Paul Sugar is the founder and director of the Scottsdale Institute for Health and Medicine Center for Mindfulness. He completed the advanced Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher training in 1994 at the Center for Mindfulness pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and is a Certified MBSR instructor through the Mindfulness Based Professional Training Institute at the University of California San Diego. In addition, he is a Mentor for the MBSR certification candidates there.
Paul is also a mentor for MBSR certification at The Center for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto, Canada. He has taught over 100 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programs and has delivered hundreds of mindfulness based workshops and retreats for over 25 years. Paul also teaches mindfulness based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors (MBRP). He has taught mindfulness in the health care, business, schools, sports, and private sectors. Paul has been practicing and teaching meditation, yoga, and tai chi for over 45 years.