The Mellow Bio

Billy Rosenbeck is the Creator of the Mellow Elephant Meditation and an International Mindfulness Teachers Association Certified Professional-Level Teacher. 

After unwittingly finding his way to meditation in 2016, he received the Boston Buddha’s “Meditation for Everyone” Teacher Training during the winter of 2019. That summer, Billy received Wilbraham & Monsoon Academy’s Global Educators Grant, through which he traveled to Nepal to complete a silent, ten-day Vipassana Course at the Dhamma Shringa Vipassana Center north of Kathmandu. Upon his return, Billy created “Meditations in Literature,” a hybrid course combining the development of a daily meditation practice with traditional English Literature coursework, which ran at WMA from 2019 to 2024. Billy now leads this course as an adjunct professor at Western New England University. 

In 2020, Billy brought meditation outside the walls of the classroom, as he began teaching meditation, mindfulness, and restorative yoga at Sweat Power Yoga in East Longmeadow, MA, where he currently serves as the studio’s Meditation Director. In 2022, he began leading meditation and mindfulness classes at Hampshire County Jail and House of Corrections, where he spearheaded an eight-week Wellness Curriculum, serving the facility’s incarcerated populations through a variety of mindfulness practices.

In 2023, Billy began leading athlete yoga at Western New England University, and in 2024, he led meditation and mental skills training for the University’s Baseball, Wrestling, and Field Hockey Programs. Billy has also curated the “Warrior’s Code,” a law enforcement-specific program that offers meditation and mindfulness to frontline workers. This program has been attended by officers from Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden County Sheriff's Departments, as well as Easthampton Police.
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Other beneficiaries of Billy’s work include the State of Connecticut's Department of Children and Families, Baystate Palliative Pediatric Care, Suffield Academy, and East Longmeadow Public Schools. Most recently, Billy has been selected as a guest speaker for student-athlete development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 2025-26 School Year. 

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Professional Certifications.

• Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Professional Level (CMT-P), as recognized by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association 
• ​Graduate of the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach
• Graduate of the 100-Hour Boston Buddha “Meditation for Everyone” Teacher Training Program 
• 200-Hour Certified Yoga Instructor, as recognized by the Yoga Alliance (Spring ‘23)​
• Member of the MMTCP Alumin Association

Highlights.

• Lead Meditation Teacher for Mindfulness Classes with incarcerated populations at at the Hampshire County Jail and House of Corrections in Northampton, MA (June ‘22 - Present)
• "Mindful Athletes" Programming for Western New England University Baseball for the 2023-24 School Year
• Professional Development Programming for East Longmeadow Public Schools for the 2023-24 School Year
• ​Monthly Mindfulness Workshops for Officers and Dispatchers at Easthampton Police Department (July '23 - Present)
• "Yoga for Athletes" Instructor at Western New England University (2021-22 and 2023-24 School Years)
• Creator and Facilitator of Sweat Power Yoga's 120-Hour Mindful Communities Teacher Training Program, certifying meditation guides in Mantra, Mindfulness, and Metta practices 
• Creator of “Meditations in Literature" at Wilbraham & Monson Academy, a Senior/Post-Graduate English elective combining daily meditation practice with reading, writing, and analysis
• Professional Development Programming at Suffield Academy for College Counseling and Leadership Departments
• ​Completed a 10-Day Silent Vipassana Retreat in Kathmandu, Nepal (June ‘19)
• ​Completed a 5-Day Silent Vipassana Retreat in Hendersonville, NC (June ‘21)
• ​Completed a 5-Day Silent Retreat in Garrison, NY (September '23)
• Recipient of the Hubbard Travel Grant and Global Educators Travel Grant, completing extensive travel, research, and curriculum development through Ireland, England, Spain, Italy, and Nepal
• ​Guest Teacher and Assisting Team Member for Sweat Power Yoga's 200-Hour Self Discovery Yoga Teacher Training
• Creator and Lead Teacher of Restore & Release, a 60-minute yoga flow combining deep stretching, meditation, and restorative poses at Sweat Power Yoga
• Scholarship Attendee to the Wesleyan Writers Conference

Full resume available upon request.