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Bengaluru, India — Observing darkness and silence. Visualizing a flame in the heart. Contemplating impermanence.

These were the practices three meditators brought to the stage at the S-VYASA University Quantified Meditation Challenge in Bengaluru, presented by the World Meditation League before an audience of some 500 students, faculty, press and supporters.

The three challengers were fitted with high-density EEG, allowing All Here’s Quantified Meditation System™ to capture their brain activity in real time as they meditated — making the invisible visible to a live audience.

But the attendees were not there simply to watch.

For the first round, World Meditation League founder Erkin Bek guided a live Sun Meditation. The challengers practiced on stage while hundreds across the auditorium joined them. For five minutes, the Challenge became one shared experience.

Then came round two.

The lights dimmed, the challengers closed their eyes and the Quantified Meditation Challenge began.

This time each challenger meditated using their own practice:

• Matsya, a yoga and Vedic wellness student, visualized a flame in his heart.
• Nann, a Master of Science in Yoga student, practiced Vipassana with a contemplation on impermanence.
• Megha, an S-VYASA administrative assistant, observed the void and darkness and meditated on the silence within.

Three people, three distinct practices — measured using All Here’s Quantified Meditation measures, including the Concentration & Mindfulness Index (CMI), which captures when mind-wandering decreases and attention, presence and self-awareness increase, and QM3, which measures the ability to reach and sustain a deep meditative state continuously for three minutes.

As the Challenge unfolded, one practitioner reached a remarkable peak in concentration before the live audience.

Why This Matters

Beyond the results, the Challenge demonstrated what measurement can make possible: new ways for practitioners to understand their meditation, deepen their practice and progress towards more advanced meditative states.

For the World Meditation League, this is part of a broader ambition to advance meditation as a measurable discipline — bringing practitioners, science and technology together to explore the possibilities of the Meditative Mind and Brain.

The event marked the conclusion of All Here’s Silent Mind Advanced Meditation Training at S-VYASA, which brought together a group of advanced meditators for a multi-day exploration of increasingly advanced meditation practices led by All Here founder Erkin Bek and the All Here team.

The training followed a three-part progression from Mind-Body Connection, through Stability of Mind, and ultimately Towards Silence. Participants began by turning attention inward towards the breathing body and center of gravity, before moving to increasingly subtle objects of meditation — following and witnessing the presence of air, then moving towards emptiness and objectless absorption, where the practice shifts from observing silence towards embodying it.

Thank you to S-VYASA University, Dr. HR Nagendra and Manjunath Sharma, our three challengers, and everyone who joined us in Bengaluru.