mind-body integrative medicine Paul Epstein, ND
Dr. Epstein's Upcoming Speaking and Teaching Schedule
E-Newsletter: Fall 2009- Winter/ Spring 2010
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"If there is a single definiton of healing it is to touch with mercy
and awareness those pains from which we have withdrawn in judgment and
dismay."
Stephen Levine, "Healing into Life and Death" |
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Warm Greetings! |
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Summertime is coming to an end. This year, I've been busy with
many teaching and speaking engagements, which is rapidly becoming a
more significant component of my professional life. I am excited by
this development, as I appreciate the varied opportunities to share my
experience, passion and perspectives with a wider audience. Of course, I also continue to see clients individually and support them in their self-healing journeys, the place where I still learn the most about mindful healing.
I want to let you know about some of what I've been up to and give you my
current schedule for the Fall and upcoming events for 2010.
I am excited to announce that in
cooperation with the OAND, I will be teaching a Webinar on Mind-Body Medicine, December 3.
We have also begun discussions to explore developing a Mind-Body
Institute.
Highlights
from the past year include keynote speaker at the annual conference of
the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OAND). (See comments from executive director.)The OAND also
sponsored me to teach a mindfulness and mind-body therapy training for
ND's and health care professionals, which was a great success. I also
taught a similar training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and at
the Sivananda Yoga Retreat on Paradise Island, Nassau, the Bahamas. The
training is on the schedule again for 2010 in Toronto and in the
Bahamas. And I also continue to offer mentoring services for physicians seeking
to integrate mind-body therapy into their practice.
A local highlight was speaking to a group of over 300 at the Y's Men of Westport/ Weston on How Biography Becomes Biology.
Locally,
I continue to teach mindfulness programs for the Insight Meditation
Community of Fairfield County and New York Insight Meditation Center. I
greatly enjoy teaching a weekly mind-body heath class for the Westport
Center for Senior Activities. I have collaborated with Dorrway to
Health to offer programs in Beyond Diets.
Please review the upcoming events listed and described below. If you are interested in scheduling a speaking or teaching engagement, becoming a client or mentoree, and/or want further information please check my website or contact me directly.
I am working on writing a book on mind-body integrative medicine,
Where's the healing? Illness As a Vehicle for Awakening
My website, www.drpaulepstein.com, is updated regularly with
audio and video files of my speaking and teaching engagements for listening and viewing on the media page: http://www.drpaulepstein.com/media-cd.shtml.
Please
share/ forward my newsletter with all who may be interested. I hope to see you
at some of my events. CDs and DVDs are
available for purchase on the website.
Phone: 203-226-3923
Email: epsteinmb@aol.com
Website: www.drpaulepstein.com
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| Noble Silence |
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Here I am canoeing down the Green River in Colorado
during a two week mindfulness meditation retreat. What an amazing experience to practice meditation with a group of people living in noble silence in the wilderness. It was as fantastic as it looks and
then some. I recommend it to all. |
Fall 2009: Workshops,Trainings, Retreats, Webinars
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October 17-24
Yoga, Mindfulness and Healing Retreat
Italy
http://www.loveyogahealing.com/download/Retreat_a4.pdf
November 6-8
The Self-Healing Journey
Comfort Zone Yoga, Lewes, Delaware
Disease tells a story, not just about our cells and a diagnosis but
about ourselves and our lives. Listening to this story, we are led to
the truth of what happened to us and the emotions that lie at the core
of our authentic being.
http://www.comfortzoneyogacenter.com/theselfhealingjourney.html
November 13-15
The Self-Healing Journey
Shri Yoga, Wymissing, Pennsylvania
This comprehensive workshop in mind-body skills will teach you how to
look and listen within to discover the message and meaning hidden
inside pain and symptoms.
http://www.shriyogapa.com/
*** Thursday, December 3 ***
How Biography Becomes Biology: All Sickness is Homesickness
Webinar sponsored by the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors
Stress and the Mind-Body Connection, the Body Bears the Burden.
