Suffered lots. Meditated lots. Suffer lots less now. Happy to help.
Ever since I picked up a copy of Shinzen Young’s book, The Science of Enlightenment, I’ve been continually impressed by the conceptual clarity and practical utility of his style of teaching. I’m now thrilled to carry it forward as a Teacher of Unified Mindfulness.
My personal training background and general orientation is traditional, religious, and Buddhist. I’ve completed ~2.5 years of intensive residential monastic training, and I continue to learn and and practice within classical Buddhist contemplative traditions under teachers within the lineages of Theravada, Vajrayana, Zen, and Dzogchen, all amidst integrating this secular life.
For me, practice from the outset has been focused on the cultivation of Insight within a religious Buddhist context: awakening. Shinzen would call someone like me a ‘liberation-focused coach’. Supporting you along this axis of development in a pragmatic, metaphysically neutral manner is my motivation for teaching.
In my home practice I’ve been immeasurably helped by Shinzen Young and Unified Mindfulness’ teacher training program, Justin von Bujdoss, Stephen Snyder, Leigh Brasington, the Zangthal Sangha, the Dharmachanics, Rob Burbea’s writing and recorded retreats, The Mind Illuminated, innumerable other teachers’ texts and recordings, and the ethos and community of Pragmatic Dharma.
I intend to realize and make available the benefits of dedicated contemplative practice for all.
I teach within the guidelines, ethics, and professional standards of Unified Mindfulness, which I encourage you to read about here.
I facilitate a daily open sitting group and Q&A session Monday-Saturday, 6PM Pacific, 9PM Eastern, 1 hour.
If it seems like we might be a good fit and you find yourself interested, see here: https://www.wystantbs.com/
May you and all beings likewise live happily, free from suffering in sympathetic joy and profound equanimity!
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.