Meet Amanda Gilbert! Amanda is a modern day meditation teacher, writer and speaker. She has been a meditator for over 15 years and teaches from coast to coast in the US, including in Los Angeles, New York City, San Diego, Miami and San Francisco, as well as online. She is a professor of mindfulness at the University of Southern California and the author of Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention and Compassion.
Before dedicating herself to teaching full-time, Amanda was Center Director for The Aging Metabolism and Emotions Center at the University of California San Francisco, conducting clinical scientific research investigating the biological and psychological effects of mindfulness and meditation. Currently she collaborates on contemplative research, writing and publishing scientific outcomes on meditation and is on the steering committee at The USC Center for Mindfulness Science.
Amanda is a Trained Mindfulness Facilitator with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and InsightLA , and a Certified Meditation Instructor with The Chopra Center for Wellbeing. She is a Qualified Mindful Eating Mindfulness-based Eating Awareness Instructor and trained in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction. She has been a student of many master teachers in both the Vedic and Buddhist lineages and has been initiated to teach by her mentors for her authentic ability to transmit the teachings of meditation. She has led meditation for top companies and startups like NBC, Paramount Pictures, The W Hotels, Merrill Lynch, Macy’s and YouTube, and you can find her on notable mobile platforms such as the FitOn app.
Credentials
Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, Mindful Awareness Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, InsightLA Meditation, Los Angeles
Trained in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Qualified Mindfulness-based Eating Instructor, Dr. Jean Kristeller, Center for Mindful Eating
Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor, The Chopra Center for Wellbeing
Professor of Mindfulness, University of Southern California
Corporate Meditation
Current & Past Teacher With Corporate Clients
Podcasts & Articles
"Life is full and complicated at times. Life is also filled with sweet moments that touch our hearts and souls deeply. When we embark on the path of living a mindful life and a life supported by our meditation practice we are in essence, signing up to live each of life’s moments, both the hard and the heart-filled, with more awareness, more balance, more openness and peace."
Meet Amanda Gilbert
It is my mission to help people live a life full of wellbeing by making meditation and mindfulness a part of their day-to-day life
Meet Amanda Gilbert. Amanda is a modern day meditation teacher, writer and speaker. She has been a meditator for over 15 years and teaches from coast to coast in the US, including in Los Angeles, New York City, San Diego, Miami and San Francisco, as well as online. She is a recent professor of mindfulness at the University of Southern California and the author of Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention and Compassion.
Before dedicating herself to teaching full-time, Amanda was Center Director for The Aging Metabolism and Emotions Center at the University of California San Francisco, conducting clinical scientific research investigating the biological and psychological effects of mindfulness and meditation. Currently she collaborates on contemplative research, writing and publishing scientific outcomes on meditation and is on the steering committee at The USC Center for Mindfulness Science.
Amanda is a Trained Mindfulness Facilitator with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center , InsightLA and a Certified Meditation Instructor with The Chopra Center for Wellbeing. She is a Qualified Mindful Eating Mindfulness-based Eating Awareness Instructor and trained in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction. She has been a student of many master teachers in both the Vedic and Buddhist lineages and has been initiated to teach by her mentors for her authentic ability to transmit the teachings of meditation. She has led meditation for top companies and startups like NBC, Paramount Pictures, The W Hotels, Merrill Lynch, Macy’s and YouTube, and you can find her on notable mobile platforms such as the FitOn app.
Corporate Meditation
Current & Past Teacher With Corporate Clients
"Life is full and complicated at times. Life is also filled with sweet moments that touch our hearts and souls deeply. When we embark on the path of living a mindful life and a life supported by our meditation practice we are in essence, signing up to live each of life’s moments, both the hard and the heart-filled, with more awareness, more balance, more openness and peace."