Hi! My name is Megan Deely. I am currently residing in the outskirts of good old Cleveland, Ohio. I’ve been here for ten years now and although I am only 24, I feel as if I have lived through quite a few mini-lifetimes since I’ve been here – little awakenings, if you will, leading me to where I am now.

I have been completely immersed in the world of holistic healing since I enrolled with the East West School about four years ago. Learning about the energetics of herbal medicines and how they synergize with each other and with the human body has been the most eye-opening and rewarding aspect of my studies so far. After plant energetics was brought to my awareness, it led me to study other aspects of energy medicine. I am a practitioner of various energetic body works, including Reiki and Polarity Therapy, and have been working toward receiving my Holistic Health Practitioner diploma through the Wellness Forum for the past two years.

I feel so strongly about wanting people to know that they can take control of building their health. Helping to bring ease into the process for people, and helping them to realize that they are indeed in control, is what is important to me. I am really interested in the power of thought and how it affects things physiologically – something I hope to learn more about in the future!

I plan to attend the upcoming East West Seminar to finish the Advanced Track, and to eventually become an East West Clinical Herbalist. I’m finding that the farther along I get in my studies, the more I want to learn. I intend to go back to university and finish up my bachelor’s in molecular and cellular biology, with a concentration in plant sciences. I feel passionately about making a bridge over the gap that there seems to be between the science-oriented and etheric world that I have dipped into over the past few years. They are both so important.

In addition to loving plants and being more or less just enthralled in the world of energy medicine and the people who are involved in it, I love live music and the community that comes with it, continually reading and learning, and movement medicine: dancing, yoga, and wandering around in the woods, mostly.

I am so grateful to East West for the beautiful sense of community that has been provided for me, and also for rekindling my passion for learning. It feels like I have found a light that will not go out!