Workshop Leader  

Cheryl Kurash, Ph.D., is trained as a clinical psychologist and has been a student and practitioner of meditation for over 25 years.  She developed and directs a mindfulness meditation training program at the University Counseling Center at Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, and conducts workshops privately in the community.  She received her doctorate from City University of New York, completed Postdoctoral Fellowship Training at Yale University Medical School, and has held faculty appointments at SUNY and Hofstra Universities.

Dr. Kurash is the originator of Swimming Meditation.  While swimming, she began to apply meditation principles and practices and immediately experienced the enhanced benefits to both her swimming and her meditation practice.  Following several years of systematic self study, experimentation, teaching and writing, she is ready to share the SwM practice with others.  She is currently writing a book on the practice.