Still Life

“Brimming with personality, expert guidance, kindness, and revelatory AHAs on every page, Still Life feels like an intimate and illuminating conversation with a wise friend. This is an important book and will be transformational for everyone who reads it. And everyone should read it.” — Lisa Genova, PhD, author of Still Alice and Remember“Rebecca Pacheco’s writing is miraculous: simultaneously accessible and devourable but also beautiful and richly complex as the ideas she’s demystifying.  In Still Life, she has given readers a uniquely practical blueprint for incorporating mindfulness into their lives, while always acknowledging that doing so is not a panacea, nor is it easy. But her compassionate and often warmly funny prose makes her readers feel supported and welcomed, no matter where they are in their journeys.” — Emily Gould, author of Perfect Tunes”In a world heavy with inauthenticity, where meditation, yoga, and mindfulness have become competitive sports, Rebecca Pacheco’s Still Life is air and water. A born teacher, Pacheco not only gets it, but she shares it, with tough wisdom, clarity, compassion for human foibles, and a wide-open heart. Still Life is a brilliantly-written instant classic, rich in metta — benevolence — and a book that I will turn to again and again for its insight not only into meditation and mindfulness, but the modern human heart in search of peace.“   — Elissa Altman, author of Motherland and contributor to Lion’s Roar“If you’re yearning to move from the frenetic busy-ness and overwhelm of life to greater calm, ease and joy, Still Life is an incredibly accessible and practical resource with applications for both the beginner and those who wish to deepen and expand their experience of creating a life they love.” — Elisha Goldstein, PhD, founder of the Mindful Living Collective“Reading Still Life is akin to sitting down for coffee–or wine–with your warmest, wisest, kindest friend. This timely, necessary book reads less like a primer on meditation and more like a graceful, hilarious memoir of a life supported by the practice. It reminded me, more than anything, of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things.” — Joanna Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age and the international bestseller My Salinger YearMindfulness is a beautiful but often misunderstood practice, and Rebecca Pacheco strips away all the myths that have made it daunting, with a fresh, entertaining perspective that makes learning fun. With wit and wisdom, she presents options for leading a more balanced life without over promising or over simplifying the profound teachings that make that possible.  — Priscilla Warner, New York Times bestselling author of The Faith Club and Learning to Breathe“With intelligence, directness, and humor, Still Life points to meditation as an accessible yet profound path to transformation. Rather than giving us a self-help hack, Pacheco presents the practice as a means to living fully, including what is brilliant, messy, knowable, and beyond knowing.”  — Susan Piver, author of Start Here Now and The Four Noble Truths of Love  “Pacheco compassionately details the path for even the most busy-minded of us to connect to peace through meditation. It is not unlike sitting down to tea with a gentle friend; this book serves as a guide toward the calm and innate goodness that we all deserve and, indeed, as she points out, we can experience right now.” — Lodro Rinzler, author of The Buddha Walks into a Bar and Take Back Your Mind 

Rebecca Pacheco is an acclaimed yoga teacher, writer, speaker, and creator of the popular yoga blog OmGal. She has been practicing yoga for nearly two decades and began teaching while studying English Literature at the University of Richmond. Previously a master teacher at the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute, Rebecca now offers her signature Om Athlete and creative Vinyasa yoga classes. A longtime runner and Boston Marathon finisher, she is also the resident yoga expert for Runner’s World magazine.

In addition to teaching internationally, Rebecca has had the honor of leading the first-ever yoga class on the field at Fenway Park. She lives in Boston with her fiancé, Dan Fitzgerald.