Healing trauma, invisible wounds, and PTSD.
http://www.oand.org/index.php?page=home
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Looking Ahead to 2010:
Workshops, Trainings, Retreats
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
10am- 4pm
New York Insight Meditation Center Day-Long Retreat
The Eight Fold Path...Skillful Means in Life, Medicine and Healing.
The noble eight fold path describes the way to end suffering. It is a practical guideline to awakening and freedom from greed, hatred and delusion. It leads to liberating insight and understanding the truth about all things. Life's challenges provide a wonderful opportunity to live, practice and apply all eight aspects of the path more fully as interdependent principles rather than a sequence of single steps...to deepen our understanding and insight of the eight fold path as skillful means in life, medicine and healing.
http://nyimc.org/index.php/site/event/the_healing_journey/
Saturday, January 30, 2010
11am- 3pm
Wainwright House, Rye, New York
Difficulty as a Vehicle for Awakening
This workshop will explore how Buddhist teachings, mindfulness meditation and compassion practice can be integrated into the process of healing dis-eases of our bodies, minds, hearts and spirits.
www.wainwright.org
OAND SPONSORED TRAINING
Three-part Mindfulness and Mind-Body Therapy Training, Toronto, Canada
Weekend 1: Febrary 5-7, 2010
Weekend 2: April 23-25, 2010
Teleconference: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 7:30-9 pm;
Webinar Sponsored by the Ontario Association for Naturopathic Doctors
How to integrate guided imagery, relaxation, breathing, yoga therapy,
self-awareness, mindfulness meditation, and Internal Family Systems
therapy to facilitate the self-healing journey. Skillful means in medicine, illness as opportunity for awakening, unconditional presence.
http://drpaulepstein.com/blog/?p=90 (Click on flyer)
May 2 - 6, 2010
Yoga, Mindfulness and Mind-Body Therapy
Sivananda Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas
http://www.sivanandabahamas.org/index.php?page_id=2009
May 7-11, 2010
Mindfulness and Yoga Therapy, Bahamas
Sivananda Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas
http://www.sivanandabahamas.org/index.php?page_id=2009
Mindfulness and Mind Body Therapy, Weekend Workshop, NCNM (National College of Naturopathic Medicine) Portland, Oregon - February 19, 20, and 21
Moving Through Spirit - Healing Workshop with Wyoma and Paul, Boston, Massachusetts - Dates to be determined LINK FLYER HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comments from Alison Dantas, CEO of OAND
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"... As Dr. Epstein's survey results were outstanding, we invited him to come back to Toronto to
lead a 3-part professional training course on Mindfulness & Mind-Body Therapy in February,
April and June 2009. This course involved two three-day weekends and a 90-minute webinar.
... Dr. Epstein presents passionately
and knowledgeably and provides participants with practical skills they
can use with patients. The combination of his theoretical and practical
teaching style is outstanding..."
Alison Dantas
CEO
Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors |
Meditation Programs
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Insight Meditation Community of Fairfield County (Guiding Teacher)
6 Week Class
"When things fall apart, heart advice for difficult times"
exploring the teachings of Pema Chodrun. In When Things Fall Apart this head of a Tibetan monastery in Canada outlines some relevant and deceptively profound terms of Tibetan Buddhism that are germane to modern issues. The key to all of these terms is accepting that in the final analysis, life is groundless. By letting go, we free ourselves to face fear and obstacles and offer ourselves unflinchingly to others. The graceful, conversational tone of Chodron's writing gives the impression of sitting on a pillow across from her, listening to her everyday examples of Buddhist wisdom. (Book Review)
Thursdays, 7:30-9 pm
9/24, 10/8, 10/29, 11/5, 11/19, 12/3
Day-Long Retreats:
Saturday, 10/31, 11 am-3 pm Eight-Fold Path
(view description above at New York Insight)
Sunday, 11/22, 11 am- 3 pm Difficulty as a Vehicle for Awakening (view description above at Wainwright House)
Programs involve meditation practice, dharma talks, discussion, and integration with life, for all experience levels.
