Robert Jacobs has been practicing meditation and yoga for the past 50 years. His first spiritual teacher was the Chilean master Oscar Ichazo, who established the Arica School in the late 1960s. Robert went through several Arica trainings through a two- year period in the early 1970s. He then went on to meet two Spiritual Masters from the Indian tradition and lived in yoga ashrams for 18 years, in India and the United States.

In the 1980s, he managed a residential ashram in Washington DC. Through his ashram years, Robert studied in depth the essential scriptures of the Indian yoga tradition and learned them in conjunction with his practices. His teachings are not hypothetical. They are a practical means to achieve a direct experience of the one Truth within.