★★★★★
I thought I just wasn't someone who could meditate. Rich changed that in the first session.
Renee S.Marketing manager
About Rich
Not perfect. Just still practising.
I'm Rich. I ran a Mercedes-Benz dealership in my twenties, burnt out in my thirties, found Vedic Meditation, and have taught it on the Gold Coast for close to ten years. I'm not someone who arrived at a perfected state of peace. I'm someone who found what helps and kept doing it.
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Currumbin Valley, Gold Coast
Decade by decade
How I got here.
20s
Running on empty
Managing a Mercedes-Benz dealership. Successful from the outside, anxious on the inside, and very good at hiding it.
30s
The harder years
Two businesses, burnout, chronic fatigue, a long stretch of feeling flat. Somewhere in there, a first meditation course that actually stuck.
40s
Finding what helps
Started teaching. Went back to university and finished an Honours in Psychological Science with a thesis on stress, breathing and wellbeing.
50s
Still in it
500 or so people taught. A practice I don't skip. Still learning, still occasionally having a rough week, still meditating through it.
Along the way
I've tried a lot of things. A lot.
Three 10-day silent Vipassana retreatsFour days alone in the bush on a vision questPlant medicine ceremoniesWalking on fireMore personal development seminars than I'd like to admit
"After all of it I kept coming back to the same realisation: what I was really trying to learn was how to work with my own nervous system. Vedic Meditation was the thing that did it twice a day, without drama."
Life in the valley
Wife, three adult kids, a dog, a cat, chickens and horses.
I live and teach in Currumbin Valley, and spend a day a week working with clients at Eden Health Retreat on meditation, breathwork and nervous system regulation. The rest of the time it's surfing when there's swell, music, and too many books on psychology and neuroscience.
The house is where you'll learn. It isn't a studio, which turns out to matter. People relax faster in a home.
What I bring
Ancient technique. Modern understanding.
Some people want the science. Some feel drawn to the tradition. Holding both means I can meet you wherever you are, and explain the mechanism as well as the method.
Honours, Psychological ScienceThesis on stress, respiration and wellbeing
Initiated in the Vedic traditionDirect teacher-to-student lineage, taught independently
Certified Breath Science PractitionerFunctional breathwork alongside the meditation
Eden Health RetreatResident practitioner, weekly client sessions
500+ people taughtClose to ten years on the Gold Coast
Nearly 20 years of practiceTwice a day, most days, honestly
★★★★★
Rich is an amazing teacher. I haven't felt this un-anxious in years.
PeteMeditating six months
★★★★★
Rich gave us not only the technique but a deep understanding of the science behind it.
ReeceGold Coast
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If this resonates, let's talk.
Twenty minutes, no script. If I don't think this is right for you at this point, I'll say so, and point you somewhere better.
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