Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey have been guiding summer retreats at Indralaya over the past 27 years. As early pioneers opening new frontiers of contemplative science, deep resilience, optimal performance, and collective wisdom they have touched hearts and opened minds of people in hundreds of leading organizations and communities around the globe for over five decades. Founders of Wisdom at Work and Bodhi Tree EcoDharma Sanctuary, they have dedicated their lives to personal transformation as a catalyst for profound social change.

The Leveys have been fortunate to study deeply with many of the most respected researchers of extra-ordinary human potential and contemplative science teachers of our times, including: J. Krishnamurti, Thich Nhat Hahn, Kalu Rinpoche, Lama Tharchin, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Angeles Arrien, Joanna Macy, and many others. The Dalai Lama, an advisor on several of their projects, encouraged the Leveys in their work, saying: “You are presently engaged in work that has great prospects for bringing the inner sciences of transformation to a very wide section of people who may not under ordinary circumstances come into contact with these teachings.” IONS, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, has honored Michelle and Joel as “leading teachers of transformation.”

Through their work in the world, they have skillfully introduced wisdom teachings to tens of thousands of leaders in organizations around the globe including: NASA; NOAA; U.S. Surgeon General’s Office; U.S. Army Special Forces; U.S. Navy; Google; British Parliament; National Institutes of Health; National Health Service; Intel; MD Anderson Cancer Center; World Bank; West Point Military Academy; Compassionate Action Network; Compassion Games International; Stanford Research Institute International; Washington Athletic Club; St. Francis Hospice; MIT; Clinton Global Initiative; World Government Summit (Dubai); and the World Business Academy.

The Leveys currently serve as advisors for the development of Gelephu, Bhutan’s new “city of mindfulness,” and have served as faculty at University of Minnesota Medical School, the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), Mahidol University (Thailand), and Antioch University, and as core faculty for the International Center for Organization Design (ICOD). They were chairpersons for the Center for Corporate Culture and Organizational Health at the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM). Honored to participate in the Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group at British Parliament, they served as advisors for the historic Mindful Nation UK report and presented at the Parliamentary hearing on the vital role of mindfulness in the military and emergency blue-light services. Michelle & Joel also serve as Stewards of Collective Wisdom and Contemplative Science for the First Earth Battalion.  The Leveys are authors of numerous books including: Manual for the Awakening Warrior: The Special Forces Secret Mind-Body-Spirit Training Program; Living in Balance: A Mindful Guide for Thriving in a Complex World; and Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness.

Learn more about the Leveys at: http://Wisdomatwork.com/MindfulnessPioneers/

“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”
~ Teilhard de Chardin