Bob Stahl, Ph.D., has founded seven MBSR programs in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently directs three MBSR programs at Dominican Hospital, O'Connor Hospital and El Camino Hospital. Bob serves as a Senior Teacher forOasis--the institute for mindfulness-based professional education and innovation at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is a co-author ofA Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook,Living With Your Heart Wide Open, andCalming the Rush of Panic. Bob formerly lived in a Theravada Buddhist forest monastery for 8.5 years and is now the Guiding teacher atInsight Santa Cruzand visiting teacher at Spirit Rock andInsight Meditation Society.