Profile

Stephanie Nash has been a Mindfulness Coach and Integrative Counselor since 2000. She is an expert in the Unified Mindfulness system developed by Shinzen Young with whom she has worked closely since 1998. She has also been a supervisor of the Unified Mindfulness advanced teacher training program which began in the fall of 2017.

Stephanie has also studied with other leading meditation teachers such as Ruth Denison, Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Leigh Brasington, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein and others - and has participated in over 50 retreats in the past 20 years.

Stephanie founded 2 non-profits: “Mindfulness Arts” - which has provided free workshops, recordings and support for the community, in Santa Monica, CA & elsewhere, since 2007, and “Not Your Ordinary Mindfulness” which has provided monthly daylong retreat since 2018.

Stephanie designed & implemented a mindfulness training program for a Harvard Medical School brain study (2014-2015), and also worked with Carnegie Mellon on a stress-reduction study in 2014.

In 2020, just before & during the pandemic lockdowns, Stephanie co-led UCLA's first-ever lab attached to a humanities' curriculum. It was a pilot program which explored how mindfulness can affect learning, and based on the positive results, the intention is to roll out a version of it to all departments at UCLA.

Steph has been hired as a speaker & presenter for educational, organizational, and corporate events, giving mindfulness-based presentations such as: "Well-Being & Stress Management" workshops, "Laugh for Inner Fitness" (incorporating mindful laughing), "Changing Your Relationship to Food & Eating" (incorporating mindful eating with mindful movement), and "Wellbeing during Challenging Times" (offering creative mindfulness support for people during Covid 19 pandemic & lockdown.)

Stephanie also has a very popular course on the Insight Timer, "Letting Go of Negative Thinking & Judgment" - and her work on mindfulness for stress-reduction & relaxation is also featured on the Brightmind app.

Stephanie was a guest expert on a Deepak Chopra show where she taught her unique style of laughing meditation – and her article “Posture for Meditation” has been used by meditation teachers and meditation centers all over the country since 2012, and she is currently finishing her book on that topic.

Stephanie also has 2 YouTube channels – one that features her interviews with Shinzen Young & other master teachers (14,000 followers), and another that features her teachings – both have been offering hundreds of videos since 2009.