Classes, Workshops, & EventsUpcoming Classes and WorkshopsMindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)Our Teachers An effective Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program requires teachers who are themselves firmly grounded in the practice of mindfulness meditation. Each member of our current team of teachers in the MBSR program at Duke Integrative Medicine holds over 10 years of meditation experience in addition to significant personal experience with yoga or other forms of mindful movement and has a well-established daily meditation practice. Our teachers have a master's degree or higher in health, psychology, education, communication, or a related field. In addition, they have all completed professional training programs in MBSR and have attended multiple intensive mindfulness meditation retreats
Dr. Brantley is one of the founding faculty members of Duke Integrative Medicine, where he started the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in 1998. He is also a member of the Community of Scholars of the Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health at Duke University. He is a Consulting Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke Medical Center. He teaches intensive courses on mindfulness meditation and conducts extensive experiential programs and group lectures. Dr. Brantley completed his psychiatry residency at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center. He is Board Certified in psychiatry and and was elected as a “Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association” in 2008. He worked for 14 years in community mental health and private practice. Dating back to medical school, meditation has been a focal point of Dr. Brantley's private life, as well as an integral part of his work with people seeking healing in their lives. Dr. Brantley has participated in many intensive meditation retreats, practicing with a variety of teachers, including Joan Halifax, Thich Nhat Hanh, Larry Rosenberg, Christina Feldman, and members of the Amaravati Buddhist monastic community. He has also completed the professional training for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction offered by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli. Dr. Brantley is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind: how mindfulness and compassion can free you from anxiety, fear, and panic and is the co-author, with Wendy Millstine, of the Five Good Minutes series and Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind.
Mary Matthews Brantley has been practicing meditation for over 25 years. She has done many intensive retreats and her teachers have included Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Larry Rosenberg, Rodney Smith, Ruth Denison, Joan Halifax, and Thich Nhat Hanh. She has been an instructor in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program at Duke Integrative Medicine since 2000. She has a master’s degree in psychology from Pepperdine University of California. In addition to teaching she has developed and taught a course based on loving-kindness meditation. She is co-author of The Gift of Loving-Kindness: 100 meditations on Compassion, Forgiveness, and Generosity from New Harbinger Publications.
Prior to joining Duke Integrative Medicine, Sasha Loring provided health psychology services at Duke Diet and Fitness Center, University of North Carolina Hospitals, as well as in a private psychotherapy practice. She has been an education consultant for post graduate medical education, has led training in interviewing skills for medical students, and has provided Executive Health stress consults. An avid interest in meditation has led her to incorporate mindfulness skills as an important part of her work, including leading seminars around the country and teaching the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine. She has also helped develop a home study course entitled The Mindful Way to Reduce Stress. Sasha Loring’s clinical and research work has focused around stress management, stress related chronic conditions, meditation, mind/body interventions for improved health, and the treatment of binge-eating disorder and obesity. She leads classes on Mindful Eating, and has co-authored a weight related educational program that is offered on the internet through the eMindful educational website. She also is a teacher for the Getting on Track Weight Management Program at Duke’s Center for Living. Loring received her Masters in Education from the College of William and Mary, and her Masters in Clinical Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Maya McNeilly is a licensed clinical psychologist with twenty-five years of clinical, research, and teaching experience, including full time faculty at Duke University Medical Center Departments of Psychiatry, Medical Psychology, Behavioral Medicine, and the Center for Aging. She currently teaches MBSR Foundation courses and a Graduate course in Interpersonal Mindfulness through Duke Integrative Medicine. Dr. McNeilly has practiced meditation since childhood in Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and Judeo-Christian Contemplative traditions. Since 1982, she has formally studied and practiced Mindfulness in the Vipasana, Zen, and Tibetan traditions; Christian Contemplative Prayer; and Jewish Meditation with teachers in the United States, India, China, Nepal, Tibet, and Israel. Dr. McNeilly practices psychotherapy as part of the McNeilly Center for Well Being, which is a collaborative network of caring practitioners whose mission is to promote Integrative health and well being in the Triangle and surrounding area. At present, the services of this network include psychotherapy; creative expressive arts, bodywork, horticulture therapy, and animal assisted therapy as adjuncts to psychotherapy; Christian counseling; substance abuse and addiction treatment; physical therapy; and energetic and spiritual approaches to healing. Dr. McNeilly has also done extensive work in the corporate sector, developing and delivering work-site wellness programs for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Academically, Dr. McNeilly has conducted research since 1982, investigating the effects of stress and racism on blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and renal sodium handling, along with developing instruments to measure perceptions of racism among ethnic populations and experiences of death and dying. Her research has been recognized at national and international conferences, with numerous articles published in academic journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Psychophysiology, Health Psychology, Hypertension, Circulation, along with a number of published book chapters. This work has also been cited in national newspapers and magazines such as Oprah, Men's Health, Ms., Jet, Heart and Soul, Essence, and broadcast on national and local radio and television programs. Dr. McNeilly has also taught courses and mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students at Duke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, and Wayne State University. Philanthropically, Dr. McNeilly and her husband established the Hope James Foundation, whose mission is to support humanitarian, spiritual, and educational causes. It maintains two retreat houses, one rural and one urban, which are available for individual and small group contemplative, meditative, spiritual, or healing retreats and workshops. The facilities are available on a donation basis, and all proceeds are in turn donated to the Hope James Foundation charitable, spiritual, and humanitarian causes.
Jeanne van Gemert is a Mind/Body Therapist utilizing Body-Centered and Expressive Arts modalities as well as Mindfulness Meditation. Jeanne assists individuals and groups to understand, transform and integrate their emotions, beliefs, thoughts and spirit. Using skilled attention, Jeanne offers collaborative multi-modality interventions that promote the unfolding of individuals' psyches and provide deeply meaningful experiences. Jeanne has been an Instructor in the Duke Integrative Medicine Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program since 1999 and is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader training program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Jeanne holds an MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University and an MA in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University with specializations in Holistic Health, the Expressive Therapies of Art, Movement and Sand Tray work, and Group Dynamics. She received Bodywork training at the Baltimore Holistic Health Center and is certified in CranioSacral Therapy, Zero Balancing and Massage. She is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and has trained in other body energy systems and shamanic practices.
Ron Vereen is a board-certified psychiatrist with a private practice in Durham, NC, and serves as a Consulting Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. A practitioner of mindfulness meditation since 1992, he participated in a professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, and has been teaching in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine since 1999. In addition, he completed the Community Dharma Leader Program though Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2007, and has been teaching introductory meditation classes throughout the community, along with leading a weekly sitting group in Durham. His interests are in exploring the interface between contemplative practices and Western psychology. About the Program
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