Skirball Talks: Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author who was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of 29, a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Eckhart shares his time between British Columbia, Canada and California. Eckhart Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and the highly acclaimed follow-up A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time.

Reka Prasad is Assistant Director of MindfulNYU, where she manages and runs mindfulness, meditation and yoga programming for the university. She is a native New Yorker who also works as a psychotherapist in private practice, facilitator and consultant for non-profits, universities, and businesses. Reka received her clinical education at New York University, The Ackerman Institute for the Family and the Justice Institute of British Columbia in family systems, complex trauma, mindfulness and focusing techniques. A long time meditator, Reka is a practicing Buddhist in the Theravada tradition and has studied through the Barre Center for Buddhist Study, New York Insight and Insight Meditation Society. She utilizes mindfulness in all areas of her work and has conducted guided meditations, mindfulness trainings and workshops on self care, racial trauma and spirituality in a variety of settings.