Mindfulness Center

Dr. Eric López-Maya is a Ph.D. psychologist with training at Harvard, Brown, UMass and UCLA. He is also the Director of the Mexican Institute of Mindfulness. He has been at the forefront of mindfulness for more than the past 20 years, teaching mindfulness to thousands of people and guiding thousands more on how to teach mindfulness to others. Eric has taught mindfulness to teams at GE, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Epson, Lufthansa, EY, Volkswagen, Novartis, Shell Oil, MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Parkinson’s Foundation, the University of Minnesota, and for many more organizations.

As a teacher, Eric is featured on excellent apps like Calm, UCLA mindfulness app, Breethe, and Simple Habit. As a researcher, he has been the lead author on several published studies on the effects of mindfulness on psychological well-being, emphasizing on cultural adaptations of mindfulness-based interventions. 

Early in his career, Dr. Eric was the winner of the Doctoral Thesis Award from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his Ph.D. in psychology, he was appointed as a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA’s Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology.

His substantial work in mindfulness has led to invitations from UnitedHealth Group, Mindful Schools, the Mind & Life Institute, and Good Morning America for his subject matter expertise. Eric’s TEDx talk has also been very well received by audiences for its emphasis on the universal qualities of mindfulness.