Paul Muller-Ortega, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized meditation teacher, and one of the world’s most highly respected academic scholars in the field of Indian Religion and Hindu Tantra. He is the founder of Blue Throat Yoga, which teaches the elegant and highly effective practice of Neelakantha Meditation. After a long and highly successful career as an academic scholar, Paul now devotes himself to the practice and understandings of deep meditation and to teaching teachers of meditation.

Paul has been a meditation practitioner for over fifty years. He has formally studied with several of the greatest meditation masters of our time, and subsequently has organized and taught hundreds of meditation seminars, disseminating potent practices to thousands of individuals; as well as offering retreats, advanced study courses and a rigorous and profound training program for teachers of Neelakantha Meditation.