Instructors

I have now taught over 100 cycles of the seminal MBSR curriculum, and am supporting MBSR teachers-in-training in the US, and more recently in Hungary and Japan. To deepen my understanding of this work as it relates to trauma, I have also trained at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, and completed their 3 year professional training.

I continue to be nourished by the Dharma and teach at the New York Insight Meditation Center, and at the Makom Meditation Havurah program at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan.

My primary Dharma teacher has been Matthew Flickstein with whom I studied Buddhist meditation in the Theravada and non-dual traditions. I has the chance to undertake the wonderful the Integrated Study and Practice Program at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, as well as the Foundations in Buddhist Contemplative Care program with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Recently, I completed a two-year Dharmapala training program with Thanissara and Kittisaro of the Sacred Mountain Sangha.

Before turning to teaching full-time I was an agent and producer in the performing arts for over 30 years.

Éowyn also holds the highest registry mark obtainable for yoga teachers from the Yoga Alliance and is a certified massage therapist with years of experience. Embodying mindfulness, and teaching others how to do the same, is the heart of her practice and work. 

For over a decade, Éowyn has taught yoga for retreats at the Insight Meditation Society. Her master’s degree is from the American College of Education, where she studied health and wellness. She is the author of a forthcoming volume of poems about mindfulness practice entitled Mindscapes: Practice Poems.

Always a beginner, I have practiced meditation in some form since 1979; insight/mindfulness practice since 1992; interpersonal mindfulness practice since 2006; and participated in regular silent teacher-lead retreats of 5-28 days since 2004. Learning as practice is continually on-going and includes MBSR teacher and MBSR teacher trainer certification through the Center for Mindfulness in Healthcare, Medicine and Society at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine (CFM) and the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, Interpersonal Mindfulness teacher, certified mindfulness-based birthing and parenting teacher, and mindfulness-based research intervention developer and teacher. I am deeply grateful for my many teachers, past and present, who skillfully embody and open-heartedly teach this practice including, over the years, my partner, mindfully-gifted children and grandchildren, and numerous students who teach me in-kind.

While practice is the pathway, it is important to understand the who, how, and why mindfulness serves mind-body healing when looking at how mindfulness might be supported in a wider context. Since 2005 I have been privileged to work with a wonderful team at Indiana University (IU) as a research intervention developer and teacher looking at mindfulness-based group work to ameliorate suffering in cancer survivors with cancer-related fatigue, fear of recurrence, and end of life communication between patients and their families. At IU, through the Healthy IU Workplace Wellness Program, I developed The Mindful Way to Stress Reduction and Personal Resiliency for faculty and staff. As an educator, I co-authored a chapter in Reflective Practice on mindful learners and educators in nursing education. And in the recent complexity of stressors in healthcare related to COVID-19, supporting healthcare providers through the Indiana State Medical Association with short mindfulness practices has been meaningful and humbling.

Teaching and teacher training is a practice of mutual learning through compassion, humor, care, and inclusivity. Exploring and deepening how mindfulness opens the door to reducing suffering and increasing joy in walking the entire path of life one moment at a time is where I continue to learn with gratitude.

One of the first 100-plus Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teachers to have been certified by the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness (CFM), Janet was chosen to join 30 other Certified MBSR teachers globally to complete the CFM’s first and only ‘Train the  Trainer’ program.  She is a Certified MBSR Teacher Trainer with the CFM and the Mindfulness Center at Brown University (MC@B).

Trauma treatment is an area of personal passion and expertise.  Janet is fully trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), and has twice completed the Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies with the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute led by world-renowned trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD.  She has also completed the 1st year of training in Somatic Experiencing, a somatic treatment approach for resolving trauma.  She brings her expertise in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness to the community through presentations and workshops.

Before moving to Durango and opening Stillpoint in 2006, Janet began her work at a Seattle community mental health clinic. Since then, she has supported clients coping with a wide variety of mental/emotional and physical health challenges and conditions, including depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, cancer, and other forms of chronic and acute illness. She has taught over 40 Mindfulness-Based courses (MBSR & MBCT) in person and online, to students ranging in age from 21 to 84.

