Sylvia Boorstein

Sylvia Boorstein is an American author, psychotherapist, and Buddhist teacher.^[1][2][3]

Boorstein studied with Dipa Ma^[4] and is a co-founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.^[5] She is also a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.

Biography

All four of Boorstein's grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.^[2] She 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 and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook University in 1974.^[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 Pay Attention for Goodness' Sake.^[9]