Bob Stahl, PhD, founded and directs mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programs at Dominican Hospital, O'Connor Hospital, and El Camino Hospital. Stahl serves as a Senior Teacher for Oasis Institute for Mindfulness-Based Professional Education and Training at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Stahl is a coauthor of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Living With Your Heart Wide Open, and Calming the Rush of Panic. He is the guiding teacher at Insight Santa Cruz and visiting teacher at Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society. Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, is director of Oasis Institute for Mindfulness-Based Professional Training and Education at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Florence is a leading international teacher who has helped develop and offer professional trainings for MBSR teachers for over eighteen years. In addition to teaching in the MBSR program, she has offered mindfulness programs to educators, physicians, psychologists, and young adults. Lynn Koerbel, MPH, is a senior teacher on staff at the Center for Mindfulness at University of Massachusetts Medical School in both the Stress Reduction Program and Oasis Institute for Mindfulness-Based Professional Education and Training. She has been meditating since 1986 and has been teaching mindfulness-based stress reduction classes since 2005. Before coming to MBSR, Lynn worked in the field of integrative bodywork for almost thirty years, with a focus on healing from trauma and the integration of the body in healing. She is a cofounder of Present Moment Mindfulness in Western Massachusetts, a community-based organization offering MBSR classes as well as mindfulness-based applications in the fields of education, business, and health.