Elsa Jung

About Elsa

Transcendental Meditation became part of my life 55 years ago. It started with my brother, who was very enthusiastic about it and was getting such good results that I decided to take the TM course on 13 November 1971. In the months that followed I noticed that my insecurity disappeared and that I felt safe. I began to enjoy life more and take on more, spontaneously stopped smoking, and at some point felt the wish to pass Transcendental Meditation on to others myself.

So I quit my job at the University Hospital in Groningen and in the spring of 1973 left for La Antilla in Spain, where I completed the TM teacher training in May. During that training I also met my future husband, Charles.

I first taught in Amsterdam and Groningen and later in Limburg, where Charles and I gave TM courses throughout the province. Over the years we had three wonderful sons, all three of whom meditate. And a grandson of eighteen months, whom we enjoy enormously. To this day we are still active, with great satisfaction, as Transcendental Meditation teachers in Roermond, Nijmegen and Arnhem, in Dutch and English.

For me the most beautiful part of teaching Transcendental Meditation is the moment a student has experienced transcending for the first time. To see that stillness and transformation is so wonderful, and it happens so completely effortlessly. As one of my students put it, with relief: “How lovely that I don't have to do anything for this!”

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