About Us

Kelley McCabe is the founder and CEO of eMindful. She is an ordained Interfaith Minister, registered in the state of New York, and a hospital chaplain at the Indian River Medical Center. Kelley began her mindfulness practice in 1997 and has worked with mindful eating since 2002. Using mindful eating techniques, Kelley has lost over 50 pounds and has maintained her current weight without dieting. Kelley began her career on Wall Street, where she worked for 20 years as a senior executive in technology for such companies as Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers, and Citigroup. Kelley has an M.B.A. from New York University.

Larry Rosenberg, Ph.D., is the author of Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation and Living in the Light of Death: On the Art of Being Fully Alive. He is a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the founder and resident teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, also in Massachusetts. Larry received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Chicago and subsequently accepted a position in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Larry has practiced Zen meditation in Korea and Japan and is on the Board of Advisors at eMindful.

Ruth Quillian Wolever, Ph.D., is a clinical health psychologist and Director of Research for Duke Integrative Medicine. She is also eMindful's Chief Scientific Adviser. Dr. Wolever conducts research on the integration of mind, body, and spirit treatments into mainstream medicine. She has specifically explored such applications to improve sleep, eating behaviors, weight management, diabetes control, and cardiovascular risk factors, along with other health conditions. Much of this work centers on applying mindfulness to behavior in order to develop intrinsic skills and motivation.

Dr. Wolever's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the Office of Women's Health), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and by GlaxoSmithKline.

William J. Sullivan -Bill is eMindful’s Chief Financial Office and a member of eMindful’s Board of Directors. He has been in the investment banking and investment industry for over 25 years. He has been an effective leader in many facets of finance, capital markets origination, fixed income and equity trading, institutional distribution and corporate strategic projects. Bill most recently served as a Managing Director of Putnam Investments as Head of Fixed Income & Equity Trading, Capital Markets, and Institutional Product Management. Prior to Putnam Investments, Bill spent nine years at Swiss Bank Corporation in London and New York. He began his career with Chase Manhattan Bank in the Corporate Finance Training Program, spending three years as an analyst, then moving to London to work for Chase’s investment bank. Bill graduated with a B.S. in accounting from Providence College in 1982. Bill is married, has three boys and is an active triathlete.

Hyman Kahn, M.D. - Dr. Hyman Kahn is a member of the eMindful Board of Directors. Dr. Kahn served as a senior vice president for nine years with U.S. Healthcare, and for eight of those years as the company's senior medical director. He has held executive positions for over a decade with HMO Pennsylvania, where he served both as medical director and president of the organization's IPA. He also has served as a medical consultant to Aetna U.S. Healthcare, and is on the boards of numerous health care companies. In addition to eMindful's board, Dr. Kahn is a member of the board of directors of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the Accountable Care Organization of Pennsylvania, MacroArray and ImmuneControl prior to its merger into Corridor Pharmaceuticals. He is also on the advisory boards of InstaMed, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of South Eastern Pennsylvania and QuakerBioScience. Dr. Kahn graduated from Thomas Jefferson University Medical College and obtained a Bachelor of Science from Franklin and Marshall College. He is boarded by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Elizabeth Mariner - Mrs. Mariner is a member of eMindful's Board of Directors. She is an Executive Vice President of the reinsurance intermediary, Re-Solutions. Mrs. Mariner has over 25 years of insurance and reinsurance experience. She started her career in 1982 at General Reassurance. Subsequently, Mrs. Mariner joined Medical Risk Intermediaries as Sr. Vice President responsible for reinsurance marketing and underwriting for ERISA self-funded medical plans. In 1992, Mrs. Mariner joined Towers Perrin where she became a Principal responsible for business development in
the Risk & Financial Services' Life, Accident and Health Reinsurance Practice. Mrs. Mariner is an active member of SIIA, holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pre-Med from Boston College, and professional designations as a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), a Health Insurance Associate of America (HIA), a Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS), and a Fellow of the Life Management Institute (FLMI).

