Kay Stewart, M.Ed.

Kay Stewart, M.Ed., serves as Director of Mindfulness Education for the Shallowford Center for Mindful Living in Atlanta. She began teaching classes and retreats at Shallowford in 2013 after completing graduate studies in mindfulness and contemplative education.  

For more than 26 years, Kay served on the faculty in the Department of Health and Physical Education at Emory University. Her passion for cultivating health and well-being in individuals and communities began in 1979 after losing of both parents to chronic disease early in their life. 

She is passionate about living and teaching from the inside/out, and over the last decade she’s led programs and retreats for Emory Continuing Education, Middlebury College in Vermont, and various churches in Atlanta and beyond.   She’s also led mindfulness classes for research studies at Emory for both veterans with PTSD and patients with chronic kidney disease.   

Through her teaching and retreat leadership, Kay considers it an extraordinary privilege to travel alongside others to cultivate a way of being in the world that is large enough to hold mind, body, heart, and spirit in an integrated and resilient wholeness.