Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. We have done over 160 episodes at this point and we've not yet done a deep dive on meditation. I have always had this on my mind, but I was waiting for the right moment, the right guest to simplify and get the conversation started about meditation.

It's not the only conversation we'll be having. In fact, we'll now slowly start diving into

more aspects of meditation. But I stumbled across Jimmy Whitman, who on Instagram is known

as that meditation guy. And he is a meditation and

mindfulness teacher based in UK. He has been featured on the BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph,

Yahoo News and many similar publications. And I was very keen on understanding meditation.

It's something I've been dabbling in and out of for the past year with a certain amount of intensity.

And I have seen Jimmy's work over the years.

So I instantly knew that this is the right time to bring Jimmy on the podcast.

Jimmy's interest for meditation grew when or started when after many years of

like being a DJ in London and late night parties and being on the clubbing scene, it left him

in many ways broken, depressed and he suffered from insomnia. And in a desperate attempt to gain control over his life back,

he found a teacher in the ancient Vedic tradition.

This teacher was from India and he discovered a profound level of inner peace

and a certain amount of stillness,

which he thought was not an option or possible for him.

So that's how he began his spiritual journey.

From there, he has explored many types of meditation, transcendental meditation,

Vipasana, Zen training.

And he's also trained over time and over years of intensive studies to be a meditation

teacher. Today he teaches deep mantra meditation inspired by the Himalian yogis, the Adwinta Vedanta

tradition, if you are interested in knowing, as well as mindfulness inspired by his teacher

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