Alejandro Chaoul

Dr. Alejandro Chaoul has studied in the Tibetan tradition since 1989, and for almost 30 years with Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak, His Holiness Lungtok Tenpa Nyima and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, completing the 7-year training at Ligmincha Institute in 2000. He also received Tibetan Yoga (Tsa Lung & Trul Khor) training in Triten Norbutse monastery in Nepal and Menri monastery in India; and holds a PhD in Tibetan religions from Rice University, with his dissertation on Tibetan Yoga from the Bon tradition and applications in contemporary medical settings. 

Since 1995, Alejandro has been teaching meditation classes and Tibetan Yoga workshops nationally and internationally under the auspices of Ligmincha International. In 1999 he began teaching these techniques at the Integrative Medicine Program of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, where he holds an adjunct faculty position and for the last twenty years has conducted research on the effect of these practices in people with cancer and their caregivers.

His research and publications focus on mind-body practices in integrative care, examining how these practices can reduce chronic stress, anxiety and sleep disorders and improve quality of life.  He is the author of Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition (SnowLion, 2009) and Tibetan Yoga for Health and Wellbeing (Hay House, 2018), and has also published in the area of religion and medicine, medical anthropology and the interface of spirituality and healing. In 2018 he was recognized as a Fellow at the Mind & Life Institute.  

Dr. Chaoul is currently the Huffington Foundation Endowed Director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston, bringing a new approach for helping healthcare professionals flourish by reducing stress and burnout, and improving health, resilience and nourish the human spirit.