Meditation Mini-Retreat (In-Person)

Discover how the Tibetan understanding of well-being can enrich our mind-body practices, and our everyday lives. Join Alejandro Chaoul and special guest, Farida Meguid, as we develop a sense of embodied meditation using different methods, including awareness of breath, visualization, movement. Deepening our experience, Farida will bring sound into our practice through the calming tones of crystal bowls. Together, we will take time to integrate the sense of completeness developed through these practices, through group practice and discussion.

This program is being offered IN-PERSON, and will NOT be recorded.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.

Alejandro Chaoul (PhD) is the founder and director of The Jung Center’s Mind Body Spirit Institute. He has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1989, studying with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. He is currently supporting the Integrative Medicine Program of MD Anderson Cancer Center, where since 1999 he has been leading people with cancer and their family members through mind/body/spirit techniques aimed at reducing stress and facilitating healing. Alejandro, who received his PhD in religious studies from Rice University, was recently named a fellow of the Mind and Life Institute and is a senior teacher of The 3 Doors.

Farida Meguid started teaching yoga in 2001 and continues to lead classes and yoga teacher trainings. In 2016, she began playing Alchemy Sound Bowls – singing bowls infused with real gems and metals – creating restorative sound baths for students and clients. Believing that spaciousness in the body translates to spaciousness in the mind, Farida has taught classes and workshops to adults and children in studio settings, private schools, DeBakey High School, The Houston Ballet, Brene Brown’s The Marble Jar, Discovery Green, recovery centers, and various Houston communities.