World traveler from her early youth, Amelia Barili studied healing traditions in Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America. She has always been interested in the subtle connections between body and spirit and in the role of dreams as portals for intuition, a passion that has taken her to many interwoven paths. In 1972, she graduated from Kaivalyadhama Yoga School in India, with a Diploma on Yoga Therapy and Philosophy and has taught Yoga internationally for many years. She is also a disciple of Grandmaster Yang Mei Jun, the 27th generation inheritor of the Taoist Medical Qigong system developed in the sacred Kunlun Mountains in China and only recently introduced to the West.
While keeping her practice and her teaching of Yoga and Qigong, Dr. Barili developed a career as cultural journalist and professor. She worked at the BBC in London, producing and presenting "A World of Books". In Argentina, she directed the literary section of the prestigious newspaper "La Prensa" and presented a TV program in which she interviewed artists and writers. In 1984 she was distinguished with the International Book Fair award for her dialogues with Italo Calvino, Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Jorge Amado and Jorge Luis Borges. Her last conversation with Borges, whom while he was living, she counted among her friends, was published in the New York Times.
Amelia Barili teaches Latin American Literature and autobiographical writing at the University of California, Berkeley. With Fritjof Capra she created "Globalization and the New Global Civil Society", including in the course a strong component of "service learning". This methodology empowers students by showing them how they can make a difference by engaging in volunteer work in their communities while mastering an academic subject, and by contrasting theory and experience in their learning process. Fritjof Capra and Amelia Barili have also designed and taught together "Deep Ecology in Arts and Science", where they presented what has been discovered in science, in the last twenty years, about consciousness and how it was anticipated and manifested by such artists as Pablo Neruda (another of Barili's passions) and Andy Goldsworthy.
At Esalen she has presented much loved workshops such as "Sensuality and Tenderness: Reading Neruda", "Beyond Tales of Love and Solitude: The Magical Reality of Gabriel García Márquez", "The Dreamer in the Labyrinth: Jorge Luis Borges" and "Lessons on Spiritual Alchemy from Paulo Coelho", bringing to them both the ancient healing and spiritual practices that she embodies and her multifaceted experience as world traveler, cultural journalist, professor and spiritual seeker and teacher. Participants often comment that her presence and her teaching approach is "very beautiful and inspiring".
She leads workshops on healing, writing and literature internationally.
Please note that during 2008 Dr. Barili is taking time out to write a book on self-healing. She will hold one workshop at Omega in the East Coast and one at Mount Madonna in California.
Up coming events include:
* Entering the Now. Experiencing Self-Healing and Creativity. August 22-24, 2008, at Omega , Rhinebeck, New York. Continuing education credits available.
* The Power of Yoga and Qigong for Self-Healing. November 21-23, 21-25, 2008 at Mount Madonna, Santa Cruz Mountains. Continuing education credits available.
Recent Workshops:
* Entering the Now (Amelia Barili with Ajahn Amaro). April 6, 2008 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, California
* Fritjof Capra and Amelia Barili The Emerging Consciousness December 1-3 (Mount Madonna Center)
* Self Healing: The Power of Yoga and Qigong
September 15-16, 2007 CIIS, San Francisco
September 21-23, 2007 Omega , Rhinebeck, New York
October 26-28, 26-31, 26-Nov 2, 2007 Mount Madonna Center , Santa Cruz Mountains