Meditation teacher · specialist in stress, breath & the nervous system · Currumbin Valley, Gold Coast
Learn meditation · Gold Coast
Calm is a skill —and there's a science to it.
Most of us don't really want to learn meditation — we want to feel different. I'm Rich Muir, and I teach a simple, effortless technique that actually sticks, grounded in the science of stress and the breath.
"In my first session I went somewhere I can only call calm — twice."
Dean · Photographer
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"Without it I'd have been rocking in the corner."
Sue · Gold Coast
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"Haven't felt this un-anxious since I can't remember."
Peter · Business Owner
Let's be honest
It's rarely meditation we're really after.
Most of us don't arrive wanting to meditate — we arrive wanting a better life. To feel different. Calmer in our own skin. Clearer. Less on edge with the people we love. Like ourselves again. Meditation isn't the goal — it's just the most reliable way I've found to get people there. So if you've "failed" at it before: good. This isn't that.
If you're wired, worn out and not sleeping —
You're not broken, and you're not weak. You've carried too much for too long, and your body has forgotten how to switch off. You've probably tried the sensible things — an app, a few deep breaths, telling yourself to relax. They take the edge off for an hour, then the tide comes back in.
Here's what I've learned in twenty years: you can't think your way calm. The volume isn't in your thoughts — it's in your nervous system. That's why "just relax" has never worked, and it's exactly what this addresses.
[ Rich's portrait ]
What I actually do
A meditation teacher — specialist in stress, breath & the nervous system.
Not a wellness brand. Not an app. One meditation teacher — with an Honours degree in Psychological Science, a specialised focus on stress, the breath and the autonomic nervous system, and over twenty years of my own meditation practice behind it.
I wrote my Honours thesis on stress and our breathing patterns — so the breath isn't a footnote in what I teach. It's central to how I help people settle a nervous system that's stuck on high alert.
For the past eight years I've taught more than 500 people on the Gold Coast to meditate — and through it, to do one thing: bring their nervous system down, and keep it there. Professionals, parents, shift-workers, first responders. Many arrived certain they "couldn't switch their brain off." They were the ones it helped most.
20+ yrsOwn practice
8 yrsTeaching
500+People taught
BSc HonsPsychology
ThesisStress & breathing
Why Vedic meditation
The easiest meditation I've found — and I've tried plenty.
I've been meditating for over twenty years, and I tried and failed at plenty of techniques before I arrived at this one — concentration practices, apps, breath-control, "just watch your thoughts." Most felt like hard work, and none of them stuck the way this has.
Vedic meditation is different because it's effortless by design. There's no trying to calm or empty your mind, no sitting cross-legged, no belief system to take on — just a simple, powerful, ancient technique, and the science backs up what it does to a stressed nervous system.
No emptying the mindNo sitting cross-leggedNo belief systemJust a proven technique
The difference
What you'll start to notice.
Not overnight magic — but most people feel the shift within the first sessions, and it builds from there.
Respond, not react
A regulated nervous system — so you meet the moment instead of being hijacked by it. Calmer, steadier, more you.
Switch off the 'always on'
That wired, can't-stop hum finally settles — you can actually come down off high alert.
Energy that comes back
Less running on empty — more genuine energy through the day, and less of the afternoon crash.
Sleep that restores
Falling off more easily, waking less — mornings that don't feel like a fight.
A quieter mind
Less mental noise in the background — more room to actually think.
Yours for life
Self-sufficient in the practice — a tool you keep and use forever, at no extra cost.
Real people · real relief
People who came in running on empty.
D★ ★ ★ ★ ★ · FeaturedDarylGold Coast
"I don't know how to respond. I'm feeling a calm I have never experienced before. Nothing's stressing me, and I look forward to meditation every morning and afternoon. I can hear the birds chirping. You've changed my life, and I'll be forever grateful."
