Jeremy David Engels
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Jeremy David Engels

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Jeremy David Engels, PhD, is Liberal Arts Professor of Communication and Ethics at Pennsylvania State University. He is also a longtime teacher of mindfulness, meditation, and yoga, having studied in both India and the United States, and he is certified to teach mindfulness after completing an intensive two-year training program under the direction of Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Since undertaking a pilgrimage to walk in the footsteps of the Buddha in India and Nepal in 2018, he has been a student of Thích Nhất Hạnh. He is dedicated to bringing the practice of mindfulness to democracy, and the practice of democracy to mindfulness. He is an award-winning scholar, and has published numerous books and articles about democracy, community building, deliberation, and peace, including On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World (Parallax, 2026), Living Namaste: A Practical Guide to Mindfulness, Yoga, and Building Community (Living Traditions, 2026), The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhavagad Gita (U Chicago Press, 2021), and The Art of Gratitude (SUNY Press 2018). Affectionately known by his students as the “bed-headed professor” and “the yoga prof,” he is also an award-winning, beloved teacher. His life-changing classes have been described as “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood meets Walt Whitman, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and The Good Place.” He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife, Anna Sunderland Engels, run a community yoga and meditation studio called Yoga Lab. He is an experienced yoga asana teacher (E-RYT500, YACEP) whose teaching integrates a deep understanding of functional movement with mindfulness. Though Yoga Lab, he has been training yoga and meditation teachers for over a decade. Jeremy enjoys spending his free time gardening, writing poetry, practicing yoga, hiking, cooking, and tending to his bonsai trees. Jeremy joyfully joins the Plum Village Beloved Community in practicing mindfulness as “the practice of peace.”
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