Dear CIHS Community Members,

Fall is already around the corner.  

There are 4 articles in this newsletter. First, Dr. Hope Umansky announces the fall course schedule for the upcoming quarter. (Fall quarter begins September 30; Registration week is 9/16-9/20). We are offering interesting and unique courses in the fall quarter so if you are interested in CIHS or have questions about any of our courses or programs, please visit our website (www.cihs.edu) or directly contact Dr. Hope Umansky (hope_umansky@cihs.edu) for any assistance.

The second and third articles are from our instructors introducing their courses. In the second article, Dr. Mali Burgess announces her newly created course entitled, "Subtle Energy Systems I: Consciousness, Dynamics, and the Subtle Body." This series has two parts. Depending on your level or program, this will be core curriculum (PhD IH). If you have any questions about the class or your program, please email Dr. Hope Umansky.

Lastly, Dr. Hideki Mori, M.D., CIHS alumni, articulates his impression of Dr. Motoyama's new published book in Japan. This article is the first part of five sections. Dr. Motoyama's book is entitled, "Your Conscience Makes You Healthy." Dr. Mori, speaking from his expertise as a medical doctor as well as his experience at CIHS where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Integral Health, explains how Dr. Motoyama's theory reveals the mechanism of the mind and body correlation.

Have a wonderful September. If you have any questions, please email me at Hideki_Baba@cihs.edu .

Sincerely,

Dear CIHS Students and Community,

Happy September! We are happy to announce that we are welcoming several new students this quarter. Please welcome them into the CIHS community. After the end of summer and the inspiring conference, I am confident that the CIHS community is invigorated to begin another paradigm shifting quarter along the way to earning their BA completion and graduate degrees. If you are seeking the challenge of being a maverick in the changing tide of consciousness, CIHS can help support you on your path by providing innovative Master's and PhD degrees in Integral Health (subtle energy studies), Psychology (Clinical licensure track and Integral emphases available), and Comparative Religion and Philosophy (from a consciousness-based perspective). CIHS offers a specialized BA completion degree as well. Earning a formal graduate degree with a curriculum in consciousness and subtle energy studies can help you anchor your passions and knowledge into your professional career path and practice.

At a certain point in your spiritual investigation and journey, living authentically in the energy and consciousness based reality becomes the key to progressing further. If you have questions about how CIHS can help you on your journey to integrating your passions and interests in spirituality and consciousness with an academically rigorous degree program, please email me. I am happy to set up a time to speak with you or meet with you on our beautiful campus. We can discuss how CIHS can help support you on your path to self-discovery and a profession that supports the new paradigm.

I am very happy to announce the Fall course schedule below. If you want to view the course schedule or announcements, please go to  www.cihs.edu and under Academics, go the Quarter Schedule drop down box:

http://www.cihs.edu/index.php/academics/online-programs/course-schedule/

The Course Registration tab is on the left hand side of the website.

Fall quarter registration is September 16-21 (except for Pranic Healing which should be registered for by 9/10; please see below.). Fall quarter beings September 30. After registration week, course registrations can be taken at any point before the start of the quarter but the per unit discount will not apply.

*Pranic Healing, Dr. Mary Clark, September 21-22 AND 11/1-11/3. This experiential course occurs over two weekends on campus with no outside coursework. It is open to the public and to CIHS students (and it fulfills CIHS students' spiritual education requirement for all programs). You must commit to both weekends. There will be no refunds for this class if you register and choose to not attend all or part. If you would like to take Pranic Healing, you must register EARLY for it by 9/10. Please contact Tamiko if you have any questions (admin@cihs.edu), or register for it on the Registration tab on the CIHS website (www.cihs.edu). Although we are asking you to register early for Pranic Healing, you may register during registration week for your other courses. Pranic Healing fulfills the Spiritual Education requirement for All programs.

*Subtle Energy Systems I: Consciousness, Dynamics, and the Subtle Body, Dr. Mali Burgess, online. Integral Health PhD core curriculum. May be taken as an elective by MA Integral Health students. May be taken by MA and PhD CRP and Integral Psychology students as an elective.

*Counseling and Communication Skills, Dr. Sharon Mijares, online. CIHS required core class for all MA and PhD programs. Comparative Religion and Philosophy and Integral Health students may take Spiritual Coaching (see below) in lieu of this requirement. You may also take both. This class is open to BA completion students as an elective.

*Psychotherapy: Approaches and Strategies, Dr. Tamara Goldsby.Hybrid online/on campus. Highly recommended for license eligibility for PhD Clinical Psychology licensure track. Open to all MA students in psychology. Open to MA and PhD Integral Health students as an elective. This is an important class for all clinical psychology students.

*Spiritual Coaching, Dr. Michelle Dexter, hybrid online/on campus course. May be taken by all programs as an elective OR for CRP and IH students as a core CIHS class in lieu of Counseling and Communication Skills. Integral Psychology & CRP students may take as an elective if they choose to take Counseling and Communication Skills to fulfill the CIHS core requirement. Clinical Psychology licensure track students may take as one of their few electives with the Dean's approval. BA completion students may take as an elective.

