Physical HRM Seminar

Feel Better, Be Better:

The Health Benefits of Heart Rhythm Meditation

A Three Day Workshop Featuring Live Lectures, Meditations and Group Discussion

Friday, July 31st – Sunday, August 2nd

Led by iamU Graduates Kathleen Friend, MD, Dr. Bonnie Colby, and Dr. Charles Palmer

Live Video Sessions + Live Zoom Breakout Sessions 

Course Price: $99 (Save by Registering for the Full Series – See Below)

This is the second in a series of three weekend workshops on spirituality, physical and emotional health. Learn more about our next weekend workshops and save $48 when you register for all three together.

Spirituality & Meditation: The Art and Practice of Becoming that which our Heart Seeks

Therapeutic Meditation: Therapists Perspective on Emotional Wellness Through Meditation

 

Our nervous system is bathed in a sea of peptides, molecules and chemicals which are constantly affected by the emotional state that we are in. Most of us are victims of our emotional state. We are boats floating in a sea that may change from sad to happy or stressed to calm at a moments notice. For many people the boat is rudderless,  with Heart Rhythm Meditation gain control of that ship and steer it in a direction that is beneficial to our goals in life.

Having a well mixed marinade for our nervous system to inhabit improves our vagal tone. Good vagal tone has been connected with:

Heart Rhythm Meditation makes you feel better and feeling better helps your vagal tone, but Heart Rhythm Meditation helps in a second, much more direct and visible way: HRV improvement. Heart Rate Variability is the best indicator of vagal tone. Heart Rhythm meditation creates an immediately visible change in your heart rate variability. Below is a graph of someone who had never meditated before. The meditation begins just after the minute and a half mark. This first time meditator immediately improved the regularity of their heart beat. Regular Heart Rhythm Meditation has shown drastic improvements in Heart Rate Variability even after the subjects discontinued regular practice. 

 

Course Schedule and Format:

This 3-day live online workshop will feature live lectures, presentations, guided meditations, Q&A,  and breakout groups. Each presentation will be presented here on our website via Vimeo video, with breakout group discussions over Zoom.

FRIDAY:

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT

SATURDAY:
9:00AM – 11:00 AM PDT

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDT

SUNDAY:
9:00 AM – 11 AM PDT

The Power of Breath & Heart presented by Kathleen Friend, MD

Medicine teaches us that breath is inhaling and exhaling air to exchange gases to support life. Yet breath is more than air and has a power beyond oxygenating our body. In this session, we will discover the real power of breath to restore our capacity for health physically and emotionally. Learn how the breath connects to the heart and emotion so we can reorganize our physiology for optimal health. Through guided breath practices, we will perform our own scientific experiments to discover our reactions to different breaths. Once we experience our own inner landscape, we can use these breath practices to empower us for a desired outcome

Come and play with breath and discover the power for transformation through breath and heart.

Do you need:

•  More energy? Less energy?

•  Vision for new creative solutions?

•  Optimism? Passion?

•  Compassion and connection?

•  Grounding and stability?

Kathleen Friend, MD is trained in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and currently works as a Child Psychiatrist and Medical Director at Intermountain Health Center in Tucson, Arizona. She is a children’s author of 2 books, The Greatness Chair and Sarah in the Greatness Chair- a novel method to see and develop the best in children. As a trained classical singer, she has a special connection to breath and its power. She is a graduate of the foundational 2-year program of IAM Heart called IAMU which is a deep dive into personal transformation through heart rhythm meditation practices. She is also a graduate of the advanced programs of IAM Heart including the Graduate Program in Spiritual Leadership, Hurqualya Healing and Mentor Training.  She has practiced Heart Rhythm meditation for 9 years and is currently a mentor and teacher for IAM Heart.

Thriving In Your Mammalian Nervous System presented by Dr. Bonnie Colby, Professor, University of Arizona

Join Dr. Colby to explore how you can:

• Build real-time skills to thrive in tough times • Cultivate supportive connections during the pandemic • Reignite your energy to tackle challenges • Defuse reactivity in yourself and others • Replenish deeply when not “on deck”

• Participate in reducing oppression based on race or gender

Dr. Bonnie Colby focuses on the role of the nervous system in addressing conflicts between individuals and across cultures. As a behavioral scientist, she evaluates nervous system interventions to improve community well-being and capacity to engage in collaborative problem solving. Dr. Colby has authored dozens of journal articles and 8 books and provided invited testimony to the U.S. Congress, but what she REALLY loves is working with people on what matters most to their well-being. Dr. Colby has been meditating for over 40 years and leading meditation classes and retreats for 18 years, focusing on sensory-based meditation that assists in nervous system regulation. She is certified in Dr. Stephen Porge’s Safe & Sound Protocol and teaches on-the-spot practices to address stress in daily life. Her teaching meets trauma-informed meditation guidelines and she has a background in restorative movement. Bonnie is Teacher, Mentor and Retreat Guide in the Institute of Applied Meditation.

The Mental and Physical Benefits of Heart Rhythm Meditation: Its Value for the Care-Provider presented by Charles Palmer, MD

We will discuss the importance of developing and retaining emotional capacity for delivering compassionate care and how you can use Heart Rhythm Meditation to advance these goals. Participants will have the option to learn how to meditate by participating in a guided meditation. We will discuss the physiological effects of heart rhythm meditation on the heart, breath and the autonomic nervous system. We will focus on how these meditation effects reduce stress and improve parasympathetic (vagal) tone to improve physical well-being in a way that prepares us for the emotional and spiritual benefits of meditation. We will review data from some preliminary research studies done by the presenter that suggest regular meditation produces lasting and beneficial changes to our health and vagal tone. We will discuss how this form of meditation can be helpful restorative practice for improving self-awareness, and the capacity for delivering compassionate

Dr. Charles Palmer explains how you can be “captain of your emotional marinade.” In this seminar he will go into much further depth on the the topic of the connection between emotional well being and physical well being. Below we see a chart showing HRV over time, in and out of meditation. We can see that the normal heart rate is erratic and the meditating heart is a rhythmic and even beat.

Charles Palmer is a Professor of Pediatrics at Penn State University and Emeritus Chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital in Hershey PA. He is a medical researcher, innovator and clinician. He has studied the effects of Heart Rhythm Meditation on heart rate variability and vagal tone. He has practiced various forms of meditation for many years and Heart Rhythm Meditation specifically for the last 10 years. He graduated from of the 2 year training program from the Institute of Applied Meditation (iamU) in 2012. He has continued to advance his training in applied meditation and serves as a mentor for the program. He teaches heart rhythm meditation to colleagues from his medical center. He has a particular interest in the benefits of HRM for care-givers.

Feel Better, Be Better:

The Health Benefits of Heart Rhythm Meditation

A Three Day Workshop Featuring Live Lectures, Meditations and Group Discussion

Friday, July 31st – Sunday, August 2nd

Led by iamU Graduates Kathleen Friend, MD, Dr. Bonnie Colby, and Dr. Charles Palmer

Live Video Sessions + Live Zoom Breakout Sessions 

Course Price: $99 (Save by Registering for the Full Series – See Below)

This is the second in a series of three weekend workshops on spirituality, physical and emotional health. Learn more about our next weekend workshops and save $48 when you register for all three together.

Spirituality & Meditation: The Art and Practice of Becoming that which our Heart Seeks

Therapeutic Meditation: Therapists Perspective on Emotional Wellness Through Meditation

 

Not sure if this workshop is right for you? Call us at 520-299-2170 or email at question@iamheart.org

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