Bhanu Joy Harrison, LCSW, SEP is a UCLA- Trained Mindfulness Facilitator and Affiliate MAPs Teacher, UCLA Semel Institute, Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). She has been a teacher on the Insight Timer Meditation app since 2020 and enjoys teaching to an international audience. She is also certified as a Mindfulness Mentor through Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s program and a Certified Professional Mindfulness Teacher through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (#P-0020).

Her passion is designing and teaching workshops on mindful living, nervous system regulation, Polyvagal Theory, embodiment practices and working with challenging emotions, trauma, and chronic pain. She loves teaching those new to mindfulness as well as providing continuing education for bodyworkers, social workers and counselors.  Her focus is on body centered and mindful approaches to trauma resolution and self regulation with her clients and mentoring students.

Bhanu also offers meditations and live sessions on the Insight Timer app offering a trauma informed and somatic focus. Check out her pre-recorded and live session offerings at www.insighttimer.com/choosingmindfulness.

Mindfulness has been a part of Bhanu’s life almost all her life!  She lived a contemplative life for eight years in the 1970's at a yoga ashram, which, along with her family's alternative interests,  influenced the direction of her life towards awareness and mindful living.  Over the years, Bhanu has continued to practice mindfulness and participated in many personal and professional growth retreats. She incorporates mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy and holistic health skills into her body-centered practice and mindfulness teaching focusing on enhancing nervous system regulation and growing into more joyful living. In addition, she is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and holds certifications as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and an EMDR therapist.  

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