I am a medical doctor by training (both in Western and Traditional Chinese) and worked as a government official and a business executive for years. As stressful as my work-life had been, I sailed through my challenges relatively smoothly. In 2005, a major crisis in my marriage sent me into a deep hole where meditation was the only way that was useful in helping me face the darkness.
In the following years, I tried different contemplative practices from China and Southeast Asia until my first major breakthrough when I met Shinzen in 2019 during his first China visit. “Practice! Practice! Practice!” as Shinzen emphasized again and again.
Mindfulness practices in the past few years got me on a journey to bring my mind back home with my body uncovering who I AM and who I want to become along the way (find out more via the Word Power conversation I have been having with Shinzen Young through the Life Practice Program: https://tinyurl.com/huaying-zhang since October 2022).
By actively cultivating my ability to concentrate and maintain sensory clarity and equanimity, I now savor the power of body mind unification and see mindfulness as a set of contemplative and interactive skills that can enable human flourishing.
Our attention is our love! In fact, there is no way that we can give love to anyone or anything without paying attention to them. I have found UM to be the most inclusive and systematic approach for developing attention skills. As a UM Coach/Teacher/Trainer, I am honored to be given the opportunity to accompany you on your venture to live out your full potential.
Currently, my courses are mostly done in China in Chinese; however, I am happy to support you all internationally via on-line 1:1 coaching in English or Chinese. I can bereached via email at [email protected]
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.