Judith Blackstone will introduce us to the Realization Process, a method of mind/body integration and an embodied approach to personal healing and spiritual awakening. By shifting from being aware of our body to living within it, we uncover a fundamental, unified dimension of consciousness that i...

The stage is set for a paradigm shift, do you feel it? Western culture has been dominated by the ideologies of materialism, reductionism, and objectivism rooted in the dangerous world-view of nihilism for three centuries and while we have seen great technological breakthroughs we are also now on ...

This talk will be progressive in nature. We will begin by discussing the natural pulsation of the human organism and how this organic pulsation is interrupted by stressful or traumatic events. I will then explain Neurogenic tremors, which is a natural relaxation mechanism genetically encoded into...

New research in neuroscience postulates that tremoring after a traumatic/stressful life experience might help to reactivate the electrical and chemical discharge of the proprioceptors & motor neurons. This interruption of the Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) might ...

In this talk, we will explore pleasure, desire, and love from an embodied perspective. Our concepts around pleasure may be limited by a cultural context in which body, mind, and spirit have been torn apart by centuries of privileging the rational mind over the felt sense. As our world embraces t...

In this talk, we’ll cover the promise, practice, and pitfalls of conducting psychotherapy with psychedelic medicines such as psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine. (1) We’ll cover the key findings in scientific research in psychedelic science in the last fifteen years. We’ll discuss the broad implicat...

There is no template for the current COVID-19 induced world health and financial crisis. All of us are trying to maintain balance in an environment of unpredictability and threat. As part of our commitment to apply ancient wisdom and current science, mental health professionals within the Contemp...

Depth Hypnosis is a counseling process that combines Buddhism, shamanism, energy medicine, transpersonal psychology and hypnosis to address a wide range of symptoms that are related to trauma and other root causes. Central to Depth Hypnosis is the understanding of the nature of karma, the way tha...

How do you function in relationship? How do you move from fear to fearlessness? How are you with your own process of aging, illness and dying? In this talk, Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Co-Founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, will explore these questions and six ways of refl...

In this rich talk, you will learn the foundations and key principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. You'll learn how to interpret and understand the many subtle (or not so subtle) signs your body is giving out and the ways you can help bring balance back to your body, mind and spirit. Based on ...