Having lost my inner space and feeling a need to change my life, I made my way to Plum Village in France http://plumvillage.org/ and spent a month learning to live mindfully from Thich Nhat Hanh and the nuns.  The article I wrote about that experience was published in the Mindfulness Bell:

http://www.mindfulnessbell.org/articles/mb31.pdf

The link is a bit slow but when the cover appears, scroll down to pages 34-35.