Juliet Trail is the Managing Director of the UVA Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC). In this role, she helps to manage the projects and initiatives of the center, which constitute a wide variety of efforts that span the 11 schools of UVA and involve research, learning and practice. She has a particular focus on faculty engagement programs that help to connect faculty and classrooms with contemplative and mindfulness pedagogies, and she teaches the class “Mindfulness & Compassion: Living Fully Personally & Professionally” each spring semester.

Juliet holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the UVA Curry School of Education. She also holds an M.A. in Vocal Performance & Pedagogy from New Mexico State University (2002). She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Music (Piano Performance) from Guilford College (1996). Music is still an active passion of her life and she is lead singer of Charlottesville band Phoenix Noir, and also has a duo band called U.S. with her husband, Jeremy Johnson.

Juliet also designed and taught a course merging principles of art therapy with reflective approaches from traditional Native American Medicine Wheel teachings, called, “Everyday Shamanism: Discovering Expression for Balance and Harmony.” She has taught this class in N.C. and New Mexico. Juliet trained in Rites of Passage work involving Vision Quests following the Lakota Sioux Tradition from 1996-1999 and continues today to walk a path of integration of the arts, sciences, and contemplative traditions.

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