Taught
He tried
everything
first.
By most measures, Rich had figured it out early. A successful career, financial security, the kind of external markers that are supposed to mean something — achieved young. And yet the internal experience didn't match. The restlessness remained. The low hum of anxiety. A mind that wouldn't settle, regardless of what he did or achieved.
He went looking for answers the way most people do — thoroughly. Seminars. Self-help books. Audio programs. He walked on fire with the gurus. He explored psychedelics. He tried the things that had worked for other people, the things that were supposed to shift something fundamental. And some of them did shift things — temporarily. But he kept returning to the same baseline, the same set point. Insight without lasting change. Progress that didn't hold.
That pattern — arriving back where you started despite genuine effort — is one Rich now recognises in almost every student who walks through his door. It's not a failure of commitment. It's a sign that the tool doesn't match the problem.
He started Vedic Meditation almost twenty years ago, and what happened surprised him: it worked. Not by forcing change — but by dissolving the accumulated stress that had been holding the set point in place.
Not in a vague, feel-good way. His sleep changed. His reactivity softened. The mental noise that had always been background radiation became something he could simply set down. He wanted to understand why — and that curiosity led him to an Honours degree, focused specifically on breathing, the nervous system, and the physiological mechanisms underlying meditative states.
Today Rich teaches from both ends of that spectrum — the ancient lineage of Vedic practice passed down through generations, and the growing body of peer-reviewed research that explains precisely why it works. His students aren't asked to believe. They're given a technique, a framework, and a result.
He teaches from his home in the Currumbin Valley on the Gold Coast, and online to students across the country.