Anyez Klevecz is a mindfulness coach and yoga teacher. She grew up in Switzerland and spent her childhood exploring the countryside and thus nature became her first mindfulness teacher. She was excited to bring nature into her classroom as an elementary school teacher as well as mindful movement exercises to support the students in their development. As a young adult her interest in the healing arts and spiritual sciences grew stronger. She became a student of Native American spiritual practices, attending trainings in the backcountry of Switzerland and danced at the Sun Dance in France.
In her early thirties she moved to California to learn english and started regularly practicing yoga. During her yoga teacher training she was introduced to different meditations. For many years she struggled with a regular meditation practice until she was introduced to Unified Mindfulness. Since then she has become a dedicated student and regular practitioner of mindfulness.
Anyez enjoys connecting and interacting with others on a deep level. She combines mindfulness and yoga, guiding students toward embodying wholeness and experiencing a deeper level of being. Thus, bringing more awareness to the subtle body anatomy.
She teaches mindfulness group classes, works one-on-one, and finds the techniques of the UM system an effective approach to teach people mindfulness and help them “increase happiness and reduce suffering”. She brings an open heart, an open mind, and non-judgmental awareness towards everyone that enters her life, focusing on creating a space where people feel included and welcome.
In her free time she enjoys the outdoors, hiking with her dog, camping with her husband and 2 boys, loves traveling back home to Switzerland, and finds downtime creatively in arts and crafts. She has been teaching yoga for over a decade and is a certified Unified Mindfulness Level 2 Coach.
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.