About
Our story, from the courts to the zafu
Ethan Saal founded bmindful to helps athletes find balance in their daily lives and tap into their highest potential.
As a collegiate tennis player, Ethan helped Brandeis University rise from outside the top 30, to a school record-setting #8 in the country.
During his first year there, he discovered how meditation benefited his performance on and off the court. Soon after, he hoped to find a way to share those benefits with others.
During his junior year he started B.mindful, a club at Brandeis where he offered students, teachers, and people from the local community guided meditations and mindfulness-based discussions. That same year, he also delivered a Tedx Talk named “The Silent Epidemic” aimed at increasing awareness of the stigma surrounding mental health.
Ethan learned a great amount about sports psychology while conducting research for mental-training coach Rob Polishook, and incorporates this knowledge along with Buddhist philosophy into his sessions. He received his mindfulness meditation teacher certification at Tibet House US in NYC under the instruction of Senior Buddhist teacher, David Nichtern.
His background as a meditation teacher is rooted in the teachings of the Kagyu & Nyingma lineages from Tibetan Buddhism. The type of meditation he teaches is called Shamatha, which translates to “calm-abiding” in Sanskrit.