About The Bodymind Healing Center
The Bodymind Healing Center specializes in using ancient sacred wisdom traditions to help heal the "dis-eases" of modern life.
We provide individually oriented psychotherapy and healing sessions as well as referrals to body-mind healers in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are also linked with the Health Medicine Center, which Dr Mayer co-founded and where he works one day a week. HMC is a team of traditional and complementary health professionals, whose
exciting multidisciplinary teamwork is on the cutting edge of today's
revolution in healthcare. The Bodymind Healing Center also provide classes and workshops in bodymind healing and publications on ancient and modern methods for healing the body-mind. We also have trainings and certificate programs for those members of the public and for health professionals who want to bring bodymind healing methods into their lives and work.
Dr. Mayer and the Bodymind Healing Center have as a major goal the
promotion of Qigong as a tool to enhance Western behavioral healthcare
and psycotherapy.
Many people think of Qigong as being those beautiful graceful, powerful
movements you see people doing in the park; but Qigong also contains
static practices (stances from tradtions of postural initiation),
breathing, and self-touch methods that can be done in stillness. Dr
Mayer has introduced to the field of psychotherapy how to bring Qigong
into psychotherapy without ever using a Qigong movement or without ever
mentioning a word about Qigong. For more information about the benefits
of integrating Qigong with psychotherapy please click here .
The Bodymind Healing Center has locations in Orinda and San Francisco while the main office is in Berkeley at 2029 Durant Ave.
Michael Mayer, Ph.D.
is the Director of the Body-Mind Healing Center. His background in
healing includes over 30 years of training, teaching and practice in ancient sacred wisdom traditions and modern psychological
transformative methods.
Who is Dr Michael Mayer:
Dr. Mayer is a licensed
Psychologist, practicing in the San Francisco
Bay area. He was the training coordinator for Dr. Eugene Gendlin's Focusing Method for 10 years, and co-founded and is a Psychologist for The Health Medicine Institute , a multidisciplinary team of Western doctors and complimentary health practitioners. He has 20 publications on psychotherapy and mind-body approaches to healing.
Over
the past 30 years he has practiced and taught various oriental healing
arts including: Tai Chi Chuan, medical Qigong, standing and walking meditation, and acupressure. Dr Mayer pioneered the integration of Qigong and psychotherapy, and was the first person to teach doctoral psychology students how to use these methods. Though Dr Mayer uses medical Qigong methods with this patients to help heal hypertension, anxiety, chronic pain, trauma, etc, his integral approach most often does not use Qigong movments or even mentioni Qigong. This is done by using Qigong breathing methods to enhance relaxation, teaching acu-point self touch to patients, using energizing story telling methods (such as his Mythic Journey process), and helping patients to anchor the naturally arising body movements that occur at a moment of felt shift in therapy to create a new life stance.
He has presented his integrative approach to body/mind
healing to professionals at some of the following locations:
• Many hospitals including: UC Medical Center, UC Davis, Mt. Diablo Hospital, John Muir Hospital , Alta Bates Hospital
• Esalen Institute
• Doctoral Psychology Program at The California Institute of Integral Studies, and other universities including Bryn Mawr College, John F. Kennedy University.
• Energy Psychology Conferences- Phoenix Arizona, Santa Clara California, Chantilly Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, Orlando, Florida
• Conference Sponsored by The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
• Official Bio
• Dr Mayer's contributions to the field of Psychotherapy
• Dr Mayer's Contributions to Mind-Body Medicine and Integrative Healthcare
• Dr Mayer's Contributions to Tai Chi and Qigong
• Dr Mayer's Contributions to Energy Psychology
* For a more complete resume click here: resume
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