As a busy teacher and parent, he often found that the stress of the day followed him home. “I’d bring the accumulated stress from work into my interactions with my family,” he said. “I’d end up behaving in ways I later regretted.”

2023 brought challenges that she never saw coming – the heartbreak of a marriage breakdown, the weight of a mortgage on her own, and the shock of losing her job to redundancy just two weeks before Christmas. “I was blindsided,” she shared. “Without meditation, I would have been rocking in the corner.”

From the very first session of the Vedic Meditation course, something shifted. For the first time, he experienced a glimpse of the inner world that meditation can open.

Meditation has became my anchor in moments of difficulty, including when I faced a devastating health diagnosis, giving me clarity. Through those challenging months, it gave me the steadiness and strength I needed to keep moving forward.

Jeff reached a breaking point. At 62, he woke one night believing he was having a heart attack “The frightening part,” Jeff recalled, “was that I didn’t really care if I had died.”