Yael Shy

Yael Shy is the founder and director of MindfulNYU (the largest campus-wide meditation initiative in the country) and the senior director of the Center for Global Spiritual Life at New York University. She leads meditation workshops, classes, and retreats around the country and the world and teaches weekly at MindfulNYU and at the meditation studio MNDFL in Greenwich Village. She enjoys swimming in watering holes, studying Buddhist and Jewish texts, and hanging out with her husband and son.