Éowyn Ahlstrom grew up just a few miles from the farmhouse that has since become home to BCBS. She left the area for college, and looked around the world for about a decade, searching for a way to live. In her journeys, Éowyn first discovered meditation through the yoga tradition. To her happy surprise, though, that way of life she was searching for turned out to be very close to her childhood home, in the IMS and BCBS sangha with the liberating practices of vipassana and metta meditation and the profound wisdom of the early Buddhist teachings. Some of her contributions to the field include the development of MBSR2 at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University; teaching community mindfulness, meditation, and yoga programs at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at the Cambridge Health Alliance, the Insight Meditation Society, the Cambridge Insight Meditation Community and here at the BCBS where last year she lead our staff retreat. Éowyn loves consulting with both individuals and organizations to provide pragmatic guidance and support for integrating contemplative awareness into 21st-century living. She is a poet, the author of Mindscapes: Practice Poems, and in addition to a master’s degree in health and wellness and a liberal arts bachelor's degree, along the way, Éowyn has received qualifications as a massage therapist, yoga teacher (E-RYT 500), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, and Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) teacher. She also works as a mindfulness teacher-trainer for the Brown University School of Professional Studies and very much enjoys mentoring teacher-trainees. For more about her work and practice, please visit her website, Middle Path Healing Arts.
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