Sylvia Boorstein

Sylvia Boorstein is an American^[1] author, psychotherapist,^[2] and Buddhist teacher.^[3]Boorstein studied with Dipa Ma^[4] and is a co-founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California^[5] and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.

All four of Boorstein's grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.^[2] Boorstein grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Barnard College.^[2] After moving to California in 1961, Boorstein earned a master's degree in social work from the University of California Berkeley in 1967.^[2]

She has written numerous books such as It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness,^[6] That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist,^[7] Don't Just Do Something, Sit There^[8] and How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers with Toni Bernhard.^[9]

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