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

    By Sylvia Boorstein

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 9, 2011
    ISBN9780062111920
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    Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein
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    Sylvia Boorstein

    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.

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      This is a self-guided meditation retreat that takes place over an evening / full day / morning. Turn phone ringers off, set devices to airplane mode and you can develop wisdom at home.