B. Alan Wallace and Shamatha
Recent studies show that meditation practices have a positive result on stress management and emotional stability. B. Alan Wallace has been working with neuroscientists and psychologists in a long-term-study that measures the effects of intensive meditation on attention, cognitive performance, emotion regulation and health. His studies have helped him to develop training methods that include deep, intensive meditation that fosters attentional vividness and stability as well as compassion, loving-kindness, empathetic joy and equanimity.

Experience the teachings of B. Alan Wallace at the Shambhala Mountain Center, where he will be leading the weeklong retreat, The Way of Shamatha: Soothing the Body, Settling the Mind and Illuminating Awareness. During the retreat you will explore the power of Shamatha which will lead to active engagement in loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity.

About B. Alan Wallace
Wallace has been teaching Buddhism, philosophy and meditation in Asia, Europe, North and South America and Australia since 1976. He has served as interpreter for many Buddhist contemplatives and scholars, including the Dalai Lama, and has written dozens of books and essays. His education and training started in 1971 when he left college to pursue a passion for Tibetan Buddhism. He has since studied at the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives in Dharamsala, India, the Institute of Buddhist Dialects, The Tibet Institute in Switzerland and the Center for Higher Tibetan Studies in Mt. Pelerin, Switzerland. After completing his BA in 1984 as an Independent Scholar in Physics, Philosophy and Sanskrit, he enrolled in the graduate program in religious studies at Stanford University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1995. During these years at Stanford, he continued his studies of the philosophy of science and of the mind. His main research centered on integrating Buddhism with Western science and philosophy with the aim of achieving a more comprehensive understanding of consciousness.

In 1997, he joined the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he taught courses on Tibetan Buddhism, language, and culture, as well as the interface between science and religion. In 2003, Alan established the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, a non-profit institution concerned with synthesizing scientific and contemplative inquiry into the nature and potentials of consciousness.