Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein was born in 1967 in the United States. After graduating from Yale University with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1989, he went to Taiwan where he spent most of the next ten years. In Taiwan, he focused on Chinese-English translation, publishing, software design & marketing, and the study of various Eastern mind-body modalities. It was also during this period that he began research on what was to become The Yoga of Eating.

Returning to the United States in 1998, Charles trained as a Yoga teacher at the Kripalu Institute and taught yoga professionaly for several years. In 2002 he joined the faculty of Penn State University in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society. In 2003 he published his first book, The Yoga of Eating with New Trends Publishing. The book was a finalist for the Nautilus Award in 2004, and is currently on the curriculum of holistic health training institutions nationwide. Translations will be available soon in Russia and France.

After publication of The Yoga of Eating, Charles began to develop a career as a public speaker, first on issues of food & nutrition, and then branching out into more general themes. He is currently leaving Penn State to focus on these seminars. Charles' seminars are of two types: (1) Experiential seminars using food & diet, breath, yoga, or meditation as a window to inner authority and radical self-trust, and (2) Talks on the topics of The Ascent of Humanity: the evolution of human civilization, themes of separation, reunion, and transcendence. He has spoken to audiences of up to 500 people at ecological conferences, nutrition conferences, Zen centers, yoga centers, churches, skeptics' societies, and mind-body conferences.

Charles Eisenstein currently lives in southeastern Pennsylvania. Contact Charles Eisenstein.