About Kari + Ponder

Kari Hamele is a Sydney-based Vedic Meditation teacher, mentor and founder of Meditate Love Life. She has practised Vedic Meditation for 15 years and continues to study and train under Thom Knoles. Like all Vedic Meditation teachers, she is concerned with three things: maintaining the purity and integrity of the tradition, teaching meditation, and contributing to the overall expansion of happiness.

Kari came to meditation because something had to give. High anxiety, mood swings, depression, low energy, too much thinking and a dysfunctional relationship with herself had become all too familiar. She did not like who she was being or who she was becoming, and stress had become a way of life. What began as a way to get away from it all became something much more. It became the missing peace she needed to return to a stable baseline of calm, feel comfortable in her own skin, and have the mental clarity and energy to make choices aligned with her values.

After four years of practice, and a complete shift in how she was experiencing life, Kari went on to train as a Vedic Meditation teacher. She founded Meditate Love Life to help others experience inner peace and happiness.

Today, Kari works with people of all ages and stages who have adapted to living in a near-constant state of survival, where stress has become the norm and they have forgotten what it feels like to truly relax. She teaches Vedic Meditation, a simple, natural, effective way to release stress, establish a sense of calm and experience life with greater clarity, energy and ease.