MindBody09a

MindBody09a

This page highlights a course available in January 2009. Please sign up if you wish to take this, in the usual way. If you have any questions, please contact Douglas K. Lindner, lindner@vt.edu.

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New Special Topics Course – Spring 2009

Mind-Body Practices for Health and Wellness

• EDCI-5784, Index Number 17323
• Monday, 4:00 - 6:50 PM, TORG 1020
• Pass / Fail
• This course is open to all graduate students and qualified undergraduate students.
• Textbook
  • Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Wayne B. Jonas, MD; Jeffrey S. Levin, Ph.D., MPH (approx $20)
  • There will also be assigned readings by the individual lecturers.

The course will explore various alternative paths to health and wellness. Each of the lecturers has a personal interest in their topics as well as being long time practitioners. Students will be exposed to the core principles of each area through lecture, readings, discussion, and direct practice. Current research in each area will be discussed, as appropriate. Students can expect to come away with a deeper appreciation of the wide range of alternative approaches to maintaining health and wellness as well as a series of practices for their own personal lives.

Lecture Schedule

• Jan 26 Prof. Kerry Redican: Overview of Alternative Medicine
• Feb 2 – Prof. John Boyer: A Brief History of Eastern Philosophy and Thought
• Feb 9 – Prof. Douglas K Lindner: Qigong of Thought and Speech
• Feb 16 – Prof. Mike Denbow: Chinese Medicine
• Feb 23 - Matthew Komelski: Taiji - Negotiating Age Related Declines
• March 2- Prof. Carol McNamee: Art Heals: Creative Arts and the Experience of Cancer
• March 9 Spring break
• March 16 – Dr. Robert Smith: Chinese Herbal Medicine-207 B.C. A Pillar of Taoist I-Ching Medical Theory
• March 23 – Prof. Ed Fox: Reiki and Tong Ren Therapy
• March 30 – Tod Whitehurst: Laughing Yoga
• April 6 – Invited Speaker - Michael Carroll: Mindfulness in the Workplace
• April 13 – Prof. Eileen Crist/ Rob Patzig: The Eight Limbs of Yoga
• April 20 – Prof. Tina Salva: Mindfulness Meditation and its relation with Health
• April 27 - Laura Gambrel: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Psychotherapy; Prof. Bruce Friedman: Psychophysiological measures of stress
• May 4 – Prof. Patrick Miller / Joy Hung: Therapeutic Gardens

For further information, please contact any of the lecturers, or the coordinator:

• Prof Douglas K Lindner
• lindner@vt.edu

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