Janet began her first-person investigation of meditation at age 16 when she enrolled in a course in Transcendental Meditation in her hometown of Kansas City. Ten years later, she fell in love with yoga, as well as the Japanese martial art of Aikido and sword training.  Soon after reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book on MBSR, “Full Catastrophe Living,” she began the practice of mindfulness meditation.  Her work today emerges directly from four decades of personal practice, investigation, and study, as well as the privilege of offering these practices to others.  Her daily teachers include her two children, ages 21 and 26, her husband of 27 years, and the newest member of the family: Sammie the Rescue Pup.

In 2016 I decided to give it all up, quit my job, sold my belongings, and started backpacking through Southeast Asia. Over the next three years, I was exposed to Buddhist and Yogic Philosophy. Through my meditation and Yoga practice, I have attained a sense of stillness and contentment that would never be possible through any external stimulations or achievements. The minimalist way of living abroad has also followed me back home to the US and has allowed me to live a life where I spend most of my time “being” rather than “having” or “doing.” 

My experiences and spiritual practices abroad were something I wanted to share with my community. Upon reestablishing back in the United States, I decided that becoming a Yoga Teacher would be a great avenue to engage with my community. After receiving a scholarship from the Yoga Diversity Initiative (YDI), I attended a 200-Hour teacher training at JP Center Yoga in 2019. Since graduating in June of 2019, I have had several opportunities to be of service in low-income/underserved communities in Boston. I have taught in Boston public schools, Juvenile Detention Centers, and cancer survivors at Boston Medical center. 

I am currently enrolled in an MPH program at Brown University with a concentration in “Mindfulness” and received my MBSR teacher training at the Mindfulness Center at Brown. 

In collaboration with the Mindfulness Center at Brown, I am also working on initiatives to bring more diversity to the Yoga and Mindfulness space, address social justice issues, and cultivate a welcoming and safe space for people of color.

Jacquie is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher. In addition to MBSR she is also trained to teach Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L), Finding Peace in a Frantic World, and Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP). Jacquie also completed the True North Insight 2-year Community Meditation Teacher Mentorship Program.

Along with teaching mindfulness Jacquie is a community health promoter with a local public health unit in Canada where she supports programs, services and policies aimed at ensuring all members of the community belong and thrive. She is a passionate advocate for the needs of historically excluded and under-resourced communities.

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Victoria is an adjunct professor with the IE University Center for Health, Wellbeing & Happiness and the Master in Management, where she has created and implemented courses on mindfulness, compassion and well-being, as well as Authentic Leadership. She has served as a founding member, coordinator and co-presenter of the Spanish-speaking, International Mindfulness Day since its start in 2020.

Victoria is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, specializing in Mindfulness and Leadership Coaching with hundreds of executives and professionals in over 40 leading multinational corporations. Victoria inspires leaders to thrive as they stretch and develop their leadership skills, communication, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, stress management, resilience, empathy and compassion.

Victoria has been trained internationally in mindfulness, compassion and embodied practices. She holds an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Approaches from Bangor University in Wales, an MA in Education from the University of Washington and a Certificate in Contemplative Psychotherapy from the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science in New York. She is currently publishing a study on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Programs.

A graduate of New York University School of Law, Brenda spent 17 years at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale), where she was a litigator and the Partner Responsible for Training and Professional Development. She is a co-founder and former chair of the Professional Development Consortium, a national lawyer training organization, and for many years was an instructor at Boston University School of Law.

Brenda has been practicing mindfulness since 1998, when she was encouraged by her then Managing Partner to invite the founder of MBSR, Jon Kabat-Zinn, into her law firm to help lawyers reduce stress, strengthen resilience and better navigate the inherent challenges of a demanding professional life. Inspired by the benefits of the program and her experience of mindfulness as a vehicle for well-being, thriving and sustaining optimal performance, Brenda began to study and then teach mindfulness.

Brenda offers training and coaching in mindfulness, resilience and well-being to legal organizations, judges, businesses and in education, government and non-profit organizations. Brenda’s work in the fast-paced and demanding world of a large law firm coupled with her equal years of immersion in the science and practice of mindfulness give her a unique breadth and depth of wisdom and experience to guide individuals in integrating mindfulness into their work and lives.

Brenda writes and speaks extensively on mindfulness and workplace wellness. Her publications include Navigating the Full Catastrophe with Mindfulness, Trial Magazine (July 2020), How Mindfulness Can Help Manage Work Stress, Mindful Leader (June 2020), The Time is Now: Leading the Charge for Lawyer Well-Being, NALP Quarterly (August 2019), among others.

