“Deeply Skilled Teacher.”
Megan Mook is a deeply skilled teacher. What I didn't know when I first hired Megan to work with my company was that I was connecting with an incredible source of wisdom that would spark personal growth for years to come.
Megan's knowledge, skills, and abilities as a teacher are matched by her clarity of thought, humor, and communication. Working with Megan is simultaneously grounding and enlightening. She is super approachable and warm. I can't say enough good things about working with Megan Mook!
— D. Blumenthal, PhD.
“Embodies the Teachings”
Megan has a gift for drawing on her wealth of knowledge and experience, yet presenting things in a down-to-earth, clear way that people who may not be familiar with the Tibetan or Vajrayana traditions can relate to. She is able to transmit the value and significance of these traditions’ practices without being “caught” in the forms of the tradition. Perhaps most importantly, she embodies the teachings in her own openness, kindness, generosity and humility.
— Sheila Robertson, MSW
“Herein lies the core of Megan’s teaching. She emphasizes connection and consideration: we explore ourselves in order to connect with others; we consider our hearts in order to understand others.”
“Excellent Teacher and Scholar”
Megan Mook is an excellent teacher and scholar on all things Buddhist. She has a true gift that helped myself and others touch our innate compassion. On pilgrimage in Mongolia, I had two full weeks to judge Megan’s abilities and they are excellent. I highly recommend her.
— Dorothy Clay Sims, Esq.
“Down to Earth”
I first met Megan as one of the professors in a yoga teacher training. What struck me immediately was how down-to-earth she was. I thought meditation was a highly complicated practice mastered by a few select enlightened beings, but Megan is able to make meditation truly accessible. She offers practical tools, coupled with simple yet profound ideas. I have been following Megan ever since, and have had the pleasure of attending two of her retreats. Both were an absolute delight. Megan has a unique ability to meet you where you and offer a teaching that will resonate on a personal level. Can’t think of a better companion to dive into meditation and Buddhist teachings with.
— Alona V., Global Humanitarian Communication Specialist
“Challenging and Gentle”
I'm most grateful for Megan's vulnerability and curiosity as a teacher. Megan is a fearless guide, and yet her classes often feel like an exploration. She is quick to point out things that strike her as new and exciting.
Megan's meditations are both challenging and gentle, and with her, I am continuously reminded that practice DOES NOT make perfect, but practice DOES help us see and deal with our own shit. After more than a year of consistent practice with Megan, I carry her voice with, hearing her whisper a kind word or an enthusiastic "YES!"
— Neil D’Astolfo, Actor and Mindfulness Teacher
“Megan’s language is spacious, intellectual, heartfelt, and lasting.”
Megan gathers our emotions, comfortable and otherwise, and guides us towards a poetics of awareness.
Contemplation, we learn, is tender play. To play is to heal.
Gently, she encourages us to see and feel points of transition between contemplation and action: moments where language is embodied.
And, so, we learn to consider one another. Herein lies the core of Megan’s teaching. She emphasizes connection and consideration: we explore ourselves in order to connect with others; we consider our hearts in order to understand others’.
Her words have integrity. Pieced together with architectural intelligence, Megan’s language is spacious, intellectual, heartfelt, and lasting. Her process reveals itself as quick/excited and slow/deliberate as she negotiates between opposites, and language extends from mind to body as she articulates thought and emotion through gesture. She teaches the mind-body connection by example.
Megan’s person is soft but edgy. She bares her humanity generously—revealing her so-called ‘dingy’ thoughts alongside sweetness and empathy. She doesn’t other imperfections, nor does she other her students. In her heart, we’re all tender humans.
— Peonia, Artist