About Owen Bruhn

As a child, I knew of Dr Ainslie Meares' (1910-1986) work through the media. One day, I realised that he taught meditation in Melbourne, the same city I lived in. I learnt Stillness Meditation from him throughout 1984. Stillness changed my life and set me onto my path. Stillness Meditation can change your life too.

    Meares wrote 35 books and many papers but had no teacher training program. I'd already read about a dozen of them before I saw him and asked him many questions. I listened and practised everything he said. As a curious young ergonomist, I sneaked a peak from time to time during his meditation classes too. Later, I learnt more from people who also participated in his classes. Their experiences reinforce the crystal clear patterns seen in his writings.

     In 2012, sciatica saw me in rehab. The facility provided physical and talk therapy. The absence of Stillness Meditation was a surprise that needed to be changed. Designing and delivering OHS training had upgraded my own skills. I thought that meditation teacher training might help my rehab and maybe I could teach it too.

      By 2017, I had founded Stillness Meditation Touch Therapy and was registered to teach by Meditation Association of Aust. I continued to work my OHS day job until late 2018. Earlier, various people had encouraged me to write Ainslie Meares on Meditation. It hadn't named the 5 pillars to avoid putting a couple of people offside. They wouldn't see that it followed Ainslie Meares' blueprint ahead of anyone else's. The next book, Still Mind Sound Body outlined the still mind and sound body support factors. The 2020-2022 pandemic lock inside the Melbourne “ring of steel” shutdown meditation teaching. So, I wrote Ainslie Meares on Teaching Meditation (AMOTM).

     Over decades, Meares visited many systems of hypnosis, meditation, mysticism and healing etc. With AMOTM drafted, I read the original texts by major contributors spread throughout recorded history and visited some meditative touch therapy systems that Meares had not. AMOTM and my visits sparked new challenges that enhanced my independence and allowed me to read between the lines of Meares' works. I haven't added to his system but have made some things more conspicuous.       Changes since Meares' time mean a changed emphasis on some aspects. I continue to quote and footnote and explain his work. I encourage you to compare my books with Meares' blueprint. This can also be done for other authors. You will find that mine are closest.

     Owen works hard teaching, writing and researching so his clients have benefit from enhanced therapeutic experiences and shifts into a better life at their own unique rate. His studio is in Ringwood Melbourne and he also runs classes at local venues. In addition, Owen offers his unique Stillness Reiki, Stillness Therapeutic Touch and Pellowah to those who have an affinity with one of those paths.