People tend to call me as a peaceful, calm and empathetic person. I believe that my main life mission is to help people discover their fullest potential and use them to the best of their ability regardless of their racial, religious, ethnic, social, and professional/carrier background. Despite knowing my mission, life has thrown enough mighty whirlwinds upon me to end up living a very stressful and depressed life myself. I yearned for deeper peace, happiness and ways to fulfil my purpose.
My curiosity to understand the human mind led me to love reading psychology books which in turn helped me to land into the topic of mindfulness and meditation I started meditating since 2019 through You Tube but I was inconsistent. I met many challenges in my journey to mediation that I needed support. You tube videos could not give me that support. I started enrolling in some online meditation courses yet still I missed something.
My major transformation started when I first attended a live online UM immersion retreat for the first time in 2022. What inspired me most was the opportunity to share my meditation practice success and challenges and get the support in real time.
So, I enrolled in foundation, pathways and finally compass course. I am proud of being a certified UM trainer/teacher. Since then, my meditation practice is consistent, and it has been one of the best vehicles for me to find peace and happiness that I have been deeply yearning for so long. It also satisfies my hunger for understanding human mind with all its fears and untapped potentials. Teaching people mindfulness/meditation is something I do with passion. Seeing my life together with that of others being transformed by simple yet powerful techniques found in UM community brings me profound peace, joy and a sense of purpose in this life. in conclusion mindfulness has transformed me and continues to transform me day by day in both subtle and profound ways.
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.