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Erika Long
Co-Founder and Board Member
“If you can breathe through it, you can live through it.”
Erika began meditating while working in finance on Wall Street, and found that it helped her see more clearly, respond more wisely and relate more closely to the people and events in her life.
For the past twenty years, she has followed the teachings of Jon Kabat-Zinn (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), Joseph Goldstein, Bob Thurman, Sharon Salzberg, Gil Fronsdal and many others; and travelled in India with Shantum Seth (a student of Thich Nhat Hanh). She has also studied non-violent communication and believes in its power to create community.
Erika is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher under MMTCP (the Meditation and Mindfulness Teachers Certification Program led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield) in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher - Professional Level, International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She has trained with Mindful Schools and the New York Center for Nonviolent Communication. She is particularly fascinated by the neuroscientific research on meditation and mindfulness and feels passionately about expanding access to the benefits of meditation and mindfulness.