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The School for Awakening 2009

An Eight-Month

Program of Teachings,

Intensives, and

Individual Guidance

Now Accepting Inquiries
and Registrations

for Spring 2009

Stephan has practiced and taught nondual approaches to truth for more than 35 years. After a series of deepening realizations, he received Dharma transmission (authorization to teach) from his Zen teacher, Adyashanti. His life is now devoted to igniting and fostering the flame of truth in others through his counseling, mentoring, teaching, and writing.

In addition to regular satsangs and intensives, Stephan offers silent retreats and an eight-month School for Awakening that begins again in June 2008. A licensed psychotherapist as well as a spiritual teacher, he has evolved a vibrant, intimate approach to counseling and mentoring that blends psychological insight and spiritual realization. His new book, Wake Up Now: A Guide to the Journey of Spiritual Awakening, was published this year by McGraw-Hill. (To order, click on the book cover to the left.)

Stephan began practicing Zen in 1970 after studying Asian language and culture at Columbia and Stanford. Ordained a Zen priest in 1974, he trained with several Zen masters, including Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) and Taizan Maezumi Roshi, and directed the training program at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He also practiced Dzogchen-Mahamudra with several Tibetan teachers and spent 10 years studying Advaita Vedanta with Jean Klein.

Stephan is the former editor-in-chief of the magazine Yoga Journal and a contributing editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and he has written extensively on spiritual themes. His articles have appeared in numerous national magazines, including Fitness, Alternative Medicine, Cooking Light, Tricycle, and, of course, Yoga Journal.

He's the author of the popular guidebook Meditation for Dummies, which has sold over 125,000 copies and is now in its second edition with instructional CD. The book is available in English, Dutch, German, Italian, and French editions. His other books include Living Yoga (with Georg Feuerstein); Timeless Visions, Healing Voices; and Buddhism for Dummies (with Jonathan Landaw). Stephan also contributed the chapter "Deconstructing the Self: The Uses of Inquiry in Nondual Psychotherapy" for the anthology The Sacred Mirror (Paragon, 2003).

You can contact him at stephanbodian@hotmail.com, or 415-451-7133.

Mailing address:

300B Country Lane

Dripping Springs , TX 78620