Available for Workshops & Training Sessions
Michael Mayer, Ph. D.
Self-Healing Methods for Physical and Mental Health
Michael Mayer is a licensed psychologist and Tai Chi/Qigong teacher and award-winning author who pioneered the integration of Qigong and Western bodymind healing methods. Dr. Mayer presents his integrative approach to bodymind healing at: hospitals, universities, national/international conferences, and is a keynote speaker. In Dr. Mayer's workshops you'll learn self-healing methods to find peace of mind and become more self- reliant about your own health treatment. Become initiated into this self-healing path that may become part of your lifetime preventative medicine program.
Qigong is a many thousand- year old way to cultivate our vital energy using breath, posture, movement, touch and awareness. Modern Scientific research has now documented Qigong's positive effects on hypertension, chronic pain, various measures of increased health and longevity, increasing balance and preventing falls amongst the elderly, and on a wide variety of chronic diseases. The Wall Street Journal calls Qigong, "the hottest trend in stress relief," and Time Magazine calls Tai Chi (the best known system of Qigong) " the perfect exercise."
Dr. Mayer 's lectures, workshops and training seminars have a wide range of formats to the general public, professional health oriented organizations, retreat settings, psychotherapists wanting to learn how to integrate qigong into their practice and anyone interested in learning self-healing empowering techniques in the arena of bodymind healing. His formats are adapted to different organizations specific needs:
- Introductory evening lectures and 1 day workshops, stemming from his two volume The Tao of Bodymind Healing series, Volume I, Secrets to Living Younger Longer: The Self-Healing Path of Qigong Standing Meditation and Tai Chi, Volume II Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy: Ancient Pathways to Modern Health. Included is a slide show on the history of energy healing from ancient to modern times, and experiential exercises introducing participants to methods for cultivating their vital energy (chi) and developing self-healing practices for health problems. Also included, depending upon a group's needs, can be a discussion of research and clinical uses of qigong and bodymind healing methods. Qigong: Ancient Path to Modern Health.
- Certification Programs- Six certification programs in Qigong and Bodymind Healing for: health professionals, coaches, Qigong/Tai Chi teachers, and anyone wanting to learn self-healing methods. (For details: www.bodymindhealing.com)
- Workshops/staff trainings can include focus on self- healing methods for common issues such as anxiety, hypertension, chronic pain, insomnia., etc. Qigong and Bodymind Healing: An Integrated Psych-physiological Approach to Self-healing.
- Staff training in Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy. Training and/or case consultation applying BMHP to cases.
- For large conferences Michael does keynote presentations on the need for self-healing methods for health problems, called, Qigong: Ancient path to Modern Health. Or, give your conference a "chi lift." Michael works with large groups to give an energy lift to enhance the conference experience.
- Michael enjoys national and international presentations on his Bodymind Healing Qigong method, which synthesizes ten systems of qigong into a single form. In one day, two day, five day formats. You'll learn how each Tai Chi/Qigong movement has four levels of purpose: self healing, spiritual unfoldment, self defense, and changing your life stance. You'll learn why Standing Meditation has been called "the million dollar secret of Qigong, how the animal forms of Qigong can help you reactivate your primordial Self, and why Yi Chuan walking meditation adds something vital to traditions of Walking Meditation. Classes and Workshops can combine teaching of movements and Tai Chi Dance. His Bodymind Healing Qigong DVD and book help participants to continue their practice before Michael's next visit.
- Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine-- clinical and experimental research, positive results and the limitations of the research.
What others are saying about his books and accompanying DVD:
Volume I: Secrets to Living Younger Longer
A wonderful guide for learning the ancient healing practice of Qigong.
Full of clear and practical exercises.
- Dr. Wayne Jonas, Former Director,
National Institute of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine
A splendid break-through which will certainly contribute a new slant to meditative practice.
-- Dr. Larry Dossey
Author of Reinventing Medicine
Volume II: Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy
...a seminal contribution to the field of mind-body interventions for a wide range of common disorders...
profound in its scope, evidence based, bridges Eastern and Western traditions,
and provides practical insights and skills that can be of enormous value to individuals seeking to attain optimal health.
- Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier, Clinical Professor of Medicine,
UCSF and University of Arizona School of Medicine
Author of The Best Alternative Medicine: What Works? What Does Not?
...a dazzling accomplishment...a thrilling blueprint for the integration of body, mind, and spirit.
- Larry Dossey, MD
Author of Reinventing Medicine
This scholarly and eminently readable book ...hopefully foreshadows the shape of body-mind approaches for years to come.
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Medical Director, The Trauma Center, Boston University School of Medicine
Past Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University
Bodymind Healing Qigong DVD
I liked your Bodymind Healing Qigong DVD so much that in the course I taught we started with two or three sections of it every day.
Bessel Van der Kolk, MD, Medical Director, The Trauma Center
Boston University School of Medicine
To schedule Dr Mayer for a seminar or workshop please call him at
925-254-6616, 510-849-2878, email
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www.bodymindhealing.com.
Michael Mayer, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist, hypnotherapist and a Qigong/Tai Chi teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area who specializes in giving his patients self-healing methods for physical and mental health problems. He has devoted the past 30 years to researching, lecturing and writing about the integration of ancient and modern methods of healing the body and mind. Dr. Mayer presents his integrative approach to bodymind healing at: hospitals, universities, national/international conferences, and is a keynote speaker. The First World Symposium on Self-Healing gave him an award for outstanding research and contribution to the advancement of mind-body medicine. Dr Mayer pioneered the integration of Qigong and Psychotherapy, and was the first person in the country to train doctoral level psychology students in these methods. Dr. Mayer co-founded and serves as part of a multidisciplinary medical team called The Health Medicine Institute, which practices integrative healthcare. He has authored twelve publications on bodymind healing, including books, audiotapes on cancer and chronic disease and articles on chronic pain and anxiety. His peer reviewed article on Qigong and hypertension appeared in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and is updated in the book Healing Intention and Energy Medicine by Dr. Wayne Jonas, former Director of the National Institute of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine. Dr. Mayer's Bodymind Healing Qigong DVD synthesizes ten Qigong systems for a lifetime preventative medicine practice. His latest book is, Secrets to Living Younger Longer: The Self-Healing Path of Qigong Standing Meditation and Tai Chi. Dr. Mayer offers his certification programs in Bodymind Healing at Esalen Institute.
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