"When we carry a burden, it's heavy. When there's no one to carry it, there's not a problem in the world." -AJAHN CHAH
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Beyond Diets and Dorrway to Health
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Beyond Diets
Workshops: 3 Thursdays, October 1, 15, November 12
99$
A 1-Day Retreat: Saturday November 21, 10 am- 4 pm
$99
$179 for both workshops and retreat
Beyond Diets....Even Oprah Fails at Dieting!
with Dr. Paul Epstein and Laura Dorr
Dorrway to Health 161 East Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851
The recidivism rate for the popular weight loss programs is over 90%. People keep going, gaining and losing, up and down like a yo-yo. Learn how to customize an approach for your mind, body and emotions, and support long term change and healing. This is not another program to follow, not one size fits all. It is a process of self-love, self healing and transformation, engaging your consciousness, mind and heart, the missing ingredient.
Please RSVP Seating is Limited
Dorrway to Health
5 Tuesdays: Lecture and Discussion Series, 8-9 pm
September 22: Beyond Diets
September 29: How Biography Becomes Biology
October 6: The Self-Healing Journey
October 13: Meditation as Medication
October 20: Working with Pain and Difficulty
$110 or $20 per session
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Senior Center Activities: Westport and Greenwich
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Westport Center for Senior Activities
Thursdays, September 13, 27 and October 3 through November 12
11am- 12pm
The Best of Times is Now
Meditation as Medication
Facing Life's Challenges..Experiencing Life's Joys
Through lecture, discussion, sharing, group support, learning mind-body skills of meditation, relaxation, stress reduction, and attitudinal healing perspectives..the class will focus on
learning to live life in the present moment...finding joy, peace, happiness and serenity in the midst of daily life's inevitable ups and downs...
Greenwich Senior Center
October through January, Monthly Lecture Series
4 Mondays, 10:30- 11:30am
Practical classes to learn how to be with pain and difficulty in a way that is healing with wisdom and compassion and humor. Practice mind-body skills and learn how to go from pain to singing in the rain.
When
you change the way you look at and be with things, the things you look at and be with
change....even pain. Explore the liberating experience of facing
painful truth.
Monday, October 5, 10:30am
Meditation as Medication
Wednesday, November 4, 10:30am
The Best of Times Is Now: Let's Face the Music and Dance!
Monday, December 7, 10:30am
Working with Pain and Difficulty With Wisdom and Compassion
Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 10:30am
Experiencing Life's Joys
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Adult Continuing Education
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Mondays in Greenwich:
October 19 and 26 from 7-9
Beyond Diets (see description above)
http://www.greenwichace.org/CourseCatalog/classView.asp?id=7028
Wednesdays in Stamford:
October 7, 14, 21; 7-9 pm
The Best of Times is Now
Meditation as Medication
The best of times is now, facing life's challenges, experiencing life's
joys! Through lecture, discussion, sharing, group support, learning
mind-body skills of meditation, relaxation, stress reduction,
attitudinal healing perspectives, the class will focus on learning to
live life in the present moment--finding joy, peace, happiness and
serenity in the midst of daily life's inevitable ups and downs.
http://www.stamfordadulted.org/CourseCatalog/classView.asp?id=1105
Mondays in Wilton:
November 2, 9 Beyond Diets, 7-9 pm
November 16, 30, 7-9 pm Meditation and Stress Reduction
Meditation & Stress Reduction
Find your path to inner peace and serenity. Learn to relate to life from a place of equanimity and calm and live with less stress and fear. Studies show that mindfulness meditation is a powerful and effective therapeutic tool in reducing stress. Learn how to better face and relate to your stresses and connect with your source of inner strength, wisdom, and compassion.