Meditation has felt like coming home, almost from the very beginning. After about 10 years of Zen and Vipassana practice, I began the MBSR teacher training pathway. Since 2005, I’ve been teaching MBSR at the UPMC Center for Integrative Medicine and have mentored several other teachers there. As a clinical scientist and educator, I have also mentored numerous students over the years in a variety of disciplines such as dental medicine, bioengineering, rehabilitation science, nursing, education, palliative care, and psychology.

As a researcher and mindfulness teacher, I’ve been able to help advance the science of meditation. One set of research projects I was involved with found an adapted MBSR program to be helpful for older adults with chronic pain. Another project I worked on found links between participants’ changes in the brain and reduction in their levels of inflammatory biomarkers after a meditation program.

I am also very curious about measuring mindfulness in research. How can something that is so personal and nuanced be measured? I have a research project underway with a colleague in Chicago to create precise self-report questionnaires to measure this elusive concept, mindfulness. Wish us luck!

These included Non-Violent Communication, Naikan, Family Constellation, Internal Family Systems, Reiki, Being-With-Suffering and Motivational Interviewing.  The underlying passion for all these trainings was finding to bring the concept and practice of Healing Presence to healthcare providers.  In 2013, she started a 6-month training for UTMB medical students called the Physician Healer Scholarly Concentration.  MBSR is a cornerstone the two-month immersion experience for the over 350 students that have enrolled in this training.  This program has been adapted for faculty, residents and for Physical Therapy students at UTMB.

Since 2008, she has participated annually in month-long silent retreats in the Zen tradition at Furnace Mountain Zen Center and in 2016 was recognized as a Zen teacher and given the name Jun Je Son Sa.  For the past 6 years she has led or co-led weekend retreats either in the Zen tradition or in mindfulness practice.

Her executive experience also includes positions as Director of Finance and Resource Management, WGBH Educational Foundation (Public Television and Radio), Development and Membership Divisions; Director of Administration, Bowditch & Dewey; and Director of Human Resources, Limbach, Inc. Her higher education experience includes her position as Director of Graduate Admissions, WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). 

Throughout her life, Dianne has been involved in social and community issues. She co-created the President’s Steering Committee on Diversity and co-chaired the Sustainability Committee at WGBH. In 1985 she was honored at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for her work with African Americans; and won the 1997 Woman of Distinction Award by the Montachusett Girl Scouts. Additional community involvement includes serving on the Boards of the Insight Foundation and the Dharma Vihara Foundation.

Lisa is also a certified yoga instructor and earned a certificate on health and nutrition from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN). She directed programs and community engagement for the CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion (CMC) from 2018 to 2023. Prior to joining CMC, Lisa was the Director of Programs and Engagement for the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), Director of Eastern Region for the National Teen Leadership Program(NTLP), and an English Instructor at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. She also worked in community relations at WGBH and conference coordination and circulation management at Pegasus Communications, Inc.

Lisa earned her Master’s in English with a concentration in creative writing and spends much of her free time out in nature – swimming, running, hiking.

Currently, Sarah teaches in certificates in Mindfulness-based programs The University of Toronto. She accompanies people in individual counselling through First Nations Health Authority and in private practice focusing on Somatic Experiencing. Sarah co-designs and co-facilitates a 100-hour Yoga Teacher Training: Trauma Informed Practice: on and off the mat. In addition, she is honoured to be part of a research study at SickKids® Foundation offering MARS-A (Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents) to youth. 

Recently, she was the key instructor and co-coordinator for the graduate certificate in Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning (MBTL) at The University of the Fraser Valley.  She has extensive training in Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).  Sarah completed a year-long training in MBCT facilitation and the Advance Teacher Training at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies. She recently graduated from a two year Community Meditation Teacher training through Truth North Insight and is starting the Buddhist Chaplaincy program at Upaya Institute and Zen Center in the spring of 2023. 

