MBSR Teacher

Evelyn Lewis Prieto (Eve) is a certified Mindfulness & Meditation teacher and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor. She is passionate about teaching the benefits of these time-honored practices to help people care for their mental health.

Eve’s journey into meditation began more than a decade ago as a result of her own mental health crisis having suffered from crippling anxiety that impacted every area of her life. Initially skeptical about how meditation could help, she attended an in-person class, keeping an open mind after some encouragement from a friend. For the first time in years, she saw that there was a path to taming and understanding her anxious mind.

Eve has been with Headspace since 2013 and trained alongside Headspace co-founder and former Buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe, all the time deepening her practice and knowledge of meditation. As her passion and commitment to the practice grew, she trained with Dharma Moon Teacher Training, led by Senior Dharma Teacher David Nichtern and as a MBSR teacher through UC San Diego Centre for Mindfulness under the guidance and mentorship of Beth Mulligan.

Eve is passionate about helping guide folks through stress reduction, anxiety management, cultivating resilience, improving sleep, and deepening self-compassion. With a teaching style that draws heavily on the human experience and all the challenges that life can present, she brings reassuring, heart-centered guidance to all her students.

Originally from the UK (Scotland, to be specific), Eve now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and sausage dog Pedro, loves to cook, DJs as a hobby, savors spending time with friends and family, and tries to explore as much of California as possible.

MBSR Teacher

Beth Mulligan is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher, International teacher trainer, retreat leader and mentor. She trained through the UMASS Center for Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn in 2003 and has been teaching MBSR and training teachers for the last twenty years.

Her background is in primary care medicine as a Physician Assistant, graduating with honors from Duke University. She discovered the benefits of Zen meditation and yoga in her early twenties and went on to become a teacher in both disciplines. When she discovered the work of Dr. Kabat-Zinn, and the vast body of research showing the healing benefits of MBSR she began offering it at a number of hospitals and University Medical Centers.

Beth has been a lead teacher on a number of studies on mindfulness including NIH funded research in the area of Autism and families effected by developmental delays. She is co-author on academic papers, and her book; The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness, is required reading at many Mindfulness training centers around the world.

Her special interests are in bringing these life changing practices to underserved communities and populations, increasing diversity in the mindfulness field, and offering it to create a more aware, inclusive and just society.