Stuart Perrin is an American spiritual master who has been quietly teaching small groups of students around the world for the last thirty years. He is a direct disciple of the by now legendary Swami Rudrananda, more commonly known as Rudi, with whom he lived for six years, and by whose side he was at the moment of his death in an airplane crash in 1973.

Rudi was an extraordinary figure and was one of the first Americans to bring the fruits of Eastern wisdom, stripped free of cultural and religious dogmas, into the heart of the West. Rudi was deeply influenced both by the work of Gurdjeff and Pak Subud but met his root guru, Swami Nityananda in 1960. After Nityananda's passing, Rudi spent thirteen years studying with Swami Muktananda whom he brought to the West in the early 1970's. Shortly thereafter Rudi broke with Swami Muktananda and in February, 1973, he was killed in an airplane crash in upstate New York. At the moment of his death, Stuart was holding Rudi's hand and received his poignant last words, "a deeper sense of surrender," a profound encapsulation of his life and teaching and the guiding light by which Stuart has lived ever since.

Since his teacher's passing, Stuart has been deeply influenced by a number of other teachers whose subtle influence manifests itself in his teaching. Chief among these are the venerable Kalu Rinpoche, Sri Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, and Ramana Maharshi. While each of these teachers have affected Stuart profoundly, the heart of his teaching is derived from the training he received from Rudi and the precious wisdom gleaned from thirty years of living these teachings fully.

The meditation Stuart teaches is direct and powerful. It is an open-eyed form of kundalini yoga and teaches one to absorb Spiritual Energy or Shakti, directly into one's chakra or psychic muscle system. In so doing one learns to burn the tension and difficulty of both life and one's inner condition and transform all of it into a spiritual life. To "take what's killing you and make it give you life," is the heart both of what Rudi taught and what Stuart teaches today. The goal of this work is to become a spiritually enlightened person which is a person living a profoundly sane and happy life and expressing the amazing depths of their full humanity.