Interviewed by Eden Kozlowski
ATH Co-Editor of Meditation and Meditation Forum Moderator

Sarah McLean is the director of Sedona Meditation Training and Retreats. Often called the face of mainstream meditation, she has been teaching meditation and mind/body health programs since the early 1990's. She worked with Dr. Deepak Chopra for over eight years and was one of the founding directors of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. Throughout her career she has studied and worked with prominent figures such as Debbie Ford, Margot Anand, and Gary Zukav. She also served as the director for Byron Katie's School for the Work. Sarah spent months in an ashram in India, taught English to Tibetan Buddhist nuns, lived in a Zen Buddhist Training Center, attended the Ayurvedic Program with Dr. Lad at Mount Madonna… and now she brings all of her talents, experience and relationships to her practice in Sedona. 

Join ATH’s own Eden Kozlowski and our very special guest, Sarah McLean, as they illuminate the surprising reasons that Sarah began meditating and the profound reasons that she continues to this day...

Meditation

by Aluna Joy

During a ceremony circle, atop a red rock vista in Sedona, Arizona with a group of old and new friends, I received a message about the birth of the new world and how the dimensions are now beginning to merge. Unfortunately we didn't record the message, so here I will do my best to recall what I received . . .

Shamanism

by Ilchi Lee

As a rule, many trees around a mountain make it good for meditation. In Fay Canyon (in Sedona, Arizona), there are many trees emanating a sacred energy. In a canyon like this, I shed the thought that I am looking at the trees and think instead that the trees are seeing me. Focus not only on yourself, but on the trees...

Editor's Note from Jodi Chapman: In this article, excerpted from the book, The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart, Ilchi Lee reminds us that connecting with nature will lead us to our inner wisdom.

PsychoSpiritual

by Sarah McLean

When people ask Patricia Wheat, an award-winning facialist, why her skin looks even better than before, she tells them, "I haven't changed a thing, except now I meditate every day..."

Meditation

by Brad and Kate Silberberg

People today make works of art for a variety of reasons. Some people make art because it relaxes them, brings a sense of accomplishment, or a joyful feeling into their life. For others, creating works of art is a way to convey ideas or deep emotions that would otherwise remain pent up...

Editor's Note from Marie Sakai: Kate and Brad Silberberg are artists, teachers, counselors, intuitive healers, spiritual leaders, and visionaries. Understanding the depth of the human psyche, they founded The Mesa Creative Arts Center and  Mesa Healing Center.

Arts & Art Therapy

Editor's Note: Lilou Mace interviews meditation teacher Sarah McLean who served as Education Director for the Chopra Center for Well Being in San Diego and is the founding director of the Sedona Meditation Training Company. It's a long one but nice, if you have some time. Her website: www.sedonameditation.com.

Meditation

Vedic astrologer Dennis Harness gives this insightful lecture on the Vedic Panchanga, the Five Jewels of the Lotus to the Blast Astrology Conference at the Creative Life Center in Sedona, Arizona.

Astrology

Astrologer Nick Dagan Best outlines the career of Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins, and how key events have been timed by the Venus retrograde transit. Taped at the Blast astrology conference in Sedona AZ on March 30, 2007.