DEAN SLUYTER

NATURAL MEDITATION: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
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DEAN SLUYTER (pronounced slighter ) has spent a lifetime learning authentic methods of natural meditation from Eastern and Western sages and sharing them with thousands of students, including prisoners, tech innovators, filmmakers, high school students, and entrepreneurs. He has completed numerous retreats and pilgrimages in Tibet, India, Nepal, and Europe, and for decades has led workshops throughout the United States.

For over 40 years, Dean has been a grateful student of eminent teachers in several traditions, including Advaita Vedanta, Vajra-yana Buddhism, and Bhakti Yoga. He has completed numerous pilgrimages and lengthy retreats in the U.S., Europe, India, Tibet, and Nepal. Dean is known for conveying authentic teachings in a form that is practical, accessible, and label-free. When off duty, he is a singer-musician (kirtan, blues, jug band) and happily rides his Vespa through the streets of Santa Monica.
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Dean's book launch at Diesel Book Store, Brentwood, CA.
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There's no trying in meditation. If you can breathe, you can meditate! Just as water naturally runs downhill and leaves float naturally to the ground, we are all naturally able to settle into meditation. Meditation doesn't require trying; rather, meditation comes out of just allowing―not doing, just being.

Whether you're a complete novice or you've "tried it before," veteran meditation teacher Dean Sluyter's NATURAL MEDITATION  is a relaxed, down-to-earth approach that will help you test-drive a variety of meditative techniques, such as breath, sound, the senses, the sky, and the simple sense of "I," and discover which ones fit you best. You ll discover that the key to meditation is effortlessness, and find all the practical tips you need for adapting these methods to your own life, as you live it, even for a few minutes a day. And as your life opens to deep happiness, clarity, peace, and creative energy, you ll be inspired to keep on practicing naturally.​

Visit Dean's website: www.deansluyter.com
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​In Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and addiction, award-winning, bestselling author Dean Sluyter  draws on both ancient enlightenment teachings and contemporary research to educate the reader in how to use simple meditative techniques and subtle tweaks of body, mind, and voice to open one’s life to deep, relaxed confidence. Thus do we work better, live happier, dance freer.

This is what Katie MacBride, journalist and author of the Ask Katie recovery advice column, says about this book:

“As a recovering alcoholic and not-so-recovered depressed person, I’ve long been aware that mindfulness would be helpful to my life, but it’s just so intimidating.

Not so with Sluyter, who pairs concrete suggestions with a no-pressure attitude that makes this book feel like it’s written by a really smart friend. He also shows how to incorporate the techniques into other programs of recovery—a rare but crucially important component. You’ll want to revisit his wisdom again and again.”