About the Authors

Shamash Alidina, MEng MA PGCE, is CEO of Learn Mindfulness International, offering training and teacher training in mindfulness for the general public, as well as for life and executive coaches, yoga teachers, doctors, nurses and other health professionals. His website offers online mindfulness courses and online mindfulness teacher training. He continues to grow his offer of audio CDs, books and more.

Shamash offers mindfulness workshops several times a year around the world and a limited number of one-to-one mindfulness coaching sessions in person in London, or via phone/Skype.

Shamash has trained extensively in mindfulness at Bangor University’s Centre for Mindfulness in the UK, and with Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn and Dr Saki Santorelli in New York. He holds a Masters Degree in Engineering (Imperial College) and a Masters Degree in Education (Open University), with a focus on Brain and Behaviour.

Shamash has appeared on television, radio, and in magazines and newspapers including on the BBC and in the Daily Express. He hosts a mindfulness radio show at www.mindfulnessradio.com, which has had several thousand listeners. He is an international speaker, addressing audiences at places like Cambridge University’s conference on Mindfulness in the Workplace, the Mind and its Potential conference in Sydney, and the Healthy Living Show in Auckland.

Shamash is the author of the international bestsellers Mindfulness For Dummies and Relaxation For Dummies (both Wiley).

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