About Dr. Rossy

Lynn Rossy, Ph.D., has been teaching and researching mindfulness-based interventions targeting stress, pain, cancer, depression, and eating since 1999. She has trained extensively at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare, and Society in Worcester, MA. She received her doctorate and was trained as a health psychologist at the University of Missouri. She founded the Mindfulness Practice Center on the University of Missouri campus in 2002—an innovative program that offers mindfulness classes, workshops, and presentations to students, faculty and staff.

She is a member of the teacher’s collective at a center for insight meditation in Columbia, MO. In 2008 she completed a 2-1/2 year meditation training program through Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. She is a certified yoga instructor through Kripalu Yoga Center and often teaches yoga at Alley Cat Yoga Center in Columbia, MO.

Lynn has a passion for her work that is motivated by her desire for people to discover more fulfilling, meaningful, and joyful lives. She incorporates and combines a variety of Western and Eastern philosophies and teachings in her work.

The Blog
Tasting Mindfulness:  Mindful Eating, Mindful Movement, Mindful Living was created to be a support for people hoping to have a different relationship with their food, their bodies, their minds, and ultimately their lives. It grew out of a ten week program entitled “Eat for Life” that was developed by Dr. Lynn Rossy and Hannah Bush, M.A. and is offered to faculty and staff at the University of Missouri. The philosophy is holistic and comprehensive–incorporating mindfulness, the intuitive wisdom of the body and mind, and educational components that support our efforts to be more healthy and conscious about our actions and behaviors. Enjoy!

Healthy for Life
Healthy for Life, the T. E. Atkins Wellness Program, serves the employees and retirees of the University of Missouri System and their families, as well as the community. Its mission is to support the university’s teaching, research, service and economic development missions by aligning university health care resources to foster a vibrant, healthy climate in which university faculty, staff, retirees and students thrive and flourish. For more information go to the Healthy for Life website.