Priscilla is a mindfulness and meditation teacher and facilitator. She teaches all types of mindfulness practices; Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), mindful awareness practices (MAPS), meditation, emotional intelligence and leadership skills, communication skills, breath work, yoga, and guided relaxation, all with the intention of cultivating stress reduction, personal growth and overall well-being in all aspects of our life.

With over 30 years experience in the healthcare field as a nurse (oncology, critical care, nurse anesthetist), medical editor, and epidemiologist, she has come to understand that mindfulness is an important component to healing ourselves and each other, no matter what is happening in this moment.

Priscilla practices in the Insight (Vipassana) meditation tradition and has sat numerous short and long retreats at Spirit Rock in California, the Forest Refuge and the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, MA. She graduated from the Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock in California in 2017. This training is based in the Theradvada tradition but is designed to apply these ancient tenets in creative, intuitive, and innovative ways to address the suffering in our contemporary lives. These teachings allow us to work through the complex difficulties of our world with integrity, honesty, kindness and patience while maintaining the ability to see clearly. 

In addition, she completed the 18-month Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training Program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, the Integrated Studies and Practitioner Program (ISPP) at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, MA and has taken courses at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, which includes Spirituality in Mind-Body Medicine and Clinical Training in Mind-Body Medicine. 

Other secular mindfulness trainings she has completed are through the Center for Mindfulness (CFM) at the University of Massachusetts and includes Mindfulness-Stress Reduction (MBSR) in Mind-Body Medicine: A Professional Training taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, MBSR Fundamentals and the Practice Teacher Intensive. She is a Certified MBSR teacher through the Mindfulness Center at Brown's School of Public Health and is adjunct faculty at the Mindfulness Center at Brown. She is also a trained Community Facilitator in Mindfulness-Based Behavior Change, a program developed by Judson Brewer, MD PhD that uses a combination of digital guidance and in-person facilitation. Priscilla has completed the training for the Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Intervention (MB-BP) study developed by Eric Loucks, PhD at the Brown School of Public Health. She is also certified to teach Finding Peach in a Frantic World, a program developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in the UK, that is modeled on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.

Priscilla is an E-RYT 200 level yoga teacher and has studied with a variety of yoga teachers. 

The culmination of her academic and contemplative studies has led her to promote right mindfulness, interacting fully and intentionally with teh present moment, as a central part of her practice and teachings. In her classes, she teaches how to nurture mindfulness and develop metta or loving-kindess, an innate characteristic we all possess.

For more information, go to her website at www.priscillaszneke.com.