Alejandro Chaoul, PhD

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, is the Huffington Foundation Endowed Director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston, where he brings a new approach for helping health-care professionals flourish by reducing stress and burnout, and improving health and resilience while nourishing the human spirit.

Since 1995, he has been teaching Tibetan meditation and Tibetan yogic practices under the auspices of the Ligmincha Institute in various parts of the United States, Latin America, and Europe.

Alejandro is also adjunct faculty in the Integrative Medicine Program, at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where since 1999, he has conducted research using mind-body techniques with cancer patients, and gave group and individual meditation classes for cancer patients and their support system, as part of the Integrative Medicine Center. He also holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Texas Medical School’s McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, where he teaches medical students in the areas of spirituality, complementary and integrative medicine, and end of life care.

Alejandro Chaoul is the author of Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition and Tibetan Yoga for Health and Wellbeing, Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath & Mind, and has also published in the area of religion and medicine, medical anthropology, and the interface of spirituality and healing. He has recently been recognized as a Fellow at the Mind & Life Institute.