Richard Mahler

Richard Mahler
Writer, Editor, Stress Reduction Teacher, and Media Guru


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Richard Mahler is...

  • the New Mexico-based author or co-author of eleven published books on travel, self-transformation, nature, social trends, and cooking. He's completing a book about the New World's biggest cat, entitled The Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat, to be published in early 2009. Also forthcoming later this year is San Francisco Memories, a travel-recipe book from Life Press featuring 17 signature recipes from top San Francisco restaurants. In September, 2007, Fairview Press published a revised edition of his critically-acclaimed book with Connie Goldman, Secrets of Becoming a Late Bloomer: Staying Creative, Aware, and Involved in Midlife and Beyond.

  • an independent journalist who has contributed thousands of articles to hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal, Toronto Globe & Mail, Houston Chronicle, Planeta.com, Alternative Medicine, LA Weekly, Seven Days, In These Times, E/The Environment Magazine, Native Peoples, EcoTraveler, Arizona Highways, New Mexico, Land & People, Outside, Mother Jones, Ms., Southwest Art, Utne, Yoga Journal, and Body & Soul.

  • a teacher-facilitator specializing in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, an 8-week course utilizing secular meditation, body-scan, and yoga techniques, pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn of the Stress Reduction Clinic of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Richard has taught stress reduction at hospitals, prisons, colleges, and health education programs in New Mexico and California. (Richard has had a personal yoga and vipassana meditation practice since 1989.)

  • a media consultant who writes, edits, designs, and strategizes for commercial and nonprofit entities as well as individuals. A specialist in marketing and grantwriting, Richard's clients have included Vallecitos Mountain Refuge, William James Association, Santa Cruz County Literacy Center, Mindful Living Programs, Utne Reader, Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation, Upaya, and Good Radio Shows, Inc. After a career as a disc jockey, Richard was a news, feature, and commentary producer in the Los Angeles area for stations KPFK, KUSC, KCRW, KXLU, and KLON as well as California Public Radio. Richard was a free-lance reporter, commentator, and critic for National Public Radio from 1975-1990. He is a member of the board of directors of Good Radio Shows, Inc., which produces Peace Talks and other public radio programs (www.goodradioshows.org).

  • an editor whose clients have included the Quivira Coalition, Trust for Public Land, Conservation Fund, and Susan Ives Communications as well as John Muir Publivations, Stony Creek Publications, eMindful.com, and Native Peoples magazine.

Communication invited via richard@richardmahler.com or P.O. Box 1055, Silver City, NM 88062

This site was last updated on May 1, 2008.