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Bob Linscott

Bob Linscott

B.S., MTS
MBSR Teacher

[email protected]

Education

B.S., Emerson College, 1988
Master of Theological Studies, MTS, Harvard Divinity School, 1997

Focus and Interests

  • Diversity and Inclusion in the teaching of mindfulness

  • 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.

  • 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
    Chair Yoga (Recording: Éowyn Ahlstrom)

  • 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.)

  • Finally, save the file to your computer.

Additional Supports MP3 Downloading

For help transferring MP3 files from your computer to your iPod/IPhone/iPad, using iTunes, consult the Apple website.

For help transferring MP3 files from your computer to your Android phone using Google Play, consult the Google website.