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Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

Come join Dr. Joan Borysenko and learn how to optimize the healing connections among body, mind, and spirit. You'll learn simple, practical tools for reducing stress, coping with change, and building emotional resilience. A graceful life of gratitude, inner peace, and skillful action is available to each one of us here and now. Come and receive inspiration, information, and tools that allow your best self to flourish.

The Healing Wisdom of the Heart

Intuitively, we understand that love heals. Sociologically and scientifically, we’re beginning to understand why. From the role of oxytocin and bonding in women’s response to stress, to the importance of community, to data from the emerging field of psychoneuroimmunology, we can trace the effects of love, connection and compassion on health, peace of mind and well-being. But in our increasingly fast-paced technological and data-based world, it’s easy to forget the non-linear wisdom of the heart. Relationship to self, others and a larger Whole is the crucible from which healing emerges. If we take time to cultivate the field of compassion and presence to the moment mindfully, a practical spirituality of love and healing is the result.

Saying Yes to Change

Ready or not, change happens. Sometimes it's initiated voluntarily. Other times the ground beneath your feet just falls away. Either way, change challenges assumptions about who we are, why we 're here ,and why we're doing what we're doing. If there's one skill in life that can help you live from your highest potential, it's the ability to make fresh choices from a place of interior freedom. Whether you're in the midst of an unwanted change, or want to learn how to make change your ally in spiritual awakening and practical success, come and learn how to navigate the straits between no longer and not yet.

The Golden Compass: What is Spiritual Guidance?

When it comes to following spiritual guidance, there is no map. Life is a journey into the unknown. But the great teachings and teachers tell us that there is a golden compass that helps us awaken to who we are, what our purpose in life is, and to our part in bringing forth a more conscious, compassionate world. Joan and her husband Gordon Dveirin interviewed 27 Sages: Quakers and Jews, Christians and shamans, Sufis, Buddhist, and Hindu teachers about spiritual guidance. Joan will share the simple, practical teachings that emerged as an essential spirituality beyond concept or dogma. What are the attitudes and practices that align us with guidance? What blocks it? How does one discern guidance from ego? Are we evolving as individuals and a world, and if so, toward what?

Inner Peace for Busy Women

The to-do list is immortal and will live on long after you’re dead. Finding the inner balance that can guide you through your busy days is less a matter of time management than it is of managing energy and inner resources. When you learn to find the calm and peaceful center that’s present just underneath the turbulence, the outer world falls into place. Learn unique ways through which women reduce stress, and leave with practical mind/body tools that can balance your energy, improve your sleep, and maximize your health and wellbeing-- all the while making life more creative, fun, and inspiring.

Mind/Body Medicine: An Evidence Based Approach

What's the leading edge of research and practice in mind-body medicine and behavioral health? From the effect of stress on inflammation and aging, to the role of meditation in neuroplasticity, to research on the seminal power of forgiveness and gratitude, we'll explore the evolution of the mind-body connection.