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“Don’t waste time procrastinating, attend one of Rory’s introduction nights – it will change your life as it’s changing mine!”
— Ramon
“I feel much less anxious, more relaxed and am sleeping so much better – I would recommend Rory to anyone who is unsure!”
— Alexandra
 

How does Vedic Meditation work?

Sit, close your eyes and repeat a mantra or sound for 20 minutes. This effortless process allows the mind to relax, and with it the body. As the body relaxes, the stresses of day to day life are released through thoughts bubbling up through your mind.

Meditation myths that people fall for

Vedic Meditation isn't about controlling the mind or forcing yourself to stop thinking. It's a natural process that allows the mind and body to release stress and the mind to find silence.

Rory’s story

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Rory was always an over-thinker and spent much of his 20s and 30s coping by drinking too much – something that wasn’t uncommon in the music and media industries he worked in.

After an early mid-life crisis at 35, he realised his partying days had to stop and embarked on a journey of self discovery. He ran marathons, wrote a novel and studied NLP in his search to find himself.

But it was when he found meditation he knew he was on the right track. No longer plagued by over-thinking and no longer a drinker, he now dedicates himself to teaching meditation.

Rory studied for a year with Australia’s most-experienced Vedic Meditation teacher and has taught hundreds of people in his four years as a teacher.

A former journalist and digital media executive, he is a regular contributor on meditation to Channel 9 and has run workshops for companies including CBA and Westpac.

 
 

Explainer: How is Vedic Meditation different to other meditations?

 
 
 

Why bother?

Meditation reduces anxiety and stress, improves sleep, increases your empathy and allows you to access clearer and more creative thoughts. Sounds too good to be true? Meditation really just does one thing very well – it reduces stress. Stress causes many diseases and robs us of some of our finest qualities.

Learn Vedic Meditation

Vedic Meditation is an effective meditation technique that allows you to systematically reduce stress and improve your sleep, productivity and enjoyment of life. And it’s easier to learn than you might think. In four short sessions you'll be set up as a self-sufficient meditator with the skills and motivation to make meditation a regular part of your routine.

Want to learn more?

Sign up for the free* 7 Days to a Quieter Mind online course to start experiencing the benefits of meditation today.

