Meditate by Sarah McLean

Meditate by Sarah McLean

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Sarah McLean is a contemporary meditation and mindfulness teacher who has been inspiring people to meditate for over 25 years. With kindness and humor, Sarah shares her secrets to creating a successful meditation practice and how it can lead to increased self-compassion, clear communication, and a more peaceful life.

She is dedicated to doing what she can to create more peace on this planet, for every living being. She believes that when people learn how to meditate and practice every day, they are able to expand their awareness and cultivate their own personal peace. When each one of us is peaceful, it creates a more peaceful planet for everyone.  She has a 24-year teaching career, and her students come from all walks of life, including Olympic and professional athletes, rock stars, and presidents of Fortune 500 companies, along with moms and dads and even young children.

“I love to teach people how to meditate. It is one of the most joyous experiences of my life,” she says.

She founded the Meditation Teacher Academy at the McLean Meditation Institute in order to train my students and others how to become effective meditation and mindfulness teachers themselves. The  200-hour program incorporates a variety of meditation and mindfulness techniques and practices from a variety of traditions and lineages. We teach our teachers to become clear communicators who can bring meditation to any population or setting. Sarah is personally involved with each and every teacher in order to help them uncover their greatest skills and confidence so they can go on to effectively teach their students to meditate.”

Sarah first learned about meditation while training in the U.S. Army as a Behavioral Specialist learning to help soldiers address Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  After the Army and graduating from the University of Massachusetts, Sarah took a nine-month mountain bike journey from Europe to Asia seeking secrets to peace and fulfillment. When she returned, she began her daily meditation practice and studied mind/body health with Dr. Deepak Chopra in Lancaster, Massachusetts at the Ayurveda Health Center, a Transcendental Meditation community. After Deepak moved to California, Sarah became the Program Director for the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.

After eight years, Sarah took a sabbatical to seek the origins of meditation. She lived in a traditional ashram in South India for six months and was a two-year resident at a remote Zen Buddhist monastery for two years. In 2006, she founded the McLean Meditation Institute, which offers meditation adn mindfulness teacher training programs through the Meditation Teacher Academy®.

Sarah is a popular facilitator at retreats for the Chopra Center, Esalen Institute, 1440 Multiversity, The Art of Living Retreat Center, and many world-class destinations. She has been interviewed on national television, featured in a variety of award-winning movies, and her work has been touted in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.  She teaches, writes, and lives in Santa Barbara, California.