What a pleasure to meet and teach 30 year old doctor, Davis, from San Diego, in the Maldives. He runs a clinic in the USA specialising in spinal and joint regeneration.
I arrived into the Maldives late at the night. The next morning after I’d meditated, I went for walk, and saw him outside on the sun bed in the villa next door doing a breathing practice with his eyes closed.
I got ready to surf, and was told there was one other surfer on the island, unheard of, even for off season. And that he’d be flying out soon. It was Davis. We decided to surf a break a boat ride away, and as we walked to the boat, we chatted.
Incredibly around the same time that I was hit by a car, causing spinal damage, Davis was in a car accident which left him with damage to the exact same discs in his spinal cord. Blown away by my recovery, experiencing ongoing issues, and as a doctor specialising in this area, he wanted to know everything about how I’d healed.
When I told him about Vedic meditation, he said he’d been saying he wanted to learn how to meditate, and then I literally appeared. He and his girlfriend had been offered a room upgrade, and I’d had a chance to select my exact room – putting us right next door to each other. I’d originally planned to be in the Maldives a little later, meaning I would have missed Davis completely, but everything told me to go. After our surf Davis was ready to learn. I sent them off to read the website, and then they’d come looking for me at lunch to get started with a private course. After his first session he told me, “In one meditation you’ve taken me deeper than I’d ever been with any other meditation practice.” Throughout the course he’d literally feel his body repair and relax, and we’d talk about how “meant to be” it all was.
Farewelled Davis today and he told me, “I absolutely believe in the body’s innate ability to heal, I just needed the tools, which is what you’ve given me.” The shifts have already been profound. I’m excited to see what Vedic meditation continues to bring to his life, and how the power of his own healing will be an inspiration to his patients 🙌🏻