MB★ ★ ★ ★ ★Michelle BarnesGold Coast
"Life has been the best it's been in years. My meditation practice is now non-negotiable — no matter where I am, what I'm doing, or how I'm feeling. I live a simpler life now, with wellness at the centre of it. Can you hear my sigh of relief?"
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"Eighteen years a Police Officer — and as a result, PTSD. I'd tried guided meditations, sound, breath work. It was the simplicity of this that finally quietened my mind."
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Jay Prothero
Police Officer
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"It's enabled me to deal with the blows of a marriage breakup, a mortgage and redundancy. Without it I'd have been rocking in the corner."
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Sue Scott
Gold Coast
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"I used to bring the stress of the day home. Now I meditate 20 minutes after work — it feels like hitting the reset button."
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Simon Bywater
Teacher
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"A 44-year-old man who'd done his fair share of bottling up. In my very first session I went somewhere I can only call calm — twice. The brain fog is already clearing."
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Dean Brennan
Photographer
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"A significant improvement in my sleep and my ability to manage stress. A calmer, more present human being."
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Renee Soutar
Marketing Manager
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"I have this ridiculous calm at the strangest of times. The balance it's created in my life is life changing."
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Belinda Cribb
Gold Coast
The evidence
This isn't woo. It's measurable.
2–5×
Deeper rest than sleep
During the practice the body enters physiological rest measured 2–5 times deeper than sleep — reduced oxygen consumption and metabolic rate.
— Wallace, in Science & the American Journal of Physiology
87%
Fewer CV hospitalisations
A study of 2,000 practitioners vs 600,000 controls found an 87% reduction in cardiovascular hospitalisation, and 56% across all major disease categories.
This isn't a drop-in class or a cheap weekend. It's a proper grounding for people serious about feeling different — and which path suits you depends on where you're starting from.
Monthly · small group · one weekend
Learn the fundamentals
Over one weekend you become self-sufficient in Vedic meditation, with a set of stress-reduction tools you'll keep for life. A strong, lasting foundation — learned alongside a few others in Currumbin Valley.
Just you and me, working far deeper — a close look at your own stress and breathing patterns, with everything shaped around your nervous system. For those ready to go all the way.
A short, honest assessment — six quick taps. We'll find out whether what I teach is the right fit, and if it is, I'll show you exactly how it works. Two minutes, no obligation.
1 of 6
What's bringing you here?
2 of 6
How long has it been like this?
2 of 6
What got in the way last time?
2 of 6
Where's your practice right now?
3 of 6
How much is it affecting your life?
3 of 6
And how much is stress affecting you now?
3 of 6
How far do you want to take it?
4 of 6
What have you already tried?
5 of 6
How would you like to learn?
6 of 6
Where does sorting this out sit for you right now?
Last step
Where shall I send your result?
Pop your details in and I'll show you your fit, exactly how the course works, and your next step.
Your result
The group path looks like a great fit for you.
How it works
Four 90-minute sessions in which you become self-sufficient in the practice, plus a set of stress and breathing tools you keep for life — then ongoing support and monthly group sits, at no extra cost.
The two ways in
Group — a weekend in a small group · $850 (concession from $600). Private — one-to-one; we evaluate your nervous, respiratory & cardiac systems and tailor the program to you · best for tackling chronic stress · $1,500.
Next group dates
27–28 June · 1–2 August · 5–6 September, in Currumbin Valley. Private courses are scheduled around you.
From your answers, it sounds like you're exploring rather than ready to dive in — and there's no sense investing your time, or mine, until it's the right time for you. When sorting this out moves up your list, the door's open. I've got your details, and you're welcome to reach out whenever it feels right.
No pressure at all — only if and when you want to.
No pressure, no pitch
Reaching out is the safest thing you'll do all week.
It costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Twenty minutes, just to tell me what's going on and find out whether I can help. If I'm not the right fit for you, I'll say so — and point you somewhere better. You're in good hands either way.
