Gwyneth Paltrow : In January, the actress said: “My New Year's resolution is to learn how to meditate. It’s always sounded like something I should do, but I don’t know how to. My friends who do it say it’s really freakin' brilliant. They say you can’t know the peace/awareness/contentment until you do it."
Steven Seagal : The actor has long been a devotee of meditation, since moving to Japan at the age of 17 to study acupuncture, martial arts and Zen. He was once reported as saying he had done serious meditation in his “own pitiful way” for about 27 years.
Richard Gere : The star of Hollywood hits such as Pretty Woman and Chicago, Richard Gere is a devout Buddhist and passionate advocate for human rights. He meditates daily, claiming that it helps him to get motivated.
David Lynch : Not only has the director been meditating for over thirty-five years but he's also written a book about it, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. Last year he launched the David Lynch Foundation, "dedicated to providing students with the opportunity to learn how to meditate".
Orlando Bloom : The star of films like ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Pirates of the Carribean’ credits meditation and the philosophies behind it for helping him to keep away from the self-destructive path so common in Hollywood. He follows a practical approach to meditation and incorporating meditation into his daily life so that it strengthens him, as well as helping him find peace.
Others mentioned in the article include ‘stars’ from the music industry : Tina Turner (Buddist), and Sting, Herbie Hancock and George Harrison (Transcendental Meditation) and Super Model Gisele Bundchen.
... and other well known names that I have read about include Miranda Kerr (Nicheren Buddhism) and Tiger Woods (learnt from his mother who was Buddhist).
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