Hi! I’m Arun, a Lead Trainer with Unified Mindfulness, and I’d love to help you with your practice.
My meditation journey began about 16 years ago, on a whim, at a 10-day vipassana retreat. I was immediately hooked. It was clear that this was something powerful and important, and I’ve been a meditator ever since.
But not always a good one! I struggled with discipline and consistency, even though it was clear that life was better with a practice than without. I would go on retreat, practice hard for some time, and then fall off the wagon as things would start going well. Lather, rinse, repeat. I stumbled around in this way for longer than I’d like to admit, trying different techniques, practices, and approaches, and eventually ran into the work of Shinzen Young.
The precision and clarity of the Unified Mindfulness system unlocked something. The emphasis on skill development and the flexible, non-prescriptive, algorithmic approach tickled my autodidact bones in just the right way. Experimentation, curiosity, discovery, and play were not only allowed, but encouraged!
Practice took off and life got happier and smoother in ways that I couldn’t have imagined (and which still seem too good to be true). So now here I am with UM, working both to deepen my practice and help others deepen theirs.
My ideal coaching result is to help you get so self-sufficient and effective in terms of navigating your practice that I become irrelevant. In other words, we’ll work together to figure out what works for you. If that sounds interesting, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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.