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Ancient pathways of inner silence exploring Dhāraṇā, Dhyāna, and Samādhi — where attention becomes gathered, the mind becomes quiet, and awareness turns inward toward deeper states of absorption and presence.
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Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India
Tradition & Research
Founded in 1937 by Dada Lekhraj, known as Brahma Baba, Brahma Kumaris teaches a form of Rajyoga stripped of posture, ritual, and physical technique altogether — a meditation practiced with open eyes, resting attention on the nature of the self as consciousness rather than body. The organization has grown into a United Nations-accredited body, holding General Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 1983, and is active in more than 140 countries.
All Here first connected with Brahma Kumaris on UN International Yoga Day 2025, when Sister Jayanti, the Additional Administrative Head of Brahma Kumaris, visited All Here in Geneva together with Sister Philippa Blackham and Sister Gopi. There, the group meditated while their brain activity was recorded, and the two organizations signed a joint statement to inspire more people to integrate meditation into daily life. This meeting led to a formal research collaboration, beginning with a visit to the Global Retreat Centre in Oxford, where All Here conducted Quantified Meditation sessions with residents each morning at 4:00 am.
The relationship continued when Prof. Christoph Michel, Chief Neuroscientific Director at All Here, joined Sister Jayanti and Brahma Kumaris France in Paris to mark the second annual United Nations-recognized World Meditation Day, bringing EEG-based science into direct dialogue with the tradition's teachings on the mind. Our collaboration with Brahma Kumaris continues today.
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Tradition & Research
S-VYASA — Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana — was founded by Dr. H.R. Nagendra, known as the “Yoga Scientist,” whose path from NASA to academia shaped the university’s mission of blending Gurukula-style education with modern scientific research.
All Here’s collaboration with S-VYASA began in 2023, joining forces to advance the scientific study of meditation and heightened states of consciousness — what ancient Vedic texts describe as Samadhi. Dr. Manjunath NK, S-VYASA’s Vice Chancellor, joined the World Meditation League as a founding scientific partner alongside Prof. Olaf Blanke of EPFL, working to identify and benchmark Peak Meditative States across the world’s meditation traditions.
In June 2025, All Here welcomed Dr. Nagendra and Dr. Manjunath in Geneva. They meditated alongside All Here Founder Erkin Bek, then joined scientific discussions on Dhyana and Samadhi with Chief Scientist Prof. Christoph Michel and the research team. The visit also included EEG-guided Quantified Meditation sessions, using All Here’s Brain-Computer Interface technology to analyze their brain activity in real time, along with a demonstration of All Here’s XR meditation platform.
Their visit concluded with them signing a joint statement affirming a shared mission to make meditation accessible across society.
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Bengaluru, India — International Center
Tradition & Research
Founded in 1981 by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, The Art of Living has grown from a single course into one of the world's largest volunteer-based meditation and service organizations, teaching Sudarshan Kriya — a rhythmic, breath-based technique designed to release stress at a physiological level — across more than 180 countries.
All Here's relationship with the organization began at the World Summit on Ethics and Leadership in Sports in Basel. A meeting with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar confirmed a shared understanding of meditation's important role in today's world. During the summit, All Here also conducted EEG-based Quantified Meditation sessions with senior Art of Living practitioners.
The relationship deepened into a formal research visit to The Art of Living's Bengaluru headquarters. Ms. Sumathi Jayaraman, Director of the Sri Sri Institute for Advanced Research, welcomed All Here's team. There, Quantified Meditation sessions recorded the neural signatures of seasoned practitioners at the International Center — some with decades of experience in Sudarshan Kriya — capturing years of breath-based practice as measurable brain data. The visit also included a meaningful conversation with Ms. Bhanumathi Narasimhan, meditation leader and humanitarian.
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Bengaluru, India
Tradition & Research
Pyramid Valley International was founded by Brahmarshi Patriji in 2003, outside Bengaluru. It anchors the wider Pyramid Spiritual Societies Movement, which Patriji founded in 1990, and centers on ānāpānasati, the discipline of sustained breath awareness rooted in early Buddhist teaching. Its campus is built around the Maitreya Buddha Pyramid, the world's largest structure built specifically for meditation, drawing a global community All Here estimates at 15 million practitioners.
All Here's team traveled to Pyramid Valley to record EEG data with 22 experienced Ānāpānasati practitioners. The study compared brain activity during focused-attention meditation on the breath with two other states: quiet rest and deliberate mental imagery. The recordings became the foundation of a peer-reviewed study, “Microstate Dynamics of Focused Attention Meditation,” published in Brain Topography and co-authored by Dr. Amit Kanthi and Dr. NK Manjunath of S-VYASA University together with Prof. Christoph Michel and the All Here research team.
The findings showed that breath-focused meditation reduces mind-wandering and self-referential thought, while reshaping the brain's large-scale architecture at the millisecond timescale — translating the pyramid's singular architecture of practice into some of All Here's most rigorously documented science.
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Hyderabad, India — Headquarters
Tradition & Research
Heartfulness traces its roots to 1945 and the teachings of Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, known to practitioners as Babuji, refined across successive generations of guides and now led by Kamlesh D. Patel, known as Daaji. Central to the practice is pranahuti, a subtle transmission of energy from a trainer to a meditator, intended to still the heart rather than the mind — a method now practiced in more than 160 countries. The Heartfulness Institute's world headquarters at Kanha Shanti Vanam, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, is home to the largest meditation hall in the world.
In August 2025, All Here's team joined nearly 1,000 practitioners in silent meditation at Heartfulness Headquarters, guided by Daaji himself, conducting EEG-based Quantified Meditation sessions to explore Heartfulness's giving, receiving, and cleaning practices. Months later, Prof. Christoph Michel joined a Heartfulness Switzerland roundtable in Lausanne — called “Why Meditate?” — held in celebration of World Meditation Day, as recognized by the United Nations.
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Nevada City, California, USA
Tradition & Research
High in the Sierra Nevada foothills above Nevada City, California, Ananda Village has sustained the Kriya Yoga lineage of Paramhansa Yogananda since 1968, when his direct disciple Swami Kriyananda founded the community as a place where meditation could be lived, not merely practiced.
For more than 50 years, its residents have kept this technique — a precise method of accelerating spiritual growth through breath and energy control — alive as an unbroken daily discipline rather than a historical curiosity. Today more than 200 residents live, practice, and serve together: a living example of meditation as more than an individual practice, cultivated, supported, and embodied together.
All Here traveled to Ananda Village for the rare privilege of conducting EEG recordings with its most experienced practitioners — an opportunity few scientists ever encounter. Many sessions lasted nearly two hours, offering a continuous window into the evolving dynamics of meditation rarely available to researchers. It was one of the unique instances in which this specific Kriya lineage has opened its practice to neuroscientific study.
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