Jorge Rico - Jorge Rico is a member of the eMindful Board of Directors. Mr. Rico is a Co-Founding Partner of MBF Healthcare Partners, L.P. and has served as Managing Director of the firm since inception. Prior to joining MBF, Mr. Rico was the Chief Operating Officer of Ramsay Health Care, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHCI) a publicly-held psychiatric hospital company. Prior to joining RHCI, Mr. Rico was Executive Vice President of Administration and a key member of the management team of Ramsay-HMO, Inc. (NYSE: RMO), the second-largest publicly-held HMO in Florida during the early 1990's. In addition to eMindful's board, Mr. Rico is a member of the board of directors of Navarro Discount Pharmacies, Nutri-Force Nutrition, Omni Home Care (Chairman) and Simply Healthcare Holdings and previously served on the board of Medical Specialties Distributors (Chairman). He is also a member of the St. Thomas University's President's Advisory Board. Mr. Rico holds a Masters in Business Administration specializing in Healthcare Administration from the University of Miami and a Bachelor's in Computer and Information Science from St. Thomas University.

Dr. Michael Baime M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is the Director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness and the Director of Mind-Body Programs for the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. The Penn mindfulness-based stress management program has enrolled more than 6,000 individuals in a structured 8-week meditation-based training course since its inception in 1992. Dr. Baime graduated from Haverford College in 1977 and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1981. He completed post-graduate training in internal medicine at The Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia in 1984, and served an additional year as chief resident. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Baime was the recipient of the Appel award for student work in psychiatry in 1981 and the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.

Dawn Barie, LCSW-C is the founder of Mindfulness In Your Life, Inc., and has been practicing psychotherapy since 2003.  She is currently in private practice in Baltimore and Towson, Maryland where she treats clients for issues relating to depression, anxiety and substance abuse.  She is dedicated to combining mindfulness-based practices, Eastern philosophy and psychotherapy.  Dawn gained experience with mindfulness after immersing herself in intensive meditation study with Thai Buddhist monks.  She was selected by meditation masters in Thailand to receive advanced training and teacher certification in 2000. Dawn also has a Master’s of Buddhist Studies from the University of Sydney where her focus was on early Buddhist philosophy and psychology through the study of Abhidharma literature. 
Dawn has co-led international meditation retreats and taught in major cities in the United States for clinics, universities, schools, corporations and youth groups.  Dawn has also taught international civil servants and diplomats at the United Nations headquarters in New York. 

Dr. Mark Bertin M.D., a board certified developmental behavioral pediatrician in Pleasantville, NY, studied at the UCLA School of Medicine and completed his training in general pediatrics at Oakland Children's Hospital in California. He was a general pediatrician for five years in Marin County, north of San Francisco, and later returned to the East Coast for fellowship training in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics at the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (Rose Kennedy Center) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Bertin is a frequent lecturer for parents, teachers and professionals on topics related to child development including literacy promotion, ADHD and autism, and also teaches mindfulness based stress reduction classes for parents. Along with Dr. Zylowska, he presented regarding "Mindfulness in ADHD Care" at CHADD's (Children and Adults with ADHD) 2008 international conference. They will be giving a related presentation at CHADD's 2009 event. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College and a consultant for Reach Out and Read, a national organization that promotes child development and literacy.

Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT, is a California-based psychotherapist currently in private practice in the Bay Area. She adapted the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program typically for adults for an adolescent population, and is the founder and creator of Stressed Teens, a program using the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T) program. MBSR-T has proven to be an efficacious and evidence-based program for adolescents as demonstrated through her research published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 2009 and in Psychological Assessment in 2011. She conducts trainings, workshops and conferences on MBSR/MBSR-T with a variety of populations including professionals, teachers, parents, and teens in the U.S. and internationally. A more recent area of work is in bringing mindfulness into the California Elementary School system through her role as a member of the Research Advisory Board for Mindful Schools and assessed the effectiveness of such a program. She is also exploring brain-imaging work at Stanford University with adolescents who practice MBSR-T.  Ms. Biegel is interested in expanding MBSR-T into other teen populations in a variety of settings while assessing potential efficacy, and dispensing the MBSR-T curriculum so that professionals trained in MBSR-T can utilize this intervention in their own work.  Through MBSR-T, it is intended that adolescents will reduce their pain and suffering and improve their overall functioning and quality of life.  Ms. Biegel participates on the Board of a number of related organizations: Mind Body Awareness Project (MBA), Association for Mindfulness in Education (AME), Mindfulness in Education Network (MiEN), Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme).

Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist in private practice in Los Gatos, CA .  Lisa teaches MBSR, MBCT, MBRP and has created a Mindfulness-Based Dialectical Behavior Therapy (MBDBT) program which integrates mindfulness meditation practices with DBT's cognitive-behavioral emotion regulation skills.

Lisa is a featured presenter at conferences on the clinical applications of mindfulness meditation.  Lisa has been a yogic and vipassana meditation practitioner for more than 30 years.

Matthew Daniell is trained to teach yoga in the Viniyoga tradition of Sri T. Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. and Kasthub Desikachar. He has studied many other styles of yoga, including Iyengar and Ashtanga, and holds teaching certifications in Sivananda and Kripalu traditions. Matthew has taught yoga and meditation around the country, including Tufts University, Omega, Kripalu, and the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. He is the guiding and resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Center of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Jim Austin - Jim has an interest in integrating the two practices into a yoga which emphasizes mindfulness. In addition to his regular studio teaching he also occasionally offers yoga at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA and the Insight Meditation Center of Newburyport. Jim completed his initial yoga teacher training in 2004 at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and has been teaching since that time in the Boston area. He completed the Integrated Study and Practice Program at the Barre Center in 2007.

Jennifer Davis, M.S., L.P.C - Prior to joining Duke Integrative Medicine, Jennifer provided health psychology services for multiple programs at the Duke Center for Living, including Duke Executive Health Program, Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs, and the Getting on Track Weight Management Program. She has been working in the field of health psychology at the Duke Center for Living since 1999. Jennifer's clinical and research work has focused on lifestyle change, multicultural and gender differences in body-image, the impact of spirituality on heart and lung disease, risk and rate of recovery from heart and lung transplant, and exploring meditation and mindfulness-based treatment for binge eating, compulsive eating, and the treatment of obesity. Jennifer received her Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling and Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999.

Julie Desch, M.D., is the founder of New Day Wellness, a 501 (3) (c) organization with a mission to coach and train wellness to people with chronic illness. She has been a wellness coach and personal trainer to people with cystic fibrosis for over five years. Julie has been a meditator for over 13 years, and credits this practice for helping her live a healthy and happy life with cystic fibrosis.

Bill Eager has a mantra: Share abundance in life. Bill knows the universe has plenty to offer each of us. Bill is a successful author and international speaker. He is passionate about teaching people how to live inspired, healthy lives.

Bill is also a certified yoga instructor, Reiki and energy healer. Bill co-founded the Life Goes Om project which helps cancer patients receive free yoga classes at studios around the world and has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yogi Times, LA Yoga and Shape. Bill has written numerous articles about the physical and philosophical aspects of yoga. In addition to presentations to yoga studio owners (Yoga Journal conferences).

Carolyn B. Ellis is founder of Thrive After Divorce, Inc. Her company is commited to providing success strategies for separated and divorced individuals. A Harvard University graduate, Carolyn is a Certified Master Integrative Coach, Teleclass leader, and the first Canadian to be certified as a Spiritual Divorce Coach. She is also a part-time staff member of the Institute for Integrative Coaching at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco, CA, and has been trained personally by its founder, best-selling author Debbie Ford. Carolyn's book, The 7 Pitfalls of Single Parenting: What to Avoid So Your Children Thrive After Divorce, will be published in summer 2007. She is a member of Collaborative Practice Toronto, an interdisciplinary organization of family lawyers, financial planners, and mental health practitioners committed to collaborative divorce principles of dignity and respect.

