Bob Stahl PhD

Bob Stahl, PhD., is the co-author of "A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook" 2nd. edition, "Living With Your Heart Wide Open", "Calming The Rush Of Panic", "A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety", MBSR Everyday", and A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Card Deck . Bob founded Awareness and Relaxation Training in 1991, as an educational organization based in Santa Cruz, CA. and has founded eight mindfulness-based stress reduction programs in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently directs MBSR programs at Dominican Hospital and El Camino Hospital in Mt. View and Los Gatos. Dr. Stahl is a certified MBSR teacher who also serves as an Senior Teacher for Brown University Mindfulness Center and formally at Oasis - the institute for mindfulness-based professional education and innovation of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Bob conducts numerous mindfulness meditation retreats and workshops for health care professionals, corporations, and educational institutions and has extensive experience working with individuals facing physical disabilities, chronic pain, life-threatening illnesses, and stress-related conditions. A long-time meditator, Bob lived in a Buddhist monastery over eight years and is now the Guiding teacher at Insight Santa Cruz as well as a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center and Insight Meditation Society. Bob has also produced 13 mindfulness subject specific audio downloads/CDs such as working with chronic pain, anxiety, back pain, neck and shoulder pain, asthma, migraines, heart disease, high blood pressure, forgiveness/loving kindness, and insomnia to offer people everywhere the tools they may need to meet life's challenges, even in the midst of pain, stress, and illness. Each audio download/CD contains important education/information on how to live and work with stress, pain, or illness and also includes 2-guided meditations. You can see them at: https://www.mindfulnessprograms.com/mindfulness-audio-video-books/mindful-healing-audio-downloads. or http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A163856011%2Ck%3ABob+Stahl%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A625150011