Sarah is a former primary school teacher and registered Yoga teacher for adults and children (E-RYT 500, RCYT).  She has completed four Yoga Teacher Training courses and has studied with various schools in North America and Asia; such as, Yoga Vidya Gurukul: Institute for Research and Education in Yoga, The Sanada Devi School of Yoga, Yoga in Your School, and Yin Yoga training with Carly Forest. She has studied Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) with David Emerson and Nicola Mosley.  She is a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider® (YACAP®). Sarah is the author of Yoga Therapy: Ancient Therapy for Today’s Body, Mind and Spirit, a textbook chapter used in counselling education programs throughout North America.

Before discovering mindfulness, Andy had a career in corporate human resources. He earned an MA in social-organizational psychology from Columbia, and held senior HR positions with several corporations and consulting firms.

Andy came to mindfulness when he was experiencing a confluence of challenges in both his personal and professional life. He took meditation instruction at the Chan Meditation Center in Queens, NY, and quickly realized that this path of awareness and compassion was what he needed to pull his life back together, and keep it on track. 

He discovered MBSR in 2010, when he and his wife took it together to help her manage symptoms of chronic pain and fatigue. He then resolved to become an MBSR teacher, and to bring the benefits of mindfulness to people in his community as well as in workplace settings. He has been teaching and consulting full-time since 2016, both independently and with a variety of organizations.

I’m a proud graduate of Cass Technical High School, a premier Detroit public school.  During my first year at University of Michigan, I worked Saturday nights on the assembly line at the Ford Rouge Complex building Mustang IIs.  The summer after my Junior year I fell in love while working at Detroit Memorial Hospital.  He was an older man (by two and a half years) and ready to get married.  While I didn’t think anyone got married anymore, I was smitten and agreed.  Forty-three years later, I can say that it was the best decision of my life.

Between marriage, medicine, and soon thereafter, motherhood, I found myself living “the Full Catastrophe” in all its intensity.  In 1994, my first breast cancer slowed me down for a bit but it took a worse breast cancer in 1999 to really make me pause.  And it wasn’t just the cancer, in the subsequent year: the oldest of my three children fell seriously ill; my dad (my mentor in medicine) died; my job was eliminated; and we had to move out of our house due to renovations gone awry.

It was hard to live what happened next and impossible to summarize it other than to say, I gave up, I got help and I began again.  

That early joy of moving my body and maybe the ballerina dream manifested in learning yoga and cycling lots of miles with friends.  The love of teaching pulled me into yoga teacher training and teaching yoga to breast cancer survivors.  I discovered MBSR and learned to practice this too. The surgeons who had treated me hired me to practice alongside them, as an internist specializing in breast health and disease. 

Little by little I grew as a student, teacher and researcher of mindfulness, including Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.  I developed and lead the Beaumont Center for Mindfulness (BCFM) which offers evidence-based mindfulness training for all adults including mixed populations of patients, health care workers and families.  The BCFM is represented by a lion, symbolizing the characteristics of Courage, Compassion, Clarity and Community and in memory of Aryeh, my eldest child.  His name means lion. He died in 2010.  His memory is a blessing.  My practice is dedicated to him and to all who suffer.  May we all give up, get help and begin again.

Linscott has dedicated most of his career to issues of diversity and inclusion working with underserved and at-risk populations. He spent several years living with the Dine’ (Navajo) on the reservation in Arizona and travels regularly to Nepal to assist with The Nepal Orphans Home, the orphanage his brother founded in 2005. Linscott is the Assistant Director of The LGBT Aging Project at The Fenway Institute, a Program of Fenway Health. His work there is profiled in the award winning documentary Gen Silent. 

Linscott was first drawn to MBSR as an intervention for LGBT elders who endured a life time of stigma and discrimination which takes its toll on the body. He also uses MBSR with LGBTQ young adults as a tool to enhance resiliency in response to social anxiety and depression.   

Linscott is the Behavioral Health Manager for the City of Boston’s Age Strong Commission. His work involves using mindfulness as a mental health intervention for older adults in the City of Boston. 

Eric has led and collaborated in mindfulness research projects in Mexico, United States and Germany and is a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher through the programs offered by the University of Massachusetts Medical School and received training in Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 

He was appointed as a Postdoctoral scholar at UCLA’s Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, conducting research on the effects of mindfulness practice on immune system functioning, in a multicultural setting with Spanish and non-Spanish speakers. 

Eric has extensive experience teaching mindfulness in companies and organizations, is passionate about bringing mindfulness to multicultural settings and developed mindfulness programs at a Fortune 500 company.

