MindSize Sports  ·  Eight Weeks  ·  Any Sport

The mental side of your sport, trained.

An eight-week mental performance program for adult athletes in any sport. Three trainable skills. One structured method.

By Christian Straka
& Julianna Raye
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The Promise

Three trainable skills, taught the way curricula are taught. Sequence, repetition, structure.

Research-Backed

Built on Unified Mindfulness, with science advisors at the University of Arizona and Carnegie Mellon.

Structured

Eight modules, fixed sequence. The order matters and the work compounds.

Co-Founded

Created by Christian Straka and Julianna Raye, in collaboration with Unified Mindfulness.

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What It Addresses

Performance challenges, made trainable.

Focus.

Pain.

Self-doubt.

Endurance.

Performance anxiety.

Stress.

External distractions.

Aversion to training.

Mental fatigue.

Each of these is trained directly through the program. The framework is the same; the application varies by sport, by athlete, by moment.

The Method

Three skills.
One system.

i.

Concentration

The ability to focus on what you choose at a given time. Trained deliberately. The foundation everything else sits on.

ii.

Clarity

The ability to track and explore what you’re experiencing in real time. Tells you what is actually happening, not what you assume is happening.

iii.

Coolness

The ability to allow sensory experience to come and go without push or pull. Technically: equanimity. The skill that holds the other two when pressure rises.

The Program

Eight weeks. Fixed structure.

Each week introduces a new technique and integrates the prior ones. The sequence is deliberate. The order matters.

i

Foundations

Mindful awareness. Concentration, clarity, and coolness as a working framework. The vocabulary for everything that follows.

ii

See Hear Feel

The foundational technique. Noting and labeling sensory experience as it happens. The basic instrument of the practice.

iii

Restful States

Finding rest in any sense category. Recharging in the moment, conserving energy under load.

iv

See & Hear Good

Mental preparation. Using positive visualization and self-talk as a trained skill, not a hope.

v

Feel Flow

Tracking flow in the body. Detecting motion and change as a path to deeper presence under exertion.

vi

Microhits

Short bursts of practice. Background practice. Bringing the work into every moment of the training day.

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Between, During, Bookend

The BDB framework. How the practice fits inside any sport, depending on its structure of action and rest.

viii

Super FAST

Mapping a day of competition. The Rhythm of Practice that holds the work in place after the program ends.

Scroll slowly to read · The program rewards the kind of attention you are training

The Teachers

Co-founded by Christian Straka and Julianna Raye.

Christian Straka
Co-Founder  /  i.

Christian Straka.

Mental Performance Specialist
USC Faculty

Four decades inside competitive sport, as a player, academy head coach, and professional mental performance coach. Created and teaches the first course on mindfulness and athletic performance at USC. Mindfulness coach to Mike Bryan when Bryan and Jack Sock won the 2018 ATP Finals. Co-authoring a book on mindfulness and tennis with Mike Bryan. Certified Unified Mindfulness Teacher and member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.

More about Christian
Julianna Raye
Co-Founder  /  ii.

Julianna Raye.

Unified Mindfulness CEO
Lead Trainer

CEO, lead curriculum designer, and head trainer at Unified Mindfulness, the system Shinzen Young developed across fifty years of research. More than two decades training individuals and groups in the Unified Mindfulness and Zen traditions. Over twenty thousand hours of formal practice and more than 120 weeks of immersive silent retreat.

More about Julianna
The Lineage

The method has a traceable line, fifty years deep.

Origin · 1970s

Shinzen Young

Developed the Unified Mindfulness system across fifty years of research and teaching, integrating multiple meditation traditions into a precise, learnable framework.

Curriculum · Today

Unified Mindfulness

The institution that maintains and teaches the system. Julianna Raye is CEO, lead curriculum designer, and head trainer.

Application · 2018

MindSize Sports

Co-founded by Christian Straka and Julianna Raye. The eight-week curriculum that translates the system into structured training for athletes.

Research & Advisory

Two research labs. Two universities. One method.

Science Advisor

Jay Sanguinetti, PhD

Science Director, SEMA Lab
University of Arizona

Cognitive neuroscientist studying how mindfulness and contemplative practices change the brain. Brings academic rigor and research-grade measurement to the MindSize curriculum.

Science Advisor

David Creswell, PhD

Director, Health & Human Performance Lab
Carnegie Mellon University

Leading researcher on mindfulness, stress, and performance. His lab’s work on the mechanisms of mindfulness training underpins the science behind the MindSize approach.

Education

Stella Marrie, PhD

Director of Continuing Education, Unified Mindfulness

Education

Don McCormick, PhD

Director of Education, Unified Mindfulness

System Designer

Shinzen Young

Designer of the Unified Mindfulness System

Operating Principle

The body trains the sport. The mind trains the moment.

MindSize Sports

In Practice

Used at the highest levels of sport.

Mike Bryan 18 ATP Doubles Major Titles
2012 USA Olympic Gold Medalist
2018 ATP Finals Champion

“MindSize has everything you need to deal with the pressures of performing and competing at a high level. These teachings have shown me how to effortlessly reach flow states and be fully immersed in every moment.”

“He has opened so many pathways in my mental capabilities to push further on an athletic front. He highlights your strengths to lift and bring balance to the weaker aspects, which brings inner calm.”

Lee Ryan 5x Guinness World Record Holder

“The skills they teach are essential for anyone whose performance depends on managing their mental state. The training has been invaluable to me as a professional musician and as a human being.”

James Valentine Guitarist, Maroon 5

Questions

Common
questions.

Any sport. Concentration, Clarity, and Coolness are not sport-specific. They apply wherever performance depends on a trained mental state. Current participants include tennis players, swimmers, cyclists, martial artists, runners, and team sport athletes.

No. The program begins at the foundations and builds systematically. No prior practice is assumed. Athletes with existing experience will find the framework integrates with what they already know.

Sessions range from 15 to 30 minutes. The program is entirely self-paced with lifetime access. There are no live class requirements and no fixed schedule.

Sports psychology typically works through strategies, reframing, and mental rehearsal — tools for managing your mental state. MindSize trains the underlying attentional capacities themselves. Rather than strategies to apply under pressure, you develop the ability to direct attention precisely, read your experience clearly, and allow difficult sensations without resistance. These transfer across sports and conditions because they are grounded in how attention works, not in sport-specific tactics.

Begin

The mental side is the trainable side.

Eight weeks. Three skills. One method. Enrollment is open and the program runs in your time.

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