Dr. Michael Mayer

Hi there friends and colleagues, I hope you’re well here at the beginning of a new year. I like to call it, “2024-the year of opening New Doors” (as I named '2023 the year of cultivating good chi’ 😊

Speaking of opening new doors….

I’m enthusiastically letting you know about a project I just completed. This online, on-demand course is the culmination of over forty years of my life’s work integrating ancient wisdom traditions, such as Qigong, with Western psychotherapy.

1.) New 2024: Here’s a link to the online 3 hour course in Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy (https://bodymindhealing-taichiqigong.com/product/bodymind-healing-in-psychotherapy-ceu-course/). I’ve presented this course in a variety of formats for example in 5 days at Esalen Institute for the public and health professionals, and at many workshop locations. Most recently it was presented online in a three-hour course for The Alameda County Psychological Association (co-sponsored by the California State Psychological Association). After many of my students strongly encouraged me to introduce more people to this approach, I decided to take that recorded workshop, and get it professionally edited and updated to share this pathway with more people. The course is for Psychotherapists, Qigong practitioners and teachers and the public. If you know of anyone who would be interested in it, including you, please pass on this information.

What health professionals, Qigong practitioners, and the general public will learn from this workshop (https://bodymindhealing-taichiqigong.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/What-people-are-saying4_workshop-book.pdf):

1.) Learn an integral approach how to reverse sympathetic nervous system reactivity when afraid, enraged or triggered to modulate your reactivity and be responsive.
2.) Case illustrations which how the bodymind healing approach can be applied to a variety of issues such as stress, trauma, hypertension, chronic pain. You’ll be introduced to how to incorporate these methods into your self-care.
3.) Discover how to apply a variety of meditative practices, which may stay with you for a lifetime.

What are others saying about the workshop and book upon which it’s based, “Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy?”

2.) Last year I put together into an online course in Bodymind Healing Tai Chi Chuan: Four Dimensions of Purpose (https://bodymindhealing-taichiqigong.com/): It’s a 19-week training program in Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan, which introduces you to four purposes to each movement: Self-healing, spiritual unfoldment, self-defense, and changing one’s life stance psychologically. I take my 40 years of training with Master Fong Ha in gratefully learning the traditional Yang style long form, and integrate it with cross-cultural associations from ancient wisdom traditions.

Blessings for the heavenly doors of Wood Dragon chi to open for you in this new year 2024. Since the year of the Wood Dragon is partly about sharing creative ideas and visions with the world, I’ll be interested to hear about what’s on your growing edge, what new doors are opening in your life and how I might be of assistance.

🙏

Michael

Michael Mayer, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist &
Certified Master Tai Chi Instructor
(by the AmericanTai Chi & Qigong Association)
510-849-2878, Cell:925-623-3540
[email protected]
www.bodymindhealing-taichiqigong.com
www.bodymindhealing.com
Author of six books (and twenty publications)
on ancient wisdom traditions
& modern bodymind healing.
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Bodymind Healing Center - Qigong Psychotherapy San Francisco Bay Area Psychotherapy Berkeley, San Francisco, Orinda, Lafayette. Mind-body and bodymind approaches to self healing. Qigong, Tai Chi & East-West integrative health.

I’m starting a Training and Case Consultation group in Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy. Learn more at:

Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy Training and Case Consultation group - www.bodymindhealing.com In this ongoing combined Training and Case Consultation group you’ll learn to apply Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy to a wide variety of common issues such as: anxiety, stress reduction, hypertension, insomnia, chronic pain, dysregulation, life transitions, and trauma, etc.

Free Video:

Dear fellow traveller on the path,

In this Free Blog Clip (https://bodymindhealing-taichiqigong.com/tai-chi-push/) you’ll discover how Tai Chi “Push” can help you when you’re feeling assaulted by every life. I’ll be sharing with you an excerpt from my new Video series: Tai Chi Chuan: Four Dimensions of Purpose. You’ll be introduced to a unique perspective on Tai Chi Push, which integrates teaching from various cross-cultural, ancient wisdom traditions with Tai Chi practice.

Learn how the Four Dimensions approach to Tai Chi will add to your Tai Chi practice and life: Self-healing, spiritual unfoldment, self defense, and changing your life stance psychologically.

Discover how Tai Chi, "Push” teaches "equanimity training" — to not be overly assertive when you’re upset, triggered, or angry. In this video clip below you'll learn the Four Dimensions of Purpose of Bodymind Healing Tai Chi's approach to "Push," which includes:

• Self- Healing: Learn how Tai Chi Push is related to the Shamanic Bear movements for tonifying the Liver meridian.

• Spiritual Unfoldment: Discover how Tai Chi Push induces a spiritual alchemy, experienced as transforming air into water.

• Self Defense: In the discounted paid Episode #2 of Tai Chi Push (Episode 2: Body Mind Healing Tai Chi Chuan, Four Dimensions of Purpose) you'll see two-person self defense applications that I learned from various Tai Chi masters. You'll learn how the self defense dimensions of this practice metaphorically can translate into dealing with the psychological attacks of everyday life. You'll hear the story of my fool-heartedness, illustrating "the problems with over-extension," when a potential fight over a parking space was averted by knowing how to "not push."

• Changing your Life Stance Psychologically: When assaulted by the impingements of everyday life, Tai Chi "Push" teaches us how not to be overreactive, maintain our central equilibrium, and to assert from the center of our Selves.
https://bodymindhealing-taichiqigong.com/tai-chi-push/

Are you interested in an online Tai Chi Qigong class? We meet on Zoom every Saturday from 10-11 am. https://bodymindhealing.com/services/classes-in-bodymind-qigong-and-taijiquan/. If you're interested email me at [email protected]

Classes in Bodymind Healing Qigong & Tai Chi Chuan for Troubled Times - www.bodymindhealing.com Ongoing Qigong/Tai Chi class in Contra Costa County. Beginners are welcome.