Alejandro Chaoul

Dr. Ale Chaoul is the director of Tibetan Yoga Wellbeing, dedicated to educating individuals and communities about the ancient practice of Tibetan yoga and its transformative power to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. He also serves as the scholar and founding director of the Jung Center’s Mind Body Spirit Institute (MBSI). Dr. Chaoul holds a doctoral degree in religious studies from Rice University, where his dissertation focused on the application of Tibetan yogic practices in contemporary medical settings.

For the last thirty years Ale has studied with many Tibetan teachers in India, Nepal, and the United States, including H.E. Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and is an adjunct faculty member at the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center and at The University of Texas McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics.

Since 1995, he has taught Tibetan meditation and yogic practices under the auspices of Ligmincha International across the United States, Latin America, and Europe. He is the author of Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition (Snow Lion, 2009), Tibetan Yoga for Health and Wellbeing (Hay House, 2018), and Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath, and Mind (Wisdom Publications, 2021). Dr. Chaoul has also been recognized as a Fellow at the Mind & Life Institute.