Edward Federici, LMFT, has over twenty years experience as a mental health care professional providing group, individual, couples and family psychotherapy to diverse populations in private practice, residential and hospital settings. Fourteen of those years have been spent as a marriage and family therapist, helping people transform negative behavior patterns into happier, healthier living. Ed utilizes proven researched techniques to help people create the changes they desire. Beyond research, Ed integrates the wisdom offered through twelve years of individual and group meditation practice-- along with practical lessons from life as a husband, father and therapist-- to help others create a happy, fulfilling life, based on who they are and what they want.

Steve Flowers, MS, MFT - is the director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic at the Enloe Medical Center in Chico, California. Steve has been teaching the MBSR course for over 10 years. In addition, he has a private practice as a licensed psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of stress related conditions.

Lu French, Pharm.D., RYT, KYTA - Lu is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, having studied at Kripalu Center in Stockbridge, MA with Master Teachers Devarshi Steven Hartman, Stephen Cope, and Megha Nancy Buttenheim. She is also nearing completion of her 500 hour certification in Prana Vinyasa Flow with renowned teacher Shiva Rea. Lu is owner of Breathing Room Yoga in Manchester, Vermont and teaches at both Breathing Room and at Living Yoga in Vero Beach, Florida. The first 4 years of her practice were focused on the precise alignment of Iyengar Yoga before discovering the joyful spirit of Kripalu and the graceful power of Vinyasa Flow. Now Lu enjoys all forms of yoga and meditation and has found deep healing for her Fibromyalgia and Grave's Hyperthyroid Disease through these amazing practices. To her yoga classes, Lu brings 12 years of experience as a yoga practitioner as well as 12 years of experience as a clinical pharmacist with an intuitive and academic understanding of anatomy and physiology. Her style is soft spoken yet powerful. Her classes are meditative, informative, filled with creativity, music and love.

Laura Friedland, CPCC, ORSC, RN, BSN is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute, an internationally recognized coach training school, accredited by the International Coaching Federation. She is a certified professional Co-Active Coach with advanced training in relationships and organizational systems. She has 14 years of experience as a registered nurse and graduated from Thomas Jefferson University. She is a teacher, coach, and professional speaker. Laura is co-founder of The Relationship Development Company and of Global Corporate Coaching. She has written and co-faciliated leadership development programs for executives, at-risk youth, holistic practioners, and artists. Both of Laura's companies are dedicated to dissloving conflict through peaceful communication and deep understanding. Laura has her own individual coaching practice through which she coaches others in improving relationship to self, others, and to our planet.

Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix, MB.BS., Ph.D, MRCP(UK) graduated from London University, UK as an MB.BS. (British equivalent of M.D) and Ph.D (biochemistry), and obtained membership in the Royal College of Physicians of UK in Internal Medicine. Currently, she is a Chronic Pain Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia, Pain Clinic, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, and Dept of Anaesthesia, Pain Management Program, Sunnybrook Health Services Centre, Toronto. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anaesthesia, University of Toronto.

In 2002, Dr. Gardner-Nix founded the Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM) program at St Michael’s Hospital, where chronic pain patients learn more skills for managing pain through meditation and mindfulness. She has extended MBCPM classes to distant Ontario communities via telemedicine (see website www.painspeaking.com), at first from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and later also from St Michael’s Hospital. Her book, The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: A Step by Step Guide for Working With Chronic Pain, describes the MBCPM program.

Libby Gill, served for 15 years as Senior Vice President at Universal Studios; Vice President at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting; and was the branding brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show. She then worked her way down the corporate ladder to coach others to success. After deciding she needed to completely re-balance her life, Libby left the corporate world and founded Libby Gill & Company. As she was reinventing her professional life, Libby's personal life also underwent a major transition. She chronicled her journey of overcoming the self-perceived limitations left behind by a family legacy of alcoholism, divorce and mental illness in her bestselling book TRAVELING HOPEFULLY. Now an executive coach, bestselling author, and columnist for the Dallas Morning News, Libby has shared her success strategies on the Today Show, the Dr. Phil Show, CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, CBS Early Show, The Hour of Power, and in Time Magazine, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, O Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Self and many more. Libby will be teaching personal growth and motivational classes for eMindful.

Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, has 30 years clinical practice of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. He is a health systems futurist and inspiring lecturer and CEO of Health Action Synergies, a consulting and training company specializing in comprehensive design, modeling and implementation of programming in wellness and complementary and integrative medicine -- with a basis in health maximization. Roger is a key spokesperson for empowerment based practices of Tai Chi, Qigong – Mind-Body Practices – the fusion of exercise and meditation.   He has taught mindfulness and presence focused practice to thousands at the Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Mind Science Foundation, the National Wellness Institute and the wellness committee of the American Medical Association. Dr. Jahnke is the author of bestsellers The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi as well as numerous chapters in books on holistic and integrative medicine. His research alliances with the U. of AZ and U. of IL have assisted in building the evidence base for Integrative Mind-Body Medicine.

Cheryl Jones-Reardon, CEO of The Mindful Path, LLC holds a Master’s degree in Exercise Science from the University of Connecticut and a Certificate in Spirituality from Saint Joseph College. She has completed extensive training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Cheryl is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Health Careers at Manchester Community College and is the author of Mindful Exercise.

Pete Kirchmer CPCC - As a Life and Wellness Coach, Pilates instructor and meditation teacher, Pete has been dedicated to helping others achieve their greatest potential for health and well-being since 1995. Pete graduated with a B.S. in Physiology from the University of Arizona, is a Certified Professional Life Coach through the Coaches Training institute and Center for Applied Positive Psychology along with being a Wellcoaches trained Health and Wellness Coach. He is a lifetime learner and an active member of the International Coach Federation and the Harvard Institute of Coaching. Personally, Pete walks the talk. Through the mindful movement, meditation and journaling practices he teaches, Pete has himself maintained a weight loss of 60 pounds for 15 years and has healed from a debilitating back injury to go on to being a martial artist, surfer, snowboarder and triathlon competitor. Through these experiences Pete has cultivated resilience and a deep empathy for his clients. Pete’s professional experience include being a mindful movement studio owner, efi Sports Medicine GRAVITY Master Trainer, resident Life Coach and presenter at Rancho La Puerta, a world-class wellness spa & resort in Tecate, Mexico, and the Director of Coaching for Optimal Health and Prevention Research Foundation.

Julie Kosey, MS, PCC, CPCC, RYT has been helping people to improve the quality of their lives by focusing on what matters most to them for over 20 years in various roles: mindfulness instructor, yoga teacher, health educator, worksite wellness consultant, and professional certified coach (credentialed through the International Coach Federation). She has worked with many organizations including Duke Integrative Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Program on Integrative Medicine, Rex Healthcare, the Wellness Council of North Carolina, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina in diverse ways: teaching classes, designing and delivering professional trainings, coaching individuals and organizations, research, leading teams, and consulting with businesses to create cutting-edge worksite wellness initiatives. She has experienced mindfulness as foundational to professional effectiveness and personal happiness. Her mindfulness training began in 1995 with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and has deepened through continued study with many teachers since that time alongside her training and certification as a Kripalu yoga teacher (also registered with the Yoga Alliance). Her academic credentials include a BA in Psychology, MS in Wellness Management with minors in Business and Counseling, and Graduate Certificate in Alternative Health and Healing.

Arnie Kozak, Ph.D., is the author of Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness (Wisdom Publications). He is a licensed psychologist—doctorate in the state of Vermont and a lecturer in psychology for the University of Vermont and a Clinical Instructor in Medicine for the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Dr. Kozak received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his doctoral degree from the University at Buffalo. He completed his internship as a Clinical Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. He has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1989 and yoga since 1983. Arnie has a longstanding interest in metaphors for clinical change and he has taught metaphors for mindfulness in his mindfulness-based clinical practice, The Exquisite Mind, at the University of Vermont, in workshops to health care professionals, and in consultation with athletes and corporations. Arnie writes a daily blog on Beliefnet called Mindfulness Matters: Tools for Living Now. You can find his blog at: Mindfulness Matters

