Take A "Mindful Breather"/ Carlat Psychiatry Podcast

A podcast you can share. Dr. Greg Sazima walks us through a stress reduction technique that combines mindfulness with abdominal breathing. Dr. Sazima is the author of the book, Practical Mindfulness: A Physician’s No-Nonsense Guide to Meditation.

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Greg Sazima MD

Greg Sazima, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, educator and author, based in Northern California. In addition to a busy psychotherapy practice, he serves as Senior Behavioral Faculty at the Stanford/O'Connor Family Medicine Residency program in San Jose. Practical Mindfulness is his first Mango book, a no-nonsense guide to introductory meditation. He has been a practitioner and teacher of mindfulness meditation for many years, creating curricula for both adults and children. Dr. Sazima has written on mental health issues for newspapers and periodicals, including the Sacramento Bee and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His serves on the Boards of Directors of Capital Public Radio, Northern California's NPR network, and Snowline Hospice, a non-profit palliative care provider in the Sacramento/Sierra Foothills region.


Podcast: Practically Mindful Moments

The Practically Mindful Moment podcasts are brief bits of featured information on concepts and tactics from Dr. Sazima’s book, Practical Mindfulness: A Physician’s No-Nonsense Guide to Meditation for Beginners (Turner Publishing).

Each PMM clocks in at a user-friendly ten minutes or so; just a brief tuning in, learning opportunity, and brief guided exercise in mindfulness.  (And a quick, shameless plug for the book.) Access the podcast series here, and here, or wherever you find your podcasts.

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Greg Sazima MD

Greg Sazima, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, educator and author, based in Northern California. In addition to a busy psychotherapy practice, he serves as Senior Behavioral Faculty at the Stanford/O'Connor Family Medicine Residency program in San Jose. Practical Mindfulness is his first Mango book, a no-nonsense guide to introductory meditation. He has been a practitioner and teacher of mindfulness meditation for many years, creating curricula for both adults and children. Dr. Sazima has written on mental health issues for newspapers and periodicals, including the Sacramento Bee and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His serves on the Boards of Directors of Capital Public Radio, Northern California's NPR network, and Snowline Hospice, a non-profit palliative care provider in the Sacramento/Sierra Foothills region.


Your Mindfulness Toolkit: Blog at Psychology Today

Bringing practical meditation tactics to medical care, psychotherapy, teaching, and individual practices. Click here.

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Greg Sazima MD

Greg Sazima, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, educator and author, based in Northern California. In addition to a busy psychotherapy practice, he serves as Senior Behavioral Faculty at the Stanford/O'Connor Family Medicine Residency program in San Jose. Practical Mindfulness is his first Mango book, a no-nonsense guide to introductory meditation. He has been a practitioner and teacher of mindfulness meditation for many years, creating curricula for both adults and children. Dr. Sazima has written on mental health issues for newspapers and periodicals, including the Sacramento Bee and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His serves on the Boards of Directors of Capital Public Radio, Northern California's NPR network, and Snowline Hospice, a non-profit palliative care provider in the Sacramento/Sierra Foothills region.