Adam began teaching meditation in 2002, and has since taught through weekly sitting groups, eight-week classes, one-on-one coaching clients, webinars and live trainings in corporations, jails, and schools, phone trainings, YouTube videos, massive events at Burning Man, and in in-depth blog posts. He has lead focused classes on topics such as Mindfulness Meditation for ADHD/ADD, Building A Steady Sitting Practice, The Spirituality of Death, Mindfulness While Driving a Car, Meditation for Insomnia and Better Sleep, Mindful Interpersonal Presence, Mindfulness for the Office Workday, Meditation on Sound/Hear Out, and Mindful Grief.
Adam’s teaching is informed by Zen and Theravada Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Western psychology and philosophy, and his years as a participant and teacher in “authentic relating” communities. His teaching is marked by humor, relatable references to some of the more personal sides of being human, and quick insight into the deeper meaning of student’s questions.
Adam has meditated daily since 1989, ever since first encountering some audio recordings of Shinzen Young’s teachings and finding them electrifyingly compelling. He has sat retreats with Shinzen since 1998, and has sat about eighty seven-to-ten-day intensive meditation retreats with various spiritual/religious lineages. He has lived in monasteries in the USA, India, Japan, and Thailand.
Adam loves to meditate, and he loves sharing with others the blessings that he has found through meditation; spaciousness, centeredness, self-awareness, meaning, clarity, vitality, and dignity.
Adam considers it an honor and a pleasure to relate to people through meditation teaching. Some of his greatest joys in life are hearing from students reports like that they have started a regular sitting practice, improved relationships or work productivity, quit addictions, and/or are happier than ever.
Please visit intromeditation.com for more information about Adam and his work.
Julianna received her BA in psychology from Duke University. As founder, president, and head trainer of Unified Mindfulness, she is dedicated to disseminating Shinzen Young’s comprehensive mindfulness meditation system through the creation and presentation of educational programs and teacher-training certification programs.
Dr. Hunter serves as associate professor of practice and is the founding director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. He also serves as visiting professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where he developed and co-teaches the Leading Mindfully executive education program..
Dr. Eisendrath serves as chief psychologist and president of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy, P.C., where, as a Jungian analyst, she offers psychotherapy with individuals and couples, psychoanalysis, supervision, and training.
Dr. Vago serves as the research director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine (CNIM) Laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Department of Psychiatry.
Stella is a psychologist, professor, and Zen practitioner. She became a formal student in 2008 in the Soto Zen tradition. She teaches courses in mindfulness based psychotherapies and the psychology of compassion at the Union Institute & University. She also co-facilitates a family program and young adult program at Shao Shan Temple, in Woodbury Vermont.
Dr. Creswell serves as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the director of the Health & Human Performance Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. McCormick currently serves as director of education at Unified Mindfulness. In 1975, he received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz, where he was part of Dr. Elliot Aronson’s research team that examined cooperative approaches to reducing interracial conflict and academic performance problems in newly integrated school, and made Honors in Psychology, College Honors, and Thesis Honors.
UnifiedMindfulness.com is the official teacher training platform for Shinzen and the Unified Mindfulness System.
Created over 50 years of research and testing by Shinzen Young, Unified Mindfulness is a system of meditation that’s easily researchable by science, with clear terminology and rigorous precision around concepts and procedures.
The Unified Mindfulness system is a comprehensive, robust and refined support structure that any individual at any stage of meditation practice can rely on to go deeper in their insight and their ability to share it with others. It is also a secular form of meditation, which means it’s not religious in any way so anyone, of any faith, can do it.