Tuesday September 8th
7:30-8:30AM Tai Chi Class – led by Bill Douglas, Founder of World Tai Chi and Qi Gong Day (Conference Room E1/E2)
Natcher Main Auditorium and All Balconies
9:00AM Convocation and Welcome, Rachel Permuth-Levine, PhD, MSPH, Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic and Innovative Programs, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH
9:05-9:15AM Opening Remarks, The Honorable Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa
(Note, we have invited Senator Harkin, this is not confirmed)
9:15-10:00AM Overview of Mind-Body Medicine, James Gordon, MD, Founder and Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine
10:15-11:30AM An Interpersonal Neurobiology Approach to Well-Being: Mindsight by Dan Siegel, MD, Director, Mindsight Institute and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director, Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA School of Medicine
12:00-1:30PM Coming to Our Senses, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of founder (and former director of its world-renown Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic.
1:45-3:15PM Workshop on Mindful Parenting, Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, co-authors of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.
3:30-4:45PM Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Awakening, by Tara Brach, PhD, Founder and Senior teacher, Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC
September 8th, Continued
Conference Rooms E1/E2 (Classes in Yoga, Dance, Pilates, and Tai Chi)
7:30-8:30AM Tai Chi Class, led by Bill Douglas, Founder of World Tai Chi and QiGong Day
9:15-10:00AM Gentle Yoga, Kit Johnston, Founder, Rappland Yoga, Rappahannock and Madison Counties, Virginia.
10:15-11:00AM Pilates Fundamentals, by Amy Van Mui of Well Within
11:15-12:00AM Tai Chi Class, led by Master Dennis Brown,
12:15-1:00PM Hoop Dance, Jocelyn Gordon of LoveMovement Healing Arts & Hoop Dance DC
1:15-2:00PM Dance Class, all levels, Instructor TBD
2:30-3:30PM YogiPals: New Method to Teach Kids Yoga, by Karen Bralove of Thrive Yoga Rockville
3:45-4:45PM Big Yoga Hatha Level One: A Practice for the Larger Body, by Meera Patricia Kerr
September 8th, Continued
2:00-3:00PM by Alan Finger
Conference Room D:
Conference Room F1/F2, Laughter Yoga, by Nira Berry (2-3pm)
September 9, 2009
Main Auditorium and All Balconies
9:00-9:15AM Opening and Welcome, Josie Briggs, MD, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (tentative speaker)
9:30-10:30AM Taking Charge of Your Health, Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director, Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota
10:30-11:00AM Break
11:00-12:15AM Tapping into your Healing Power through Yoga by Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati (previously known as Rama Berch), RYT E-500, Creator of Svaroopa® Yoga, Founder & President of Master Yoga Foundation.
12:30-1:30PM The Most Profound Medicine is Produced Within the Human Body for FREE: The Science and Medical Potential of Qigong, Tai Chi and Yoga, by Roger A. Jahnke, OMD, Founder and Director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi
1:45-3:00PM The Promise of Tai Chi and Qigong as Health Tools & Adjunct Therapy, by Bill Douglas, founder of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & Qigong
330-430PM The Guiding Principles of Yoga for Stress Management, by Susan Bowen, E-RYT, and Owner of Thrive Yoga Center Rockville
Registration Required For Classes, space is limited. Classes will also be webcast and archived.
Conference Rooms F1/F2
9:00AM-12:00PM Mindful Eating: A Class for Health Care Professionals, by Ruth Q. Wolever, Ph.D, Research Director of Duke Integrative Medicine.
1:30-4:30PM Gift of Presence, by Joel Levey, Ph.D. & Michelle Levey, MA, founders of the International Center for Corporate Culture and Organizational Health at InnerWork Technologies, Inc.
September 10, 2009
Main Auditorium
9:00-9:15AM NIH Representative
9:30-10:30AM How Stress Makes you Sick and What to do About It, by Esther Sternberg, MD, Chief, Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior and
Director, Integrative Neural Immune Program, NIMH/NIH
10:45-11:45AM The Fundamentals of Yoga? Garrett (Dinabandhu) Sarley, CEO, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
12:00-1:00PM Yoga and Urban Youth: Samadhi in the City, by Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez, Co-Founders of the Holistic Life Foundation in Baltimore, MD.
1:30-2:30PM How To Prevent and Reverse Memory Loss In 12 Minutes A Day by
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. Founder, President and Medical Director
Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation (Tucson, AZ)
2:45-3:45PM No Pain, More Gain: Methods, Mechanisms, Evidence, and Potential of Taiji and Qigong, by Yang Yang, PhD, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Director of Center for Taiji and Qigong Studies (New York).
4:00-4:45PM Introduction to Reiki, Barbara Moquin, Ph.D, Project Officer (Detail) National Center for Research Resources, NIH
Conference Rooms
9:00AM-12:00PM Developing Mindfulness in Children & Teens: A Workshop for Parents and Professionals, by Susan Kaiser Greenland JD, developer of the InnerKids mindful awareness program for children and teens.
September 11, 2009
Masur Auditorium (Building 10, Clinical Center)
9:00-9:20am Meditation and Moments of Silence, Rezvan Ameli, PhD,
9:30-10:30AM The Science of Yoga and Yoga Therapy: Reconciling Eastern and Western Ways of Knowing, by Timothy McCall, MD
Internist/Author/Medical Editor, Yoga Journal
10:30-10:45AM Question and Answer Session with Dr. McCall
10:45-11:00AM Break
11-12:00PM Application of Yoga methodology and Ujjayi Breathing for the Management of Everday Challenges, Stress Reduction and PTSD, By Beryl Bender Birch, Director of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute and JoAnn Difede, PhD Associate Professor and Director, Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies -Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College, NY Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center
12:15-115PM Genomic Counter - Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response, Jeffery A. Dusek PhD, Director of Research, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, Abbott Northwestern Hospital.
1:30-2:30PM Massage Therapy: Healing the Mind and Body, Judy Stahl, MA, Licensed Massage Therapist/President - American Massage Therapy Association
2:45-3:45PM Teaching the iRest® Yoga Nidra Protocol to
US Military Personnel Suffering from Combat Stress by
Karen Soltes, LICSW, RYT, & Robin Carnes MBA, RYT-500
certified iRest® yoga nidra teachers
4:00-5:00PM The Role of Mindfulness in Healthcare Reform, by Kelley McCabe, CEO, Emindful.com
