This session offers a guided experience of Susan’s Embodiment Practice and Embodied Meditation. For details and background, see course description for Susan’s Lecture: Embodiment and Somatics as Contemplative Practice: Reclaiming our innate well-being on Oct. 26, 2024. Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC, has spent 45 years in private practice as a psychotherapist and has trained helping …
Events: 1st April 2025
“Thoreau walked out every morning like a glass ready to be filled with water.” This was John Cage’s admiring observation about Thoreau’s daily walking practice. And Thoreau wanted that glass to be as full as he could make it! “I must walk with more free senses. It is as bad to study stars and clouds …
Enjoy the gift of time in nature as a catalyst for the Contemplation by Design experience of PEACE: Pausing, Exhaling, Attending, Connecting and Expressing. Delight in connecting with nature and enhancing your connection with yourself and with others. Observe first-hand what Stanford researchers, including Gretchen Daily and Abby King, reported in the Proceedings of the …
Please join us in a Kirtan meditation with Jahnavi Harrison, a world renowned kirtan vocalist and musician, as she is joined by the kirtan youth of ISKCON of Silicon Valley. Kirtan is a meditation practice of the religious traditions of India. Rooted in Hindu devotional traditions (bhakti), kirtan incorporates classical Indian music and mantra, sacred …
Empowered Relief® is an evidence-based, single-session pain class that rapidly equips patients with pain management skills. Developed at Stanford University. Empowered Relief® was developed by Beth Darnall, PhD, and has been embedded into clinical pathways at Stanford University since 2013. Early positive scientific results led to major NIH funding to further study the benefits and mechanisms …
These weekly classes are taught by YogaX alums who are well-versed in teaching Integrated Holistic Yoga, which is a practice of accessibility and belonging, intentionality, and beneficence that honors the whole person and offers a wide variety of yoga practices. Meets every Wednesday 6-7p via zoom. Free for faculty, staff, and students at Stanford.
Empowered Relief® is an evidence-based, single-session pain class that rapidly equips patients with pain management skills. Developed at Stanford University. Empowered Relief® was developed by Beth Darnall, PhD, and has been embedded into clinical pathways at Stanford University since 2013. Early positive scientific results led to major NIH funding to further study the benefits and mechanisms …
The Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) was established as an inter-disciplinary program in 2003 by the Dean of the School of Medicine (Dr. Philip Pizzo) and brings together scientists and physicians who share a common interest in developing and using state-of-the-art imaging technology and developing molecular imaging assays for studying intact biological systems. The …
Specifically designed for individuals who want to teach therapeutic yoga in healthcare settings The YogaX RYT300 YTT program is rooted in a comprehensive curriculum that delves traditional and modern yoga philosophy, ancient yoga psychologies, contemporary psychological research, evidence-based practices, neuroscience, and social science. Led by experienced teachers with extensive teaching experience, yoga therapy backgrounds, and …
Pediatric Grand Rounds in Recognition of Native American Heritage Month Where Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine Intersect with Indigenous Healing Wisdom SPEAKERS Jana Din, BA – Director, Tao Center for Healing David Steinhorn, MD – Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF-Fresno Al Striplen, MA – Native American Counselor & Spiritual Guide SESSION DESCRIPTION Integrative Medicine and …