Mindfulness with Julianna Raye

Julianna Raye, founder of Unified Mindfulness, is dedicated to advancing the reach of Shinzen Young’s comprehensive system through teacher training certification programs empowering anyone to guide others in the Mindfulness practice.  She has been training others in Unified Mindfulness for 17+ years. Julianna is also a founding member of the mindfulness app, Brightmind. In addition to her work for Unified Mindfulness and Brightmind, she creates onsite and online mindfulness training for enterprise clients through the Flourishing Leadership Institute. She also delivers keynotes, privately coaches executives in sales and leadership, celebrities, entrepreneurs, and trains company leaders in preventative health care and improving the work environment. Julianna delivers specific mindfulness strategies most relevant to the individual or company’s needs. Julianna was drawn to mindfulness 20 years ago, to manage severe anxiety and depression as well as the dramatic emotional ups and downs of life as a professional entertainer. With over 100 weeks of immersive silent retreat training in both mindfulness and zen, Julianna has racked up 12,000+ hours of formal practice time, rewiring her brain and creating a new normal for herself. In a UCLA study comparing long-term meditators’ brains with non-meditators, the results of Julianna’s MRI led to interviews on ABC, Globo and Reuters news outlets, about the benefits of Mindfulness practice.  Unified Mindfulness, has been used in research at Harvard Medical Center (with breakthrough results) and other major research centers. In fact Julianna has just completed a mindfulness workplace research study with noted researcher David Creswell, through Carnegie Mellon University. This study was a rare opportunity to design and implement a training program for a mid-size company (Fathom Digital Marketing) while having the results rigorously studied by Creswell’s lab.