New 2024: Bodymind Healing Tai Chi & Qigong: The Self-Healing Path

 Become initiated into the integrative practice, Bodymind Healing Qigong, that Dr. Michael synthesized over 40 years of training with some of the most respected Tai Chi and Qigong masters. July 12 and 13th. Sunrise Center, Corte Madera, Ca. Click link for more information. Hua Tau’s Monkey Animal Frolic: For Stomach Chi…and Fun

New 2024: Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy: A Training Video for Mental Health Professionals, Qigong Practitioners, & the General Public

This online workshop, Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy, is the culmination of over forty years of my life’s work integrating ancient wisdom traditions, such as Qigong, with Western psychotherapy. I’ve presented this course in a variety of formats: 5 days at Esalen Institute for the public and health professionals, and at many workshop locations including the Wright Institute, The Psychotherapy Institute, …

Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy:Workshop

Alameda County Psychological Association (co-sponsored by the California Psychological Association) presents, an online workshop, Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy. Saturday, June 24th, 10 am-1 pm. (3 CEU’s available and approved by the American Psychological Association). Psychotherapists will expand their repertoires through introducing self-healing methods. Participants will be introduced to an integral approach to bodymind healing in psychotherapy which combines psychotherapy, wisdom …

Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy Training and Case Consultation group

In this ongoing combined Training and Case Consultation group you’ll learn to apply Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy to a wide variety of common issues such as: anxiety, stress reduction, hypertension, insomnia, chronic pain, dysregulation, life transitions, trauma, etc..

Seratonin Theory of Depression Receives a Major Blow

For those of us who have for years questioned the pharmaceutical industry’s promoting to the Serotonin theory of depression please see this article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side-effects/202207/decisive-blow-the-serotonin-hypothesis-depression.

Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy featured on www.holisticpsychologytoday.com/modalities

Information about my Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy article can be found on https://www.holisticpsychologytoday.com/modalities. This is the website for the recently published book,  Holistic Treatment in Mental Health: A Handbook of Practitioners’ Perspectives, Fracasso, C., Krippner, S., & Friedman, H. McFarland & Co.,  2020. On that website link you’ll find information on the integral modality that I developed over the last several …

Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy article

Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy (Mayer, M., pp. 164-181) is included as a chapter in the book by (ED) Fracasso, C., Krippner, S. & Friedman, Holistic Treatment in Mental Health: A Handbook of Practitioners’ Perspectives, McFarland & Co., 2020.

1440 Multiversity Zoom Workshop- Self-healing Practices for Troubled Times: Tai Chi, Qigong & Western Bodymind Healing ~ with Michael Mayer

When: June 20, 2020. Saturday 10am-1pm . A Zoom online event. Price: $45 During troubled times of any “great unravelling” of life, ancient wisdom traditions are a passed down lineage from our spiritual ancestors to help us find a healing pathway. In this one day workshop an integral combination of psycho-mythological story telling, somatic practices (from Qigong and Tai Chi) ...

Energy Psychology: Efficacy, speed mechanisms

Click here for the pre-publication version of Dr David Feinstein’s article accepted for publication in “Explore” journal indexed by PubMed: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830718303513