David Gandelman

With a light and often humorous touch, meditation teacher and author David Gandelman teaches meditation, energy awareness and intuitive development. After studying Western philosophy at Rutgers University, he lived in the Himalayas, where he studied the spiritual traditions of the East, and later became director of a Hawaiian school devoted to mysticism and intuitive development. Cornell University has hosted his meditation teaching, as have organisations such as NBC Universal and SAP, and many people use his guided meditations on the Insight Timer app.

Meditation School, which he founded, is an online membership and app offering courses and daily meditations. He hosts three podcasts: Meditation School, Energy Matters and Grounded Sleep. Together with Cody Edner he runs the Energy Matters Academy, whose courses cover seeing and reading energy, the intuitive chakras and kundalini, alongside in-person retreats; with Michael Galyon he leads a meditation teacher training lasting a year. In The 7 Energies of the Soul he describes seven archetypal energies (creator, healer, warrior, lover, artist, explorer and master), offering exercises and meditations for balancing them. His course on The Shift Network, Third Eye Training, covers intuition and energy reading.