Susan Taylor

Susan Taylor, PhD, is a nutritional biochemist, contemplative teacher, author and integrative health practitioner whose work bridges modern science and contemplative practice. She hosts The Meditative Shift podcast and teaches meditation, Yoga Science and mind-body health to help people meet life with greater clarity, resilience and inner stability. Her own website lists no hometown, so none is given here.

Her path began in the laboratory. She started by studying biochemistry and nutrition to understand what truly sustains people, and the lab left her with deeper questions about why some people thrived while others lived in quiet depletion. That search led her to the Himalayas. Sitting in a tent high in the mountains, she understood that clarity, steadiness and connection are as essential as food itself. For more than four decades she has explored the relationship between mind, body, breath, nourishment and awareness, and for more than 30 years she has taught nationally and internationally. Her teaching draws on nutritional science, Yoga Science, meditation and modern physiology, and she has worked with the Department of Defense, major corporations, healthcare organizations and educational institutions.

Dr. Taylor is the author of three books. Feeling Good Matters: The Yoga of Mind, Medicine and Healing is a guide to self-mastery through the science of yoga and mind-body medicine. Return to Radiance: A 21 Day Transformation to Vitality blends modern nutrition, meditation and daily practices to restore energy and resilience. The Overnight Diet: Banish Weight Gain, Boost Focus, and Calm Nerves describes eating in rhythm with the body's clock.

Her courses and audio programs include Vital Energy Reset, a guided audio program for calming the nervous system and rebuilding vitality, and Detox Your Mind, a nine-session audio program on how mental clutter, habitual thinking and overstimulation shape the quality of the mind. She also leads guided relaxation recordings that use systematic relaxation techniques to release tension and support nervous system recovery, and live Meditative Shift meditation classes, a contemplative practice for training the mind. She created the Meditation Specialist Competency Training, a professional certification program for leaders and practitioners.

The Meditative Shift podcast, also on YouTube, offers short solo teachings of about 10 to 12 minutes that draw on contemplative wisdom, modern science and lived experience, and each one ends with something listeners can use. Topics include stress, anxiety, depression, nutrition, energy and self-perception. Her stated aim is to question what people have been told and help them learn to think for themselves.

Her work is for people who want practical tools rather than escape from daily life, from listeners who want a short teaching to professionals seeking certification as meditation specialists. She describes her own days as built on the same practices: morning meditation and Sanskrit study, a walk in nature, strength training and movement, and attention to food, breath and energy. Her belief is that when we train the mind, regulate the nervous system and live with greater awareness, we are better able to meet life without losing ourselves within it.