Dr. Joel & Michelle Levey have devoted their lives to exploring extraordinary human potential and the integration of the profoundly practical wisdom of the contemplative inner-science traditions into our complex modern lives. Over the past 40 years, Michelle and Joel Levey have been fortunate to engage in intensive study and practice with many of the world’s most revered contemplative teachers. They have applied what they have learned through rigorous psychophysical research, clinical practice, and teaching to diverse audiences of thousands of people in hundreds of leading organizations around the globe including: NASA, National Institute of Health (NIH), World Bank, M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center, Clinton Global Initiative, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Shell Oil, Petro Canada, Miraval, Boeing, Phillips, NOAA, U.S. Army Green Berets, West Point Military Academy, Stanford Research Institute International, and MIT. The Leveys served as Chairpersons for the Center for Corporate Culture & Organizational Health at the Institute for Health & Productivity Management, and were honored by the Institute of Noetic Sciences as leading "teachers of transformation." For more information please visit WisdomAtWork.com.

Jack Lu, LICSW, has practiced clinical social work for five years, working with a variety of client issues like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and substance addiction in various settings including outpatient counseling center, inpatient substance rehabilitation and private practice. His formal training within spiritual and meditative practices began with his passion for and study of martial arts seven years ago. He continues to incorporate compassionate balanced action within his life on a daily basis.

Frederic Luskin, Ph.D. is director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project and an associate professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He has completed nine research projects on the training and measurement of forgiveness therapy. Dr. Luskin’s research demonstrates that learning forgiveness leads to increased physical vitality, enhanced optimism, and improved conflict resolution skills. His research also shows that forgiveness lessens the physical and emotional toll of stress while decreasing symptomatic hurt, anger, depression, and blood pressure. Dr. Luskin is the author of the San Francisco Bay Area best-seller Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness and Stress-Free for Good. Currently Dr. Luskin serves as co-chair of the Garden of Forgiveness Project at Ground Zero in Manhattan. Dr. Luskin’s work has been featured in Time, O, Ladies' Home Journal, U.S. News and World Report, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, U.S.A. Today and the Wall Street Journal.

Elise Mahovlich is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor. Elise's class structure includes centering, warm-ups, vinyasa (posture flow), relaxation and meditation. Each class is designed to improve flexibility, strength, balance and coordination for a whole-body workout. She is the founder and director of Living Yoga in Vero Beach, Florida, serving the community with a variety of classes and workshops dedicated to the pursuit of happiness, health and well-being. Elise has over 2,000 hours of classroom teaching experience and is a certified Prenatal Yoga instructor. In addition, she is a Third Degree Reiki practitioner.

"Even after fifteen years, yoga still amazes and delights me every time I come to the mat with its mystery and power, its elegance and simplicity. I am passionate about making yoga accessible to people of all ages and all walks of life." For more information visit www.LivingYogaStudio.com or contact Elise elise@eMindful.com.

Suzanne Matthiessen, C.Ht. has successfully employed self-directed neuroplasticity and proactive secular mindfulness practices, hypnosis and guided imagery mind-body wellness tools and techniques for over three decades, helping individuals and teams strengthen attention and focus, shape positive and productive thoughts, choices, actions and behaviors, reduce anxiety and stress internally and externally, and build empathy, compassion and interconnection. Suzanne is certified in hypnotherapy, and trained in the transformative model of conflict resolution via the ISCT. Her coaching and training work focuses on mindful stress and pain management, mindful eating and weight loss, overcoming fears and phobias, and improving athletic, academic and artistic performance. She has written for several publications as well as her Mind-Body Wellness Awareness blog, and her acclaimed subscription-based "The Mindful Minute™" daily meditation practice will be offered as a podcast beginning in Spring 2011. After years of coaching both professional and personal caregivers how to survive and thrive within their stressful circumstances, she's currently writing a new book titled The Mindful Caregiver, as well as developing a companion educational program. Please visit Suzanne's website TheMind-BodyCoach.com for more information.

Rebecca Mclean has been working in health care and holistic since 1974 -- in occupational therapy, stress management, multidisciplinary health teams. She co-founded Health Action in 1983, a wellness company involved in comprehensive clinical health care, wellness education and health coaching.

