Readings

1. Intro Material

   • To Be Alive

   • Homework Assignments

   • Begin It

   • Course Instructions

2. Week 1: Tasting Your Life

   • Love After Love

   • Fear of Transformation

   • Wild Geese

   • The Station

   • Upstream/Downstream: A Contemporary Fable

3. Week 2: Seeing and Believing

   • Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

   • A Native Wisdom

   • The Seven Attitudes of Mindfulness Practice

   • Four Quartets

   • Two Kinds of Intelligence

4. Week 3: Scent of Your Roses

   • Mindful Yoga

   • The Wind, One Brilliant Morning

5. Week 4: When Life Hurts

   • Breaking out of Stress Reactivity

   • Mindfulness and Work: Suggestions for Reducing Workplace Stress

   • Letters to a Young Poet