MEET YEOJIN
MY JOURNEY FROM FASHION TO MEDITATION
My earliest memories of attending art school as a 4-year-old in Korea were sketching the most beautiful dresses I could imagine. By 15, I studied full-time at a fashion college and began my career at 17. I cherished the design traditions, drawing by hand, working on toiles, and creating cardboard patterns to experience how the garment draped on my body.
For three decades I worked around the clock in fashion, dedicating myself to the relentless cyclical deadlines. I operated my self-titled brand for half those years, establishing a cult following for my stylish silhouettes in luxurious fabrics. I traveled nonstop and sold globally, and I was featured in top editorials with women wearing my pieces beyond my wildest dreams. I won awards, attended high-profile events, and was an Australian goodwill ambassador to Korea.
So, outwardly, things looked pretty perfect; I was living the life I had always imagined and making women look beautiful. But behind the scenes, I was a highly functioning, stressed-out person with chronic insomnia, sleeping once or twice a week for the past decade. At 40, I was suffering from overwork, overwhelm, and unresolved trauma and was diagnosed with PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and depression, along with disordered eating.
I learnt to meditate shortly after, but not for any "hippy dippy" spiritual reasons. I desperately needed to sleep. I had exhausted all other methods, but nothing seemed to work. Initially, in my meditations, I would crash into a deep sleep, my head knocked out sideways with drool coming out of my mouth. And I was so relieved that I kept practicing twice daily because my body and nervous system were finally getting a deep rest.
Within a year, I wanted to know more about this technique, so I dove into advanced meditation training and then continued learning from great teachers and masters over the next nine years. This culminated in a three-month intensive teacher training in India where I sat in the fire of Self-discovery with long meditations, deep immersions in Vedic wisdom, and rigorous memorization tests so I can now share this knowledge with others.
Meditating now for almost a decade has taught me that the world is as you are. Put on red glasses, and everything will appear red. Look through tired eyes and accumulated stress; you will see only more problems. Now, I see the world with a new perspective, filled with expanded happiness, compassion, resilience and adaptability. And it’s not that I no longer get stressed; I still do at times, but the key is I don't remain stressed.
One day, I decided "I don't want to be scared anymore", and my life unfolded into an extraordinary journey. Now, it's my duty to teach others to be unafraid, to enjoy life, and live it to the fullest.
I want everyone to experience the benefits of Vedic meditation and live, create, and work in harmony with our natural world.