Bodymind Healing In Psychotherapy- A 3-hour Online, On-demand, Self-paced Course: This online workshop, Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy, is the culmination of over forty years of my life’s work integrating ancient wisdom traditions, such as Qigong, with Western psychotherapy. I’ve presented this course in a variety of formats: Five days at Esalen Institute, and at many workshop locations including the Wright Institute, The Psychotherapy Institute, and Alliant University. Most recently it was presented in a three hour course for The Alameda County Psychological Association (co-sponsored by the California State Psychological Association). After many of my students strongly encouraged me to introduce more people to this approach, I decided to take that recorded three-hour course, and get it professionally edited and updated to share this pathway with more people— “you?” In this course psychotherapists will learn how to expand their repertoires through introducing self-healing methods that can aid patients’ physical and mental health. Participants will be introduced to an integral approach to bodymind healing in psychotherapy which combines traditional forms of psychotherapy, wisdom traditions, and symbolic process approaches to psychotherapy. In this course, participants will discover how to apply these methods to the treatment of anxiety, chronic pain, hypertension, anxiety, and trauma. Psychotherapists will learn how to integrate qigong into psychotherapy without using a word about qigong, to be palatable to those who want “just psychotherapy.” Goals/Objectives: 1. Identify five cross-cultural traditions from which bodymind healing traditions in psychotherapy are drawn and describe how they can be applied to psychotherapy. 2. Describe three ways that cross cultural traditions can be a useful adjunct to psychotherapeutic methods 3. Name three ethics issues related to the inclusion of Qigong methods in psychotherapy. Health professionals will learn from this workshop: • Learn an integral approach how to reverse sympathetic nervous system reactivity when afraid, or enraged to modulate your reactivity and be responsive. For example, you’ll discover how Tai Chi movements such as “commencement” and Tai Chi ruler” can be a useful adjunct to reverse the fight flight response and restore your central equilibrium. • Case illustrations which how the bodymind healing approach can be applied to a variety of issues such as stress, trauma, hypertension, chronic pain. From these case illustrations you’ll be introduced to how to incorporate these methods into your self-care. • Learn how cross-cultural healing traditions can be a useful adjunct to psychotherapy methods and your own self healing. You’ll discover how to differentiate transcending from transmuting psycho-spiritual traditions and what healing differences occur when using each. • Discover how to apply a variety of meditative practices which may stay with you for a lifetime, for example: A. “The river of life self-hypnosis” method for healing trauma, anxiety, hypertension, etc. B. Standing Meditation Qigong to change your life stance, C. Chi Nei Tsang: a type of belly massage useful for anxiety, and stress D. Acu-points useful for chronic pain, stress, self-soothing, etc. E. Discover how various breathing methods are state-specific, i.e. each has its own uses. You’ll experience how Qigong microcosmic orbit breathing can help to reverse the fight flight response. (After all, it was used in life endangering situations by martial artists to center themselves — so could it be useful for you when you are verbally attacked or dysregulated?) F. Be introduced to the thesis that psychotherapy in its deepest essence is “changing your life stance.” Learn how to anchor the body posture that emerges at a moment of “felt shift” as you’re working on an issue to create more lasting change. You’ll see how knowledge of Qigong/ Tai Chi postures enhances (but is not necessary to) cultivating this awareness. Learn how Standing Meditation Qigong can aid in embodying your chosen life stance. You’ll get a link to the article, “Standing Meditation Qigong: What do you Stand for?” ( Mayer, 2004, NQA Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1). Qigong masters say Standing Meditation Qigong is the most important Qigong method— here you’ll learn how to integrate this practice with invoking meaning and intention, i.e. as a tool to change your life stance through the cross cultural, psycho-mythological shamanic tradition of “shape-shifting.” What are others saying about the Workshop and Accompanying Book, “Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy?” Please click link: https://rb.gy/uih4ab