>> Movement from the inner to the outer
>> Accessing the body's intelligence
>> Sensing the subtle/energy body
Founder & Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM IST
Director of Tibet House, Cultural Centre of the Holiness the Dalai Lama
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM IST
Renowned Meditation Master
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST
During this talk, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche will explain the essence of meditation. He will elaborate on how the recognition of awareness is the very foundation for one’s meditation practice and why it’s important to remain natural when meditating.
Psychotherapist, Educational Director of Tarab Institute
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM IST
What is the view underlying the Eastern inner-science traditions, which saturates the spiritual practices and theories, and which could give the therapists and their clients an excellent chance for empowering themselves? The latter, being the keypoint of concern in the midst of pandemics and environmental instability, will be my major contribution to this conference. With its name, “Self as Presence”, the main issues of this conference points to two core concepts of Eastern Psychology, embedded as it were in the deep insight of the “interrelated nature of existence”, Pratītyasamutpāda, and key points to explore in the experimental part.
Clinical Psychologist, Developer- Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM IST
In this short presentation, Dr. Selvam will discuss how the ability to tolerate emotions, especially unpleasant ones, is important for mindfulness as well as enlightenment, the highest mindfulness state possible; and offer the practice of embodying emotions (a method based on the science of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior) to increase our capacity for affect tolerance through the use of the body container.
Founder, ARTH (Counselling, Arts Based Therapy and Applied Buddhist Psychology)
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM IST
Self-reflection is a critical tool in helping professions and for meaningful engagement. This experiential session offers a deliberate pause, and will invite participants to simply stop and reflect on themselves, and explore how that influences their presence.
This session is informed by Buddhist thought and offered with the aspiration that it heightens our awareness of what anchors us, and how we can work with that to strengthen our practice.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM IST
Moderated by Avantika Malhautra, Founder of Soul Canvas
Movement-based Expressive Arts Therapist; Founder & Director SMARTT
Art Therapist and Mindfulness Teacher
Professor, TISS
Certified MBCT teacher, Presence Oriented Psychotherapist
Psychologist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist
Continnum teacher, Author, RSMT/E, RCST
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM IST
Continuum is a mindful movement practice that gently, naturally takes us into our inherent fluidity. Emilie Conrad, who founded Continuum and developed it for almost 50 years, often referred to it as an enquiry process. Applying different breaths, vocalised sounds that are usually offered to body tissues, subtle movement and mindful awareness, we find ourselves slowing down, our tissues melting, old patterns and habits of mind and body dissolving, and novel experiences of perception, creativity, resilience and health emerging.
In this 1.5-hour session, Cherionna will gently guide you into potentially deeply relaxing states of being, teach a specific sequence of breaths, sounds and movement, and support mindful exploration. You may find yourself emerging feeling relaxed, rejuvenated, and softly, compassionately present.
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM IST
Small group space to connect, integrate and share
Singer, songcatcher, composer, curator, educator
7:15 PM - 8:00 PM IST
Psychologist, Relational and Somatic Psychotherapy, Author
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM IST
Judith Blackstone will describe how becoming present within our whole body provides us with an authentic, felt sense of our own existence, while opening us more fully to the world around us.
She will teach the main practices of the Realization Process, a method of embodied psychological and relational healing and nondual spiritual awakening. By inhabiting the internal space of the body and attuning to the innermost vertical core of the body, we uncover a fundamental, unified dimension of consciousness that is the basis of both our individual wholeness and our oneness with our environment.
Senior Teacher, Body-Mind Centering®, Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist
8:30 PM -9:30 PM IST
This session is a somatic exploration of internal respiration or cellular breathing, as the foundation for our external respiration or external breathing. Cellular Breathing is the baseline for our internal sense of self, and one of the primary neurocellular patterns upon which all movement develops.
Basic principles of Body-Mind Centering will be addressed through the inquiry, with time for discussion at the end of session.
Founder-Director Just Being Center, Presence Oriented Psychotherapist
Mindfulness and Art based therapist
Hatha Yoga Teacher, Dance & Movement Facilitator
Psychotherapist
Psychotherapist
Founder/Director of the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute, Author
9:00 AM- 10:15 AM
Dr. Laury Rappaport will present an overview how mindfulness cultivates an inner witness and ability to be present, even with challenging inner states. She will introduce how the evidence-based methods from Focusing, developed by Eugene Gendlin, help to carry forward the benefits from mindfulness practices. Dr. Rappaport will also describe how various qualities that are developed through mindfulness practice have parallels in creative practices (e.g. in art, dance, music, drama, writing, gardening, cooking, etc.)— and how creative expression can naturally unfold from a felt sense. Integrating arts expression with mindfulness and Focusing contributes to enhanced resilience and access to the body’s inherent creative wisdom.
Dr. Rappaport will also provide a brief overview of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®), its foundational principles and how the main FOAT® approaches parallel renowned mindfulness teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh’s writings on transforming emotions with mindfulness. Experiential exercises and clinical examples on mindfulness and FOAT® will be included.
