Peter Payne, master qigong teacher, researcher at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and co-founder of Bodymind Science, discusses ongoing clinical research into qigong for COPD, offers a standing qigong practice and informs on embodied neuroscience.

Clinical Use of Qigong with Peter Payne

Join clinician and author Lisa Dale Miller at the leading edge of integrative mental health! We deliver thoughtful dialogues with innovative clinicians, researchers and contemplatives that unite health science research and profound wisdom traditions, inform about somatic psychotherapies and Buddhist psychology, and we do it all with big dose of intelligence, clarity, curiosity and openheartedness.

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This dharma talk is a reminder that every moment is an invitation to decrease the mass of human suffering. Lisa explicates why cultivating Bodhicitta is the ultimate path to accomplishing that aim in the midst of ordinary daily life.

Awakened Heartmind

The Buddha taught unconditioned mind—purification via contemplative effort. Later Buddhism taught innate basic goodness or Buddhanature. I compare these two frameworks using suttas and affective neuroscience, and I’m joined by a co-teacher Chat-GPT!

Basic Human Goodness

Cassandra Vieten and I discuss shifting the mental health crisis into a mental health renaissance. Cassie’s work has helped psychology integrate many mind-body interventions for human flourishing. Learn easy ways to facilitate health and well-being

Mental Health Renaissance

Season 5 concludes with a pointed and timely discussion of the pitfalls of packaging and delivering meditation as a performative act in health contexts with Donna Sherman, clinical social worker and yoga and mindfulness teacher. Happy Holidays!

Meditation Beyond Optimization

Alison Ash PhD educator and creator of sex positive workshops discusses consent skills, sexual pleasure and intimacy, varied forms of coupling, and why erotica is not pornography. We cover harmful effects of sexual trauma and how to heal from it.

Clinical Use of Qigong with Peter Payne

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