Sasha Dingle
Founder & Director of Mountain Mind Project
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Qualified Teacher, University of California San Diego School of Medicine Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute
Trained mPEAK Coach, University of California San Diego School of Medicine Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Montana State University
Mentorship (Susan Woods, Ferris Buck Urbanowski) and annual retreat attendance
Personal yoga practice spans more than 20 years; personal meditation practice spans more than 10 years
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Fellow, Summer Research Institute, Mind & Life Institute, 2021
Fellow, The Fulbright Program, U.S. Department of State, 2011
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Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence Training Programs (Video Course)
U.S. Embassy, Hanoi (Leadership Communication)
MIT (Emotional Intelligence for Teams)
Montana State University (Leadership Summit Keynote Speaker)
St. John’s Health (Employee Wellness, Mindfulness for Type 1 Diabetes, K-12 student mindfulness-based SEL, Cognitive Health, Cancer Survivorship Program)
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (Mindful Ski Camp, Women’s Camp, Mountain Sports School employee training)
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Wild Card spot to Freeskiing World Tour Champion, 2013
Freeride World Tour competitor, 2014
Enduro World Series competitor, 2019
“Nexus” All Female Skier Feature Film, 2022
Pretty Faces Stomping Grounds Contest Winning Edit: Jackson Hole, 2014
NorAm Alpine Ski Racer, National Development System Invited Athlete, 2005
Sasha is a skier turned meditation teacher, and the founder and director of Mountain Mind Project. She has spent her lifetime training her mind and body. Sasha has competed at the highest level of skiing and mountain biking, winning the Freeskiing World Tour and competing on the Freeride World Tour and Enduro World Series. Growing up in Vermont with a strong sense of place in the natural world, Sasha began mountain biking, alpine ski racing, and following her dad to yoga class in elementary school. In high school, she was invited to travel with the National Development System and race internationally in the recruitment pipeline for the U.S. Ski Team. She’s always loved the mental game.
Her meditation practice grew out of her time as a competitive athlete. Sasha saw – in herself and those she loved – how accidents, trauma and life’s load can compound over a career. During years of illness and chronic pain, Sasha deepened her meditation practice, logging hours on retreat and becoming a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher by the UCSD School of Medicine MBPTI. Sasha’s style of meditation is to engage fully within the inherent risk of life, refined from her time spent in the inherent risk environment of mountains.
Sasha is the meditation teacher in Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence video courses, a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellow to Vietnam and a Mind & Life Summer Research Institute Fellow. She has designed and facilitated meditation programs for organizations as varied as MIT, St. John's Health Oncology and Diabetes, and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. With kids and teens, she has worked with next generation leaders in school districts, summer programs abroad, youth empowerment programs, and inpatient psychiatric care.
Sasha is the daughter and granddaughter of Vietnam war refugees and keeps one foot planted in the Mountain West of the U.S. and the other in the Mekong of Vietnam.
Her work stands on the shoulders of giants. She acknowledges with deep gratitude the guidance of her mentors: Susan Woods and Ferris Buck Urbanowski and the teachings provided by so many Olympic athletes of meditation.
Photo Credit: Shannon Corsi, Seth Beckton, Jay Goodrich, Chris Figenshau & Wade Mckoy
