Megha Nancy Buttenheim, M.A., E-RYT 1000, is a Legacy Faculty member at Kripalu, having taught at the center since 1985. She is also CJO (Chief Joy Officer) and founding director of Let Your Yoga Dance® LLC, and author of Expanding Joy: Let Your Yoga Dance, Embodying Positive Psychology. Megha is a lifelong singer, dancer, and actor. At Kripalu she has trained thousands of people in yoga, holistic health, embodied positive psychology, and Let Your Yoga Dance. For five years, Megha worked closely with Tal Ben-Shahar in the Certificate in Positive Psychology, creating an embodied practice for the trainees. Megha has been teaching Let Your Yoga Dance for Parkinsons for nineteen years. She leads a training, Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training for Special Populations, for those wishing to serve people with physical challenges. Megha leads ongoing classes, private coaching, workshops, and trainings online, in person, and via Insight Timer. 

She has taken many trainings in Qigong, working closely with Daisy Lee in her Radiant Lotus Qigong for Women and Wuji Hundun Qigong. Megha’s credo is ""Everyone is a dancer."