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August 19–September 24, 2012 Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Breath~Body~Mind© Training for Stress and Trauma Presenters: Richard P. Brown, MD, associate professor in clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, teaches advanced breath techniques with movement and meditation to help stressed and traumatized people improve energy, sleep quality, stress resilience, and peace of mind. Patricia Gerbarg, MD, assistant professor in psychiatry at New York Medical College, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. She practices Integrative Psychiatry and focuses her research on developing safe, effective treatments for anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Heather Mason, MA, is the founder of Yoga for the Mind, an integrative approach for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and PTSD. A yoga therapist and mindfulness teacher, she spent three years living in Buddhist monasteries in China. For therapists looking to integrate mind-body techniques into their clinical work and yoga teachers working with traumatized populations. Breath~Body~Mind Training is a fusion of ancient and modern mind-body techniques designed to rapidly restore balance to the stress-response system by optimizing brain, heart, and lung function. In this 5-day trauma-sensitive training, participants will learn how to use this practice for self-care and healing others. Didactic sessions will cover neurophysiology, current research, clinical issues, and teaching methods. Experiential training will include movement, breathing, meditation, and practice-teaching under supervision. The unique techniques taught in this workshop serve to calm the body's central fear-processing networks and reduce the physical and psychological symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Developed and researched by medical doctors Richard P. Brown and Patricia Gerbarg, Breath~Body~Mind methods have been used successfully to work with military veterans as well as survivors of mass disasters, including the Southeast Asia tsunami, World Trade Center attacks, earthquake in Haiti, and war in Rwanda. Information and Registration: http://www.kripalu.org/presenter/V0004595/richard_p_brown CE Credits Required Reading: The Healing Power of the Breath by Richard .P Brown & Patricia L. Gerbarg. Will be released in June 2012 by Shabhala Press. Recommended reading:
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