Zeenat Potia

Zeenat Potia has taught mindfulness at organizations in the Boston area since 2014, and teaches at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, and for Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare's Mind the Moment program. Her practice stems from an aspiration to create a more inclusive and sustainable world for all who live in it. Zeenat has over 15 years of combined meditation and yoga training, including extensive silent retreat practice at the Insight Meditation Society, advanced trauma-sensitive mindfulness certification through David Treleavan, and training through Mindful Schools. In her mindfulness work with organizations, Zeenat brings to bear a business career of over 20 years, which focused on strategic communications in the higher education, non-profit, and publishing sectors at Harvard Business School, Oxfam America, and the Times of India. Zeenat served on the Board of Directors at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center from 2012-2019. She is an immigrant to the United States, and a working mother of two young daughters.