About Megan
I’m a forest-bathing, tree-hugging, dirt-worshiping, four-leaf clover-hunting, mountain-loving, shooting star-seeking, sunrise-chasing, cloud-watching, reiki-practicing, barefoot-in-the-grass, toes-in-the-ocean, hammock-obsessed, heavily meditated yogini, mother, teacher, and intuitive healer. I feel most at home in nature—swimming, kayaking, paddle boarding, hiking, camping, or simply lying in the grass, breathing with the trees, dissolving into the beauty of the moment. I am a perpetual student of life, always seeking new knowledge, experiences, and connections.
My Influences and Teachers
Books
Kripalu RISE
In my 20+ year career as an educator and leader in independent, charter, and public schools in Massachusetts and Connecticut, I have experienced a lot of stress and anxiety- I have been overwhelmed and stressed out and experienced fatigue and burnout. I have suffered from chronic tension headaches, heartburn, and lockjaw as well as fainted from stress. We've all been there.
In a rock bottom moment of desperation, I knew I needed help, so I turned to Kripalu, the largest yoga center in the United States. At Kripalu I found the RISE evidence-based stress-resilience program, and it truly saved my life.
That was over 3 years ago, and now I am a Kripalu-certified RISE facilitator, and I want to share this program with as many educators and school leaders (and other folks who work in service of others) as possible, because we all have the ability to override our sympathetic nervous system (fight, flight, or freeze) when our stress response kicks in, but we haven't all been taught how to do so.
Many thanks to the Kripalu RISE program, and a special shout out to Sam Chase, my teacher, for getting me to where I am today!
My Path to Instinctive Meditation
I have been practicing meditation on and off for years, including exploring Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), learning from Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg, immersing myself in Kristin Neff’s Mindfulness-Based Self-Compassion, and practicing Vipassana at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC), yet it wasn’t until I discovered Instinctive Meditation that I was called into a daily practice.
I am currently wrapping up a 200-hour meditation teacher training to become a certified Instinctive Meditation teacher through The Radiance Sutras School of Meditation, founded and led by my beloved teachers Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine. I am also deeply grateful for the teachings and mentorship of Michael McDowell, who has guided me at every step of my journey and supported my growth as both a practitioner and facilitator with wisdom and care.
Yoga
I attended my first Yoga Teacher Training with Shiva Rea at Kripalu in 2004. From Shiva I learned the foundations that shaped my vinyasa yoga practice for the next several decades.
Over ten years after I wrote in my journal that I wanted to study with Seane Corn, I finally got to meet her in person at Kripalu in 2024 and have been studying with her ever since. She is an inspiration- living her yoga practice daily both on and off the mat, being committed to activism and community service, and raising awareness for global humanitarian issues.
I’ve taken a couple of yoga teacher courses with Rolf Gates, studying:
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Bhagavad Gita
Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now”
Deepak Chopra’s “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success”
Rolf is a graduate, lead faculty, and Director of the Kripalu School of Yoga.
I am currently enrolled in a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification (CYT 200) and Social-Emotional Learning Facilitator Certification (SEL*F) with Breathe 4 Change.
Reiki Energy Healing
I began my Reiki Healing journey with Devlin O’Malley at The Arlington Center in Arlington, MA. Devlin is a Usui and Lightarian Reiki Master and Shamanic Healer. She incorporates ancient and modern healing modalities to help clients through life's transitions by adjusting the subtle energy of the body which facilitates physical and emotional self-healing.
I completed my Reiki Level 1 training with Devlin.
I continued my Reiki healing journey with Brett Bevell at The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Reiki master Brett Bevell is author of the books Psychic Reiki, The Wizards Guide To Energy Healing, The Reiki Magic Guide to Self-Attunement, Reiki For Spiritual Healing, New Reiki Software for Divine Living, Energy Healing for Everyone & Healing Racism Within.
A Reiki master since 1995, Bevell teaches Reiki trainings worldwide. He has also sourced another powerful energy healing modality called Magical Awakening.
I completed Reiki level 1, Reiki level 2, and Psychic Reiki training with Brett and will soon be a Reiki Master.
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