Self Healing - The Power of Yoga and Qigong
Amelia Barili
November 21-25, 2008
Retreat at Mount Madonna Center, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Continuing Education Credits available
The practitioners of ancient healing traditions of India and China have known for thousands of years something that recent medical studies are just now confirming in our western culture: that the human body is not simply a biological machine but a vast energetic network. When our life energy is in balance we are healthy. If the balance is broken through stress, fear, grief, etc., our vital energy gets blocked and pain and disease set in. In order to heal ourselves, it is essential for us to let go of stagnant energy and regain our balance. Drawing from the healing wisdom traditions of India and China, Dr. Amelia Barili will teach you:
* to map and trace the main energy channels in your body
* to recognize how different types of emotions affect each organ and healing meditations for each one
* to gather and store energy from nature and increase your vitality
* acupressure style self-massage and release points to keep your energy flowing
* a form of breathing that balances and integrates both sides of the brain
These time-tested techniques are so simple that anyone can practice them. Practitioners experience increased energy and vitality, better sleep, less stress, improved concentration, enhanced performance and better relationships. Recommended for anyone who wants to lead a healthy and deeply satisfying life, as well as for counseling and health-care professionals. Women find this practice very beneficial to alleviate PMS, menopausal symptoms and disorders in the urinary and reproductive system.
* Continuing Education Credit for nurses, MFT/MFCC's, and LCSW's.
* Fulfills the spiritual practice prerequisite for John F. Kennedy University's Graduate School for Holistic Studies.
* An elective for YTT 500.
AMELIA BARILI, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Yoga Therapy and Philosophy in 1972 from Kaivalyadhama Yoga School in India and has taught Yoga internationally every since. 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 brought to our western culture.
Entering the Now
Amelia Barili with Ajahn Amaro
April 6, 2008
Daylong Workshop at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, California
The most recent discoveries of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience tell us something that wisdom traditions have known all along: that at all levels of life, mind and matter are inextricably connected. The question remains of how to access the mind through the body and the body through the mind, to realize our full potential as human beings. Join us in a day long exploration of the ending of suffering through the awareness of the timeless quality of now. We will explore practices of withdrawal of the senses that come from yoga, acupressure points that come from Medical Taoist Qigong, and classical Buddhist ways of entering contemplative states that bringing together attention and intention.
These transformative practices and approach can be particularly applicable to counseling and healthcare professionals and will be integrated with explanations and reflections, serving to help open our hearts, to enter the now and to receive the present.
AJAHN AMARO is a senior monk from Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England. He is the abbot of the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, a new branch of the Thailand Forest Meditation tradition, in Mendocino, where he now resides. He has been an interlocutor of his Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Mind-Life Science Institute dialogues about the intersection of western science and various contemplative traditions, and their associated methodologies, psychologies and philosophies.
(This is the second in a series of dialogues with scientists, contemplatives and artists that Amelia Barili began with the workshop "Emerging Consciousness" with Fritjof Capra at Mount Madonna Center.)
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