Kelsey Patel

Background:

Kelsey Patel is one of Hollywood’s leading wellness and reiki experts. She is not only a sought after spiritual empowerment coach, reiki healer and meditation teacher, but also a multi-faceted entrepreneur and inspirational speaker. Her work can be found across the globe and is endorsed by some of the hottest brands and names in Hollywood, including Adidas, lulu lemon, USANA, a publicly traded billion-dollar health science company, Bloomingdales as well as other lifestyle brands. She is the resident reiki instructor for Soho House and has been featured in dozens of print, online and social publications such as US Weekly, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Angeleno Magazine and more.

Her own life story is a part of her public and private workshops and retreats. Kelsey is known for her ability to connect with all types of audiences in a real, authentic and uplifting way. Her mission is to inspire human beings and give them the tools to relate and connect to their own best self and live life in a purposeful, fun and balanced way. Kelsey's workshops and self-empowerment tools are a constant in clients’ daily lives allowing them to take their intentions and goals to the next level.

Classes/privates taught at Unplug:

  • Unplug 30

Why I practice meditation:

I practice meditation because it reminds me of who I really am. I feel connected, calm, in perfect timing with my life and where I am in the journey. I practice and teach meditation because it has been such a gift in my own life. I’ve watched it transform my relationship with anxiety, overwhelm and physical pain. As I developed my own practice, it started opening up new awarenesses and life opportunities I may have never seen available to me.

Why I teach meditation:

I teach meditation to help others recognize their own inner wisdom and light. Each class is unique and different. Meditation is such a powerful tool and allows one to release, receive and find their inner voice in a new way every time they choose to sit and be silent. We show up together and something new and incredible takes place every time.

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Lena George

Background:

Lena George is a trauma-informed facilitator, teacher trainer, and consultant with over a decade of experience in the health & wellness space. Through her Master's in Education in Trauma-Informed Learning Environments and her training in numerous therapeutic modalities, Lena uses evidence-based strategies to build mental, physical, emotional, and social fitness. 

Classes/privates taught at Unplug:

  • Nervous System Health

  • Habit Change 

  • Stress Reduction

  • Meditation - Resourcing Positive Emotions

  • Tapping - Resourcing Positive Emotions

Why I practice meditation:

I meditate because it gives me a feeling of agency and tapping helped me overcome my public speaking phobia just two weeks before I started teaching at Unplug!

Why I teach meditation:

I teach meditation and tapping to help people feel like they have found the remote control to their own mind, body and behavior.

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Peter Opperman

Background:

A German engineer turned meditation instructor, Peter has practiced meditation for over 20 years with some of the most renowned teachers in the US and Asia. 

Peter is a certified Awakening Coach trained by Arjuna Ardagh. Peter shares his rich tool kit of guided meditations to help you get in touch with your true nature and to give you a vision of your Future Self. One on one he supports you  to close the gap between your current reality and who you really want to be.

Classes/privates taught at Unplug:

  • Unplug Awakening

  • Unplug Imagine

  • Guided Meditations

  • Future Self

  • Heart Meditation

  • Radical Awakening

Why I practice meditation:

To remember and connect with my True Nature.

Why I teach meditation:

I love sharing my gift, it truly makes me happy.

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Megan Monahan

Background:

Meditation teacher and author Megan Monahan is passionate about making meditation accessible and relatable. Her goal is to infuse a modern-day “realness” into the all too often esoteric landscape of meditation. Since learning to meditate in 2009 with Deepak Chopra and becoming a Chopra Certified instructor, she has taught thousands to meditate through her platform. She teaches weekly in LA at Unplug Meditation and collaborates frequently with brands like Lululemon and Wanderlust and works with clients internationally, always bringing her spiritual real talk. Her first book, Don't Hate, Meditate, was published in June of 2019 by Ten Speed Press.

Classes/privates taught at Unplug:

  • Mantra Meditations weekly

  • Occasional specialty workshops

  • Calls her teaching style "Spiritual Real Talk"

  • Passionate about demystifying the estoteric teachings of the Eastern traditions and grounding them in ways that resonate in our western society

  • Brings a lightness through her storytelling and anchors it all with inspiring meditations to experientially bring her teachings full circle.

Why I practice meditation:

My meditation practice has changed the way I feel about myself mentally, physically and spiritually. The awareness that this practice has afforded me has transformed how I see the world and the way in which I navigate it all. It has changed my life in every way possible.

