Teaching and Facilitating
Richard Mahler has taught college classes, workshops, community seminars, and private courses
since 1976, when he oversaw radio journalism courses while earning a
Journalism and Mass Communications master's degree at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1975-78). He has delivered a variety of writing and
public relations lectures and courses at Loyola Marymount
University (Los Angeles), Long Beach City College, Santa Fe Community College, the University of Southern California, University of New Mexico, St. John's College (Santa Fe),
and other institutions. Richard is happy to speak at conferences or to classes that deal with mind-body medicine, journalism, or writing, particularly those relating to travel, self-transformation, and nature writing. He has written extensively about mindfulness for various print and on-line publications, including eMindful.com
Richard has practiced yoga (primarily Iyengar) intensively since 1997 and meditation (primarily Vipassana) since 1989. In 2000, he received seven days of residential professional training
at New York's Omega Institute as a facilitator in Mindfuless-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine from MBSR
originator Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and executive director Saki Santorelli of the University of Massachusetts
Medical School's Stress Reduction Clinic. Richard has facilitated MBSR
in hospitals, community centers, prisons, and privately, using techniques that draw on the ancient traditions
of insight meditation and hatha yoga (as depicted in the 1994 PBS documentary hosted by
Bill Moyers, Healing and the Mind). Northern California facilities where Richard has taught stress reduction include Santa Cruz's Dominican Hospital and Kaiser Permanente's hospitals in San Francisco and San Rafael as well as the Los Gatos Community Center and the William James Association's training programs for artists and writers teaching in prisons. He has also organized and co-led retreats that focus on breath-centered Vipassana (Insight) meditation. Richard works on a free-lance basis and welcomes invitations to facilitate and counsel others in relation to MBSR, stress reduction, pain management, or meditation.
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