Jesse Foy

Jesse Foy is the Founder and Guiding Teacher at Rooted In Mindfulness. Jesse's teachings are informed by over 25 years of studying and practicing, including an extensive formal interdisciplinary education in Buddhism and Contemplative Psychology at Naropa University, a mindfulness-based mind-body medical practice since 2006, and numerous retreats with both Western and Eastern teachers. He trained as an MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) teacher through the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, under the direction of Jon Kabat-Zinn, Saki Santorelli, and Florence Meleo-Meyer.

Jesse unites traditional Buddhist psychology and contemporary mindfulness-based approaches in ways that are accessible and relevant to everyone.

Jesse believes that mindfulness engenders wisdom and compassion. He shares mindfulness as a means to help himself and others co-create a safe, healthy, wise, and compassionate world.