Robert Jacobs

Robert Jacobs has been practicing meditation and yoga for 45 years. His first spiritual teacher was the Chilean master Oscar Ichazo, who established the Arica School in the late 1960s. He then went on to study with two Spiritual Masters from the Indian tradition and lived with them 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 the essential scriptures of the Indian yoga tradition and learned them in conjunction with his practices. His teachings come directly from these ancient sources and his own personal experiences. For the past 10 years he has also been studying Buddhist Vipassana meditation with noted teachers in the field. He is the author of a spiritual memoir- Journey to the Awakened Heart - and is currently writing a second book - Path to the Awakened Heart: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.