Laura Poole

Laura Poole is a Vedic meditation teacher and the founder of Mahasoma, a home for Vedic meditators living, leading and teaching. She has trained intensively in Australia and India for more than 17 years. She lives on the Sunshine Coast on a three-acre homestead, where she is growing a syntropic food forest. She teaches in Noosa, Melbourne, Sydney and India.

Laura learned Vedic meditation at 20, when the stress of university life was taking a toll on her health. She describes living with low energy, digestive problems, anxiety and overwhelm despite doing well in her work and study. Over time she began to wonder why, if practising this way was giving her so much, she wouldn't live her whole life the same way.

Her teaching draws on Vedic meditation, Vedanta and Ayurveda, passed on through the Śaṅkarācārya lineage. She delivers it in an engaging, practical and often humorous way. Her signature offering is the four-session Vedic meditation course. She also leads retreats, teacher trainings and private events, and she hosts a weekly community of local meditators on the Sunshine Coast. She says she is not there to help people "become their best self". Her aim is to support them in discovering who they are and their place in the world.

Laura was an original co-founder of 1 Giant Mind Australia and its free Learn to Meditate app. Through Mahasoma she writes a weekly Vedic wisdom Substack and hosts a podcast of stories from Vedic meditators and teachers.