Meet the founding team !

Yen is a visionary and intuitive catalyst. Her superpower is sensing what wants to emerge—and turning possibility into action, creating the "1" from "0". In 2015, she founded Stage AI in New York, which was acknowledged by Ken Wilber as "doing pioneering and conscious work in China." She later launched Human 4.0 in China with the founder of Consciousness Hacking and faculty from Stanford’s Human Flourishing Program, as well as The Future Leadership Program at Esalen Institute in 2018—Esalen’s first offering designed for Chinese entrepreneurs. She is also the program curator for seminar series The Emergent - where sicence and technology meet spirituality.

Yen holds a Master’s in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology from CIIS and has studied with renowned spiritual teachers. Her core practices center on non-dual awareness and somatic intelligence.

Through Somatic Intelligence for Creativity, she helps others awaken the body’s wisdom as a source of creative flow. In 2024, Yen launched Spring Practice with Shinzen Young, a leading figure in meditation and contemplative science, and later established Spring Zero to fully align her work with her deepest passion in discovering the source for love and creativity.

Yen’s training includes: Pointing Out the Great Way, Unified Mindfulness, Sensory Awareness, Hakomi Therapy, Conscious Dance Leadership; Harvard Kennedy School (Public Leadership), Strozzi Institute (Somatic Leadership), Presencing Institute (Theory U)

Yen loves poetry and working on books. She translated The Science of Enlightenment (Shinzen Young), Your Brain on Art (Ivy Ross & Susan Magsamen), and wrote the preface for the Chinese edition of Consolations (David Whyte), Acting for Real (Renée Emunah ) and Mind Your Life( Meg Salter) . In addition, Yan has a passion for poetry. She helps people cultivate an innovative mindset by embracing the power of poetry.

Shinzen delivered and launched Spring Practice with Yen in China. He is a world-renowned meditation teacher, a neuroscience research consultant, and an expert at the intersection of mysticism, mathematics, and category theory.

His systematic approach to categorizing, adapting and teaching meditation, known as Unified Mindfulness, has resulted in collaborations with Harvard Medical School, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Vermont in the burgeoning field of contemplative neuroscience, and he is currently co-director of the Science Enhanced Mindful Awareness (SEMA) Lab at the University of Arizona.See more at https://www.shinzen.org/

Shinzen is the author of The Science of Enlightenment. He leads a life with continuous creation and no fixation. He is currently helping Spring Zero build a theoretical foundation for Source.

Bill co-teaches with Yen and leads Spring Zero on strategy and product development. He is an innovation consultant with a focus on AI. He teaches workshops on innovation at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. He is also the Director of Strategy and Implementation at the Center for the Study of Apparent Selves working on applied AI ethics through a Buddhist lens.

Previously he was an engineering executive at Google for nine years. Later he started a second career at Google, establishing the global role of Superintendent of Wellbeing and creating successful programs to explore the intersection of performance and human flourishing for the following five years. See More at https://www.billduane.com/