Why I teach meditation:

As soon as I started learning about meditation I felt immediately drawn to the teachings and had this sense of instant remembering with every layer that I uncovered. I was immediately inspired to share what I was learning, and how it was positively impacting my life, with everyone I met. I'm so thankful that I am in a position to do just that.

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Paul Teodo

Background:

Paul is a meditation teacher who studied with Sara Ivanhoe and Lorin Roche. Paul is also a professional musician, and plays live guitar in many of his classes. His specialty is a blend of body scan and chakra meditation.

Why I practice meditation:

It has completely transformed my life. I spent several years with anxiety and depression, and the tools I was given literally saved me. Now, I practice like I eat a meal: every day. It is as regular to me as eating lunch.

Why I teach meditation:

You can't keep what you have without giving it away.

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Mallika Chopra

Background:

Mallika has taught meditation to thousands of people. She enjoys speaking to audiences around the world, and has shared her passion about intent at TedXBerkeley, Ideacity, Business Innovation Factory, the Green Festivals, LOHAS, The California Women’s Conference, The Prevention R3 Conference, as well as at companies such as LinkedIn and Coca Cola. Her writing and work have been featured in Time.com, Self Magazine, Women’s Health, Prevention Magazine, the LA Times, and Huffington Post. Her mission is to share the gift of intent and balance with everyone she teaches. In her book Living With Intent you will find some of the best meditation life hacks.

Classes/privates taught at Unplug:

  • Unplug Intent

  • Meditation

  • Intention

  • Mindfulness

Why I practice meditation:

As a child, my father encouraged my brother and me to begin living lives of intent by taking time to meditate and ask: Who am I? What do I want? How can I serve?
Those questions and my meditation practice have been the cornerstones to living a life of fulfillment and intent.

Why I teach meditation:

My intent is to connect people from around the world to improve their own lives, their communities and the planet.

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Natalie Bell

Background:

Natalie Bell is a passionate mindful awareness teacher and  director of corporate programs at Unplug, through which she travels nationally to companies such as NBC Universal, Wharton, and Merrill Lynch. She has more than 25 years of practice in mindfulness and lived in an ashram for a year of intensive study. Natalie is also a teacher and consultant for UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. Her style is to make meditation practical and accessible in everyday life and she will guide you with ease through all the meditation challenges i.e.wandering mind, negative thoughts, restlessness and so much more. Walk away with the tools to unplug anytime anywhere.

Classes/privates taught at Unplug:

  • Unplug Clarity

  • Corporate

  • Unplug 30

  • The Mindful Professional Workshop

  • Daylong Silent Retreat - "The Art of Savoring"

  • Mindfulness

  • Self-compassion

Why I practice meditation:

Awareness makes me feel alive, connected, and truly happy. Meditation is the quickest ways to tap into it, bringing calm, centered presence, focus, creativity, love and acceptance into my life.

Why I teach meditation:

I love to give people the tools to tap into their own sources of well-being and to embrace their lives fully. I teach in a practical and relatable way so my students can use those skills immediately in their lives.

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Lili Pettit

Background:

Lili Pettit, founder of Clutter Healing® Inc., has built her life around clearing out the negative and unnecessary, making space for what serves in positive and productive ways – both in the home and in the body. Over the years she has acquired extensive training allowing her to help hundreds of individuals find more joy and ease in life. Her training includes David Elliott’s Healer Training levels 1-4 (completed more times than she can count), Feng Shui House Blessing Certification from the Shambhala Institute, Celebration of Being’s Transformational Leadership Training program, as well as a ton of life experience. Lili is most passionate about helping others take responsibility for their own healing and firmly believes that we all have the ability to heal ourselves, our stories and our past, no matter what cards life has dealt. It was through the discovery of breathwork meditation and it’s insanely powerful benefits, that she was able to heal her own lineage of addiction. Her positive attitude, clear logic, and focused energy gently guides people through the restorative process to establish a sense of calm, clarity and consciousness in their emotional and physical worlds.

Classes/privates taught at Unplug:

  • Breathwork Facilatator

  • Sage Healing Breathwork

  • Reiki Healer

  • House Blessing Ceremony

  • Clutter Healing Workshop

Why I practice meditation:

To understand the subtle energies that can either rule us or help us.

Why I teach meditation:

To help change the heartbeat of the planet.

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Unplug Meditation

12401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 101
Los Angeles, CA 90025

(310) 826-8899

info@unplug.com