HEALTH & WELLNESS Spring 2008 Change Your Mind, Change Your Life (KTD) Breaking the Cycle of Stress (KTD) The Art of Meditation (KTD & Field) Metaphors of Transformation: Music and Your Inner World EC (KTD) Food and Healing (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 Mar. 27-May 15 (No class Apr. 10) Kentfield Campus, Olney Hall 103 Fee $106 (Includes $10 materials fee) Course #8199 Return to top 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 aid in healing illness. Learn to: Dramatically reduce stress with five-minute meditations and powerful breathing techniques Work more effectively with difficult situations and people 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 May 17 Kentfield Campus, Science Center 133 Fee $45 (Includes $3 materials fee) Course #8200 Return to top The Art of Meditation Join us in an exploration of a variety of meditation techniques with seasoned teachers from different traditions. Experience sitting meditation, walking meditation, chanting and periods of deep silence in a group setting, and deeksha, or Oneness Blessing. Disciplines may include Zen at the Green Gulch Zen Center, Vipassana or Insight Meditation at Spirit Rock, Tibetan Buddhism at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, a Kabbalah Meditation at Open Secret bookstore, the Vedanta Society at Olema and a labyrinth walk. No previous experience necessary. We reserve the right to substitute destinations. A fee of approximately $10 per person will be collected at the orientation to cover tour fees. Voluntary contributions recommended. We will meet on site. Students provide their own transportation. Carolyn Talmadge Orientation: Tues., 1:10-4pm Orientation: Mar. 25 Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 161 6 field trips: Tuesdays, 1-4pm Field trips: Apr. 1-May 6 Bay Area Meditation Sites FREE Course #8259 EC Return to top Metaphors for Transformation: Music and Your Inner World Music can be a powerful tool for connecting us with our inner world and accessing our deeper wisdom for personal growth, transformation and self-understanding. Using a short form of the Helen Bonny Guided Imagery and Music, we will choose topics for exploration, and listen to music selected specifically to evoke internal imagery and experiences that relate to each topic. Drawing and sharing (optional) our images will help process the experience, and we will explore new possibilities of music to enrich our lives. This class is not intended as therapy. No musical training or experience is necessary. Please bring some drawing paper, pencils, crayons, or craypas (no paint or pastels). Marcia Bauman, Ph.D. (Eastman), is a composer and certified practitioner of Music Imagery, Level II, of the Helen Bonny method. She has guest taught in Music and Consciousness at JFK University and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. 7 Tuesdays, 2:10pm-4pm Mar. 25-May 13 (No class Apr. 8) Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 165 FREE Course #8201 EC Return to top Food and Healing: How to Have an Appetite You Can Trust and a Body You Can Love By tracing unhealthy habits back to early survival strategies, we will find ways to free ourselves from compulsive eating and develop a healthy appetite we can trust and a vibrant body we can love. By studying our patterns around food, we will discover a useful key to early trauma which we will then learn how to process without resorting to over eating or eating unhealthily. Please bring a spoon and a blanket or mat to lie down on. Since 1986, Julie Motz has been doing energy healing and lecturing, teaching and writing about energy healing and alternative medicine. She worked in operating rooms doing energy work with patients undergoing surgery and is the author of Hands of Life, Bantam, 1998. Saturday, 10am-5pm May 3 Kentfield Campus, Dance/Landscape Management Center 11 Fee $93 (Includes $3 materials fee) Course #8202 Return to top Another course of interest . . . The Medicinal and Edible Herb Garden is listed under Home Arts. Online Personal Enrichment courses are available! For more information click here.... Return to top

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