Bodymind Healing Workshop: Spirituality and Psychology Conference 2012 Menlo Park, Ca. Transpersonal Psychology Conference Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy: Towards an Integral Transpersonal Psychology Click here for Downloadable Video $29.95. Dr. Michael Mayer discusses his background and experience in transpersonal and somatic psychotherapy, and how specifically he has integrated Qigong and psychotherapy in his work with patients. His East-West approach called Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy is an integral, transpersonal approach, which combines traditional forms of psychotherapy, Eugene Gendlin’s “focusing” technique, ancient sacred wisdom traditions such as Qigong, and symbolic process approaches to healing. In this presentation participants will discover how to apply these methods to anxiety, chronic pain, hypertension, anxiety, and trauma. Case illustrations, Qigong practices, and research will be presented.
Energy Psychology:Self Healing Practices for Bodymind Health -1 hour Click here for Downloadable Audio $14.95. An interview of Dr Michael Mayer by Dr Len Saputo on Pioneers in Health Care Radio, about Dr Michael’s book Energy Psychology: Self Healing Practices for Bodymind Health (North Atlantic/Random House, 2009). You’ll hear about research in energy psychology, and how it can be helpful with severe trauma and other psychological and physical diseases. Unlike the quick-fix books on energy restoration, this approach uses timetested, age-old practices from sacred traditions (such as Qigong) in combination with well-established clinical approaches.
Meridian University Telesummit: The Mystery of Embodiment -36 minutes Click here for Downloadable Audio $14.95. In this Tele-Summit, 30 pioneers and teachers in the filed of Somatic Studies are interviewed. Following is the interview with Dr. Michael “Integrating Psychotherapy and Qigong: A Pathway to Psychospiritual Embodiment.” A 30 minute conversation, interviewed by Edmund Knighton, Neuropsychologist.
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Qigong: Ancient Pathway to Modern Health, Audio 1 hour keynote of the National Qigong Association Conference (2004). Click here for Downloadable Audio of NQA presentation $14.95. Learn about the hypothesis of Dr Mayer’s new book, Secrets to Living Younger Longer: The Self-healing Path of Qigong, Standing Meditation and Tai Chi (2004) that Tai Chi and Qigong stem from a long lost lineage which derives from shamanic origins, and includes: self-healing, spiritual unfoldment, self-defense and changing the practitioner’s life stance. The hypothesis is put forth that the roots of this lineage are part of cross-cultural traditions not only in China, but also in Native America, India, and Greece. The hypothesis is presented that this tradition has shared roots with many of the world’s major indigenous religions and with Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Taoism. In this presentation you’ll learn how this new “Energy Psychology” can give relief to: Hypertension, chronic pain, insomnia, anxiety, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc.
River Of Life, Guided Visualization Process – 25:45 minutes Click here for Downloadable Audio$14.95. Dr. Mayer derived the River of Life method from microcosmic orbit breathing, aTaoist breathing method first brought to the West by Richard Wilhelm . The River of Life method (Mayer, 1982, 1996, 2007, 2009a) adds a guided visualization of water to microcosmic orbit breathing. In this CD (which is now available as a easy download only) that originally focused on helping people to deal with cancer and chronic diseases, anyone can learn how to activate a transcendent state to help facilitate relief of stress, mind-body energy blockages, and blocked life issues. This method is a core process of Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy. To learn more about its full applications, you can read case illustrations about it’s use for insomnia, hypertension, chronic pain, trauma, etc. in , Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy: Ancient Pathways to Modern Health, or in Energy Psychology:Self-healing Practices for Bodymind Health. www.bodymindhealing.com. { Professionally produced CD with musical background.}
Hypertension: An Integral Bodymind Healing Webinar for Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine (2010) – 58:01 minutes, (Peer Reviewed). Click here for Downloadable Audio and Powerpoint $29.95. This Webinar by Dr. Michael Mayer, was produced for Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine(2010). It contains a combined Powerpoint and Audio Presentation that: reviews research on hypertension, shows how Qigong can help with the treatment of hypertension, examines Qigong and hypertension research, discusses Chinese medical approaches to hypertension (including breathing methods, Qigong movements, and Standing Meditation Qigong), contains a guided meditation method that Dr Mayer uses with hypertensive patients, and gives case examples that illustrate the importance of an integrative treatment approach which includes psychological dimensions.It includes Dr. Michael’s synthesis of Western and Eastern methods of treating hypertension that are put forth in his book Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy.
The Path of a Reluctant Metaphysician: Analytic Psychology Club Lecture. Audio: 2 hrs 8 minutes, $14.95 Dr. Michael speaks about how Jung’s commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower led him (Dr. Mayer) on a quest to find the larger tradition in which the Secret…was embedded, and how he applied Taoist Alchemy and Qigong to his approach to Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy.{His book on this was a Ben Franklin Award Winner} Click here to learn more.
The Mystery of Personal Identity: Coniuntio Lecture at the California Institute of Integral Studies (2013). Audio: 1hr, 23 min., $14.95. Dr. Michael discusses the new addition of his prize winning book that was the first to integrate astrology and depth psychotherapy. It contains a new theoretical perspective on astrology that may be palatable even to skeptics. Click here to learn more.