Given Julianna’s background as a creative professional, she’s in a unique position to offer you techniques and strategies relevant to your creative expression and work as a performer. The practice of meditation offers a surprising range of benefits:

• Relaxation techniques can soothe pre-show and pre-audition jitters
• Research supported techniques to aid with stress reduction and sleep which helps performers look and feel younger, increases energy and helps maintain overall health.
• Increases your confidence by helping you cultivate and maintain your sense of self worth independent of conditions.
• Optimizes your down time on set, in the green room, or in any “waiting” environment.
• Helps you find a healthy balance in your mind, giving you a solid foundation from which to soar creatively and positively affecting the balance in all aspects of your life.
• Makes your emotions more fully accessible and less problematic
• Removes impediments to complete self expression by:

a. helping you focus away from and quiet the inner critic
b. enabling you to develop a deeper connection to the audience and/or fellow performers.
c. allowing you to lose yourself more fully in the process of performing.
d. helping you let go of psychological attachments or resistance that interfere with performing.
e. teaching you to anchor your awareness in the present moment.

“People respond to ‘good energy.’ People also imagine good energy is generated by positivity. In fact, good energy is generated by authenticity: the ability to act and react naturally and genuinely in any given moment. Performers intuitively know this. When you perform honestly you speak to the universal and become a mirror to the true self. You offer a way to connect with your humanity and essence through the vehicle of emotional experience, sound, physicality, language and visual storytelling. This requires an open instrument, unimpeded by self-judgement or preoccupations. As a performer, your instrument is your whole self. Whether playing a musical instrument or a character, the best players immerse themselves completely in the process. However well you may do this, there is always a new opportunity to go deeper, keeping the process exciting and alive. Mindfulness is a set of attentional skills which can be cultivated and strengthened. These skills enable you to have greater focus, awareness and self acceptance, to better serve your purpose as an artist and as a human being.” – Julianna Raye

As a personal mindfulness trainer Julianna helps you find creative and compelling ways to integrate mindfulness meditation into your preparation, your performance and your daily life. Each of us has different interests and needs at any given time. Julianna offers you tools and options to keep you engaged in the process, making it personally meaningful and relevant for you, so you see results which will last a lifetime, ever deepening as your practice develops.

“As a peformer, learning mindfulness has been invaluable. Julianna is a great teacher of the most state of the art meditative techniques. Julianna’s experience as a performer makes her uniquely qualified to teach me how to apply these techniques on stage” James Valentine, Lead Guitarist – Rock Band, Maroon 5