The Quiet Time programme is transforming schools in some of the most deprived areas in the US
The David Lynch Foundation helps people overcome
extreme stress by using the
power of meditation. Its goal is to touch 100 million lives in the next decade. Julie
Cramer talks to co-founder Bob Roth to find out more
D
avid Lynch is at the centre of much media attention of late as he starts filming a conclusion to cult TV series Twin Peaks
after a 25 year break. The US director is famous for his surrealist style in films such as The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead. What many people may not know, is that he’s also
Film director David Lynch meditates twice a day, every day
a firm believer in the beneficial power of transcendental meditation. He says: “I started transcendental meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.” After a chance meeting with fellow practitioner Bob Roth a decade ago,
the pair started the David Lynch Foundation and have since helped hundreds of thousands of at-risk people using this form of meditation. Here Roth, the co-founder and executive
director of the foundation, talks about its aim to help 100 million people in the next decade. Given the current surge in interest in mindfulness, now is the perfect time for spas to get involved he says.
What’s the main purpose of the David Lynch Foundation? We’re a non-profit organisation, founded in 2005 by the film director David Lynch, dedicated to making transcendental meditation (TM) accessible to many different areas of the population. In the beginning, our focus was on
Roth met Lynch at a TM conference
helping at-risk children in low income urban schools to cope with the extreme stresses that they were facing. In less than 10 years, we’ve touched the lives of more than 500,000 students. Over time, our work has spread to a wider range of people, from the homeless
to victims of domestic violence, war veterans with post traumatic stress disorder and HIV/AIDS sufferers.
How did you meet David Lynch? I was organising a TM conference and David Lynch, who had been practising TM for around 30 years, was invited to attend. He heard the horror stories about
at-risk youth – of kids who witnessed and experienced domestic violence and gangland shootings and were then expected to go to school and learn algebra. The idea of the foundation was born from this meeting and we created it soon after.
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