Description
Author: John Bruna
Publisher: Central Recovery Press
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781942094180
ISBN10: 1942094183
BISAC Categories:
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Mindfulness & Meditation
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness
- Religion | Buddhism | Theravada
About the Author
John Bruna is a counselor, educator, mindfulness and spiritual teacher. With humble and challenging beginnings, he grew up in a low-income environment, surrounded by drugs, alcohol, and violence. He has been in recovery since 1984. In 1992 he became Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor in California, and in 2000 received a BA in History and Secondary Teaching Credential from California State University, Northridge. In 2005 he was ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition through the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India. After more than six years of monastic life, John has returned to life as a layperson and in 2012 became a Certified Cultivating Emotional Balance Mindfulness Teacher via the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. Currently, John is the director of Way of Compassion Foundation and Co-Founder of the Mindful Life Program.