He’s served as member of the Steering and Programming Committees at the Global Mindfulness Collaborative, is a member of the advisory board at the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and member of the practice committee at the American Mindfulness Research Association. 

He is the lead developer of Mindfulness-Based College (MBC) and Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP), and has received numerous research grants from the National Institutes of Health to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions, including MBC, MB-BP, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Dr. Loucks’ book entitled The Mindful College Student (New Harbinger Publications) was released in April 2022. Over the course of his career, he has held teaching positions at Harvard, McGill, and Brown Universities. Loucks has practiced mindfulness for about 25 years.

I have also been collaborating with the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation since October 2020 and am currently a Teacher and Teacher-Trainer on several programmes including the 12-month Teacher-Training, Mindfulness Teaching in the Workplace, Mindfulness for Life, and Introducing Mindfulness programmes. Additionally, I am pleased to serve as a Trustee on the Board.

With equal focus on the refinement of teaching skills, attitudes and knowledge, she develops cultivation of the deepest understanding of MBSR as a path of love, healing and transformation. She is a leading contributor to the development of the MBSR curriculum, teacher training programs, materials and best practices for teacher training in the growing field of MBSR and MBPs.

Previous to her work at Brown, she was, for seventeen years, the Director of Oasis Institute for Professional Education and Training at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts’ Medical School where she supported the development of thousands of MBSR teachers globally with rigor, depth and cultural sensitivity. 

Florence trained directly with Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD and Saki Santorelli, MA, EdD. and for more than four decades has taught mindfulness and meditation to adults, youth, clinical populations, and professionals in the fields of education, medicine, psychology, and business. A student of wisdom traditions for more than 40 years she is a student in the Siddha Yoga tradition, a practitioner of Insight meditation for 25 years, and a senior Insight Dialogue teacher. She offers mindfulness meditation retreats, Insight Dialogue retreats and Interpersonal Mindfulness Program teacher trainings. She is a licensed family therapist, and holds degrees in education and psychology. 

Publications include “MBSR Workbook for Anxiety” with Stahl, B., and Koerbel, L., New Harbinger press. Chapters include “Mindfulness and the Therapeutic Relationship,” with Gregory Kramer, PhD, Hick, S. & Bien, T. eds. Guilford Press; and, “Resources for Teaching Mindfulness,” McCown, D. & Reibel, D. eds. Springer. She co-authored a preventive medicine report “Integrating Mindfulness Training in School Health Education to Promote Healthy Behaviors in Adolescents:  Feasibility and Preliminary Report” with Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, MD, PhD. Media include a Professional Formation module, Drexel College of Medicine; dvd, “Living Awake, Mindfulness for Young Adults”; and the self-study program, MBSR On-line through Sounds True.

Kate has been practicing meditation since 1991 and teaching meditation since 1995 after training at Omega with Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. and Saki Santorelli.In 1996 she founded the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) at the Fair Haven Community Health Center in New Haven, CT, where she taught meditation to pregnant women and their partners in the inner-city and offered MBSR for teen, families and patients with chronic and life-threatening illnesses.

Currently Kate leads silent retreats and mindfulness retreats with yoga to exciting destinations.  She also does teacher trainings and supervision.

Katie’s early career focused on researching the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases at Harvard Medical School, Mayo Clinic, Indiana University, and the University of Kansas (KU). Katie’s dedication and enthusiasm for the brain also earned her multiple grants and awards, including the recognition as a McNair Research Scholar at KU as well as an Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Research Scholar at both KU and Mayo Clinic. 

Katie’s transition out of neuroscience and into mindfulness began in graduate school. While pursuing a PhD in neuroscience, she encountered the challenges of burnout. Though she had experimented with mindfulness in the previous decade through yoga, outdoor activities, and formal sitting practices, she had never consistently practiced it. Nevertheless, Katie turned to mindfulness to navigate the difficult decision of pivoting away from a research-focused career. Gratefully, this transition opened doors to meaningful roles within startup companies focused on promoting mindfulness and mental well-being.

Beyond her professional endeavors, Katie finds joy in her 8-year-old corgi, Chloe, and her true sense of vitality emerges in nature, where she engages in activities that keep her fully present, such as hiking, backpacking, skiing, kayaking, and swimming.

