Western medical science is beginning to understand the enormous potential of ancient mind-body practices such as meditation and yoga to reduce stress and enhance innate healing capacities. This program features teachers with deep experience in both modern medicine and ancient wisdom and will explore how to best use ancient practices to deal with the extraordinary stress resulting from crises and disasters.

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
William Bushell, PhD
A broad and in-depth overview of the basic science and cross-cultural data on the powerful anti-stress, anti-inflammatory and other health-enhancing effects of yogic and meditative practices will be offered by this highly experienced MIT- and Tibet House-affiliated medical anthropologist.
Thursday, October 16, 7-9pm
Approved for CEUs

USING MEDITATION, YOGA, DREAM AND TRANCE IMAGERY IN
STRESS-RELATED DISORDERS
Nancy Black, MD, and Deirdre Barrett, PhD
Two therapists, an army psychiatrist and a Harvard psychologist, each with a great deal of experience helping a wide range of patients, including many directly affected by the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as with more typical forms of daily stress, offer scientific and practical perspectives on the subject.
Thursday, October 23, 7-9pm
Approved for CEUs

USING MEDITATION, YOGA AND OTHER TECHNIQUES TO
ASSIST THE HEALING OF PHYSICAL CHALLENGES
Erin Olivo, PhD, MPH, Ken Kamler, MD, and Granis Stewart, RN
Dr. Olivo has pioneered the use of meditative techniques to help cardiac patients and has worked with survivors of 9/11 and Katrina; Dr Kamler is a leading surgeon with extensive experience practicing healing in extreme contexts, from Everest to the Amazon; and Granis Stewart, RN, has extensive experience in respiratory and mental health nursing.
Thursday, October 30, 7-9pm
Approved for CEUs

USING MEDITATIVE AND YOGIC PRACTICES FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL
AND PHYSICAL CHALLENGES
Traditional Perspectives From Tibet and Burma
Phagyab Rinpoche and U Kyaw Myaing
In this special session, we have the great fortune to learn from highly advanced practitioners of traditional healing arts: Phagyab Rinpoche, who has employed traditional Tibetan meditative and yogic techniques to heal those injured during refugee flight and political persecution; and U Kyaw Myaing, an expert on Burmese meditative healing practices.
Thursday, November 6, 7-9pm
Approved for CEUs

REVIEW AND CONCLUSIONS
Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD
Dr. Loizzo, a pioneering integrative psychiatrist and advanced scholar in Tibetan Studies and Buddhism, will offer a summary and further analysis, and lead a discussion of points from the previous sessions.
Thursday, November 20, 7-9pm

FULL MODULE
(5 sessions) Thursday
October 16-November 20; 7-9pm
No class on November 13.
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Members: $100 / Nonmembers: $120
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Lt. Colonel Nancy B. Black, MD, based at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, has worked with wounded and PTSD-affected veterans from the Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars and their families and children, and is co-chair of the Disaster and Trauma Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a long-time student of Tibetan Buddhism.

William Bushell, PhD, has been researching the health-enhancing and anti-aging effects of meditation and yoga for over 25 years at Harvard, MIT and Columbia, as a Fulbright Scholar and at the Salk Institute. He has collaborated with Robert Thurman and His Holiness the Dalai Lama on conferences and research projects.

Kenneth Kamler, MD, an NYC-based micro-surgeon who also practices extreme medicine in some of the most remote regions on Earth, is a Director of the Explorers Club, Explorer-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History, and a consultant for NASA and National Geographic Adventure. He is the author of Doctor on Everest and Surviving the Extremes.

Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over thirty years' experience studying the effects of meditation on healing and learning, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the founder of the Nalanda Institute.

U Kyaw Myaing, MA, a retired senior diplomat who worked for many years with the UN on humanitarian aid and other projects, is presently an advisor to NYC's Mogok Insight Meditation Center, and is a long-time student of "weizza" and other Burmese healing practices.

Erin Olivo, PhD, MPH, a clinical psychologist specializing in the integration of mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy, is Director of Columbia's Integrative Medicine Program and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in its Behavioral Medicine Program. She has extensive experience in disaster mental health, through her involvement in the counselling of individuals affected by 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and other disasters.

Phagyab Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist lama highly accomplished as a scholar, practitioner, and teacher. Receiving advanced degrees and honors in the traditional Tibetan monastic education system, he went on to focus on meditation and yoga practice and was able to heal himself of a range of injuries and illnesses resulting from persecution and refugee flight.

Granis Jane Stewart, RN, RN, long affiliated with Harvard's teaching hospitals, specializes in respiratory, critical care and mental health nursing.  She is a member of the International Medical Surgical Response Team (IMSuRT) that deploys to medical disasters worldwide.  She is a member of The Explorers Club and has traveled to a variety of remote and extreme environments, including the Arctic, Mt. Everest, the Andes, Easter Island and New Guinea.