Anne Cushman

Anne Cushman is a writer and teacher exploring the intersection between spiritual practice, creative expression, and the down-to-earth details of human life. She teaches embodied dharma at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, where she created and directed the pioneering Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training. A practitioner of both Buddhist meditation and yoga since the early 1980s, she is the author of the novel Enlightenment for Idiots; the spiritual India travel guide From Here to NirvanaMoving Into Meditation, a mindfulness course for yoga practitioners; and a forthcoming memoir about meditation and motherhood. She lives with her family in Fairfax, California.

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