National Institutes of Health Mind Body Week

The NIH has cancelled this event. Please see the letter, dated July 24, 2009, from Dr. Rachel Permuth-Levine, co-ordinator of the NIH event, below:

Dear Yoga Week Listserv,

I am writing to inform you that the NIH has decided to cancel the proposed NIH Mind-Body Week (MBW), scheduled for Sept 8-11, 2009. Subsequent to initial discussions among planners about a MBW event, the NIH was given the enormous opportunity and attendant responsibility of funding an unprecedented $8.2 billion to support scientific research priorities as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The period proposed for holding the MBW is exactly when much of the NIH will be focused on ensuring that all of the successful ARRA applicants receive their awards prior to the end of the NIH fiscal year on September 30, 2009.

We appreciate your efforts in developing MBW and regret any inconvenience caused by the change in plans.

Sincerely,
Rachel (Permuth-Levine, Ph.D., MSPH)

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Save the dates: Sept 8-11, 2009 for NIH Mind Body Week, exploring the science and practice of yoga, meditation, and stress management. A dynamic lineup of speakers are slated to speak...

All events are free and open to the public.

KEYNOTE PRESENTERS FOR SEPTEMBER 8TH:

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He gives public talks and workshops throughout the world on mindfulness and its applications for moving toward greater sanity and balance in today’s 24/7 multi-tasking-addicted, high-speed world. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, and founder (in 1979) and former director of its world-renown Stress Reduction Clinic. He is the author of Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (Delta, 1991), Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Hyperion, 1994), and co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (Hyperion, 1997) and hiis new book, Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2005). His work has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions in our society such as medicine, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, prisons, and professional sports.

Myla Kabat-Zinn

Myla has worked as a childbirth educator, birthing assistant, and environmental advocate. She is co-author with her husband, Jon, of Everyday Blessings, the Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.

James S. Gordon, M.D.

Dr. Gordon is the founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gordon is a clinical professor in the departments of psychiatry and family medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the former chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Dr.
Gordon, who has been a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Atlantic Monthly, as well as to leading professional journals, is the author of Manifesto for a New Medicine and the forthcoming book Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression (The Penguin Press, June 2008).

Tara Brach, Ph.D.

Tara has been practicing meditation since 1975 and leads Buddhist meditation retreats at centers throughout North America. She is a clinical psychologist and the author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha (Bantam, 2003.)

Tara spent ten years living in an ashram -a yogic spiritual community- where she practiced and taught kundalini yoga and concentrative (breath and
mantra) meditations. After being introduced to Buddhist meditation, she attended a number of silent Vipassana retreats led by Joseph Goldstein and other senior teachers. She went on to participate in a five year Buddhist teacher training program under the guidance of Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Subsequently, she received training in Dzogchen from Tsoknyi Rinpoche and has incorporated elements of Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism into her daily practice and teaching.

Tara founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW) in 1998 and serves as its senior teacher. Along with a growing number of dedicated community leaders, Tara has guided IMCW in becoming one of the largest and most active Buddhist centers on the East Coast. Her Wednesday night class at the River Road Unitarian Church attracts over two hundred people each week, and serves as a gateway to many spiritual seekers.

Dan Siegel, MD of MINDSIGHT Institute

Dan Siegel, M.D., Executive Director
Dan Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. An award-winning educator, Dan Siegel is currently an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is a Co-Investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (cbd.ucla.edu) and is Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (marc.ucla.edu). Dan Siegel is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization that focuses on how the development of insight, compassion and empathy in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dan Siegel is the author of the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience (1999). He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. His book with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (2003) explores the application of this newly emerging view of the mind, the brain, and human relationships. His latest book is The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (2007).

Even more of our speakers:

• Ruth Wolever, Ph.D., Duke Integrative Medicine
• Jeff Dusek, Ph.D., Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
• Joel Levey, Ph.D. and Michelle Levey, M.A., Wisdom At Work, International Center for Corporate Culture & Organization Design at InnerWork Technologies, Inc.,
• Kelley McCabe, founder & CEO of eMindful.com
• Susan Kaiser Greenland, Innerkids Foundation
• Bill Douglas, World Tai Chi and Qigong Day
• Elizabeth Greathouse, Owner, Yoga House Studio (MD)
• John Schumacher, founder & director of Unity Woods (MD and VA)
• Zoe Marae, Ph.D., Zoe Marae Consulting
• Rita Treiger, editor of Fit Yoga
• Sandra K. Nicht, B.A., E-RYT500 and Ayurvedic Consultant-in-training Ashtanga Yoga Maryland
• Jaymie Meyer, RYT500, Resilience for Life (R)
• Rama Birch, creator Svaroopa Yoga
• Niyati Shah, RYT, Karma Yoga Director Tranquil Space
• Sat Bir Khalsa, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
• Susan Bowen, Owner of Thrive Yoga Rockville
• Jonathan Foust, Mindfulness Training Institute of Washington
• Deborah Norris, Ph.D., American University
• Joceyln Gordon, LoveMovementHealing Arts
• Diane Armstrong, ReikiVibe.com
• Timothy McCall, M.D., medical editor of Yoga Journal
• Dilip Sarkar, MD, IAYT Member
• Beryl Bender Birch, Hard & Soft Yoga
• Ali Smith, Holistic Life Foundation, Inc.
• Ashley Sky Litecky, M.S., Clinical Herbalist & Founder of Deep Green Wellness
• Dharma Khalsa, M.D., of the Alzheimers Research and Prevention Foundation
• Felicia Tomasko, LA Yoga
• Matt Fritts, Samueli Institute
• Catherine Hannon, Lifetime Athletic
• Arlene Bjork, Grace Yoga Training Systems, Owner and Director
• Nira Berry, President, LaughingRx Yoga Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher
• Julie Bindeman, Psy.D., Co-director of Integrative Therapy of Greater Washington
• Gwendolyn Roberts Francavillo, Ph.D. ABD, MPH, RYT, Director of Wellness at Gallaudet University
• Hugh Byrne, Ph.D., Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW)
• Amy Weintraub, Life Force Yoga and Yoga for Depression
• Kim Manfredi, Charm City Yoga -Chrys Kub, Physical Therapist, 500 RYT; YogaFit Senior Trainer and founder of YogaFit Yoga Therapy Training
• Alan Finger, ISTHA Yoga
  

NIH Speakers Include:

Rachel Permuth-Levine, Ph.D., MSPH
Deputy Director, Strategic and Innovative Programs NHLBI,NIH

Barbara Moquin, Ph.D.
Senior Nurse Specialist
NCCAM, NIH

Rezvan Ameli, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology and Mood Disorders
NIMH, NIH

Jeffery White, M.D.
Director, Office of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Cancer Institute

Esther Sternberg, M.D.
Chief of the Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior NIMH/NIH, Author of The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health & Emotions, by Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.; W.H. Freeman & Co.; May 2000; Paperback 2001 Times Books/Henry Holt

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