By Jacqui Lewis — 2015
A Diverse Coalition of Women Finds Church at Emanuel AME.
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In this memorable conversation from SAND 18, Peter Levine, the father of trauma therapy work, and Thomas Hübl, a spiritual teacher known for his work integrating healing of collective trauma, discuss the relationship between healing trauma and spiritual growth.
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Integrating the Past - Presenting the Future: Thomas talks about the nature of healing as a process of personal and collective transformation.
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The Black Yoga Teachers Alliance will launch "Yoga As A Peace Practice," in 2017, its first national initiative to train certified yoga teachers in a curriculum to offer yoga to individuals and communities where violence has a significant impact.
Belleruth describes recent research from the San Diego VA Hospital, which concludes that Transcendental Meditation decreases symptom severity in Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress, outperforming Prolonged Exposure Therapy.
Jenée Johnson is a Program Innovation Leader in mindfulness, trauma and racial healing. She spoke on the subject of how leaders heal at the Wisdom 2.0 conference this year-Esalen was one of the community sponsors to the event.
If what it is you want it to simply to be done with this woundedness then you will continue to search for something that temporarily at least makes you feel better.
Most of us have encountered trauma either in our own direct experience or with someone in our immediate circle. This talk examines the shame and suffering that arise from trauma and how meditation practices can support a path to full spiritual healing.
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Heal trauma. Reclaim your body. Live with wholeness. These are the gifts of utilizing the power of fundamental consciousness―a subtle field of awareness that lies within each of us. In Trauma and the Unbound Body, Dr.
Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties—stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents.