Julianna Raye 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.

Julianna is devoted to deepening people’s understanding of research-supported mindfulness and empowering anyone to guide others in its practice. She has been training individuals and groups in the Unified Mindfulness system for nearly two decades. Julianna is also a founding member of Brightmind Meditation, LLC—the developer of the Brightmind mindfulness app. 

In addition to her work at Unified Mindfulness and Brightmind Meditation, Julianna creates onsite and online mindfulness trainings for corporate clients through the Flourishing Leadership Institute; delivers keynotes; privately coaches executives, leadership, celebrities, and entrepreneurs; and leads group trainings for company leaders aiming to support preventative health care and improve the work environment through mindfulness meditation. 

In these roles, she delivers specific mindfulness strategies tailored to the individual’s or company’s needs. 

With more than 100 weeks of immersive silent retreat training in both the mindfulness and Zen traditions, Julianna has completed over 12,000 hours of formal practice.  Along the way, she has participated in a number of studies, including a study at UCLA comparing long-term meditator's brains with those of non-meditators. 

She led the training for and co-authored two papers for a workplace research study at Carnegie Mellon University carried out under noted mindfulness researcher David Creswell, PhD. The study showed positive outcomes for improved well-being and lower stress and were published in two peer reviewed journals: Mindfulness and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 

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