Saturday August 23, 2008 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
The Healing Journey Meets The Spiritual Journey:
How Illness Can Be a Vehicle for Awakening
with Dr. Paul Epstein
This workshop will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness meditation practice can be integrated and applied in the process of healing the diseases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits. (more…)
August 15,16,17 2008
A Weekend of Mind-Body Medicine
Aviana Retreat Center
8125 Jonestown Rd
Harrisburg, PA 17112
http://www.avianabody.com/retreat.htm
A Weekend Course in Mind-Body Healing
This weekend course, offered as one course or as individual sessions, is an experiential training in mind-body skills, providing an understanding of the science and principles of mind-body healing and the art of practical healing techniques. (more…)
How Biography Becomes Biology; The Body Bears the Burden
Friday March 28, 7:30pm
08WHH13P Approved for CEUs
Our diseases tell a story, not just about our cells, but about our selves, our histories. By listening to their story, we are led to emotions that lie at the core of our authentic being. This evening, through lecture, discussion, guided imagery and meditation exercises, we will explore how to listen and discover the meaning of the stories our illnesses tell. (more…)
Saturday, March 15, 2008 – 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Presenter: Dr. Paul Epstein
In this mind-body integrative medicine lecture and experiential workshop, we will explore the deeper meanings, messages and opportunities of pain, stress and illness. (more…)
Insight Meditation Community of Fairfield County offers A Day Long Workshop‘
SATURDAY April 19, 10:00-3:30
“Mindful and Heartful Healing: Touching OurDeepest Truths with Wisdom and Compassion”
with Paul Epstein, ND
Norfield Grange, 12 Good Hill Road, Weston (more…)
Insight Meditation Community of Fairfield County offers a Mindfulness Meditation Beginners’ Course
8 sessions 6:00 to 7:15 pm
Thursdays: Feb. 8 & 22, March 8 & 22, April 5 & 19, May 10 & 17
Norfield Grange 12 Good Hill Road, Weston
Fee: $120 for the 8-session course
$ 20 single session (by special arrangement with the teachers) (more…)
New Elective Course
Title: Essentials of Mind-Body Medicine
Description: Through lecture, discussion, experiential exercises and processes, and case studies students will explore the basic assumption that illness and symptoms may have a message and that understanding and discovering their meaning can be the “key” that opens the door to healing and recovery. The essence of mind-body medicine is to stop, look inside, and listen to the healing from within. In a discussion of the mind/body connection and the role of attitude, beliefs, stresses and emotions and through the therapeutic use of guided imagery , mindfulness meditation and mind-body counseling techniques students will live the question “Where’s the Healing?” Students will explore how to integrate this approach with other naturopathic modalities as supports on the healing journey. How can we guide our patients to be more fully involved and to participate and engage more consciously in their getting well?
Learning Objectives:
Instructor: Dr. Paul Epstein, N.D. Paul is a naturopathic physician, mind-body therapist, meditation teacher, and yoga teacher. He specializes in treating the whole person through integrative mind-body medicine, psychotherapy and counseling, and the clinical and therapeutic application of mindfulness, unconditional presence, and Buddhist perspectives in health and healing. A cofounder and co-director of the Israel Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Paul’s training over the past 30 years includes intensive studies in yoga, Buddhist meditation, stress reduction, clinical guided imagery, Buddhist psychology, and internal family systems therapy, and their application and integration in Naturopathic Medicine and health care for over 20 years. A graduate and clinical resident of NCNM, he specializes in mind-body medicine and treating the whole person in the context of relationship centered care.
He teaches workshops and trainings in mindful healing worldwide and maintains a private practice in Manhattan and Westport, Connecticut.
How Biography Becomes Biology… Healing and the Mind-Body Connection
Our disease may tell a story, not just of our cells, but of ourselves, by taking the risk of listening, we may be led to the emotions, both positive and negative, that lie at the core of our authentic being.
with Paul Epstein, ND
The talk will focus on utilizing integrative medicine in treating the person as a whole. There will be a discussion on how our life histories and life stories affect our health and how healing happens when we embark on a journey home to our true and authentic selves. We will explore how to integrate this perspective in the process of treating disease.
Whether one is led to find and choose this journey by the trauma of childhood wounds or the pain of addiction or physical illness and disease or difficult psychological symptoms, ‘all roads lead to Rome’. All healing is ’self’ healing, and all sickness is home sickness. Illness and pain can be an opportunity for healing and recovery, and as we listen to its meaning and message, the healing journey meets the spiritual path.
In this lecture, discussion and experiential workshop with guided imagery and guided meditations, we will ask and live the questions, ‘What is healing?’ and ‘Where and how does it happen?’. We will look to resolve the issue of how to be with our struggles, pain, stress and disease in a way that is wise, compassionate and healing?
Dr. Paul Epstein is a Naturopathic Physician and Meditation Teacher specializing in treating people with chronic symptoms, stress related disorders and immune system diseases. Utilizing natural therapeutics and mind-body therapies of imagery, meditation and counseling he integrates the mind, attitudes, beliefs, stresses and emotions in the healing process. Paul has practices in Westport CT, and Manhattan.
Dr. Paul EpsteinIn this mind-body integrative medicine lecture and experiential workshop presentation we will explore the deeper meanings, messages and opportunities of pain, stress and illness. We will discuss the mind-body connection and the role of attitudes, beliefs, stresses and emotions in the healing process and how biography becomes biology. Through lecture, discussion, writings, drawings, guided imagery and mindfulness meditation you will learn to listen to your symptoms and inner wisdom and live the question of how to face and be with whatever arises in a way that is wise, compassionate and healing.
