About Megan
For over two decades, I lived in constant pursuit of the next certification, the next degree, the next professional development workshop or class that would finally make me feel like I am “enough.” Through discovering instinctive meditation, my journey has shifted from striving to savoring the present moment and all that life has to offer. I once turned to meditation to survive the hardest moments, now it’s how I open to joy, wonder, and awe. I’ve learned that healing isn’t about becoming someone new, but rather it’s about remembering who I already am. The deeper I listen, the more clearly I hear my purpose: I am here to Be Love. My dharma on this planet is to be a calm and steady presence in others’ lives, helping them discover their own inner peace.
So, who am I? 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, ecstatic-dancing, 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, new experiences, and new connections.
Every morning I wake with a deep sense of gratitude for another day, another breath, another chance to fully embrace every miraculous gift of being alive. Each day is truly a blessing!
My work now is to live as love in action and witness others on their sacred journey of healing toward Svastha, a state of being rooted and centered in oneself, at home in one’s own body. If you’re seeking more peace, clarity, and connection, I’d be honored to walk beside you, supporting you as you rediscover your own inner calm and wholeness. Together, we can explore your natural instincts and rhythms, letting your body’s wisdom and your heart’s truth guide you back home to yourself.
My Influences and Teachers
Books
The practices and teachers below have shaped my path. Each offered a doorway into a different kind of awakening—body, mind, heart, and spirit.
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!
Kripalu didn’t just teach me resilience—it reintroduced me to my own softness. I learned that strength isn’t about pushing through, but about pausing long enough to feel. This program became the bridge between my old striving self and the stillness I live from now.
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.
Through Instinctive Meditation, I learned to listen to the quiet wisdom of my own body. It reminded me that meditation isn’t about escaping the world but fully entering it—with tenderness, curiosity, and awe.
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.
Yoga has taught me to stay with discomfort, to meet both strength and surrender as teachers. Each posture has become a metaphor for living—a way to balance discipline with grace, to balance effort with ease. My practice reminds me to release attachments and expectations, to honor where my body is each day without judgment or comparison. In that quiet space of acceptance, gratitude naturally arises—gratitude for the breath, for the body, and for this ever-changing journey of being alive.
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.
Reiki deepened my trust in the unseen—that powerful current of energy that moves through everything. It taught me that healing begins not in fixing, but in listening to ourselves, trusting the miraculous intelligence and beauty of the Universe, and remembering we are already whole.
Yoga Nidra
I studied Yoga Nidra with Jennifer Reis of Jennifer Reis Yoga.
Yoga Nidra opened the doorway to deep rest. It taught me that restoration is not passive—it’s a sacred act of returning to oneself.
These paths have not just shaped my skills—they’ve softened my heart. Every teacher and practice has brought me closer to remembering who I already am: calm, curious, and connected.
Every class, conversation, and moment of stillness is an opportunity to return to center—to Be Love in action. My greatest joy is helping others remember that peace is possible, even in the midst of the chaos of our lives.
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