General Audience

This topic explores how illness can be a vehicle for spiritual awakening.

This talk (or workshop) will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness practice can be integrated in the process of healing the diseases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits. How we are with and relate to our pain is as important as what we do to treat it. This presentation will delve into these very important questions:

What is healing and how does it happen?

The best of times is now, as you face life’s challenges and experience life’s joys!

Through discussion, sharing, group support and learning the mind-body skills of meditation, relaxation stress reduction and attitudinal healing perspectives, this talk (or interactive class) will help you focus on learning how to live life in the present moment and find joy, peace, happiness and serenity in the midst of life’s inevitable ups and downs.

“Serenity is not freedom from the storm;
it is peace amidst the storm”

A Holistic Approach to Weight Loss

The recidivism rate for most popular weight loss programs is over 90% yet people keep trying the same things again and again, gaining and losing, up and down, like a yoyo. Why do diets not work? What does work?

Are you ready for an approach that really works? Are you ready to lose weight and keep it off?

It is possible to stop the yo-yo dieting and endless cycle of losing and gaining.

Healing and the Mind-Body Connection

Our disease tells a story, not just of our cells, but of our selves. 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. This workshop will focus on the importance of integrating the mind-body connection in health care, healing and treating disease, and how to listen to the meaning, message and opportunity of illness. We will explore how our life history, childhood wounds, traumas and stresses affect our health and how the body bears the burden.