Sarah McLean

Sarah McLean is a contemporary meditation teacher and the best-selling author of Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation (Hay House) and The Power of Attention: Awaken to Love and its Unlimited Potential with Meditation (Hay House). She's an American Transcendentalist with a mission to help people awaken to their true nature and the wonder and beauty of creation. Sarah’s background reflects her commitment to self-awareness. She has been mediating for decades and has explored the spiritual heart alive in all parts of the globe. She lived in meditation communities including a Transcendental Meditation community in Lancaster, Massachusetts, served as the cook at a Zen Buddhist monastery in the wilderness, and was a resident in a Hindu ashram in India. She also served as education director for the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Southern California and was the director of the School for the Work of Byron Katie. She's has directed programs for Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie, as well as worked with Debbie Ford and Gary Zukav. Sarah has been teaching meditation and mind/body health for over 25 years. Now, as director of the McLean Meditation Institute, the Meditation Teacher Academy, and MMI Mindful Training Company. Her aim is is to make meditation so easy that anyone can use it to immediately become more self-aware and increase their inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment. The McLean Meditation Institute offers meditation and mindfulness teacher training through the Meditation Teacher Academy. A dynamic speaker and thought leader, Sarah has been featured in the New York Times, Prevention Magazine, Organic Spa, Forbes, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Unity Magazine, Daily Word, and on Fox Health News. She offers programs at Unity Village, Esalen Institute, Mii amo at Enchantment Resort, and at the Chopra Center. Sarah lives and teaches in Santa Barbara, California and when she isn't teaching or meditating, she is often found walking her dog along the water's edge of one of the beaches nearby. Sarah is committed to living a peaceful, just, and sustainable way of life.