Jeremy David Engels is a Liberal Arts Endowed Professor of Communication and a long-time meditation, mindfulness, and yoga scholar-teacher-practitioner. His research draws on the wisdom of mindfulness and other spiritual practices to reimagine how we teach the basic habits of democratic citizenship. He is the author of five books, including The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and the forthcoming book Namaste: The Mindfulness Path to Connection with Ourselves, Each Other, and the World (Inner Traditions, 2026). Follow him on Bluesky @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social, and subscribe to my free substack blog “Yoga Prof” at https://yogaprof.substack.com.