*Topics of Special Interest: Science of the Cosmos: Philosophy and Reality, Dr. Thomas Brophy. Hybrid on campus/on line class. This class is available for all graduate level IH and CRP students.

*Statistics/Advanced Quantitative Research Methods, Dr. Ron Strader. Hybrid, on campus/online. This is a MA level IH and Psychology requirement and PhD core requirement if you have not had it at the MA level. Dr. Strader had designed this class for non-math students (as much as possible).

*Toward a Superconsciousness: Foundations of Spiritual Evolution, Dr. Tim Laporte. Hybrid online/on campus class. Open to all CIHS students and fulfills CIHS' spiritual education requirement.

Dissertation Sequence courses. Please speak with Dr. Hope Umansky.

On campus sections of hybrid classes may be available to nonlocal students via Skype or video conferencing. Please speak to Dr. Hope Umansky or the instructor if you have any questions.

If you have any questions about courses and/or your program, please email me. We can correspond about it through email, set up a time for us to speak, or make an appointment to come in and we can go over your classes and program together. Before the beginning of each quarter, my schedule fills up quickly. I want to be sure everyone who wants to see me or speak with me has the time to do so. Please email me so we can set up a time.

I look forward to working with all of you this quarter. Please Save-the-Date for our Holiday Community Get Together, Friday, January 10, 2014 starting at 5:30 pm.

Sincelery, 

Hope Umansky, PhD

Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu

Dear CIHS community,

My name is Tamara Goldsby and I am delighted to be joining CIHS as an adjunct professor this quarter. This year's wonderful CIHS conference only strengthened my desire to contribute to their mission and purpose, for which I wholeheartedly believe.

Here is a bit of background on myself: I have been affiliated with U.C. San Diego for close to a decade, with academic and research positions in the Psychology and Psychiatry Departments. Prior to UCSD while living in England for four years, I held positions with Oxford University and LSE's Psychology Departments and received my Ph.D. in Psychology. Additionally, my background includes master's degrees in Counseling Psychology and Human Behavior with positions in counseling, as well as advising and mentoring students.

Most recently, I enjoyed co-teaching a class on Tibetan singing bowl meditations and have been conducting my own research study in conjunction with UCSD on the effects of Tibetan singing bowl meditations.

I am an avid practitioner of yoga and Tibetan singing bowl meditations and have a strong connection to nature. My husband Michael and I have an adopted daughter in college and a Golden Retriever.

This quarter, I am delighted to be teaching Psychotherapy: Approaches and Strategies (Psy619/819) at CIHS. This course will focus on the three primary branches of psychotherapy: psychodynamic (derived from the psychoanalytic school of thought), experiential relational (stressing subjective feelings) and cognitive and behavioral approaches (emphasizing the role of thinking and being).

I cannot wait to share with the psychology students at CIHS how some of the new integral and transpersonal psychology research I've been conducting can inform and enrich these traditional approaches to psychotherapy.

I am very thankful to him for his clearly explaining in this book how we can maintain our health by regulating the balance of the ki energy and that of the autonomic nervous system. Dr. Motoyama recommends that we bring up our conscience based on the karana (causal dimension) soul through meditation and Chosaku, which means an action performed without attachment to the result of the action, to fix the balance of ki energy and to stimulate parasympathetic nerves by the meridian exercise, to promote metabolism, and to stimulate sympathetic nerve by walking and exercising.  

It is really miraculous and something for which to be grateful that the energy of the soul and ki make our body act in good dynamic balance, and this keeps us healthy by supporting our nervous system, endocrine system, cardiovascular system, to name just a few of the systems..

Recently, it has become a large problem that medical expenses suppress the finance of our country, and, thus, the reduction of medical expenses becomes an important subject. I think that medicine will gradually change from now on to solve this issue, as it is an important point in health science and preventive medicine. What is written in this book is just the essence of health science and preventive medicine. So, it may become more and more important in future.

Interestingly, patients often seem to be given diagnosis of autonomic imbalance in Western medicine when there are not abnormalities evident through medical examination, even though they express concerns about their health. You can regard them as on the brink of disease, and it is important to improve their condition at this stage in order to prevent disease. It is now common that tranquilizers are prescribed in this case. Recently, it also has become common to be treated with Chinese medicine

The Apparatus for Meridian Identification (AMI), which Dr. Motoyama invented, is the superior medical appliance which can grasp both balance of ki energy and that of the autonomic nerves in an objective state. The reading gives you the guide to medical care. The AMI has the possibility to make great contributions to health sciences and preventive medicine, and by all means, I think that it will become more popular in the future. I intend to take the opportunity to use it in clinical practice and contribute to future medical development.

For approximately five years from 2006-2011, I had received instruction from Dr. Motoyama in the study of the meridian system and had acquired the Ph.D. in Integral Health from Dr. Motoyama's school, the California Institute for Human Science (CIHS). The meridian system has an important role in mediating between conscience and health. I want to introduce what I learned from Dr. Motoyama about the study of the meridian system: