Proactive Mindfulness

In this conversation, Alice Ladas reflects on the drive and energy that has fueled her professional activities and her zest for life.

Alice K. Ladas, Ed. D., is a pioneer for body psychotherapy, educated childbirth, breastfeeding, and sexuality education.  The research she and her husband did (Women and Bioenergetic Analysis)  led to meeting her co-authors on the NY Times best seller The G Spot and Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality. Alice was chair of the research committee of the US Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) for many years. In 2008, the USABP honored Alice by naming its research award The Alice Kahn Ladas Research Award to honor her for her tireless efforts to further research in Somatic Psychotherapy. She is a licensed psychologist in New Mexico.

Published December 2011. See other conversation on this site with Alice Ladas and conversation with her about therapy.

Alice Ladas reflects on the drive and energy that has fueled her professional activities and her zest for life.

In this conversation, Jonathan Foust talks about the moment of change.

 

Jonathan Foust, MA, CSA is a senior teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington,  a founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute and former President of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.  He is a certified trainer in Focusing and incorporates the principles of Focusing and meditation with clients, students and classes.   Jonathan has been leading retreats and training teachers for over 25 years.  He is based in the Washington DC area. Website: http://www.jonathanfoust.com/

Published November 2011

Stephen Porges explains the polyvagal theory.

In this conversation, Judyth Weaver talks about how to be in the moment, in a practical, down-to-earth way.

Judyth O. Weaver was a modern dancer in NYC and SF when, in 1965, she went to Japan where she studied Kabuki and Noh and other forms of movement and then entered a Zen Buddhist monastery.  Upon her return to the U.S. in 1968 she studied T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Sensory Awareness, becoming certified to teach both.  She earned her Ph.D. in Reichian Therapy in 1979.

She is also certified as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and in Prenatal and Birth Therapy. She is a Rosen Method practitioner and senior teacher.  Judyth was professor at the California Institute for Integral Studies for 25 years; is co-founder of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and creator of its Somatic Psychology doctoral program; she has developed her own integrated manner of working which she calls ‘Somatic Reclaiming.’ She has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, and teaches internationally. See: JudythWeaver.com

Published October 2011