Yael Shy is the CEO of Mindfulness Consulting, LLC, where she teaches and consults on mindfulness for universities, corporations, and private clients around the world. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017), and the founder of Mindful NYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the US. Yael is a graduate of the IJS Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Certification and has over a decade of teaching and consulting experience and nearly 20 years of meditation practice experience. She is adjunct faculty at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and the Or HaLev Center for Jewish Spirituality and Meditation, as well as MNDFL Meditation. She was an original co-founder of the Jewish Meditation Center of Brooklyn. She has led workshops and retreats for the Jewish Education Project, One Table, Pardes Institute, Hebrew Union College, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Limmud NY, Repair the World, Marlene Meyereson JCC, Hillel International, Moshe House, Honeymoon Israel, B’nai Jeshurun (NYC), Romemu (NYC), Beloved Brooklyn (NYC), Central Synagogue (NYC), as well as synagogues, Hillels, and day schools across the country. Yael lives in the Hudson Valley with her family. You can learn more about Yael at yaelshy.com and yaelshy1 on Instagram.