Brandon Locher is a multimedia artist and music producer who currently lives and works in New York, NY. Since 2006 he’s had more than 60 releases under various names and artistic media, including audio recordings, visual art, multimedia art, and sound art. He’s been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for the past two years. Here’s what we learned about his creative work and how his TM practice enriches his life. Read more >

Replacing Anxiety with Unstoppable Confidence: An Interview with Photographer Olivia Locher

Olivia Locher, a photographer born in Pennsylvania, now based in NYC, is known for her sarcastic approach to studio photography, with a heavy focus on color and concept. A practitioner of the Transcendental Meditation technique, Locher’s photographs are grounded in consciousness and dreamlands. We recently caught up with her to learn more about her work and how her daily routine keeps her inspired and focused. Read more

Changing Lives & Transforming Education

At the Sacred Heart School in Lake Worth, FL, and other schools all around the world, the “Quiet Time” program is giving students the extra edge they need to succeed! Read more

A Highly Personal Yet Highly Impersonal Endeavor

I wake up every day excited to give people – rich or poor – a precious tool to transform their lives in ways they hadn’t even imagined, and to discover a wealth of possibilities within themselves. Read more

What Happens When Students Are Given The Tools To Fight Stress And Find Inner Stability?

“When you live in a world where violence is a daily reality, every day is a hard day. If we’re not able to find solutions, these children may be lost…” Read more

What’s Making Students Happier, More Self-Confident, And Less Anxious?

“What we’re doing here is setting the conditions for learning, and that’s not rocket science, that’s thoughtful, and intentional deliberate work. All schools should be like this. This shouldn’t be an exception.” Read more

School In Thailand Brings Peace, Happiness, And Opportunity To Orphaned And Abused Girls

“These girls come from poor families or broken homes; some are orphans, violently abused or at-risk of being sexually abused.” A Buddhist boarding school in Thailand is filling in the gaps left by society – providing a safe-haven for abused, orphaned girls and giving them the education they deserve. Watch the video

Meditation Transforms Roughest San Francisco Schools – SF Chronicle

Wonderful report this week in the San Francisco Chronicle about the success of the David Lynch Foundation’s initiative to help troubled public schools in San Francisco offer the Transcendental Meditation technique to their students and faculty. Read more.

“The Transcendentalists” —Style.com

Thought you’d enjoy this recent Style.com interview with creative forces, filmmaker David Lynch and fashion designer Italo Zucchelli. Matthew Schneier’s interview with them focuses on their shared passions: creativity and the Transcendental Meditation technique. Read more

Stress, the Brain, and Student Life:
 A Researcher’s Reflections (Part 2)

The following is the second part of an interview with Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management. Read more