Rick Heller

Rick Heller is a journalist and meditation instructor who has translated religious meditation practices into secular techniques anyone can use.

Heller is author of Secular Meditation: 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy, a guide from the Humanist Community at Harvard, where he teaches weekly meditation classes.

With a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT, Heller has reported for the Lowell Sunand other New England newspapers and has been published in Buddhadharma, UUWorld, Tikkun, Free Inquiry, Faith Street, The Humanist, and Boston magazines.