On Campus Program
Breath-Body-Mind Fundamentals Practices for Stress Management, Personal Development, and Resilience
- Presenter: Richard P. Brown
- Presenter: Patricia L. Gerbarg
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LEARN PRACTICES FOR STRESS-REDUCTION & BETTER HEALTH
Breath-Body-Mind™ (BBM) integrates ancient and modern trauma-sensitive techniques to rapidly balance stress-response systems for self-care and healing others. Developed by Integrative Psychiatrists, Richard P. Brown, MD and Patricia Gerbarg, MD, BBM has proven benefits—for healthcare professionals, patients, veterans, and child and adult survivors of mass disasters—and has been shown to increase resilience and reduce the effects of stress.
Join Dr. Brown and Dr. Gerbarg, along with other advance BBM teachers, and immerse yourself in a joyful and educational experience to relieve stress and enhance your physical and mental health.
Through gentle movement, breathing, and music, you will:
- Learn simple, trauma-sensitive, breath-centered techniques.
- Discover how these are used for personal development, clinical practice, medical settings, schools, disaster recovery, and more.
- Practice breathwork including coherent breathing, Sky and Earth, Painting the Waterfall, and The Great Harmonizer of the Breath.
- Participate in small group processes.
Dr. Gerbarg discusses research (e.g., studies on anxiety, PTSD, COVID stress, bowel disease, and everyday stress) that explains how breath techniques, combined with other practices, lead to significant rapid improvements in psychological and physical well-being, sympathetic-parasympathetic balance, emotion regulation, and symptom resolution in a wide range of conditions. She also presents new developments in BBM disaster relief in Ukraine, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Rwanda, Ireland, and other places. Learn more about this groundbreaking work at breathbodymindfoundation.org and breath-body-mind.com.
NOTE This program is open to all and fulfills the prerequisite for those interested in becoming BBM Instructors.
Recommended reading Richard P. Brown and Patricia Gerbarg, The Healing Power of the Breath: Simple Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety, Enhance Concentration, and Balance Your Emotions (available at Amazon or shambhala.com)
Recommended listening Coherence 2 Bells 60-minute MP3 track, available at iTunes, Spotify, coherence.com, and Amazon.
Included in Your Stay
| Daily Yoga Classes | 3 All-Natural Meals | Access to the Kripalu Grounds |
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Yoga Experience
All levels
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Explorer
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Presenter(s)
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Richard P. Brown, MD, is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a certified teacher of aikido, qigong, yoga, and meditation.
Full Bio and ProgramsPatricia L. Gerbarg, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, researches the efficacy of mind-body practices for post-traumatic stress disorders and depression.
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