Soul Centered

Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation presents a secular, mainstream view of meditation and applies it practically as a tool for personal transformation. Each week's lesson in the 8-week program contains a key for navigating the journey of self-awareness, and each week's meditation practice builds on those of the previous weeks, making the process accessible and enjoyable for novices and experts alike.

Inspiring stories from Sarah's own experience and from the students she's taught in her 20-year career as a meditation teacher further enrich the text. Her approach is grounded in leading-edge brain research that shows meditating for 27 minutes a day over 8 weeks can make a huge difference by altering the gray matter in areas of the brain that govern learning, memory, empathy, and stress. Each of the lessons in the 8-week program is designed to provide a structure for creating a successful and sustainable meditation practice. As the readers build their meditation practice, they learn to undo stressful habits that don't serve them, cultivate compassion for themselves and others, and listen to and trust their inner wisdom.

The Soul-Centered journey is one of finding out who you really are; navigating your life based on that peaceful, loving, wise part of yourself; then fully and fearlessly expressing yourself in the world.

About the Author

As the daughter of a former British spy and a jet-setting Italian, you'd think that Sarah MacLean would have a unbelievable life story—haggling in the bazaars of Morocco, shopping on the Champs-Élysées, scaling ancient Mayan temples. Sadly, she doesn't. Her adventurous parents settled down in Rhode Island long before Sarah was born, leaving her little choice but to turn to books to find her own adventure.

By high school, Sarah was thoroughly obsessed with historical romance and bemoaning the fact that she was born nearly two centuries too late for her own season. Through a stroke of good luck, she found herself at Smith College, where she discovered a group of friends who shared her love of historical fiction. They traded romances, talked Austen and lusted over Colin Firth.

After college, Sarah moved to New York City, where she took a job in publishing, bouncing through several jobs and a graduate degree at Harvard University before finally setting pen to paper and writing her first novel.

Sarah writes young adult and adult romance from her apartment in Brooklyn, NY, where she lives with her husband, their dog, and a ridiculously large collection of romance novels. She loves to hear from readers.