Christian Straka

Los Angeles, CA, USA

596 Followers

Christian Straka is a mindfulness-based mental performance specialist with 40 years inside competitive tennis — as a player, academy head coach, and professional mental performance coach. He specializes in integrating structured mindfulness training directly into how tennis players practice, compete, and recover. His coaching has been present at defining moments in the sport. He worked with Victoria Azarenka through her junior Australian Open singles and doubles titles and junior French Open doubles title. He was Mike Bryan’s mindfulness coach when Bryan won the 2018 ATP Finals alongside Jack Sock. He is co-founder of MindSize Sports alongside Julianna Raye, developed in collaboration with Unified Mindfulness. He currently lectures on mindfulness and athletic performance at USC and is co-authoring a book on mindfulness and tennis with Mike Bryan. He is a certified Unified Mindfulness Teacher and member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. His guided sessions focus on the core attention skills that transfer directly to tennis and competitive sport — external focus, sensory precision, and present-moment awareness under pressure.

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Reviews

Rebecca Angel

Jan 15, 2024

Thank you

Andrew C Eldredge

Aug 6, 2021

Calm, clear and grounded instructions that allowed me to focus, open and be mindful of my surrounding sounds. I feel good after session. Thank you!

Alfredo

Jul 28, 2019

I just finished meditating today and it was absolutely amazing meditation, I wanna thank you so much for this amazing experience. Cheers from Toronto Canada Alfredo. 🕉 🧘🏼‍♂️ 🙏

Anuar Enrique Mata Rivas

Jul 1, 2019

Buena sesión para reconocer las diferentes sensaciones dentro de las diferentes situaciones que puedes detectar.

Shawn Pelletier

Jun 22, 2019

I like 3rd person external seeing. Thank you. Peace, love n Cheer!

Nancy

Apr 19, 2019

Surprisingly challenging. Very interesting. I will repeat this.

Kim

Apr 18, 2019

It is a great starting place, and I was, able to use it for settling in to sounds, after which, when Christian's portion was done, I was able to sit for 5 or more minutes on my own.

Julia Eckhardt

Apr 17, 2019

I really enjoyed this technique!

Ashley

Apr 15, 2019

This was a great practice for paying attention. Thank you! I will come back to this one.

Rebecca

Mar 3, 2019

I love this. I have long enjoyed the thought of how external light and our inner light interact. I use a practice called "contemplative photography" (and started a group by the same name a couple days ago here on IT - I invite any/all to check it out), and this practice uses external images to permit introspection as to how we present our inner light to the world through our photos and the external light we capture. In order to mindfully capture that light though, we must first SEE that light. Your practice here really helped me to focus on my external vision but not get so bogged down in observing it that I lose my inner still Ness. That has happened often to me as I have taken photographs. I hadn't really figured out how to maintain my equanimiy until I did your practice here. Clearly, I have much to learn and practice. Thank you for opening this door to me and showing me a way to enhance my practice. Bookmarked and downloaded. I thank you for sharing this with me and the world. I see the light in you. 🤲❤️🤲

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