… trained at the Center for Mindfulness at the UMASS Medical School and The Mindfulness Center at Brown University. Nancy has been offering the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course and mindfulness and stress reduction workshops for several years.   She has an MA in Pastoral Care & Counseling with a concentration in Buddhism from New York Theological Seminary and the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care with experience as a chaplain intern in NYC & RI hospitals offering mindfulness groups for nurses, social workers, aides and other staff and leading mindfulness and spiritual care groups for patients in psychiatric care units.  A meditator since 1994, she has studied and practiced in the Vipassana/Insight tradition with renown Insight meditation teachers Joseph Goldstein, Guy Armstrong, Sally Clough Armstrong, Sharon Salzberg, Larry Rosenberg, and Analayo among others.  And, of course, Jon Kabat-Zinn and the MBSR teachers.

“I am profoundly grateful to my teachers for their courage and dedication in searching out these teachings for themselves and offering them freely to students such as myself. I dedicate the merits of my practice to them.”