Sarah McLean
Sarah is an excellent communicator with a wonderful presence. She is a living, breathing example of the benefits of meditation. - William Eaton, Sedona, AZ
Sarah McLean has been teaching meditation and mind/body health programs since the early 90's. She served as the education director for the Chopra Center for Well Being in San Diego and is now the director of the Sedona Meditation Training Company.
Her interest in mind/body health began with her training as a medic and behavioral specialist in the U.S. Army in the 1980s where she learned to treat post traumatic stress disorder within the military.
In 1989 she began her personal daily meditation practice and her work with mind/body health pioneer, Dr. Deepak Chopra. For over eight years, she was employed by him, first as an mind/body educator at the Ayurveda Health Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and later relocated to Southern California to become one of the founding directors of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.
Dr. Chopra certified Sarah, one of his first educators, to teach mind/body health programs; among them Perfect Health, the Ayurvedic Lifestyle Course, and Primordial Sound Meditation. As the Education Director at the Chopra Center, she provided educational programs for the the center's guests and hosted presenters on holistic healing modalities from all over the world.
Sarah is very centered, flexible, approachable, caring, and spirit-driven – she’s awesome to work with. - Deborah Brackin, Scottsdale, AZ
While at the Chopra Center, Sarah also has had the good fortune of promoting and studying intensively with best-selling authors Debbie Ford, author of The Secret of the Shadow, and Margot Anand, author of Everyday Ecstasy.
Sarah also became immersed in her studies of Ayurveda and furthered her studies with Dr. John Douillard, expert pulse diagnostician, and attended the Ayurvedic College at Mt. Madonna with Dr. Vasant Lad.
Ayurveda is an ancient mind/body healing approach which suggests that health and healing begins with awareness, or consciousness, and that meditation is the first step towards creating balance in the mind and body. Ayurveda includes healing modalities that include: daily and seasonal routines, diet, exercise, identifying mind/body types (doshas) and imbalances, purification therapies, sound therapy, aroma therapy, and more.
In 1997, after a six month sabbatical in India, Sarah returned to the states and became a resident in a Zen Buddhist monastery for two years, where she spent days at a time in silence and meditation.
She then served as the personal assistant to Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul, and in 2000, was hired by Byron Katie, as the Director for her School of the Work.
Sarah is a sought after presenter in the personal growth arena and in in corporate environments. Her presentations throughout Arizona and the U.S. include self-awareness training, stress reduction techniques, and mind/body health and lifestyle programs.
Sarah lives in Sedona where she teaches meditation, writes, and offers private consultations in Perfect Health. She is a frequent contributor to health and lifestyle publications on mind/body health and the benefits of meditation.
Sarah also serves on the board of a local organization, Keep Sedona Beautiful, an environmental organization dedicated to preserving the wonder of Sedona, and was the recipient of the Sustainable Arizona Service Leadership Award in 2005.
Send an email to Sarah McLean, or call her at (928) 204-0067. Correspondence may also be sent to PO Box 1178, Sedona, Arizona 86339
Rumi once proclaimed that when “the soul lies down in the grass, the world is too full to talk about.” So it was for me after my first experience at Sarah McLean’s Primordial Sound Meditation Workshop.
The freshness, the effortlessness, and non-threatening quality of her teaching style belied the inner surges of insight and the waves of consciousness-raising that were soon to sweep me into deeper places which were indeed “too full to talk about".
To be sure, because of her workshop, my life has been altered by the daily questions which pick the lock on the meditation door: Who are you; What do you want; How can I serve, and to what purpose?
Since then, meditation has become a part of my life, sometimes for ten minutes; sometimes for longer. And sometimes I arrive at the moment when schedules and obligations fade away and I am immersed in ancient rhythms and begin to feel alive. I wish the same for everyone.
-James Bishop Jr., Author
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