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Sleep For many of my students sleep is one of the first things that improves when they start to meditate. Like Cooper in the quote above, my sleep wasn't terrible or anything but I I'd often wake up really early and not be able to get back to sleep. It would be 4am, I'd wake up and before I knew it my mind would be racing trying to solve whatever the main issue from the day had been. . This would go on for half an hour or so until I realised what I was doing and tried to get back to sleep. But we all know what happens when you try to fall asleep. Since I started meditating I've found that I still wake up early and the main issue of the day still comes to mind, but rather than going to town with it, I can let go of it and fall back asleep. . The reason meditation makes this possible is that it neutralises all the stress and anxiety connected with these thoughts when you meditate during the day. With the stress removed from the issues, you don't forget about them, but they no longer have control over your attention. You're free to deal with them appropriately during waking hours. At night you're free to head back to the land of nod. #meditation #vedicmeditation #sleep #sleepanxiety
For me this was about drinking, but it can apply to almost everything. It came down to a simple weighing up of the pros and cons of drinking, aged 40. Sure, when I was 18 or 28 the pros definitely had the edge – I was having a whale of a time! By 35 the pros were tiring and by 40 it was clear those tortoise cons were going to romp home. I didn't make a moral judgement or want to be holier than thou. It was just a reckoning of personal experience. Why would I keep doing something that had stopped working for me? Why would I keep at it when I realised the cost was way more than the price on the menu? It just clicked that I didn't have to keep doing things just because I always had. #alcoholfree #sober #soberlife #sobercurious
Thoughts aren't something to avoid in meditation. Just like sweat isn't something to avoid when you exercise. • Thoughts are the natural by-product of your nervous system getting rid of stress, like your body offloading excess heat when you sweat. • Rather than hoping for the equivalent of a miraculous sweat-free workout, adjust your expectations and welcome the thoughts when they come. • They're a sign that the meditation is doing its job and offloading things you no longer need. Mentally wipe them away like the sweat from your brow and carry on. • #meditation #vedicmeditation
I’m excited to be running a recorded version of @jeffkobermeditation’s A Course In Vedic Knowledge this November. If you are a Vedic Meditator you will have been putting in the work to upgrade your hardware by removing stress whenever you meditate. This course will give you a new set of software to run that will help “correct the intellect” and accelerate your development. - - Drawing from the ancient Sanskrit texts known as the Vedas, this is the first of a series of weekend courses exploring the huge storehouse of knowledge that underpins our practice and makes it intelligible. - - There are no easily accessible books on Vedic knowledge so this set of recorded lectures fascilitated by me is a great way to expand your understanding of the Vedic world view. - - After courses were run on this knowledge by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and then Thom Knoles, US master teacher and actor Jeff Kober has created a version of this course relevant to our time. - - This is only the second time Jeff’s version has been available in Australia. In it you will learn: * The benefits of rising early * The nature of time and how it is not sequential * How to read and respond to nature’s intent in any moment * How to embrace your personal evolution * How to act fearlessly * How to stop ignoring what you already know - - DM for more details. #vedicmeditation #meditation #veda
I love this quote from James Clear's Atomic Habits. - It really sums up one of the key messages I try to get over in my meditation classes. - You get the benefits of meditation by simply doing it, not by achieving any particular state when you're doing it. - We have a certain expectation of what meditation should be like – and it's easy to hold yourself back from doing it if you're not having the "perfect" meditation. - But as any productivity hacker will tell you: Done is better than perfect. - You don't need to be transported to some Zen-like level of consciousness everytime you close your eyes. And I can guarantee that you won't. You'll reach that state sometime, but the skill of becoming a meditator is to accept that sometimes you get these experiences and sometimes you don't. And depending on the amount of stress you've accumulated over the years that your body is happily offloading, you might not get there very often. - But we don't meditate to get good at meditation, we meditate to get good at life. And by putting the time aside each day to do our practice, we systematically de-excite our nervous systems and neatralise the acidic stress chemistry that modern life "heaps upon us". - Meditation is about mastering the process, not the outcomes. The outcomes will arrive all on their own - and they'll be in the form of benefits you notice outside of meditation - more calm, more focus, more energy – rather than within the meditation itself. #meditation #vedicmeditation #habits #habit #jamesclear
Great to see so many guys interested in experiencing the benefits of meditation these days. These are my latest graduates – now with the skills and confidence to meditate on their own. See you for the first check in next week. They're also modeling my new branded water flasks – let me know if you'd like one (free if you've done a course with me, $25 + postage if not, much cheapness! Swipe left for close up). #vedicmeditation #meditation #learntomeditate
