HEALTH &

WELLNESS

Fall 2008

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life: An Introduction to Attitudinal Healing (Center for Attitudinal Healing)

Breaking the Cycle of Stress: Skills for Health and Peak Performance (KTD)

Yoga to Calm the Mind (KTD)

The Joy of Massage (12 CE Hours)(KTD)

Acupressure: "Acupuncture without Needles" (6 CE Hours)(KTD)

Breathing Techniques for Health and Well Being(KTD)

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life: An Introduction to Attitudinal Healing

Discover why this approach has been adopted by thousands of people and institutions worldwide. This class will focus on discovering and developing our innate potential to create a more joyful and satisfying life experience for ourselves and in our relationships with others.
You will be presented with important information and the latest scientific research about stress and attitude and will be provided with tools to shift old habit patterns, recover your vitality and enhance your quality of life. You will move toward an experience of well being and self confidence that is not easily unsettled. Topics focus on:

  • Facing change, loss and crisis
  • Managing strong and difficult emotions
  • Understanding the role of attitude
  • Effective Communication
  • Fear and Trust
  • Forgiveness

Presented by senior staff from The Center for Attitudinal Healing.

  • 7 Thursdays, 7:10-9:30pm
  • Sept. 4-Oct. 16
  • Kentfield Campus
  • Dance/Landscape Management Center 12
  • Fee $106 (Includes $10 materials fee)
  • Course #85066

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Breaking the Cycle of Stress: Skills for Health and Peak Performance

Incorporate powerful changes in attitude into your life, as well as simple meditation techniques that can greatly reduce stress. This training, used at NASA, has been clinically proven to reduce blood pressure, relax deep tensions within the body and increase mental focus. Learn to:

  • Dramatically reduce stress with five-minute meditations and powerful breathing techniques
  • Work more effectively with difficult situations and people
  • Relieve chronic pain, high blood pressure and insomnia
  • Release tension and chronic pain
  • Increase your ability to concentrate and focus the mind
  • Feel happier, more relaxed and at peace with yourself

David and Karen Gamow are corporate trainers who specialize in stress reduction and meditation. They have trained 15,000 people in these methods; clients include NASA, Hyatt Hotels, Yahoo and the U.S. Army.

  • Saturday, 10am-1pm
  • Sept. 6
  • Kentfield Campus, Dickson Hall 113
  • Fee $45 (Includes $3 materials fee)
  • Course #85068

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Yoga to Calm the Mind

A steady mind adds to our overall health and well-being. In this course, we will explore original yoga psychology and its timeless relevance to bringing about mental calmness. Mapping of the mind, its tendencies, and the recommendations for strengthening its focus will be based upon the teachings from the classical Yoga Sutras by Patanjali. Unlike modern yoga settings, this will be a regular lecture setting combined with personal journaling and meditative uses of breath, chanting, and minor movement. This course is designed to benefit everyone from existing yoga teachers to newcomers to yoga. Recommended attendance is a minimum of three of the six sessions.

Kate Vogt is a registered Yoga instructor with the national Yoga Alliance. She has studied extensively Yoga's philosophical and therapeutic tradition with two of the foremost authorities on traditional Yoga, A.G. Mohan in Chennai, India, and scholar Georg Feuerstein, PhD. She is co-editor of an upcoming book, Mala of the Heart.

  • 6 Wednesdays, 12:40-2:30pm
  • Sept. 10-Oct. 15
  • Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 161
  • Fee $83 (includes $5 materials fee)
  • Course #85067

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The Joy of Massage (12 CE Hours)

Learn how to give a relaxing massage to friends and family. Discover the joy of giving as well as receiving a massage. Simple techniques encompassing both Western and Oriental methods from Swedish massage to Shiatsu will be covered. Ample opportunities will be provided to practice the various massage techniques and a syllabus will be distributed in the class. No experience necessary.
This course may be taken for Continuing Education hours under our "Continuing Education Program for Nurses," BRN Provider #00724. Please see
Note regarding Continuing Education for Health Professionals listed under "Health Sciences.

  • Louise Kanter, R.N.
  • 6 Wednesdays, 7:10-9pm
  • Oct. 22-Nov. 26
  • Kentfield Campus
  • Physical Education Seven
  • Fee $78
  • Course #85069

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Acupressure: "Acupuncture without Needles" (6 CE Hours)

Learn to read tension in the torso and neck as a way to assess the health of internal organs, systems and structures. Train your hands to find acupressure points that work in seconds to relieve pain and relax muscles right under your fingers. You'll learn to focus your intention like a laser to insert "imaginary" needles that work just like steel needles to restore balance and health for days after a session. This fall we will cover neck pain, back pain and headaches. No experience necessary.

This course may be taken for Continuing Education hours under our "Continuing Education Program for Nurses," BRN Provider #00724.

David Kitts is a California Licensed Acupuncturist with 22 years of experience. He offers a hands-on understanding of the way the body is arranged which makes it easy to remember the location of acupressure points

  • 3 Wednesdays, 7:10-9pm
  • Sept. 17-Oct. 1
  • Kentfield Campus
  • Physical Education Seven
  • Fee $48 (Includes $3 materials fee)
  • Course #85269

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Breathing Techniques for Health and Well Being

The conscious use of the breath is a powerful, yet simple method of self-healing. In this four-week class, a myriad of breath techniques will be discussed and experienced, from the simplest practice of breathing in-and-out consciously to more elaborate forms of breathing practice. Learn how to use these practices to strengthen, develop and balance different aspects of your self. For another class offered at Form Body Studio, see "Intro. to Pilates" listed under Physical Fitness.

  • Elijah Nisenboim
  • 4 Tuesdays, Sept. 9-30
  • Sept. 9 & 16, 6:30-8pm
  • Sept. 23 & 30, 6:30-8:30pm
  • Form Body Studio
  • 1000 Fifth Ave., Suite B, San Rafael
  • Fee $52 (Includes $5 materials fee)
  • Course #85071

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Other courses of interest . . .
He(Art): Art as Meditative Healing and Self Expression
Knitting and Crochet as an Expressive Art Medium

are listed under Art.


The Affair in American and European Film
is listed under Film Appreciation.


No More Colds and Flu: Herbal Remedies for Winter Health
is listed under Home Arts.



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