Your Simple Guide to Mindfulness

Guest Bio: Anna Black

Anna Black began practicing mindfulness as a way of managing her own general and work-related stress, and was one of the first teachers to offer secular mindfulness classes in central London.

Her professional background in publishing means she knows firsthand the pressures of the corporate world and the importance of managing that stress. Anna feels very strongly about making mindfulness accessible to people before they reach crisis point, which is why she is delighted to make the 8-week "Stress Reduction Through Mindfulness" course available to the general public outside the NHS.

Anna has been teaching since 2006 and has had extensive training in the teaching of mindfulness. She has a Masters in Mindfulness-based Approaches to Health (Bangor) and has completed various teacher trainings including the Advanced Teacher Development Intensive run by teachers from the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice and the Center for Mindfulness at UMass, USA. She gives professional supervision to other mindfulness teachers.

As well as teaching to the general public Anna has taught mindfulness in local government, the NHS, organizations, schools and into the creative industries in various formats including "well-being days," "taster sessions" and short courses, as well as the traditional 8-week course.

Anna is also an Associate Teacher with Mindfulness Works and mbsr.co.uk.