Robert Rosenbaum – Mindfulness in Motion: Using Qigong, Acupressure and Meditation for Healing Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and Pain in Clinical Practice

Mindfulness in Motion – Robert Rosenbaum

• What’s wrong with mindfulness (AND what isn’t)
• Integrate mind and body through acupressure massage and Qigong and Taiji movements
• Packed with experiential exercises to use with your clients immediately

Imagine what it would be like for your clients to be free from anxiety, depression, trauma or pain. What if you could show your clients specific strategies to become more mindful and compassionate by immediately working with their concrete bodily experiences of themselves in the present moment?

This new workshop will be unlike any other mindfulness training you’ve received! Join experienced mindfulness presenter Robert Rosenbaum, PhD as he will give you an experiential packed workshop.

Robert will teach your clients through body movement and awareness that mindfulness meditation is accessible, beneficial and practical. By integrating mind and body through movements, acupressure massage and meditations of Dayan (Wild Goose) Qigong, learn how to apply these mindfulness techniques:

• sensate focus while standing to interrupt panic attacks
• qigong movements to reduce depression
• meridian tapping massages to help with trauma and decrease self-harming behaviors
• hand and tongue positions to improve stress management

Mindfulness doesn’t live in your head-don’t miss this chance to integrate mindfulness in your practice tomorrow!!

1. Recognize how mind and body mutually influence each other.
2. Demonstrate 15 points for acupressure self-massage and two kinds of whole-body tapping massage.
3. Demonstrate qigong movements commonly used in clinical practice for healing.
4. Demonstrate three types of walking meditation.
5. Differentiate between mindfulness as a technique and mindfulness as a way of life.
6. Apply the principles underlying specific acupressure points and qigong movements to increase the efficacy of standard treatments of anxiety, depression, trauma and pain.

GET MINDFULNESS IN MOTION: USING QIGONG, ACUPRESSURE AND MEDITATION FOR HEALING ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, TRAUMA AND PAIN IN CLINICAL PRACTICE OF AUTHOR ROBERT ROSENBAUM

PART I – CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS

Review of Mindfulness

• Critiques of mindfulness as technique
• Role of the body in mindfulness practice

Practical Neuroscience

• You are not (just) your brain
• Disorders of over-activity
• Role of autonomic nervous system
• Cerebellum and emotional balance
• Basal ganglia: fluidity of thought & feeling

Mind and Body: A Necessary Unity

• Advances in mind-body research
• Embodied cognition

PART II – EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Acupressure Self-Massage

• 15 important acupuncture points
• Managing eye gaze
• Two types of acupressure tapping massage

Qigong and Taiji Movements

• Standing and balance: centering
• Restoring energy, dispelling stress
• Four walking meditations

Body-Focused Sitting Meditations

• Alignment, posture
• Placing awareness “in” the body
• Adjusting face, tongue, hands feet

Breath and Beyond the Breath

• How to teach diaphragmatic breathing
• Alternate breathing
• Letting go of the breath – “just natural”

GET MINDFULNESS IN MOTION: USING QIGONG, ACUPRESSURE AND MEDITATION FOR HEALING ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, TRAUMA AND PAIN IN CLINICAL PRACTICE OF AUTHOR ROBERT ROSENBAU