A lover of sunshine, nature, and dark chocolate.

Mae has a background in Classical Hatha Yoga, Pilates, and Meditation. She offers movement classes, as well as a meditation course. It is her goal and intention to make these potent practices relevant and accessible to all.

 

Story 

Megan Audrey Odenthal - I generally go by Mae ◡̈

Originally from Southern California, I was introduced to Studio Yoga during early college years in San Diego. Knowing nothing about the practice or philosophy it immediately sparked something deeper within me…a powerful stillness.

I remember lying in shavasana and tears just flowing. There was something to this practice that ignited my soul.

Around this time I woke up one day and it felt like light turned to darkness. I saw and felt the world completely differently, as if I woke up to a darker reality, seeing those around me who seemingly had everything but were not truly happy or satisfied.

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I envisioned myself going through school, starting a career, marriage, children, and then what? Is this it? Is this the purpose of all of our lives? To go through this process, this cycle? I needed to know more, a deeper purpose, what it all meant, why we are here, doing what we’re doing. This yearning and ache for answers would keep me up at night, I thought something was wrong with me, that I had fallen into some kind of depression. I remember begging the universe to give me some kind of answer, some clarity, or at least to put me back to sleep.

It was during this time I came across an article, where my now Guru, Sadhguru was speaking about life… I felt his words to be piercingly true. I soon discovered he had an ashram in India where they were offering a residential Classical Hatha Yoga teacher-training program. I had no interest in becoming a teacher at the time, but to immerse myself in the teachings, way of life, was something I felt strongly pulled to do. So my journey to India and within began.

Learning, practicing yoga, meditation, going through intense sadhana led me to become a teacher. I cannot express in words how powerful and humbling my experience was during this time.

Mission

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After my time abroad, teaching and working with many different people in various parts of the world, having the opportunity to spend time with a realized Master, trekking through the Himalayas to sacred spaces, and experiencing things I never imagined possible. I came back to the states to see how to share my experience in the most effective way.

Where I am…

I feel that it is not necessary or even possible for most people to drop everything and go on an intense spiritual journey to find what many of us are seeking… a deeper connection, truth, love, openness.

What I came to realize is that it is within all of us. It’s just a matter of waking up to it. I have experienced nothing more powerful, intimate, beautiful, and true than the experience of this connection to our natural being. As I continue my own journey and through my work, it is my truest intention to bring individuals back to this space.