Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

(May 2011) Shamash Alidina, author of Mindfulness For Dummies, is a professional mindfulness trainer, teacher and lecturer. He trained in mindfulness at the Centre For Mindfulness in Bangor and he has a Masters degree in Education, with a focus on brain and behaviour.Shamash is qualified as a professional coach and he has a certificate in Counselling Skills. Shamash has been teaching meditation for over 10 years in schools and on university courses.SHAMASH ALIDINA audio excerpt: “Mindfulness was life-changing when I learned it. I was very skeptical, a typical scientist. I thought it was mumbo-jumbo. I was quite reluctant to try it. But if you had to define it in one word, I would say ‘awareness.’ It’s about training your awareness in a particular way.”Currently, he works part-time at a London secondary school, where he teaches children how to practise meditation. He spends the remainder of his time running mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) courses in Lond