Mindful Healing
mind-body integrative medicine Paul Epstein, ND
Speaking and Teaching Schedule
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
203-226-3923
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Dr. Epstein Keynote Speaker
November 21, 2009 10:00
Awaken Wellness Fair |
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Exciting news! I will be the keynote speaker at the largest wellness fair in the Hudson Valley! My topic will be:
Holistic Dr's Guide to the Self Healing Journey
The Next Paradigm Shift in Medicine
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| Seeing with New Eyes
The Self-Healing Journey
St. Paul's Episcopal Church - October 25, 2009
Click here to listen!
If healing is a journey, spirit is the path we travel along as we heal. Our dis-eases tell a story, not just about our cells, but our our-selves and our histories... |
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"If there is a single definition of healing it is to touch with mercy and awareness those pains from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay."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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2009 Events |
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November 21, 2009 - 10:00AM
Awaken Wellness Fair - Keynote Speaker
Holistic Dr's Guide to the Self Healing Journey
The Next Paradigm Shift in Medicine
November 22, 2009 - 10:00AM - 4PM
Meditation Retreat
See Meditation Programs below for details
Thursday, December 3, 2009 WEBINAR: How Biography Becomes Biology:
All Sickness is Homesickness
(sponsored by the Ontario Assoc. of Naturopathic Doctors)
Stress and the Mind-Body Connection. The body bears the burden. Healing trauma, invisible wounds, and PTSD. |
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November 22, 2009: 10 am - 4 PM
Insight Meditation Community of Fairfield County
Awakening Peace and Joy Through Facing our Difficulties
This workshop/retreat will explore how Buddhist teachings, mindfulness meditation and compassion practice can be integrated into the process of healing diseases of our bodies, minds, hearts and spirits. Transforming stress, pain and illness into
a spiritual self healing journey ...awakening peace and joy.
"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
Register by contacting Dr. Epstein at 203-226-3923.
Location: Retreat to be held at the Norfield Grange. 12 Goodhill Road, Westport/Weston Border just off Route 57. |
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2010 Workshops - Training - 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.
More information on event at Insight Meditation Website
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: February 5-7, 2010
Weekend 2: April 23-25, 2010
Teleconference: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 7:30-9 pm
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.
Flyer for this course (taught Fall 2009)
February 19, 20, and 21, 2010
Mindfulness and Mind Body Therapy
Portland, Oregon
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Westport Center for Senior Activities
Thursdays: Nov. 19, Dec. 10, 2009; January 14 & 28, 2010
Six Weeks beginning February 4, 2010 11am - 12pm
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, 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
Ongoing Monthly Lecture Series
10:30 - 11:30am
December 7, 2009
Working With Pain and Difficulty with Wisdom & Compassion January 6, 2010
Experiencing Life's Joys
Lecture series includes 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. |
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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.Greenwich:
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.
February 25, March 4 & 11, 2010
7 - 10 PM
Meditation and 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.
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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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Dr. Epstein giving the keynote address for graduates of the Immersion Group,
Institute for Integrative Nutrition, NYC |
| Dr. Epstein 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.
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| Testimonials & Comments |
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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
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!
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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. I recommend it to all.
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If you are interested in scheduling a speaking or teaching engagement, becoming a client or mentoree, or want further information please check my website or contact me directly. My website is updated regularly with audio and video files of my recent events. Listen and view online via my Media Page.
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