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Dear CIHS Community Members,
I hope you are enjoying this spring season.
There are a couple of announcements in this newsletter. First, Dr. Hope Umansky discusses the spring quarter courses and registration happening this week. Second, Arthur Sun, CIHS doctorate student in Clinical Psychology, reflects on the events in his life that led him to want to study psychology and, in particular, why he chose to pursue his doctorate at CIHS. Mr. Sun's story is strong and impressive. As a valued member of our student community, we asked him to share his experience with you and his decision to attend CIHS. It has been a journey of much learning and healing for him.
Lastly, early registration for the Vishuddhi Chakra Awakening workshop ends April 20. There are still some spaces left. The workshop is being held on campus May 31 & June 1. This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your knowledge, experience, and practice in yoga and meditation with dedicated Masters who are only here once a year. Mr. Takeshima is a senior disciple of Dr. Motoyama, who has been studying for more than three decades. Paul and Suzee Grilley are renowned yoga teachers who formulated Yin Yoga.
In the early 1990's, Paul made the decision to go to Japan to ask Dr. Motoyama about his teachings after he read Dr. Motoyama's book, "Theories of the Chakras." While there, he met Mr. Takeshima, and Paul deepened his practice while he was staying at Dr. Motoyama's ashram. Dr. Motoyama had a tremendous influence on Paul. In fact, one of three pillars of Paul's Yin Yoga is Dr. Motoyama's teachings on chakra & meridian systems, the science behind their theories, and additionally, his teaching include other pillars of extensive anatomy studies with Dr. Garry Parker, and the practice of Taoist Yoga with Paulie Zink.
This workshop is not about yin yoga. Rather, the core of Paul's Yin Yoga teachings resonates with what Takeshima teaches through Dr. Motoyama's Meridian Exercises and mediation techniques. On Saturday morning, Paul is lecturing on his model of the body/mind/soul and assisting Takeshima during the rest of the workshop. It is a rare experience to learn yoga and meditation from these senior disciples of Dr. Motoyama. This is the only opportunity in which to experience Dr. Motoyama's spiritual practice in the U.S. We hope you will take this opportunity to experience the transformative power of this practice.
If you are interested in the workshop, you can view the course outline from the link below. Students can receive academic credit for this workshop, and it is open to the CIHS community and public, as long as there still is space. (https://www.cihs.edu/index.php/events/#Yoga). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me (hideki_baba@cihs.edu).
Next week, April 7, is the start of Spring Quarter. Some courses are still open for registration and still have room. Almost all of our classes can be taken as an audit status (if you are an outside community member) or as a provisional student. Thus, if you want to experience our classes and innovative curriculum, you are welcome to take a class that may support your interests. Every quarter we offer classes that represent innovations in subtle energy science, comparative religion and philosophy, and psychology. If you have any questions about your academic program and what courses best support your goals, please email Dr. Hope Umansky (Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu). Please view our unique course schedule from the link here. (http://www.cihs.edu/index.php/academics/online-programs/course-schedule/ )
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Dear CIHS Community,
Spring has sprung! We are preparing for a new quarter of exciting classes, and we have begun countdown summer conference. We hope to see you at CIHS conference 2014: Science, Spirituality, & the Healing Arts: View from the Edge of the New Frontier, July 18-20, 2014, on CIHS' beautiful Encinitas campus. This conference is open to all like-minds and students: https://www.cihs.edu/index.php/events/
If you have not had a chance to view our Summer Conference video, please take a look at it. Perhaps you will spot your friends or even yourself in it:
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Many of our Spring quarter classes are filling up quickly. There is still space in some of them for provisional students or those who may want to audit. While all of our classes have an innovative curriculum, including such classes as Consciousness Studies, Sociocultural Strategies and Interventions, and Psychology of Shamanism, I want to draw attention to Dr. Tamara Goldsby's Psychoacoustics class, which can be taken as an audit or as a provisional student. It will be held Wednesday evenings on campus. Dr. Goldsby will be bringing crystal bowls, bells, and musicians for this highly experiential course.
Dr. Brophy is also teaching his very popular Human Biofield: Scientific and Philosophical Concepts. If you have a deep intellectual curiosity about the biofield and subtle energy sciences, this course would be a great place to start or deepen your academic course of study.
For the first time at CIHS, Dr. Mali Burgess is teaching a Topic of Special Interest class she developed entitled, Teaching on Non-Dual Awareness. Although solely an online class, Dr. Burgess designed it to be a deep exploration and experiential practice into the Non Dual Teachings. All of our classes will broaden you intellectually, professionally, and spiritually,
A full listing of CIHS Spring quarter courses can be found here: https://www.cihs.edu/index.php/academics/online-programs/course-schedule/
Ultimately, it is up to you to ensure you are on the correct trajectory; however, I am happy to help guide you to what best suits each programs' requirements for graduation and individual's goals. If you have any questions about course selections and how certain courses fit into your program of graduate or undergraduate study at CIHS, please email me at Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu
Happy Spring.
Sincerely,
Hope
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Personal Reflections on Why I Chose CIHS' PhD Program: My Story
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by Arthur SunI spent most of my childhood as a victim of the infamous "Cambodian Killing Fields". I experienced and witnessed the horrors of war while most American children at my age spend their time for the most part going to school, playing sports, and going out with friends, the kind of life style that I could only dream of. My childhood life under the Communist Khmer Rouge Regime is still filled with traumatic memories and has been acknowledged as one of the most brutal regimes that ever existed; the Khmer Rouge conducted policies of torture, starvation, murder and people disappearing. My own father was murdered without probable cause. In Thailand, I relived my Cambodian traumatic experience, witnessing my female family members being raped by Thai soldiers. At a young age, I was powerless and hopeless to help anyone. I cried and cried. I recall one of the soldiers putting his AK-47 against my forehead and telling me to shut up or he will kill me. One week after my family members were raped, the Thai army forced many Cambodian young men to dig their own graves and executed them. The horrors, the anguish of losing my father and other family members, and the traumatic experiences in Thailand have been implanted in my mind for all of these times. In the United States, my family and I (along with other Cambodian refugees) were diagnosed with PTSD. An estimated 276,667 (U.S. CensusBureau, 2010)Cambodian refugees live in the United States, mainly concentrated in Long Beach, California, and Lowell, Massachusetts. Studies conducted on Cambodian refugees who experienced traumatic violence revealed that they have the highest percentage of patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Even after more than 30 years escaping the Khmer Rouge, my family, and many other Cambodian refugees who have now settled in the United States still suffer serious psychiatric illness. Looking for ways to heal myself, my family, and help those who went through similar experience is not only a task, but it is also my mission to search for, and pursue a sanctuary for healing, which can help diminish our traumatic scars, so, my family and those who went through similar experience could move on, and one day hope to live a peaceful life. While searching for [T]his sanctuary for healing, I stumbled upon the California Institute for Human Science (CIHS). I exchanged a few emails with Dr. Umansky hoping to find out more about the CIHS. And I did.....! Dr. Umansky was kind enough giving me the utmost, and thorough information about the CIHS, particularly the Department of Clinical Psychology. I have been in the PhD in Clinical Psychology licensure track program steadily taking classes since 2010. I felt that the CIHS is [T]he sanctuary for healing, which I had been searching for, then I decided to transfer from the PhD program in Human and Leadership Development at the Regent University School of Leadership in Virginia to the CIHS. After taking many classes at the CIHS, I have noticed my life is much more balance, and tranquil. The CIHS is destined to be, not only a Global friendly academic institution, but also the sanctuary for healing for me. Thank you warmly to Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama, Dr. Umansky, Dr. Baba, Dr. Mijares, Dr. Goldsby, Dr. Dexter, Dr. Aganov, and Dr. Cavnaugh, with their unique ability to offer new perspectives, and guide students like myself to find and define, and restore faith and hope from within, so, I can search for the connections to help heal myself, and one day hope to live in tranquil, and harmonic life.
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Annual Yoga Workshop
with Takeshima, Paul and Suzee Grilley
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May 31 (Sat.) & June 1 (Sun.)
Fees:
$225 - Early registration by 4/20
$250 - after 4/21
$180 - Student discount
$150 - Individual session with Takeshima
$20 - Meditation Session on June 2 (6pm~8pm)
$20 - Meditation Session on June 3 (6pm~8pm)
Registration
Workshop Description
The Vishuddhi chakra is said to be a chakra which enables us to achieve non-attachment. This chakra, however, cannot be awakened if we do not transcend ourselves to a higher dimension that is beyond the physical and astral dimension, where emotions and images mostly function. It is also considered as a gateway or barrier, as we transcend our being solely human and reach to become a higher, broader dimensional being.
Vishuddhi is derived from the word "shuddhi," which means to purify. It is considered the chakra of purification, where the purification of body, thought, emotion, and karma may take place.
In the physical body, the vishuddhi is located in the throat and thyroid gland, and it is related to the respiratory system, which includes the lungs, bronchi and nose. Additionally, in the oriental meridian theory, it relates mostly to the lung and large intestine.
Currently, in our modern society, we tend to be egoistic due to the influence of the astral dimension, where emotion and thoughts dominantly function. In order for us to be free from self-centered ego and to grow to a being which is able to harmonize with others, awakening of the vishuddhi chakra is necessary. Our purpose of living is to evolve spiritually and contribute ourselves to actualizing world peace and harmony.
We hope you will join us for CIHS' Annual yoga workshop, May 31 & June 1, 2014, with the focus on the vishuddhi chakra taught by Mr. Takeshima and Paul & Suzee Grilley.
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