Seminar Detail
5-Day Certificate Program: Yoga and Meditation Retreat
- Where:
- GARRISON, NY
- When:
- Monday, April 1, 2019 - Friday, April 5, 2019
Course Description:
Rejuvenate yourself and your healing abilities with an incredible retreat in the Garrison Institute, a former Capuchin monastery overlooking the beautiful Hudson River. Earning 22 CE hours has never been more relaxing.
Experience the transformational practices of meditation, yoga, self-inquiry, present moment awareness, self-compassion and noble silence, along with their clinical applications, in an ideal setting – the magnificent Hudson Valley. This perfect location is ideal for deepening your learning of both yoga and meditation! All levels are welcome.
The meditation and yoga retreat is a rich exploration into practices that cultivate happiness and healing. We will follow a balanced schedule of meditation, clinical teachings, art expression, group discussion, gentle yoga movement, transformational practices, mindful eating, walking meditation, noble silence and deep rest. We will journal our responses to inquiry questions, practice emotional regulation skills, learn to witness thoughts, calm our nervous systems and experience inner quiet.
To ensure rejuvenation there is plenty of free time for walking, contemplation and resting. The Garrison Institute offers an exquisite landscape, walking paths, and healthful and incredibly well prepared vegetarian cuisine. Accommodations are simple, peaceful and in keeping with the healing atmosphere of the Institute.
No Yoga or Meditation experience needed!
Rejuvenate yourself and your healing abilities with an incredible retreat in the Garrison Institute, a former Capuchin monastery overlooking the beautiful Hudson River. Earning 22 CE hours has never been more relaxing.
Experience the transformational practices of meditation, yoga, self-inquiry, present moment awareness, self-compassion and noble silence, along with their clinical applications, in an ideal setting – the magnificent Hudson Valley. This perfect location is ideal for deepening your learning of both yoga and meditation! All levels are welcome.
The meditation and yoga retreat is a rich exploration into practices that cultivate happiness and healing. We will follow a balanced schedule of meditation, clinical teachings, art expression, group discussion, gentle yoga movement, transformational practices, mindful eating, walking meditation, noble silence and deep rest. We will journal our responses to inquiry questions, practice emotional regulation skills, learn to witness thoughts, calm our nervous systems and experience inner quiet.
To ensure rejuvenation there is plenty of free time for walking, contemplation and resting. The Garrison Institute offers an exquisite landscape, walking paths, and healthful and incredibly well prepared vegetarian cuisine. Accommodations are simple, peaceful and in keeping with the healing atmosphere of the Institute.
No Yoga or Meditation experience needed!
Sleeping Accommodations:
If you would like to be paired up with another potential, unknown attendee to take advantage of the double occupancy rate, please call and let us know. We will aim to pair you up if somebody else registers who also would like to share.
In the meantime, please register at the single occupancy rate. If we are able to pair people, the $200 will be credited.
If you would like to be paired up with another potential, unknown attendee to take advantage of the double occupancy rate, please call and let us know. We will aim to pair you up if somebody else registers who also would like to share.
In the meantime, please register at the single occupancy rate. If we are able to pair people, the $200 will be credited.
Cancellation Policy: Prior to 45 days before the event start date, you will be charged a $100 cancel fee. For cancellations received after that, you will receive a gift certificate for your purchase amount to attend any future live PESI sponsored seminar.
Please contact PESI customer service for information on non-CE seeking to register as a guest for pricing and other details.
Please contact PESI customer service for information on non-CE seeking to register as a guest for pricing and other details.
Objectives:
- Analyze the effects of yoga and meditation on the triune brain as applied to clinical practice.
- Distinguish between the default network, salience network and central executive network and utilize this information for client psychoeducation.
- Articulate the concept of negativity bias in the brain as it relates to clients who have experienced trauma.
- Characterize the social brain, use of interpersonal neurobiology and accessing beneficial ancestor qualities to activate the affiliation system of the brain.
- Utilize concentration, distancing, observation and distraction in treating depression producing thoughts.
- Apply breathing practices, simple body movement, emotional freedom technique and self-compassion for emotional regulation.
- Describe salience network, default network and use of sensory input for emotional regulation.
- Analyze the neuroscience of anxiety, trauma and depression as it relates to treatment.
- Apply specific mindfulness skills and practices as part of your anger management treatment regimen.
- Teach components of mindful self-compassion and discuss its clinical applications with clients.
- Explain how to teach clients to dis-identify from a narrative of unworthiness.
- Explain the relationship between “inner critic”, shame, and treatment according to evolutionary psychology.
- Assess mindful eating for its usefulness as a therapeutic tool.
- Teach mindfulness practices to address negative thoughts regarding chronic pain.
- Practice yoga poses and yoga Nidra applicable to the clinical setting for depression, shame and emotional trauma/anxiety.
- Construct a life review-eulogy to help focus therapy on client’s most important values.
- Evaluate a mindful communications process for conflict resolution and emotional bonding.
- Incorporate mindfulness and self-compassion techniques to help regulate emotional distress.
