Help Bring Healing & Peace To Conflict Through The Power of Meditation
Individual Peace Leads To World Peace
It All Starts With Teaching 1% Of A Population To Meditate
What if solving a 100 year conflict could be as simple as getting 1% of a population Meditating?
Evidence has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that once 1% of a population is meditating there is a coherence effect that occurs in the whole region, which promotes peace, lowers violent conflict, and improves socio-economic metrics - this is called the “Maharishi Effect”.
Our First Mission Began in Israel in 2024
Why Israel?
The people of this region have been experiencing shock, terror, and lasting mental effects from the war that began on October 7th, 2023.
The cycle of conflict, destruction, and violence within this region has been going on for decades with no end in sight. The urgent need of the time is to begin taking steps for long-term and sustainable change - from the ground up.
World Peace begins with Individual Peace.
Meditation has the power to enact this change.
The Plan for Israel
Our vision is to teach 1% of the population of Israel Vedic Meditation - 100,000 people.
This effort will help to heal trauma, restore a personal sense of peace and hope, and ultimately create a region wide coherence that promotes a sustainable and peaceful resolution to the conflict.
Evidence shows that meditation is a powerful tool to cope with trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and stress-related symptoms.
Meditate For World Peace aims to make meditation widely available in conflict zones without the financial burden.
This is where your help is needed.
How You Can Help
We are fundraising to bring international Master Teachers of Vedic Meditation to teach in Israel, and sponsor meditation courses for thousands of people in 2024.
Once a student learns to meditate in person over a 4 day course, they receive a lifetime of support with their practice; including a weekly group meditation and access to a global meditation community.
The cost of creating the project and sponsoring the meditation course amounts to USD $200 per person.
We need your support to help fund this project and bring it to life.
Project Roadmap
2024 Q1 - Raise funds and start up operations on the ground in Israel. Build our local outreach and partner network, Begin teaching students in Israel and bring in additional teachers to meet demand.
David & Emily completed 6 courses in Israel in Dec-Jan 2024, welcoming 85 new Israeli meditators to the community.
Q2, Q3 2024 - Establish a local meditation center, ramp up operations with Vedic Meditation teachers on the ground in Tel Aviv, and make VM sponsorships accessible for hundreds & thousands more students.
Q4, 2024 & 2025 - Building the local community, supporting training new Vedic Meditation teachers in Israel, continue with a lifetime of support for all meditators and continue fundraising for Phase 2 towards teaching 100,000 people - 1% of the population of Israel.
Creating Change In The Region
Through our world-wide community of existing meditators, our local partners, and grass roots supporters on the ground in Israel, we are reaching out to make Vedic Meditation available for all those who will benefit most from learning at this time.
The courses are organized in a 4-day format, where participants learn to meditate in-person over four consecutive days, 90 minutes each day.
This format of in-person learning has the highest success rate for students continuing to meditate on their own twice a day after the course. Once the 4-day course is complete, new meditators can join the local and worldwide community and have access to a lifetime of follow-up and support with their practice, which includes a weekly group meditation.
All costs are included in the initial sponsorship of a 4-day course for the meditator.
About Meditate For World Peace
Founder - David Lahav
David Lahav grew up in Israel and served as an officer in the IDF, his family lives in Israel to this day.
After founding multiple successful businesses and experiencing the life changing effects of Vedic Meditation, David went through the extensive training to become a Teacher of Vedic Meditation. He has been teaching in Israel and internationally since.
David's leading desire to become a teacher was to teach meditation in Israel, and help support a solution for peace.
Meet Our Board of Advisors
Limor Babai, Advisor
Limor worked as a director of Macquarie Bank before becoming a meditation teacher based in Sydney, Australia.
As one of the most senior Vedic Meditation teachers in the world, Limor served as a course leader in Vedic Meditation teacher trainings for more than a decade.
In 2005, she began working on developing a purpose-built meditation centre in Double Bay where she now teaches full-time.
Having enjoyed the immediate and sustainable results from her meditation practice, Limor's decision to become a teacher was based on the desire to make this meditation technique available to everyone.
Anna Jacobs, Advisor
Anna graduated with a BA from Harvard in 2002.
Over the next decade, she worked in diverse fields – including teaching English in Moscow, conducting field research on wildlife habitats in Homer, Alaska, and living on tiny Isle au Haut in Maine.
in 2019 Anna trained to become a teacher of Vedic Meditation in Rishikesh, India.
In October, 2020, Anna moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teachs full-time.
Donate to Meditate for World Peace
Your donation goes directly towards paying for a student in a conflict zone to learn Vedic Meditation.
A donation of USD $200 helps cover the tuition for one person to learn Vedic Meditation over 4 sessions, and gives them a lifetime of support and follow-up in weekly group meditations and membership in our global community.
Make an Impact
- $200 Helps 1 Person Take a 4 Day Vedic Meditation Course + Lifetime of Support
- $1000 Helps 5 People Take a 4 Day Vedic Meditation Course + Lifetime of Support
- $2,000 Helps 10 People Take a 4 Day Vedic Meditation Course + Lifetime of Support
- $10,000 Helps 50 People Take a 4 Day Vedic Meditation Course + Lifetime of Support
- $20,000 Helps 100 People Take a 4 Day Vedic Meditation Course + Lifetime of Support
- $40,000 Helps 200 People Take a 4 Day Vedic Meditation Course + Lifetime of Support
- $100,000 Helps 500 People Take a 4 Day Vedic Meditation Course + Pays For a Private Corporate Course
- $200,000 Helps 1000 People Take a 4 Day Vedic Meditation Course + Become Official Sponsor + Pays For a Private Corporate Course