Who Is The Father Of Meditation?

 

Fathers of Meditation

He was ‘the father of meditation’ in the West – Paramahansa Yogananda traveled from India to America in 1920 and established an alternative spirituality that would take the West by storm.

Elvis wanted the secret of his meditation technique, and the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, read Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, every year, for good measure.Paramahansa Yogananda

As another father of meditation, SN Goenka the founder of Vipassana Meditation, recently passed away, meditation is entering the mental health scene.  

Meet Brother Nakulananda of the Self Realisation Fellowship in LA and clinical psychologist Dr. Bruno Cayoun, founder of MiCBT in Hobart.



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