I live in the hills of upstate New York, surrounded by tens of thousands of acres state forest and am deeply connected with the natural world that encompasses the small town of West Fulton.
A spontaneous awakening experience in my late 40’s opened a gateway of change that was life altering. Having had some experience with mindful practice through the Self- Realization Fellowship and a boring factory job out of necessity, the deepening of my practice truly began with continued sessions from a very gifted healer who possesses both Native American doctoring abilities and skillsets in the Chinese healing arts of Xin Yi Quan and Baguazha. The middle part of these 3 hour sessions are devoted to a deep dive into embodied presence practices. This healer actually invited me to watch Shinzen on You Tube which was how I was introduced to Unified Mindfulness in 2019 and am currently an L2 Coach.
A fan of intense practices which includes hundreds of hours of retreat time with UM, vision questing twice a year, going 4 days and nights without food and water in the wilderness, attending Inipi ceremonies regularly and cold dips in the stream all winter long. I offer continual silent meditation sits and a woman’s healing circle which focuses on “feel in.”
I currently work for a non-profit as a HUD certified housing and financial counselor where I help clients maintain equanimity through the process of receiving state and federal grants for home repair.
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.
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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.