Education
B.S., Emerson College, 1988
Master of Theological Studies, MTS, Harvard Divinity School, 1997
Focus and Interests
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Diversity and Inclusion in the teaching of mindfulness
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Bringing mindfulness to underserved populations
Bio
Bob Linscott is an MBSR instructor in the Stress Reduction Clinic at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Memorial Health Care. Bob has dedicated most of his career towards issues of diversity and inclusion working with underserved populations. He spent several years living with the Dine’ (Navajo) on the reservation in Arizona and travels regularly to Nepal to assist with The Nepal Orphans Home, the orphanage his brother founded in 2005. Bob is the Assistant Director of The LGBT Aging Project at The Fenway Institute, a Program of Fenway Health.
Bob has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 20 years. Bob co-founded a meditation group in Jamaica Plain which is now in its tenth year. Currently, through a grant with The Tufts Health Plan Foundation, he has been offering MBSR for LGBT elders since 2013. Bob holds a master’s degree in comparative religion from Harvard Divinity School.
Body Scan
36 Minutes
Lying Down Yoga
45 Minutes
Standing Yoga
21 Minutes
Guided Meditation, Choiceless Awareness
39 Minutes
Chair Yoga (Éowyn Ahlstrom)
38 Minutes
Save Recordings to Your Computer
Although the recordings above are available to you to play on your mobile device, there may be very rare circumstances when your location may not be within a mobile service area. If you know that may be happening during your mindfulness course, you can follow the directions below to save the audio recordings to your computer for later listening and practice.
Please do not download the MP3s directly to your phone because it often doesn’t work. For successful MP3 transfers, download to a desktop or laptop first and from there to a mobile device.
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First, right-click (“control”-click for Mac users) directly on the link below for the recording you wish to save:
Body Scan
Lying Down Yoga
Standing Yoga
Guided Meditation, Choiceless Awareness
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Next, choose Save As (or similarly worded text) from the pop-up menu. (With the Safari web browser the file may be identified as a video. In that case choose Download Video.)
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Finally, save the file to your computer.