Master Trainer in Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Author
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM IST
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) employs a variety of verbal and experiential processes and techniques to assist clients in making life enhancing choices based on personally held values. Part of the work done in ACT focuses on conscious awareness to experience while creating and enhancing psychological flexibility through ACT’s six core processes. Creating a personal presence in therapy is essential for both client and therapist and is cultivated through awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal processes across the arc of therapy.
This presentation will focus on how the heart of the work done in ACT relies on the therapeutic interaction, creating presence to experience, assisting the client to live an open, aware and engaged life.
Paramedical Therapist, BCST, Dancer
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST
Centering exercises from the work of Armenian mystic George Gurdjieff bring us into the balance of opposing forces, a crystalized awareness and a sharpening of our consciousness. The only way to do this work is to be HERE & NOW. The only way to be sharply here -now is to do the work. This is a presence oriented activity. Bring all of it with you.
Buddhist practitioner, Professor- National Center for Radio Astrophysics
11:00-12:15 PM IST
Yoga consultant, Teacher's trainer, Counsellor
11:00AM - 12:15 PM IST
Spiritual Practitioner
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM IST
Movement-based Expressive Arts Therapist; Founder & Director SMARTT
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM IST
“Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world” - A. Lorde
The invitation of this workshop is to drop our thoughts, ideas and judgements around desire and instead experience desire as sensation, as energy, as arousal or an awakening. The body is central to our explorations and Authentic Movement is the language used to access layers of sensation, feelings, memories and images. Our journey to begin to reclaim our erotic sovereignty, allows us to find our voices and live our authentic lives with discernment, joy, compassion and pleasure. We move away from the patriarchal notion of either/or towards the feminine approach of yes, and.
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM IST
This session is about exploring playfulness through expressive arts. Expressive arts encourages one to enter the present moment through its qualities of expression, imagination, creativity, active listening, participation and mind-body connection. It strengthen the experience of presence and forms a bridge for deeper connection. Playfulness has the quality of being free, light-hearted, open and authentic. It supports freedom from one’s thoughts, judgements, inhibitions, boundaries; simply being present to enjoy every moment one finds themselves in while holding that moment lightly.
Through this experiential session, the participants will be able to understand how they meet presence, as they embody various roles and engage with them playfully, with the help of expressive arts exploration. The focus will be on enactment through story, sound, drama, movement, visual art and poetry to connect with presence, allowing them to witness their natural creative processes. Participants will be invited to reflect on their daily lives, theirs, and in relation to other participants’ experiences and thereby strengthen communication and connection in a community of people who are held together in mindful presence.
Psychologist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist
Experiential Facilitator
Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner & Assistant Trainer
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM IST
Consciousness begins in the body and expands from there. Bringing awareness to ourselves during our actions is not only a fulfilling experience and a foundation for self-responsible learning, it can also lead us to a deep state of presence in stillness. Many of my students have asked: “How is it that in your awareness through movement classes I have found the inner stillness that I always failed to find in meditation practices?”
Join an experiential session in which we will begin with movement and spatial awareness, to eventually move to a vaster, more expanded experience of presence and stillness.
No experience is required. Basic principles of awareness through movement are conveyed experientially and there will be time for questions, discussion, and sharing.
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM IST
Small group space to connect, integrate and share
7:15 PM - 8:00 PM IST
Trauma therapist & Diamond Approach teacher
8:30 PM- 9:30 PM IST
Inquiry into our direct, immediate experience is a profound practice in being present to whatever arises in the moment and can reveal both barriers, as well as doorways to the depths of who and what we are. However, sometimes inquiry alone is not enough. When encountering overwhelming emotions, high levels of physiological activation, or states of dissociation, additional understanding and practices can be beneficial. Understanding trauma both as a barrier, as well as a doorway, to our depths and developing skillful means to navigate early childhood trauma when it arises on the path, allows us to meet trauma in a way that can open to Presence. Often, in working through the barriers held in the body and the psyche/soul related to previous trauma, deeper experiences of our essential nature emerge.
In this presentation, Patricia will discuss how she integrates the practice of psychospiritual inquiry with working with early developmental and attachment trauma. Included will be an experiential exercise connecting three centers of awareness—the head center, the heart center and the belly center—and emphasizing how these centers can help to orient and to deepen inquiry. Also, there will be a brief introduction to the Polyvagal Theory and the importance of working from the “bottom-up” when navigating trauma. This will be followed by a brief personal inquiry.
Founder-Director Just Being Center, Presence Oriented Psychotherapist
Mindfulness and Art based therapist
Hatha Yoga Teacher, Dance & Movement Facilitator
Psychotherapist
Psychotherapist
Ph.D., Author of ‘The Deep Heart’, Psychotherapist
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM IST
Exploring the convergence of psychological healing and spiritual awakening that happens most clearly and powerfully in the depths of the heart
Paramedical Therapist, BCST, Dancer
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST
Inspired from the whirling dervishes of the mystical sufis, the ghumraos of Rajasthan, the Bauls of Bengal and the spinning gypsies of Central Asia, these are movement mandalas, practiced as a meditative art form, in the balance of motion and stillness.