Rebecca is the author of The Circle of Life, and founder of the health and wellness coaching system fostering a continuous life and health improvement process through group-based life skills enhancement. She is the director of training for the Circle of Life process which is utilized in businesses, hospitals, support groups, churches, agencies, schools, and individual coaching.

Drew Overholser, M.A., has been involved with yoga and mind/body fitness for ten years. He is a certified hatha yoga instructor and the founder of Rishi's Crossing Yoga studio in Lakewood Colorado. Drew's teaching style combines alignment cues, safety, breath awareness, flowing movements, and strength building. Drew's classes provide just the right amount of challenge that leaves participants feeling strong, balanced, centered, and more alive. Drew has a master's degree in educational psychology. He is the author of the book "Foundations: expanding your possibilities for life-long wellness". In addition to yoga, Drew loves teaching, writing, golf, skiing, travel, and long walks with his dog Sophie.

Elana Rosenbaum, MS, LICSW, Elana is a leader in the clinical application of mindfulness meditation to cancer care. She is founder of Mindfuliving and co-founder of Retreats to Renew. She has authored Here for Now: Living Well with Cancer through Mindfulness, the basis of many workshops, and created audio-CDs with guided meditations. In 1995 she was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and subsequently underwent stem-cell transplantation. Her ability to thrive and embody mindfulness in the face of adversity led to the development of a mindfulness-based intervention for bone marrow transplant patients at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute where she consults and teaches meditation. She is adjunct faculty at the renowned Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where she was a senior teacher for 18 years and is currently teaching medical students. Elana has a private practice in psychotherapy in Worcester, Mass and is a sought after teacher, speaker, workshop leader and research consultant.

Amy Saltzman M.D. is a holistic physician, mindfulness teacher, wife and mother. She has been teaching Mindfulness for over 14 years. Her passion is sharing Mindfulness with children and adults. She is currently conducting two research studies through the Stanford Department of Psychology- evaluating the benefits of teaching mindfulness to child-parent pairs, and to children in elementary school. She is trained in Internal Medicine, director for the Association of Mindfulness in Education, a founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, and a founding member of the Northern California Advisory Committee on Mindfulness. Before establishing a private practice in Menlo Park she served on the Board of Trustees of the American Holistic Medical Association, and as medical director of the Health and Healing Clinic, at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Saltzman offers lectures and courses for schools, parenting organizations, education and medical conferences. She also provides individual mindfulness instruction and holistic medical care to children and adults.

Michael Silverman Ed.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice since 1983 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His counseling experience in the community mental health system began in 1973 with treatment of adolescents. Dr. Silverman has taught the following courses at Temple University: Group Psychology, Human Development, and Counseling & Psychotherapy. He currently teaches these classes at LaSalle University in Graduate Psychology: Counseling Principles, Group Processes, and Psychopathology. In addition, Michael is a Management and Training coach/consultant with more than 25 years experience in the private and public sectors. He has provided programs for such organizations as Independence Blue Cross, Rohm & Haas, Penn Mutual Life Insurance, and The Philadelphia Zoo.

Leslie Smith-Frank - Leslie began practicing mindfulness in 1993, and discovered that her stresses did not change, but that she was better able to deal with them. And she felt better! She was a student in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course at the UMass Medical School, where she took the teacher training, adolescent teacher training, and the teacher development intensive. She founded the Mindful Awareness Practice Center (MAP Center) in Longmeadow, MA, which is home to Leslie's 8-week MBSR courses. Leslie has taught mindful awareness practices to hundreds of public school students and offers an 8-week MBSR-Teen program at Heartsong Yoga www.heartsongyoga.com in East Longmeadow, MA, A board certified physician assistant, she has worked in rehabilitation medicine, as well as orthopedics, neurosurgery, and occupational medicine. Leslie is also a Massachusetts certified secondary teacher. As an adjunct professor at Bay Path College, she teaches an undergraduate course in Stress Management, as well as serving on the advisory board for the newly forming physician assistant program at Bay Path.