- Demonstrate breathing interventions/practices that may help reduce anxiety and depression.
- Develop processes for reducing rumination and negative thinking with clients.
- Practice teaching from script for brief therapeutic chair yoga for anxiety to use with clients.
- Practice teaching from script for brief chair yoga for shame to use with clients.
RETREAT CONTENT
Brain Perspective
Brain Perspective
- Triune brain and mental healing
- Negativity bias for the brain for survival
- Default network, salience network, central executive network
- Social brain: causes and conditions
- Powerful communication practice
- ”Beginning Anew”
- Inquiry into transient nature of life
- Primary components of meditation
- Impact of yoga on nervous system
- Utilize simple yoga in treatment
- Emotional self-regulation
- Body scan and sensory input
- Breath awareness and breathing practices
- Approaching, not avoiding emotions
- Practice for accessing beneficial ancestor qualities
- Detach from thoughts that wound
- Use of mantras, chants, songs for healing
- Store consciousness/mind consciousness and therapeutic implications
- Habit tendencies and neuronal pathways
- Naming thoughts
- Creating inner space and witnessing thoughts
- Nourishing wholesome thoughts
- Compassion and healing
- Healing impact of self-compassion on brain
- Primary and secondary causes of pain
- Heal shame with understanding, compassion and non-shame physiology
- Brain wave activity and cultivating healthy thoughts
- Access truest values to guide therapy
RETREAT SCHEDULE - Monday – Friday, April 2-5, 2019
Monday
-
1:00 – 3:30 pm – Check In
3:45 pm - Orientation
4:45 pm – Yoga/meditation
5:45 pm - Dinner 7:00 pm – Evening meeting
8:40 pm - Meditation
9:00 pm – Break for the night
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
-
6:45 am - Meditation
7:30 am - Breakfast
8:30 am – Morning meeting
10:30 am - Break
11:00 am - Yoga
12:00 Noon - Lunch
2:30 pm – Transformative practice
4:15 pm - Break
4:30 pm – Walking meditation/practice teaching
5:45 pm - Dinner
7:00 pm – Evening meeting
8:40 pm - Meditation
9:00 pm – Break for the night
Friday
-
6:45 am - Meditation
7:30 am - Breakfast
8:30 am – Morning meeting
10:45 am – Contemplation and closing
12:00 noon – Social lunch
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Addiction Counselors
- Mental Health Professionals
MARY NURRIESTEARNS, MSW, LCSW, C-IAYT
Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, C-IAYT, teaches seminars and retreats to teach clinicians how to take mindfulness skills, brain based protocols for treating shame and office-based yoga back to their clients. These evidence based clinical interventions move therapy forward by improving emotional regulation, restoring healthy nervous system functioning and cultivating healthier thought patterns. Both mindfulness and yoga practices have brought healing and calm to Mary’s clients and students.
Mary provides participants with the latest research results and pulls together the work of experts in the mental health field who are proponents of both practices (i.e. Bessel van der Kolk, Jon Kabat-Zinn). She draws on 37 years as a mental health professional counselor and 27 years of meditation and yoga practice. She is a certified yoga therapist, seasoned yoga teacher and ordained member of Thich Naht Hahn’s Order of Interbeing. Mary is the author of Healing Anxiety, Depression and Unworthiness: 78 Brain-Changing Mindfulness & Yoga Practices (PESI, 2018), Yoga for Anxiety with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2010), Yoga for Emotional Trauma with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2013), Yoga Mind – Peaceful Mind with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2015), and Daily Meditations for Healing and Happiness: 52 Card Deck (PESI, 2016). Mary is the co-editor of Soulful Living (Hci, 1999) and former editor of Personal Transformation magazine. She has produced DVDs on yoga for emotional trauma and depression. Mary teaches across the United States.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Mary NurrieStearns maintains a private practice. She receives compensation as a speaker, yoga, teacher, and published author. Ms. NurrieStearns receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Mary NurrieStearns has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live event only. After attendance has been verified, pre-registered attendees will receive an email from PESI Customer Service with the subject line, “Evaluation and Certificate” within one week. This email will contain a link to complete the seminar evaluation and allow attendees to print, email or download a certificate of completion if in full attendance. For those in partial attendance (arrived late or left early), a letter of attendance is available through that link and an adjusted certificate of completion reflecting partial credit will be issued within 30 days (if your board allows). Please see “live seminar schedule” for full attendance start and end times. NOTE: Boards do not allow credit for breaks or lunch.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
Addiction Counselors
This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 22.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
Counselors
This intermediate activity consists of 22.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
Marriage & Family Therapists
This activity consists of 1330 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists
PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Nurses in full attendance will earn 22.1 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.
Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Psychologists
PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 22.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Workers
Other Professions
This activity qualifies for 1330 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
Addiction Counselors
This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 22.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
Counselors
This intermediate activity consists of 22.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
Marriage & Family Therapists
This activity consists of 1330 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists
Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Psychologists
PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 22.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Workers
Other Professions
This activity qualifies for 1330 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI HealthCare, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
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