Tobin BlakeTobin Blake received his formal training in meditation and Kriya Yoga through Self-Realization Fellowship, an international organization with more than five hundred meditation centers in over fifty countries that was founded by the great Paramahansa ogananda. He has studied many forms of meditation and has been practicing for more than twenty years. Tobin is also a longtime student of A Course in Miracles, a profound system of spiritual mind training that has had an impact on many thousands of people worldwide. Tobin's short stories, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in a number of publications, including Surfer magazine, and several anthologies. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he resides in Bend, Oregon, a varied land of rivers, temperate rain forests, and frosted mountain peaks just off the eastern shoulder of the Cascade Mountains. He has two daughters. Read More Read Less