Stephen Bodian

Stephen Bodian is an international meditation teacher, author, and psychotherapist specialized in stress management and positive psychology. He began practicing Zen in 1969 while still in college, was ordained a Zen monk in 1974, and became the director of training in the Zen Center of Los Angeles. Bodian gave up being a monk in 1984 to pursue psychology and then became the editor-in-chief of the Yoga Journal magazine.