Five ways in which meditation can make it easier to quit drinking. Top up on your feel good chemicals so you have a natural inner high, strengthen your impulse control and tackle the root causes. Simple! Check out the We Meditate To Quit Alcohol link in my bio. #meditation #soberlife #sobernation #soberaf #sobercurious
Flashback to Chile earlier this year. Love this photo so much – a path heading out into who knows where. #fujifilm #xf23mmf14
This week marks 18 months since I gave up drinking. Meditation has definitely been the biggest factor in making the whole process doable for me. I have another way to relax and a way of stopping myself over thinking and worrying about stuff. I think meditation is such a good way to help lessen reliance on alcohol that I've spent the last few months putting together an online meditation course specifically designed for people looking to cut down or quit drinking. There's a month's worth of guided meditations that teach a simple technique to help reduce stress and give people a new way to relax. I heard a great way of describing what meditation is good for yesterday - it makes you comfortable in your skin. If you're comfortable in your skin you don't need to drink to feel good. You don't need a skinful! Link in bio #alcoholfree #meditation #guidedmeditation #dryjuly
Tired? Stressed? Looking for meaning? Join me this Wednesday June 12 6.30-7.30pm at Heart Space Manor in Bondi Junction to find out how Vedic Meditation could be the answer to these problems and more. * If you’ve become frustrated with other types of meditation then Vedic could be for you. It’s one of the simplest and most powerful techniques, allowing you to visit the deepest parts of your consciousness. * Visiting the deepest, stillest parts of your awareness will become a source of energy and relaxation you will want to come back to day after day. Meditation needn’t be a chore – try a technique that is actually enjoyable. * Vedic doesn’t require you to sit uncomfortably or try to clear your mind of thoughts – you sit in a chair and repeat mantra, a word or sound with no meaning, which allows your mind to shift into neutral and then switch off completely. Think of this like a reboot for your mental hard drive. You will come out more focussed and productive before. * This free one-hour session will answer any questions you might have about the technique and lay out the course structure – it’s a prerequisite of the four-session learn to meditation course. There will be no meditation in the session itself but you will leave inspired to take the next step in your meditation journey. * Register for free at rorykinsellameditation.com (link in bio)
Rather than seeing not drinking as a hardship, something I have to endure, by the time I was ready to quit it was more of a relief. It had gotten to the stage where not only were the hangovers no good, but I wasn't even enjoying drinking itself. I've had many great times on alcohol but by the end, it no longer offered me relief, comfort or energy. Or maybe it was that through meditation, it became clear that I was never getting these things from alcohol in the first place? Before starting to meditate, I liked how alcohol took the edge off. But after a few years of meditation I no longer had a stress-filled nervous system. Rather than taking the edge off my bad moods, it took my good moods and made me feel groggy and tired. From feeling good, it brought me down. And if that's not a sign to give something up then I don't know what is #alcoholfree #meditation #vedicmeditation
What’s the best thing about meditation? It’s being able to go from super tired and drained at the end of a working day to being fresh and ready to take on anything the evening has in store. — One obvious way in which Vedic Meditation differs from other types is that you practise twice a day. I remember being quite shocked hearing this for the first time. From dabbling in meditation to being faced with the prospect of 2 x 20 minute sessions out of my already busy day seemed like a big ask. But it didn’t take long to turn “having” to meditate twice a day into “getting” to meditate twice a day. — The first meditation of the day is first thing and often thought-filled. Being thought-filled doesn’t mean it’s not good – it’s a sign that my mind is working through all the stuff that usually sits just out of awareness so after I can be more focussed and productive. It’s similar to if you open your computer and there’s already 25 tabs open in Chrome – going through thoughts in meditation is like closing those tabs so your mind will operate better after. — But it’s the second meditation of the day I really look forward to. Rather than the often-functional-feeling morning meditation, this is the one that feels really good. In the old days around 5.30pm each day, I’d feel spent and not able to face anything in the evening except veging out or having a drink to chill out. Now I have another option. If the morning meditation is about closing browser tabs, the afternoon one is more like a whole computer restart. I think my mantra and am quickly led to a place of silence inside. My mind and body are craving rest and that’s what they get. Any remaining browser tabs get closed one after the other and then I’ll experience silence. After the 20 minutes are up, rather than heading home to veg out, I have a second wind. At 6pm, there’s at least another four hours left in the day – what will I do with it? People often think they don’t have enough time to achieve the things they want in life, but could it be that they don’t have enough energy? What would you do with a second wind every day? #meditation #vedicmeditation
It was great to take the team at @bankofqueensland through the basics of meditation yesterday. Lots of questions from the floor which was encouraging. And my meditating monkey slide went down well as usual 🧘‍♂️🐵 Get in touch if you'd like me to pay a visit to your workplace. #meditation #corporatemeditation 📷 @tomjharwood
Flashback to a couple of weeks ago in Chile. I love all the shades in this #latergram #flamingo #chile #fujifilmxseries