Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein

by Sylvia Boorstein

Overview

Get away from doing and into being with this lively, down-to-earth guide to your own meditation retreat by beloved mindfulness meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein. Presenting what Jon Kabat-Zinn has called "endearingly personal mindfulness wisdom," she offers a three-day retreat plan accompanied by timeless lessons — always grounded in real life — on how anyone can achieve calm, clarity and joy through meditation practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060612528
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/16/1996
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	307,536
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Sylvia Boorstein, teaches mindfulness and leads retreats across the United States. She is a co-founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, Massachusetts. Boorstein is also a practicing psychotherapist. Her previous books are It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness and Don't Just Do Something, Sit There. She lives with her husband, Seymour Boorstein, a psychiatrist. They have two sons, two daughters, and five grandchildren.