Jean Vitrano integrates her 25+ years of training in mindfulness practices, meditation, movement, and body therapies to assist individuals in living with greater awareness, ease, and joy. With an emphasis on discovering your own insight, Jean invites curiosity, kindness, and compassion in everyone who seeks to live a mindful life. Understanding that we all discover our inner wisdom, in our own time, she creates safe communities for people to explore, listen, and share. Through meditation and reflective questions and exercises, Jean invites you to pause, sense, and observe your thought and feeling patterns.
Jean studied with the late Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and has been influenced by the teachings of Tara Brach, Sharon Salzberg, Pema Chodron, and the work of Eugene Gendlin (Focusing). Most recently, she has studied mindful communication and Nonviolent Communication with Oren Jay Sofer. Jean holds a BA from NYU and has had careers as a professional contemporary dancer and as a Licensed Massage Therapist. Jean is also a graduate of the Feldenkrais Method Training Program.
Jean lives in New Jersey with her husband and teenage children. She facilitates weekly online and in-person meditation and mindfulness groups and classes at her Mindful Life Studio in Maplewood, NJ.
Events with Jean Vitrano
A Mindful Life RetreatApril 4 - 6, 2025
RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER Are you yearning for a weekend to take the tools you practice in A Mindful Life to a deeper level? Join Jean Vitrano and the A Mindful Life community for an immersive mindfulness retreat, putting to work the tools needed to live with more presence, ease, and joy. With an emphasis on slowing down, this time away will allow for plenty of rest and space to meditate, listen, share, and remember what matters to you within a warm, supportive community of individuals. “I am deeply grateful to Jean for her gentle, wise, rich, vulnerable guidance and…
