Erkin found his true calling as a devoted practitioner, deeply immersed in the practice and science of meditation. The quest for inner fulfilment led him to the meditation practices from India to the Far East, leading him to discover silent and explosive meditation practices that have fundamentally transformed him.

Having started his early career as an entrepreneur and not finding lasting and complete contentment from the material world, he has shifted his life focus towards meditation and long-term inner-fulfilment. Over a long period of time, he has advanced his practice to the high stages of Raja Yoga described in the Yoga Sutras, whereas his long term exposure to Taoist thought & Tai-Chi, along with Korean arts and Zen Buddhism have greatly contributed to advancing his yogic meditation, particularly with the addition of the center of gravity as an essential point of activating energetic phase of meditation.

They have together played a pivotal role in attaining deeply Silent as well as Explosive states of being, that he describes as reaching Peak Meditative experiences. This has subsequently led him to research these peak experiences using modern scientific tools such as EEG, ECG, fMRI technologies. He has analyzed his scientific results with Prof. Olaf Blanke’s Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and with Prof. Christoph Michel at the Neuroscience Department of the University of Geneva. He has also conducted experiments at the research laboratory of the SVYASA University in Bengaluru, India in collaboration with the University’s chancellor Dr. Nagendra and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Manjunath NK. ANT-Neuro, a neurotech company based in Berlin and with the help of its founder Frank Zanow has contributed to the meditation research efforts. In 2024 at Campus Biotech, FCBG in Geneva, he has conducted a unique experiment of simultaneous use of fMRI and compatible EEG system. Having conducted extensive artefact detection and removal procedures, he has obtained clear scientific results on both Silent & Explosive meditation recorded.

To test explosive meditation that activates sympathetic nervous system, he has gone to the mountain glaciers, and has run multiple experiments in freezing conditions of minus 10Celsius, also with the use of brain imaging technologies.

Erkin is now expanding scientific studies along with All Here Meditation Institute to various established traditions that would include Theravada, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, Heartfullness as well as other Vedic and Buddhist traditions. He’s on the quest to link meditation centres with the scientific institutions to advance the science of meditation for the greater good of the society.

Erkin has authored “All Here” a book of poems on life and meditation (scroll below if you would like to acquire the book) capturing his transformative experiences leading to Silence, and established the “All Here” organization, with a mission to scientifically research peak meditative experiences across various traditions between India, the Far East and internationally. After more than 20 years of exploration into Asian meditation practices, Erkin is now shaping an advanced meditation & research sanctuary in the Indian Himalayas under the name of Sarvatr. He’s a lover and player of Indian bamboo flute, the Bansuri, that he considers as a meditative symbol of sound & silence and recorded albums Silent Flute I and II in the recording studios in New Delhi and Montreaux.