Larry Terkel

Combines knowledge with wisdom,
inspiration with humor and
practicality with spiritual insight.

Available for speaking and workshops.

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meditationPlus

Explained in his book
How to Meditate:
Secrets to the Easiest and Most Effective Meditation Technique

In his book, How to Meditate: Secrets to the Easiest and Most Effective Meditation Technique (Carrot Seed) Larry explains his unique approach to meditation which he calls meditationPlus. His superpower is his ability to demystify meditation and make it relevant and accessible to everyone.

Larry receives emails from around the world saying they never understood meditation until reading his book. In it he explains the two basic meditation styles handed down from the two major meditation traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism – mantra and mindfulness. They are very different which adds to the confusion over how to meditate. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. By combining the two into meditationPlus, the advantages can be maximized, and the disadvantages minimized.

Then Larry goes one step farther, teaching you how to direct your meditation to address specific areas of your life. It is this “Plus” that provides the greatest return on your meditation investment. The “Plus” brings the teachings, the guidance, the practical solutions to your everyday challenges.

See how meditationPlus can provide the missing link to improving your effectiveness, your relationships, your health and your wellbeing.

Improve
Your #1 Relationship

Our most important relationship is with ourselves. Not liking yourself is a recipe for unhappiness. MeditationPlus can help.

Control
Your Mind

Who’s in charge in your life, you or your thoughts? Can you change the channel when your mind is lost in negative self-talk? MeditationPlus will give you the tools.

Empower
Your Life

Learn to access the guidance and wisdom your life has to offer you. The answers are there. The power is there. MeditationPlus will show you where to find them.

Praise for Larry

Classes & Workshops

Larry is an excellent instructor, spiritual guide and a loving person.
He has a very warm and gentle way. That warmth and gentleness go a long way.
A wonderful combination of philosophy, spirituality and exercise
Very inspiring, life changing.
Unbelievable! This guy is so great!
This is the best class I have ever attended!

Books

How to reach the summit of life's success… A homespun paean to the benefits of slowing down.
USA Today
If you do even half of what the Terkel's rcommend, you'll experience dramatic changes in your life.
Jack Canfield
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Upbeat and optimistic… This heartening little book is easy to read and its advise easy to implement.
Publishers Weekly

About Larry

Speaking from experience.

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Larry is one of America’s most experienced yoga and meditation teachers. He is a living example of the yoga and meditation he’s been teaching since 1971. His teachings (some call them Larryisms) are clear, practical and insightful. They contain both a deep spiritual perspective and a healthy sense of humor.

Larry's gift is his ability to bring classical teachings to modern life. For example, Larry teaches that a yoga pose is only complete with a smile, that meditation can actually enhance your thinking (not your "not-thinking") and that what you learn on your yoga mat can be applied to all aspects of your life, including relationships, work and health.

Larry is an E-RYT500/YACEP, the highest certifications given by the national Yoga Alliance. In 1970 he left for India on a one-way ticket. He travelled for almost one year and studied with the world’s foremost yoga and meditation masters, including B.K.S. Iyengar, Swami Satchidananda, Pir Vilayet Inayat Khan, Swami Vishnu Devananda and Baba Ram Das. Larry’s YouTube videos, which include Secrets to Posture, Headstand and Nauli (stomach rolling) have had hundreds of thousands of views. He is one of the most popular yoga and meditation teachers at the prestigious Chautauqua Institution every summer in upstate New York. He has taught at Active Minds, the national college suicide prevention program. He has done numerous keynotes for businesses, graduations, and conferences and is a beloved adjunct professor at Kent State University where he teaches Intro to World Religions.

Married in 1970 to his Cornell University sweetheart, Larry and Susan have three grown children and four grandchildren. Larry received a B.S. and M.B.A. from Cornell and an M.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Religion from Kent State University. He has been the CEO of a public company on the New York Stock Exchange and is a U.S. national swimming champion. At the 2023 National Senior Games he won seven gold medals and set two national records. Larry calls swimming “yoga in the water.”

Spiritual Life Society

Founder and Director / 1978–Current

In 1978, Larry bought an old church and established one of the oldest yoga and interfaith centers in the U.S. He has taught yoga, meditation and philosophy to thousands of students there. As it’s minister, Larry has officiated at over 3000 weddings, funerals and other life-cycle events. www.aum.org

How to Meditate

Secrets to the Easiest and Most Effective Meditation Technique (Carrot Seed)

This is the book that explains meditationPlus, Larry’s easy and effective meditation technique which combines mantra + mindfulness + more.

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Small Change

It’s the Little Things in Life that Make a BIG Difference (Penguin)

This book was Larry’s bestseller. It has been published in Japan, Italy, France and Korea. It was a finalist for a National Books for a Better Life award and USA Today called it “how to reach the pinnacle of life.”

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Contact

Larry is available for workshops, lectures, keynotes and certification courses.

One E. Main St., Hudson, OH 44236

(330) 656-0100

Larry@LarryTerkel.com

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