General Audience

Healing can be regarded as an equation. On one side of the equation are the forces that may generate or contribute to an illness. On the other side are the external resources of medical science together with the body's internal healing abilities. Natural medicine has developed various modalities as to how to enhance the ‘healing from within’, be it through nutrition, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, fasting, herbs, touch or homeopathic remedies.

What is happiness? Where does it come from? How is it achieved?

Paul Epstein, author of “Happiness Through Meditation” sheds light on using a mindfulness practice as a path to inner peace and happiness. This concise little book opens the door to this often-elusive state of being with new insights, guided meditations, helpful quotations, and much more.

Through lecture, discussion, sharing, and group support, we will learn the mind-body skills of meditation, relaxation, stress reduction and attitudinal healing perspectives.

The class will focus on learning to live life in the present moment. Finding joy, peace, happiness and serenity in the midst of daily life's inevitable ups and downs.

"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, it is peace amidst the storm."

In this mind-body integrative medicine lecture and experiential workshop 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.

Cancer has become an ever-present part of modern life and few diseases are more feared in our society. Yet, for many people, cancer is a wake-up call to create a new, more conscious life. Increasingly, people from all walks of life are living with or living past cancer. In many cases, people are living a life of even greater meaning and quality than ever before.

Disease tells a story, not just about 'our cells' and a diagnosis but about 'ourselves' and our lives . . . about stress and the mind-body connection. Listening to this story, we are led to the truth of what happened to us and the emotions that lie at the core of our authentic being. Healing happens when we embark on a journey to our true and authentic self. Healing vs. Curing and how to integrate both.
all sickness is home sickness, and all healing is self healing, the journey home to your true self.