Drawing on an eclectic life-long spiritual journey, including formal studies in diverse modalities, and career in international sustainable business development, I support clients seeking healing and resilience through mindfulness.
My mindfulness journey began as a girl in a Quaker family. I was introduced to TM in college, then practiced in the traditions of Zen, Vipassana, Vajra, and Bon for different periods of my life.
Important teachers in my life include Isabella Bates, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Merta Ada, Goenka, Shinzen Young, and Julianna Ray. Integrating the Unified Mindfulness system has strengthened my practice and teaching. I appreciate its emphasis on both giving and receiving support.
Following are specific ways I can provide support:
Bereavement and Loss
Meditation helped me through the loss of a business I co-founded, and through the death of my son.
Navigating the Passage to Death
I draw from the training in Tibetan energy healing learned at the Brennan School for Healing as well as from training in the Tibetan wisdom tradition on death and dying from the Bön Lishu Institute and Shenten Dargye Ling Center in France. The teachings help me approach death with increasing equanimity.
Mindfulness in Business
I co-founded multinational companies where mindfulness played a central role. I’ve also led corporate learning journeys and have been involved in initiatives like The Food Lab, which focuses on sustainable global food practices.
Mindfulness and Energy Healing
Energy healing is intimately connected to concentration, sensory clarity and equanimity, the three skills we focus on building in UM. I have trained in several modalities and had a private practice and taught energy healing early in my career.
Conscious Eating
Mindfulness has helped me shift self-destructive eating habits. It’s taught me to slow down and cultivate self-compassion.
If you feel I might be an ally to you, please contact me for a half-hour conversation. I’d be happy to talk with you to explore the possibility.
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.