Meditation: Change your brain, change your life

Click on the link below for an excellent article by Deepak Chopra quoting recent research on how meditation changes your brain.    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fg%2Fa%2F2011%2F02%2F21%2Fdeepak_chopra_meditation.DTL

Meditation Retreat in Rishikesh, India - February 2011

Some photos below of our recent Retreat in India. 60 Vedic Meditators from all over the world converged onto the town of Rishikesh in Northern India for a special course on Vedic Mythos faciliated by my teacher Thom Knoles.

Pandit Baskaran (Vedic Meditation Teacher from Chennai) and Thom Knoles

Rishikesh - Shiva statue outside Parmarth Niketan Ashram

Revi Kadoury, Limor Babai and Patsie Polly at Kanjapuri Devi (Mother Divine Temple). Snow Capped Himalayas in the background.

Rishikesh - Raam Jula (Bridge)

Thom Knoles and Vedic Meditators at the Maharishi Ashram in Rishikesh (where Thom trained to be a meditation teacher and the Beatles wrote the White Album)

Limor Babai and Jackson (Vedic Meditator from Los Angeles - who rode that bike from Delhi to Rishikesh) and Sadhu (an ascetic)

Shiva Statue - up close and personal

Vedic Meditators about to swim in the Ganges River

Jules Green, Michael Miller and Thom Knoles watching a Yagya (fire ritual) by the Ganges River