Teal Swan

American spiritual influencer and author who, along with her teachings, is the subject of documentaries and podcasts. Publications, including Eonline, The Guardian, and on the BBC have noted that some of her teaching methods on how to manage mental health issues have been found controversial by her critics, claims denied by Swan and some of her proponents.

Her teaching methods sometimes guide participants to envision their own deaths, occasionally by suicide.

From an early age, she has claimed to have extrasensory abilities, including telepathy and the ability to communicate with the dead. Swan reports that these claims contributed to her being socially ostracized and bullied in her youth. This social ostracism, in turn, led to her interactions with the mental health profession.

In 2011, Swan released the book The Sculptor in the Sky. That year, she held her first event, at a Salt Lake City recital hall, speaking to approximately twenty people. In October 2020, Swan's first young adult novel, Hunger of the Pine, was published.

Academics Sandro R. Barros and Jennifer A. Sandlin identify Swan as part of a cohort of "conspiritual life coaches" who fuse conspiracy rhetoric with commercial wellness culture, using five overlapping strategies: body purity, reinforced gender binaries, trauma exploitation, appropriation of Indigenous practices, and commodified spirituality.

Swan married musician Mark Scott in 2006; their son was born the same year. After divorcing Scott, she married French technology entrepreneur Ale Gicqueau in 2016; they divorced in 2018. Media reports later linked her to former follower Jared Dobson. She resides in Utah with her son.