Athletic Advisors

Athletic advisory board

Steven Yellin

Steven Yellin, a former Florida High School state singles tennis champion and a key player on the championship team, excelled at tennis throughout his academic career, playing #1 singles at the University of Pennsylvania and earning a spot on the All-Ivy team in 1972. A transformative experience in the “Zone” during a senior year challenge match at Penn inspired him to create the Fluid Motion Factor program, which he has developed over 45 years. This program has been implemented across twelve sports, including seven professional categories, helping athletes enhance their performance through fluid motion techniques.

Steven has shared his expertise at prestigious golf summits such as the Golf Magazine Top 100 Summit and the 2016 NCAA national college coaches convention, in addition to numerous PGA and LPGA sectional meetings. His work has significantly impacted professional golf, with players he coached on the PGA and LPGA Tours winning over $80 million in prize money and six major championships. His program is also part of a certification taken by some of the world’s top instructors. In his groundbreaking book, Simplicity: The Fluid Motion Factor Program, Steven introduces a straightforward and effective approach to golf that helps players consistently access their best swing and achieve the elusive consistent performance zone.

“Steven has discovered something in sports that is going to have a huge impact wherever it is taught” George Brett, Baseball Hall of Fame

Harald Harung

Harald S. Harung, Ph.D., is one of the world’s foremost researchers on higher mind-brain development and its impact on successful performance and self- actualization. He and Dr. Fred Travis from Maharishi International University in USA were the first researchers in the world to find a brain basis of high performance.

Dr. Harung is the author of six books and over 50 journal articles and conference presentations focused on maximizing human and organizational performance. For many years he was teaching Leadership, Ethics, and Peak Performance to classes of up to 500 students at Oslo Metropolitan University.

Dr. Harung collaborates with a wide range of universities, corporations, and institutions in 20 countries around the world and is the recipient of numerous awards and grants.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Manchester in England and has worked as a researcher at Oxford University.

Harald is also a world-class athlete, especially in orienteering, where he won races in England, Wales, Scotland, Norway, and Sweden – including the British Knight of the Night award as orienteering champion and coached the national British orienteering team, and in handball, where he was twice British champion.

He also was the Western Norway tennis champion in junior double and the Bergen (in Norway) champion in 1500 meter track running relay.

His groundbreaking work in the neurophysiology of peak performance is thus based on his direct personal experience.

See our blog post about Harald

The following books by Harald can be ordered through www.harvest.no:

Harung, H. S. & Travis, F. (2016). Excellence through Mind-brain Development: The Secrets of World-class Performers. Routledge, UK.
Harung, H. S. & Travis, F. (2020). World-Class Brain: The Edge that Helps Peak Performers Succeed and How You Can Develop It. (Readable short book).
Harung, H. S. (1999/2021). Invincible leadership: Building peak performance organizations by harnessing the unlimited power of consciousness. Paperback published in 1999 by MIU Press, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. Updated eBook in 2021.

Rubén Sanchez

Rubén is an athlete (former professional soccer player from Barcelona, Spain), founder of StressFreeSports and a world class expert on highest performance acceleration without stress.

Rubén has created a unique consciousness-based sports methodology through which he has been helping athletes, coaches, sports directors, and leaders of different sports and levels including Olympians and world champions worldwide for the past 10 years.

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Luke Jaicks

Luke Jaicks played D1 sports and went on to coach at Scottsdale College, SW Oklahoma State, Missouri Valley College and Brevard College.

Luke broke many records as a coach in the NCAA and USA South. He set new records at Brevard College that hadn’t been broken in 67 years. He is known for being a talented recruiter and recruited and coached the only All American in Brevard College’s sports history: Joc Pledger. He also coached and recruited the only small college player of the year nominees Steffon Canady and Dante Anderson.

Luke’s biggest passion is in player development, working with student athletes on the mental performance part of the game.

He now serves as the MIU Athletic Director.

Listen to Luke being interviewed on the the podcast “So You’re a Former Athlete and…”

Owen Blake

Owen Blake, Ph.D. has his doctorate from Maharishi International University, where he researched the effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique for elite esport athletes. Owen worked as a performance coach at the highest levels of esports and is focused on developing the highest levels of performance in all areas of life through a stress-free approach.

In addition to his esports activities, Owen is an accomplished amateur pickleball player and musician and is on faculty in the Maharishi Vedic Science Department at MIU.

“My work is all about connecting an athlete to their highest purpose in life, developing their fullest potential, and expressing that through athletics.”

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