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We are Upstate NY With Nina Smiley Director of Mindfulness at Mohonk Mountain House
February 20, 2026

We are Upstate NY With Nina Smiley Director of Mindfulness at Mohonk Mountain House by Inside+Out

For Nina Smiley, the journey to becoming the Director of Mindfulness at Mohonk Mountain House was anything but linear. Though her path wound through a Ph.D. at Princeton University and a career in marketing and psychology in Washington, D.C., a single jogging session in the park changed everything. Faced with the opportunity to return to the Hudson Valley and lead the Smiley family’s legendary 150-year-old resort, Nina and her late husband, Bert, realized their diverse skills in finance and mindfulness were the perfect ingredients for stewarding the historic estate into a new era of wellness.

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