Description: With "It's Easier Than You Think", beloved teacher Sylvia Boorstein doesn't falsely idealize spirituality--she makes it real, practical, and immensely attractive. Refreshing and witty, this "San Francisco Chronicle" #1 bestseller serves up "endearingly personal grandmotherly mindfulness wisdom in does that slide right into the heart".--Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of "Wherever You Go, There You Are".
Brief description: 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.