Developing an Intuitive Spiritual Practice:
A Journey to Heal across Cultures
from India to Japan to North America
Begins: Monday, January 9, 2012, 12:00 noon (PT)
Ends: Saturday, January 14, 2012, 9:00 AM (PT)
Presentation Center, Los Gatos, California
Keynote: Dr. Mukund Subramanian
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Day Pass: $75 (includes lunch)
Click here for day pass registration
Morning Session (Lecture and Discussion):
The Art of Healing Across Cultures: Garlic Moxibustion (Ninniku Okyū), Detoxification and the Restoration of Qi and Prana
In the 1990s, Dr. Mukund Subramanian trained in a distinct Garlic Moxibustion (Ninniku Okyū) healing technique with Ōmura Toyo, a renowned healer, in Aomori, Japan. This very old and powerful practice involves burning moghusa or moxa (an extract of the mugwort plant) on top of garlic slices. With this, a patient receives an intensive heat-based therapy and treatment that heals chronic weaknesses and detoxifies and restores qi or prana (life force) in the body. This is a very effective treatment for cancer and for rejuvenating organ stagnancy. Mukund has been treating patients in San Francisco with this technique since 2004. Please see www.moghusa.com for details.
Afternoon Session (Experiential Workshop):
Music and Embodying Spiritual Energy: Awakening the Senses through South Indian Devotional Carnatic Music and Chanting
Mukund Subramanian, who lived in Japan for thirteen years, comes from a family of Carnatic musicians in Chennai, India. Mukund is of Tamil origin and was born into a family that has been dedicated to Carnatic music for generations. In his years of learning to sing in this tradition, his grandmother, the late Savitri Rajan, a veena maestro of the Dhanammal tradition, always reminded him that the ability to fully embody one's own tone and breath in unison with the tambura (the drone) is the soul of the raga and the composition that unfolds. Over the years, this knowledge led Mukund to formulate Resonance Yoga®, a practice which instills mind-body alignment via vocal, tonal, breathing, meditation, and visualization exercises. Please see www.resonanceyoga.com for details.
Note: Please be prepared to sit on the floor for the afternoon session. If possible, bring a yoga mat or rug that can be folded up and opened to lie down on. You might want to bring a meditation cushion as well.
Dr. Mukund Subramanian holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University. At Stanford, he received an award for his creative understanding of pilgrimage, healing and shamanic practices involving the mind, body and ritual in northeastern Japan as seen through a lens shaped by his background in South India. He has also been a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Institute for Japanese Studies where he presented his distinct perspective on the workings of ritual, collective emotions and memory. Over the years, Mukund has combined scholarly inquiry with the practice of healing and music. He is currently completing a manuscript about his journey to heal across boundaries. This work presents various techniques and practices, including moxibustion, through which emotions and memories are embodied, invoked and healed. Mukund's exploration of the emotional, socio-cultural and psychosomatic states that interweave the mind and body of the healer/seer and the patient/participant within restorative ritual practices illuminates our individual and collective journey toward discovering intimacy across cultures. See http://www.moghusa.com/biography.html.
Please complete the Seminar Registration Form, read the FAQ, and submit with payment.
Day pass participants may register online.
For additional information contact: chines@itp.edu
Healing Aspects of the Shamanic Journey Circle
Steven Schmitz
Friday, January 13
7:00 – 9:00 pm
(No Passes)
The Shamanic Journey is an ancient spiritual practice that is still beneficial today. This Journey can empower, enliven, and transform our daily lives. Through this practice of direct revelation, you can access transpersonal knowledge during ecstatic experiences by shifting consciousness, traveling to spirit realms, and interacting with helping spirits. Dr. Schmitz, an experienced Circle leader, will help close this January seminar by creating sacred space, offering a healing ceremony, and supporting shamanic journeying with live drumming. This Shamanic Journey Circle, designed for the ITP Global Ph.D. students and faculty, also provides an opportunity for community building and spiritual growth.
Please bring a drum or rattle, an eye covering, and a journal.
Steven Schmitz, Ph.D. , has a private practice of shamanic counseling, spiritual guidance, and dream work. He facilitates Shamanic Journey Circles at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and internationally. Steven's doctoral research at ITP was on the therapeutic use of the shamanic journey. He also is an international speaker and workshop leader, a member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners, and a board member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the European Transpersonal Association. Steven is currently working with Q'ero paqos from the Andes of Peru.
