we enable ourselves to be better friends, better partners, better coworkers, and better people.
We can truly be the change we wish to see.
HOW DO I LEARN?
THE COURSE
I teach regularly in the Los Angeles, Miami, London and Ibiza areas. The training consists of four 90-minute sessions held in-person over four consecutive days. The training is not academic in nature and will not require you to bring any #2 pencils or pass any exams.
Like any rich experience, it cannot be had virtually.
On the first day, you’ll receive a personalized mantra expertly chosen specifically for you based on a variety of factors, and we’ll meditate together.
On subsequent days, we'll discuss meditation best practices, the mechanics of stress release, and what to expect as you begin to peel away layers of deeply held stresses accumulated over a lifetime.
Each session will conclude with a meditation, and you'll practice once on your own in between each session.
It would be my privilege to teach you, and it will be your privilege to practice self-sufficiently for the rest of your life.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
THE COURSE FEE
Upon completion of the four-day course, you’ll be completely self-sufficient in a technique you’ll use for life to release stress and feel happier and healthier while creating and performing at your best.
Like anything valuable, there is a cost associated with the conferral of a personalized mantra, four sessions of instruction, and lifetime of followup support.
The ancient Vedic tradition calls for a sliding scale payment system according to means, whereby students make a one-time contribution of one week’s gross earnings or comparable equivalent.
This system makes the teaching accessible to students of all income levels while ensuring each student is ready to make a contribution that is meaningful to them in order to receive something that will be even more meaningful.
If your priority is saving money, there are a plethora of cheap apps, programs and classes available. If your priority is transformation, you're in the right place.
Traditionally, students were required to bring their weekly crop of rice to India, travel 7 days on foot up the Himalayas, and wait up to 30 days to be taught. Today, technology makes things a little easier.