Nicolas A. Kelley Ruiz

Nico teaches meditation, is a part-time artist, former Art Director, father to a young daughter, and a lifelong explorer of consciousness and altered states. Born in Panama to a family of mixed Hispanic descent, he grew up moving between the US and various Latin-American countries. Trained in Vedic Meditation over the course of two years with Jeff Kober (jeff-kober.com), he currently offers one-on-one or small group instruction in the greater Los Angeles area. Online teachings are also available. Vedic meditation is a contemporary branch of Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualist school of Indian wisdom and dharma, or right way of living. The tradition to which this school belongs predates Hinduism and is rooted in a system of thought and self-realization which contends that we are, at our core, a part of an ultimate reality that is infinite, pervasive, eternal, and conscious.

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