Luis de Santiago

A film maker and photographer by profession, Luis de Santiago lives in La Coruña, Spain. He travels around the world sharing silence, insight and compassion, making himself available to all those who earnestly wish to realise their true identities. Luis teaches only from direct experience and is fluent in Spanish as well as English. He prefers small groups and emphasises the importance, recognised for thousands of years, of direct contact with a teacher, as opposed to knowledge gained from books, recordings or videos.

Luis discovered the teachings of Ramana Maharshi when he was a teenager in Venezuela. He met his teacher and friend Robert Adams in California, and spent two years sitting at his feet every Thursday and Sunday, enjoying his presence and his silence, as Robert had very advanced Parkinson's disease and could hardly speak.

Luis's moment of realisation came in his hometown, La Coruña, while caring for his terminally ill wife, Bibiana. After several years he began to teach in a low-key way, and now has a following on both sides of the Atlantic, in countries as diverse as Mexico and Eire.