Sara Hirtenstein

 

Sara Hirtenstein worked as an Occupational Therapist and now facilitates Mindfulness courses in the Scottish Borders. She has trained extensively in Mindfulness, completing a 3-year Mindfulness, Compassion and Insight course with the Mindfulness Association, along with their teaching skills programme. Sara attended a teacher training retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn (the pioneer of 'modern' mindfulness) and is currently involved in on-going teacher training with Bangor University Centre for Mindfulness Practice and Research. She has worked and studied at the Beshara School over a 40-year period, where she has facilitated courses in self knowledge. Contemplative study, meditation and mindfulness practice is essential to her life, and she has attended many courses, workshops and retreats.