David Harp

David Harp, MA, credits his 20 months of private sessions with Jack Kornfield, and his longtime pro bono hospice work, for helping him to develop and deepen his own mindfulness practice since 1985. He has taught more than 100,000 people to meditate and a million more to play harmonica through his workshops and books, which include the best-sellers The Three Minute Meditator and Three Minutes to Harmonica, as well as Mindfulness to Go and Play Rock Harmonica Today! David teaches mindfulness to business, nonprofit, and environmental groups, with clients ranging from Ben & Jerry’s to the FBI, and holds the record for “Largest Group Taught Harmonica at Once” (2,569). 

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David Harp - Harmonica-Based Mindfulness

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