http://www.wiltoncontinuinged.org/CourseCatalog/classView.asp?id=1259
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| Comments from Workshop Participant |
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| I just wanted to extend my thanks again to you for an inspiring and eye-opening day yesterday! Really, it was a great experience for me, and has caused me to think about my upcoming surgery in a whole new way. I also am taken with your "chicken soup" analogy in particular, it made it so clear that it's my own consciousness in fact that is the secret ingredient to my (true) healing. I am so grateful for this insight, thank you so much! I could go on and on, but suffice it to say, you have opened up new doors for me, that I plan to continue cultivating long after this surgery is behind me. Thank you thank you thank you! - Workshop Participant
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Additional Speaking Engagements
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Seeing with New Eyes, The Self-Healing Journey
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Sunday, October 25, 2009, 10:20-11:10 am
If healing is a journey, the spirit is the path we travel along as we heal. Our dis-eases tell a story, not just about our cells, but about ourselves and our histories. By a guided understanding of this story, we can come to understand how healing happens when we engage our inner healer and unburden ourselves from the wounds of our life story. In curing, we look for answers, while healing often involves hanging out with and living questions and trusting the emergence of insights that lead to true wholeness. The challenge in medicine is not the choice between curing and healing, we need both. True wholeness involves a re-membering of our essential being and our efforts to cure alone can sometimes miss the fuller learning opportunity that is available to us by engaging in the spiritual self healing journey.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
661 Old Post Road
Fairfield, CT 06824
adjacent to the Town Hall Green
Ridgefield, CT Lyme, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Support Group
Thursday, October 22, 12-1
Dorrway to Health
Celiac Support Group
Tuesday, October 27, 7:30-9
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"The journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, it is in seeing with new eyes."
-Marcel Proust
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Highlights of My Summer Schedule
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June 25
Westport Historical Society, How Biography Becomes Biology: The Body Bears the Burden
July 10/11
Graduate Institute Core Faculty Masters Program Holistic Thinking
July 17/18
Comfort Zone Yoga
(Also on November 6-8; see Fall Schedule below)
http://www.comfortzoneyogacenter.com/theselfhealingjourney.html
July 23
Insight Meditation Community of Fairfield County, Impermanence
July 25
New York Insight, the Healing Journey Meets the Spiritual Path, Illness as a Vehicle for Awakening
Just wanted to extend my thanks again to you for an inspiring and eye-opening day yesterday! Really, it was a great experience for me, and has caused me to think about my upcoming surgery in a whole new way. I also am taken with your "chicken soup" analogy in particular, it made it so clear that it's my own consciousness in fact that is the secret ingredient to my (true) healing. I am so grateful for this insight, thank you so much!
-Feedback from NY Insight Day-Long Retreat Participant
Thursdays, 11-12
Westport Center for Senior Activities, Mind-body Health Class: The Best of Times is Now... Let's Face the Music and Dance
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Keynote Address to Graduates of the Immersion Group of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York City
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| Biography |
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Dr. Paul Epstein is a naturopathic physician, speaker, mind-body therapist, mindfulness
meditation teacher, and workshop leader. A 1984 graduate of the
National College of Naturopathic Medicine, he did a residency in
behavioral medicine, stress, and lifestyle counseling. He has trained
in the Internal Family Systems Model of Psychotherapy, studied at the
Academy for Clinical Guided Imagery, completed the three-year training
program for meditation teachers at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center,
and is a certified yoga teacher. He cofounded the Israel Center for
Mind-Body Medicine and was featured in the May/June 2007 issue of
Spirituality and Health Magazine. Paul travels worldwide as a speaker, leads mind-body therapy trainings and mindful healing retreats. He offers professional mentoring services and maintains a private practice in Westport,
Connecticut.
www.drpaulepstein.com
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Healing vs Curing
"In
curing, we are trying to get somewhere, we are looking for answers. In
curing, our efforts are specifically designed to make something happen.
In healing, we live questions instead of answers. We hang out in the
unknown. We trust the emergence of whatever will be. We trust the
insight will come. The challenge in medicine is not the choice between
one and the other. We need both."
- Dr. Paul Epstein, featured in an
article in the May/June 2007 issue of Spirituality & Health
Magazine, "The Journey of Naturopath Paul Epstein: Healing vs. Curing."
See http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/NMagazine/articles.php?id=1722 for full article.
Please
share my newsletter with all who may be interested. I hope to see you
at some of my events. I welcome your ideas and suggestions of venues
where I can speak and teach. I will be updating my site regularly with
audio/ video files of my talks and presentations. CDs and DVDs are
available for purchase on the website.
Sincerely,
Paul Epstein, N.D.
Mind-Body Medicine |
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