Megan McDonough
Presenter
Megan McDonough is the Global Director of Growth for the Women President's Organization and the founder of Wholebeing Institute, a leading organization in the field of positive psychology. Megan teaches the science of human flourishing all over the world. With a degree in nuclear medicine, decades of leadership experience, and 25 years of teaching and practicing yoga, Megan combines intellectual understanding with an embodied approach to teaching and leading. She’s an award-winner writer and the author of four books on mindfulness. Her work focuses on helping people thrive and organizations to do the same.
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Resources
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Aspirational Coaching: Reaching Toward Your Highest and Best
What does it take for a coach—or anyone for that matter—to be at the top of their game? What does it take to continually make choices that develop you as a person and as a professional?
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What Is Happiness?
If we're going to answer the question of what makes us happy(er), we first have to ask a much more basic question: What is happiness?
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Thinking Body, Feeling Mind: How Yoga Can Help Shape Our Emotions
You know this to be true: Yoga improves your emotional state.
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How to Take a Mini Vacation Every Day This Summer
Oscillation between hard work and playful rest is needed for optimal performance—not to mention for your own good mental health.
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Love, Front and Center
There’s a tendency to think of the brain as the control room of experience. But what if the heart held secrets for tapping into the brain?
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How to Use Your Strengths to Navigate Transitions in the Workplace
How you welcome a new hire or say goodbye to an employee sets the tone for relationships at work. These major transitions highlight your values as an organization.
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The Yoga of Money Management
More than 35 million Americans practice yoga. Many turn to it to improve strength, balance, and flexibility, as well as to reduce stress. But it’s a safe bet that not many people turn to yoga as a way to stick to a budget.
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Kripalu Perspectives: Absolutely Positive, with Megan McDonough
Listen in and enjoy inspirational thoughts from Kripalu faculty and invited presenters—leading teachers, writers, and thinkers in the fields of yoga, health, and personal growth.
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Living the Science of Flourishing
If we want to flourish, we can’t just think ourselves there. We need to become a walking expression of what we want to experience by engaging our bodies in the pursuit.
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Moving Into Happiness
It’s embarrassing to admit this, but I’m a yoga teacher who dislikes exercise. To be more precise, it’s the thought of exercise that turns me off, because I...
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Befriending Your Resistance
While I still encounter my own resistance, I’ve gotten better at recognizing and working with it.
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