Stephen Fulder
Israel’s leading Spiritual Teachers, and Founder of the Israel Insight Society Tovana
- Expertise : Spiritual teacher
- Languages : english
- Website : https://www.stephenfulder.com/
STEPHEN FULDER is one of Israel’s leading spiritual teachers, and founder of the Israel Insight Society Tovana. He has been teaching Buddhist teachings and meditation practice to thousands of people over the last 20 years. Stephen draws on 40 years of deep personal experience of Vipassana/ Mindfulness meditation and dharma practice as well as the immeasurable wisdom of the Buddhist tradition, to help us to rediscover the magic of the moment, and the great heart and big mind that lies just under the surface.
Stephen Fulder also established Tovana the Israel Insight Society which is a teaching organization for the practice of attention in everyday life through insight meditation Vipassana. Tovana is also inspired by Buddhist tradition, philosophy, and practice as a way of life. It is linked to a looser network of Western centers and teachers, such as the Insight Meditation Society in the United States and Gaia House in Britain. And, holds many residential retreats throughout the year as well as lectures, meetings, and weekly group practices across the country.
Fulder completed his studies at the University of Oxford and the National Institute of Medical Research, where he was also awarded his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. He worked as a lecturer at London University. He is known as the founder and senior teacher of Tovana, a leading Buddhist practice organization in Israel, teaching Mindfulness, Vipassana, and dharma. He has been practicing meditation since 1975. He was also involved for many years in peace work in the Middle East and was a founder of the Middle Way organization. He used to work in numerous fields of herbs and alternative medicine about which he has written several books.
Books
- Ageing and Somatic Mutations in Human Fibroblasts, PhD Thesis, CNAA, London (1975).
- About Ginseng, Thorsons, Harper Collins, London (1976).
- The Ginseng Book, Avery Press, New York.
- The Book of Ginseng, and other Chinese Herbs for Vitality, Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont.
- An End to Ageing?, Thorsons, Harper Collins, London, and Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont.
- The Handbook of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Garlic, Nature’s Original Remedy (with John Blackwood), Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont.
- The Garlic Book. Avery Press, New York.
- How To Survive Medical Treatment, Third edition, C.W. Daniel, Saffron Walden, Essex.
- Towards a New Science of Health (with R. Lafaille, co-editor), Routledge, London.
- The Ginger Book: Souvenir Press, London. and Avery Press, New York.
- Potentiating Health and the Crisis of Immunity, (with A. Mizrachi, N. Sheinman, co-editors), Plenum, New York.
- FAQs: All About Garlic Avery Press, New York.
- FAQs: All About Ginseng, Avery Press, New York .
- User’s Guide to Garlic, Basic Health Publications, Bergen, New Jersey
- What’s Beyond Mindfulness: Waking Up to This Precious Life Watkins