His more will known clients have included, in healthcare, Lifespan, CVS, and Health Care Services Corporation; museums including Harvard Art Museums and RISD Museum; and financial services organizations including State Street Bank and Wells Fargo. Additionally, Mr. Murphy was the Executive Director of Shape Up RI, a statewide, online, wellness non-profit.

In conjunction with colleagues, I developed and implemented a mindfulness in criminal justice project over several years, teaching mindfulness to men in prison and training a group of staff working in criminal justice to be mindfulness teachers.

I am interested in widening the provision of mindfulness-based approaches to people who may experience barriers in accessing mindfulness groups, and I have a particular interest in mindfulness for people who experience distressing psychosis.

I find vitality in connecting, teaching, reflecting and learning in mindfulness practice, teaching and
training.

Elaine became interested in MBSR in 2004 after over a decade of practicing acupuncture and more than 15 years of dedicated meditation retreat and daily practice.  The path to teaching became a powerful way to share the benefits of practice she had personally experienced with her clients and others.  

Elaine is also member of the Teachers Council at New York Insight Meditation Center. Over the years she has been involved in NYIMC’s diversity efforts, serving on the Diversity Committee, as well as helping to develop, adapt and co-teach courses on awakening awareness of our racial conditioning – especially for those conditioned as white.

Over the decades she has learned that the power of mindfulness is that happiness and insight arise from turning towards rather than away from life experiences. It shouldn’t be a surprise to learn that she has a deep interest in and commitment to helping students integrate mindfulness practice into daily life and to mentoring aspiring MBSR teachers.

Her authority and wisdom, forged through her surviving cancer and a stem cell transplant, and her many years teaching and helping others be well, brings an authenticity and depth to her work. She is associated with the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts Healthcare Center for Mindfulness and Harvard’s Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. Her motto is, “Yes, to life and all that’s in it.”

Bob teaches Insight Mindfulness Meditation retreats worldwide and is the former guiding teacher of Insight Santa Cruz and visiting teacher at Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, and Insight Retreat center. He is coauthor of 5 books:  A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (1^st & 2^nd editions), Living With Your Heart Wide Open, Calming the Rush of Panic, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety, and MBSR Everyday.

Since 2014, she has taught throughout Palm Beach County, and was the senior MBSR teacher at Jupiter Medical Center, in collaboration with UMASS Center for Mindfulness.  She has offered mindfulness training in a variety of settings including treatment centers, hospitals, concierge medical practices, and continues to offer individual mindfulness coaching.  From 2020 through 2022,  was an online MBSR teacher for Mindful Leader in Washington, DC. 

Prior to moving to Florida in 2003, she was a Senior Vice-President of Institutional Sales- Trading at Merrill Lynch and served as an elected member of the Rye City School Board of Education.  She was the creator and host of the public access tv production “School News and Views.”

Priscilla has a 15-year meditation practice in the Insight tradition, which she is authorized to teach, as well as a 35-year career in healthcare. Her varied roles in healthcare included working as an oncology nurse, ICU nurse, nurse anesthetist, medical editor and epidemiologist. This confluence of experiences results in a unique perspective and depth of knowledge that informs her teaching.

Her greatest joy is sharing these practices and witnessing how individuals integrate mindfulness and meditation into their lives.

What do I do? 
I teach and train the Mindfulness for Life curriculum for the OMC; I also teach the Finding Peace course to NHS staff and Long Covid sufferers. In addition to this work, I continue to teach and train Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting for the NHS and the Mindful Birth Foundation.

I represent the OMF on the University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre (OMC) Curriculum Development Group. Our recent work included developing the training program for Training to Introduce Mindfulness.  

Additionally, I lead the OMF’s work in identifying excellence in trainee teachers and providing apprenticeship guidance for future teachers and trainers who will lead MBCT implementation worldwide.

In support of the OMF’s aim to increase accessibility and improve lives through mindfulness and the practice of being mindful, I work closely with the Chief Executive Officer to identify and develop international collaborations.

I have an academic background in Psychology (MA Oxon). Most of my working life was spent in a business context, where I specialised in human potential and flourishing. Alongside work life, I have been practicing meditation since the 1970s, and attended many long retreats both as a retreatant and retreat supervisor.