Rose studied closely with Shinzen Young and has practiced his rich and flexible system of mindfulness for 24 years. For 20 years, she’s been a facilitator of Shinzen’s system at his retreats and has taught this system and related practices in a variety of venues, indoors and outdoors to people of all ages and experience levels.
Rose came to Shinzen’s meditation system looking for tools to help her deal with depression and anxiety. She noticed her relationship to these emotions change over time so that when they arose, at times they dissolved into pleasurable flow sensations. It is her passion to bring Unified Mindfulness to others with similar issues. Her other passion is to draw upon her professional experience as both a wildlands ecologist, naturalist and sailing instructor to bring her mindfulness teaching outdoors.
Rose has attended and been certified in many meditation workshops including one called First Do No Harm, led by neuroscientists and mindfulness practitioners in which the focus was how to apply mindful interventions for people with trauma. Other certifications and courses include Life Coaching, and Mindfulness in Race relations.
Having a master’s degree in education, Rose draws upon this unique skill set to co-create individualized mindfulness programs for each person or group she works with in order to best serve their particular needs and interests.
Rose is a fun, creative, and knowledgeable mindfulness facilitator who loves to bring humor, adventure, and compassion to her interactions with her students to keep the practice interesting and effective. Please contact her at rose.essenceof[email protected] if you have any questions, comments, or requests.
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.