Co-founder Baithak foundation, trained Hindustani Vocalist
11:00 AM- 12:15 PM
The world - what we perceive and what lies beyond our perception, is manifestation of Nada - the eternal resonance. The ‘present’ is blissful when it is in harmony with this eternal resonance. Practice of Nada Yoga is based on dividing the boundaries and dissonances that come along with duality and being present in the oneness. Practice of Nada has immediate effects on our body and mind which are recently drawing attention from the science community round the globe.
In this session, the facilitator will guide us through some practices which initiate the seeker on the journey of Nada.
Master of T'ai Chi, Yoga and Martial Arts
11:00 AM -12:15 PM IST
In this session, I’ll take the participants through the simple, yet effective Breathing Awareness Meditation. I’ll share how by bringing the awareness to the breath one can tame and calm the mind and make the body relaxed. The best meditation to do is the one you can use anywhere. You don’t have to buy anything, you don’t have to go anywhere. The best meditation is on the breath. Just focusing your awareness on the breath. Because you always have your breath. All you have to do find somewhere nice and quiet. Breathing controls the body’s bioelectric balance just as diet controls its biochemical balance. Deep abdominal breathing not only calms and brings emotions under conscious control, but also greatly heightens awareness, thought, and memory. The linkage that occurs between the upper and lower parts of the body as a result of deep breathing ensures the smooth transfer of energy from the legs to the upper body, an essential requirement in yoga or T’ai Chi. ‘Cleansing breath’ detoxifies the body and emphasises exhalation. ‘Energising breath’ collects and stores vital energy and focuses more on inhalation. Whenever toxins in our bloodstream reach a critical level, we instinctively sigh, a quick inhalation followed by a long, forceful exhalation. By contrast, when we feel lacking in energy, we involuntarily yawn — a long, slow, deep inhalation followed by brief breath retention and a relatively short exhalation.
Certified MBCT teacher, Presence Oriented Psychotherapist
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM IST
Summary to be updated soon
Somatic-Psychotherapy Teacher and Practitioner
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM IST
The possibility of connection to ourselves and to others as well as experiencing the connectedness to all realms is an invitation to be touched, moved and changed. Coming with the assumption that all is intrinsically connected, we can ask ourselves what gets in the way of being in connection? How can we come to a place of feeling the truth of it? This is a body-mind-movement approach incorporating tools from the Hakomi Method, Feldenkrais, and Internal Family Systems. There will be opportunity to explore options for finding a way back to connection through guided practices internally and in small groups.
Co-founder of InterPlay Australia, Voice movement therapy
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM IST
Showing up in the present moment requires courage and a willingness to play. Each breath, sound and movement holds power to uplift another or weigh them down.
This experiential session will introduce you to Voice Movement Therapy and elements of InterPlay to bring us into an inner relationship with self and community, as well as silence and stillness.
Bring your willing singing, humming self!
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
A Systemic Exploration of the Energy Centers in the Body using the Expressive Arts and Meditative Movement Practices.
DMT practitioners have consistently explored new ways of layering their practice with fresh techniques and theoretical frameworks from co-existing disciplines to enhance the therapeutics of movement experiences. In this workshop, facilitators will touch upon the connection between movement and the 7 chakras or energy centres in our bodies.
This experiential workshop will help participants develop an understanding of various aspects of the Chakras and their effects on the body-mind continuum and how Chakra-DMT work can lead to harmony within ourselves, healing, balance and growth.
Join in the Chakra-dance! Experience its energies, rhythms, colours and qualities that contribute to our physical, emotional and mental well-being.
Movement Therapist, Co-founder-CMTAI
Psychologist, Mindfulness-based Practitioner, Founder- Artsphere
Psychologist, Dancer, Therapeutic movement practitioner.
Certified 5Rhythms Teacher
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
5Rhythms is a dynamic movement practice—a practice of being in your body—that ignites creativity, connection, and community.
Come join me and experience moving through the 5Rhythms Waves practice in this 90 min online session. We will be gently guided to bring attention to our movement and our breath that can bring greater awareness to the deeper wisdom alive within our body. I look forward to meeting you there!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Make sure you have a device that will work well for class: A desk/laptop computer or tablet, ideally with external speakers or wireless headphones/earbuds. (If you don’t have external speakers or earbuds, your device’s speakers will work fine, the audio will just be more limited.) - A smartphone can work, but will limit your participation in a few ways. Choose and set up a dancing space for yourself–somewhere you will feel comfortable moving uninterrupted for our time together. Arrange the space to be calming/welcoming/inspiring for you. That might mean sweeping, adjusting lighting, draping cloths over distracting items. When you join us online, best to use a computer rather than phone or tablet, and choose “Gallery View” on Zoom so we can all see, move and connect with each other. Please wear comfortable clothes to move in for 90 minutes and have water at hand please to stay well hydrated.
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM IST
Small group space to connect, integrate and share
7:15 PM - 8:00 PM IST
Through Poetry, Music and Silence
Founder-Director Just Being Center, Presence Oriented Psychotherapist
Mindfulness and Art based therapist
Hatha Yoga Teacher, Dance & Movement Facilitator
Psychotherapist
Psychotherapist
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- Recordings available for viewing
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