Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a unique teacher. His blend of authentic Buddhist practice with a cutting-edge scientific understanding of mental health combines in a potent recipe of transformation and clarity. His work benefits hundreds of thousands of people across the globe.

Mingyur Rinpoche had personal experience of anxiety and panic attacks, which he suffered from throughout his childhood and teenage years. Meditation helped him transform these experiences into a lasting understanding of contentment and joy. 

Born in Nepal in 1975, Mingyur Rinpoche began studying meditation as a young boy with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a well-respected Buddhist teacher. 

As a child, he became interested in contemporary science through conversations with scientists visiting his father. As he grew older, he began to collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, including Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz at the University of Wisconsin, on research projects that study the effects of meditation on the brain and the mind.