Paul Sugar, a health-care management professional, has founded and operated a number of highly successful service-related businesses in the medical and dental fields. Beyond combining management, financial, and marketing skills to maximize the growth of these organizations, Paul has applied the principles of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Peak Performance. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University in 1969, Paul began his pioneering exploration in the fields of stress reduction and performance enhancement. Paul has taught his programs in the health care, private, and corporate sectors for more than 35 years.

Chef Michelle Sugiyama is the founder of Wellconnect, Inc., a wellness teaching service, and Mindful Eating, a personal chef service that focuses on health and nutrition. She holds a Masters Degree in Chemistry from the Ohio State University and worked in the chemical industry for ten years before following her passions, cooking and teaching.  Michelle became a top honors graduate of Le Cordon Bleu and interned under a Master Chef in Avignon, France.  As a volunteer, she helped create St. Paul Public School’s Wellness Policy, effective in 2007.  Michelle’s personal and professional mission is to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Carol Tyler, MA, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian with a Master’s degree in Exercise Science from the University of Connecticut. She has completed the professional training program and the Advanced Teacher Development Training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She works with the Integrative Medicine Center at Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford Connecticut where she teaches the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program and offers counseling in mindful eating. She is a popular speaker for corporate and community programs.

Linda Wallace As a consultant for school districts, non-profits, families and businesses, Linda Wallace draws upon her own contemplative practice spanning a decade, and training in contemplative programs nationwide to support others in experiencing the benefits of mindfulness practice. These trainings have included MBSR, Emotions Revealed, and Hakomi, among others. Linda’s thirty year career as an educator, coach and teacher trainer laid the ideal foundation for her work in writing curriculum, and co-training trainers in SMARTinEDUCATION, a mindfulness program for teachers. As a key player on the SMART interdisciplinary team of social scientists, researchers, educators and administrators, Linda is passionate about the role mindfulness plays in empowering youth and adults today. Working as a Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner and teacher is another way Linda naturally integrates her mindfulness practice on a daily basis.

Doug Worthen currently teaches a mindfulness course at the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. He has completed the MBSR teacher training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and is a student in the Sprit Rock CDL (Community Dharma Leaders) training program. As a two-time cancer survivor (B-cell and T-cell lymphoma), which involved a stem cell transplant in 2007, he has experienced firsthand the healing power of mindfulness. Doug began practicing meditation in 1999 to enhance athletic performance as a member of the UVA national championship lacrosse team and has been a dedicated practitioner ever since. He is on the board of iBme (Inward Bound Mindfulness Education) and the Practice for a Cure Foundation.

Alysa Zalma, M.D. is a Board Certified Psychiatrist by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology who has been studying and treating men, women, adolescents and children with challenges relating to eating and eating wellness since 1993. She has worked and studied in inpatient and outpatient eating disorder treatment centers, in outpatient psychiatry clinics, and in her own obesity and eating disorder outpatient psychotherapy treatment groups on two coasts, through Tufts New England Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Oregon Health and Sciences University and through her own private practice in Portland and Lake Oswego, Oregon. Alysa received her M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1997. She completed her Internship at Harvard Medical School in 1999.

Alysa has a newly released CD, BodyImagery, which is a collection of three 19-minute Guided Imagery Music Meditations designed to transform the listener's relationship with his/her body and food. (http://cdbaby.com/cd/alysazalma) She is the Director of The BodyImagery Project (www.bodyimagery.org), whose mission it is to treat obesity and eating disorders within a multidisciplinary framework.

Lidia Zylowska, M.D. is a psychiatrist who completed her medical training at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and her psychiatry training at UCLA. Currently she is affiliated with the UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, Center for Psychoneuro-immunolgy and the Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women's Health. During her residency training, Dr. Zylowska became interested in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and consequently completed a fellowship at the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine and worked as a chief resident of the UCLA Behavioral Medicine Clinic where she piloted a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for anxiety. In 2003, Dr. Zylowska was awarded the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program Fellowship during which, in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, she developed Mindful Awareness Program (MAPs) for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Her current research focuses on the investigation of MAP for ADHD in teens and adults as a model of a self-care approach in mental health.