Carlos Cervantes
What is Transcendental Meditation?
A Teacher’s Path : How Carlos Found TM, and Why He Shares It With Our Travellers
A steady presence • A simple tool • A return to calm.
I am a certified teacher of Transcendental Meditation, and over the years I’ve had the privilege of sharing this practice in very different environments, from prisons in the UK to primary and secondary schools in Portugal and Sierra Leone.
Transcendental Meditation transformed my own life long before I began teaching it. What began as a personal search for clarity and stability slowly became a path I felt called to share. I have seen this simple, powerful technique change the lives of hundreds of students and friends through direct experience.
Today, I run private TM courses in the Algarve (Portugal), and occasionally in London. I also facilitate and support retreats in different locations, creating spaces where people can step out of noise and reconnect with something more essential.
Carlos and I met when I decided to learn Transcendental Meditation.
At the time, he was teaching in Battersea, in London. I remember arriving genuinely excited, ready to begin, only to find the front door wouldn’t open. Without hesitation, Carlos climbed over the neighbour’s fence and came in through the garden.
That was our first little adventure together, and somehow it felt like the right way to start.
Since then, Carlos has been a kind of an anchor in life, someone I know I can return to whenever I need grounding, clarity, or simply presence. Much more than a teacher, he’s a true friend.
I later visited him in his new home in Portugal. We surfed, spoke for hours, and of course… Meditated together.
Carlos is not only a deeply skilled TM teacher, he is a generous listener, a steady presence, and someone who naturally walks beside you on the path, never in front of it.
What is TM?
TM, in three sentences :
Simple: 20 minutes, twice a day, sitting comfortably with your eyes closed.
Natural: no control, no effort, no forced concentration.
Deep: a very deep mental rest that gradually brings clarity.
Studies exist on stress, sleep, anxiety, blood pressure, the simplest thing is to experience it for yourself.
What changes with practicing TM?
During the day: more time to react.
In the body: less “nervous” fatigue.
In the mind: more creativity, less self-noise
What TM is not :
It is not “trying to stop thinking.”
It is not focusing on something else than our thoughts.
It is not a religion!
A nervous system that “calms down”
Greater clarity / less mental noise
More stable sleep
Better emotional recovery
More creative
What people often feel :
In you life:
you come back to yourself faster.
For all the travelers • Free Zoom Call
Carlos’s training
When: ~4 weeks before departure
Duration: 35 minutes
Purpose: to understand the TM, ask your questions, and discover one more tool of self-healing.
Carlos’s ressources
Audio - Discover TM: Benefits, Insights, and Practical Value
Listening - 53 minutes.
Carlos was trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation through the official TM training, an immersive six-month residential program in. He now teaches on the behalf of the David Lynch Foundation all around the world.
Beyond theory, the training involves extended meditation practice and a deep integration of the Vedic tradition, preparing teachers to serve as custodians of a knowledge that has been passed down for generations.
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
―David Lynch,Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity