Testimonials

I had heard about Michael’s class for years and had always wanted to take it.  There came a time in my life where I said enough of the someday and signed up with my boyfriend to attend the weekend training.  It has ended up being one of the most beneficial things I have ever done for myself.  I had practiced many different styles of meditation.  This one really hit home for me. The stillness that it creates is remarkable. I find that this form of meditation helps ground me in my life in a way that nothing else does.  My daily ritual of meditation clears my mind to allow most of the chaos and drama in my life to wash over me so I am able to detach and not be overwhelmed by much. I also found my energy level increased tremendously. Meditation is the tool I use each day that helps me deal with life’s challenges in a much more positive and calm way. I have to think back to my way of being before I took this course and how much my life has shifted. I take this way of being for granted as my new norm. I would highly recommend this meditation.

When I learned to meditate, I was in a bad place. I had been trying to get pregnant for 2.5 years with no luck. I was depressed and very irritable. The process was miraculous. We all (in our class) were coming back to report laughing more and feeling lighter. I was so happy and thought maybe it’s okay if I don’t get pregnant. Do I have to tell you what came next? About two months after I learned to meditate, I found I was pregnant. And when my daughter was 9 months old, I found I was pregnant again. I know it sounds crazy, but this is my actual story. I am so grateful to Michael and will never forget.

First let me say, RUN don’t walk to a class with Michael or Jillian. I often think back to the weekend course that I took with Michael almost like it was a dream. It was the day that suddenly everything FELT and LOOKED different. Almost like a light had been switched on. My heart automatically opened and my mind automatically calmed down and suddenly it felt like the path between the two was ignited. My wish is for everyone and anyone to have this opportunity.

I have been trying to think of how to verbalize how much meditation has meant to me.  Does "I <3 meditation" do it? Anyway, when I took the course I was dealing with a lot of anxiety triggered by stress that I had never had before.  Over the past 10 months I cannot remember any major “aha” moment for me while meditating but I have definitely seen major changes in myself and those around me have noticed as well.  I am not completely stress free but I am so much better at handling it now and that has greatly reduced my anxiety.  I think often about the exponential effects of Vedic Meditation that we talked about during the course and I cannot wait to see what the next days, months and years will bring.  I sometimes feel like it saved my life – in that it brought me back to me and it was the exactly right thing for me right when I needed it.  I feel like I can’t say enough good things about it.  Again, I <3 meditating!  It’s my thing.  It’s my space!

Jillian and Michael are inspirational teachers, profoundly knowledgeable and kind. Learning to meditate with Michael has changed my life, not only having a positive impact on my health, but in small ways altering my awareness and approach so that I find myself guided in the right direction without having to try. I think meditation has made me able to explore my own potential, to follow my own path and to be more conscious of others as I do so.

Just a few hours spent learning to meditate over a long weekend, has proven to be some of the most valuable time I've ever spent. Meditation has transformed my life; my relationships, the way I live, how I see things. It's provided me with the inner strength to embrace the most challenging situations and to emerge as a stronger, better person. It's not magic (although the effects can seem magical early on), but an ancient discipline that helps you to de-stress, prioritise, and focus, (aside from the abundant evidence for the medical benefits of meditation and increasing media coverage of it.) Why do it? Go to one of Michael and Jillian's introductory talks like I did and you'll be hooked. Both are inspirational and experienced teachers and shining exponents of the benefits, added to which they can answer the many questions which inevitably arise. Support is also on-going in the form of Monday night group meditations, which is a useful forum for information exchange. I've meditated twice a day for 20 minutes each time, since I was taught; for me it's as indispensable a part of my daily routine as brushing my teeth and I can't imagine not doing it. It makes me feel generally vibrant, positive, connected and peaceful.

I was skeptical about meditation when I first heard about it – I had always imagined it as a practice reserved for people more 'spiritual' than me, but Jillian and Michael immediately put my fears to rest and explained it as a very practical and effortless thing to do every day, which anyone could easily learn to improve both their emotional and physical well being, with immediate effect. I found both Jillian and Michael extremely thorough in their teaching and felt I could rely on them if I needed to ask questions in between seeing them for classes/courses. I felt the effects quicker than I even could have hoped, and found myself on a much more even keel after only a few days of meditation. For the first time in my life I felt like I'd been given a tool which I could use without help from anyone, and which day-by-day made me feel increasingly less neurotic, less frenetic and altogether much more able to deal with the demands of life. After two and a half years of meditation (and having never before stuck to anything – yoga etc etc), I genuinely can say I feel like a different person to my pre-meditation self, and though the every day benefits are now more subtle, I feel so much calmer in general, and I only have to miss a couple of meditations to remember what life was like before. I won't be going back there! And have also found the additional courses, like the rounding retreat, a great help in deepening my knowledge and understanding of the practice.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn Vedic Meditation. I have been doing it regularly since I started the course earlier in the year, and I can truly say it has changed my life! No tiredness or stress symptoms anymore; less fatigue from working; more energy generally (to get up at 5.30 am every day); more patience (I have tested this now staying with my parents for 2 weeks) and generally more content and happy.

I have a beloved great-uncle who is 96 and he’s been meditating twice a day for over 60 years. I have always admired his dedication, and whilst he’s not naturally a zen person, it helps to keep him balanced. I tried meditation a number of times, but never stuck to the practice. When a friend of mind started meditating, she was so different in herself that I became curious. I went to a talk and instantly liked the ease with which Jillian explained Vedic Meditation- no fluff but lots of practicality. For me, the course shifted a lot of emotions that felt bumpy for a few days but left me feeling lighter. I have definitely found the practice helpful to clear my head and raise my energy levels, and deal with life events over the last few years. As an osteopath I am working hands on with clients, and I think meditation helps me to keep clear and centered and sharpens my intuition. It’s also been a helpful practice on long-haul flights. In the future I would like to take the exploration deeper into the vedas- especially as my surname means ‘three vedas.'

London Meditation Centre was recommended to me by a friendly yoga teacher. For many years I had suffered periods of acute insomnia and related stress and had gone through several periods of feeling as if I was losing my tether. I had always been interested in meditation but sceptical about whether westerners, far removed from Buddhist or Hindu traditions, could really 'meditate.' My insomnia had got so bad that I decided I was willing to try anything. I was impressed by Michael's introductory talk—which was full of common sense and free from pseudo-spirituality—and decided to give it a go. Meditation turns out to be incredibly easy, almost effortlessly so and the benefits were immediate: straight away I felt waves of calm washing over and the stress draining away. Now I've been meditating twice a day for four years now and my insomnia is cured: I sleep well. I feel calmer and happier than before and find that when life does get difficult meditation helps iron out the ups and downs and keeps me steady. In many ways my appreciation of life has deepened and I've been able to make several decisions and commitments that I was previously too frightened to contemplate. I genuinely believe learning to meditate was the best thing I ever did and it has opened my mind to a whole new understanding of the world and my consciousness.