Paul Muller-Ortega

Paul Muller-Ortega, Ph.D., the founder of Blue Throat Yoga, 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.  

Paul is passionate and devoted to teaching students how to access their truest Self, and to offering the knowledge-base to understand and support that experience. He has led hundreds of meditation retreats, offered a vast array of study courses, translated and provided commentary on many of the most inspired sacred texts of the Śākta-Śaiva tradition, and has personally trained 53 ācāryas as Authorized Teachers of Neelakantha Meditation. 

Paul is uniquely qualified to offer potent teachings, drawing upon the synergy of his long career as an academic scholar, his particular capacity to translate complex ideas and concepts into easily accessible and comprehensible understanding, and a personal history of deep meditation and extensive practice in the Śākta-Śaiva Tantra tradition.