“Give the talk you’ve never given before.”

This was the instruction from the team at Do Lectures.

Five days before ‘Do Lectures 2023’, I’d been asked to be one of the speakers at this amazing 4 day gathering of change-makers that happens every year in the wild west of Wales.

As a Vedic Meditation teacher, I talk a lot about meditation – and yet much less about me and how it has impacted my life.

This talk had to be different. It had to be personal and it had to stretch beyond simply talking about the benefits of sitting around with your eyes closed each day.

It was a leap. It was new for me to ‘go for it’ in this way. And I knew this would be a super sharp audience.

I didn’t know how it would land, and yet it was absolutely the thing to do.

The response was amazing and it was one of the highlights of my teaching career.

If you’d like to, you can watch my talk here.

– Jillian Lavender is co-founder of London Meditation Centre and New York Meditation Center.