Jivan Mukta, PhD

Founder and Director of Meditative Healing

Jivan Mukta, PhD, is a scholar of religious and spiritual experience, a Kundalini Yoga teacher and mentor of teacher trainers, and a specialist in the application of meditation to healing processes. He is the founder and director of Meditative Healing and the Meditative Healing Program™, an integrative system that brings meditative practice into dialogue with psychology, spiritual traditions, and the academic study of human experience.

Born in Chile and holding both Chilean and Spanish citizenship, he studied History and Political Science before completing postgraduate studies in Comparative Religion. He later earned his PhD in the Study of Religions from the University of Helsinki. His doctoral research, 3HO in the Light of Experience, examined Kundalini Yoga through lived experience, scholarly inquiry, and qualitative psychological analysis. This background continues to shape an approach grounded in intellectual honesty, direct observation, and sustained practice.

Jivan Mukta began practising Kundalini Yoga in 2001. He has taught in Level 1 teacher trainings since 2004 and has taught Level 2 trainings for more than fifteen years. He is qualified as a mentor of Kundalini Yoga teacher trainers at both Level 1 and Level 2 and is also qualified to teach the Level 3 course, The 21 Stages of Meditation, supporting experienced teachers as they develop the capacity to train others. His teaching has taken him across Europe and beyond, including Spain, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Norway, Lithuania, Sweden, Germany, Serbia, Greece, Denmark, Ukraine, Italy, England, the United States, China, Russia, and Chile.

His years in Finland marked an important stage in this work. He initiated and helped establish the Kundalini Yoga Association of Finland and was among the pioneers who contributed to the development of Kundalini Yoga in the country. This foundation was built through years of seva—voluntary service—creating resources, developing community, and establishing an organisation able to continue independently. He currently serves on the Board of the Spanish Kundalini Yoga Association (AEKY) and collaborates with the Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association of Ukraine (KYTAU) through training, mentorship, and community-oriented projects.

Meditative Healing emerged from the convergence of these different strands: meditation, yoga, psychological understanding, academic research, and direct experience accompanying people through processes of healing and transformation. The Meditative Healing Program was developed throughout 2011 and first delivered in Finland in 2012. It subsequently grew internationally, with hundreds of people participating in the training.

At the centre of this work is a simple understanding: healing requires a space in which experience can be encountered without judgement or force. Meditation provides the instrument, while presence and neutrality create the conditions in which the individual’s own healing intelligence can become active. The Meditative Healing Program develops this approach across three levels, combining a structured collection of meditative techniques with psychologically informed perspectives and the study of consciousness, vitality, wholeness, and the human capacity for recovery, rehabilitation, and healing.

Jivan Mukta also understands the practice of mantras as a meditative medium. His recorded work, My Mind Is Thine, is an album of six mantras accompanied by the healing resonance of the gong. The album extends his exploration of meditation beyond teaching and individual sessions into sound, silence, devotion, and the transformative power of experiencing different states of consciousness.

After approximately fifteen years in Finland, he now lives in Gran Canaria, Spain, where he directs Yoga Lafontaine – School of Enlightenment and continues developing Meditative Healing through individual sessions, international training and research. He is also developing El Santuario de Guía, a place in nature for practice, community, healing, and a more conscious relationship with the natural world.

Across these different expressions, his work follows one consistent purpose: to connect the depth of contemplative traditions with psychological understanding and rigorous inquiry, while keeping meditation practical, experiential, and relevant to the realities of human life.