The 2007 Urban Zen Foundation
Well – Being Forum
MAY 14- 24, 2007 AT THE URBAN ZEN CENTER
The Well-being Forum was an unprecedented event. Ten days in May were designed and carefully planned to bring a dream to a reality: giving a forum for the exchange of ideas between patients, and world renowned doctors, nurses, yoga instructors and alternative healthcare practitioners. The result was pure inspiration: the collective voices of the panelist and audience members created a robust collection of ideas, potential initiative and creative solutions to serious healthcare problems.
Collectively we sensed we were a defining moment of what can be achieve when science and creativity come together. The hopes and needs expressed by the professionals on the panel and those in the audience underscored the importance of change in the patient care/advocacy paradigm. The ideas, emotion and energy created within the Initiative demonstrated what can be achieved when we call come together with purpose. These issues touch us all and those we love. It has become clear that unified effort, we can effect change.
The Urban Zen Initiative Well-Being Forum not only met our goals, but transcended them: The dream moved to reality, and the reality must move on to action. We hope, through our combined and continued efforts, Urban Zen becomes a part of a global initiative. Help us help continue to create consciousness and awareness. With your support, our dreams can come true and together we can change the paradigm of the patient care.
SCHEDULE
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 14
7:30 – 9:30am
The Path Yoga Training Class taught by Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee with a special meditation by Anne Ornish.
Rodney and Collen will be teaching yoga professionals to become patient advocates. These yoga classes will integrate yoga, restorative yoga postures, yogic breathing and mediation to help the patients in their healing process.
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 15
7:30 – 9:30am
The Path Yoga Training Class taught by Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee with a special meditation by Anne Ornish.
Rodney and Collen will be teaching yoga professionals to become patient advocates. These yoga classes will integrate yoga, restorative yoga postures, yogic breathing and mediation to help the patients in their healing process.
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 16
7:30 – 9:30am
The Path Yoga Training Class taught by Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee with a special meditation by Anne Ornish.
Rodney and Collen will be teaching yoga professionals to become patient advocates. These yoga classes will integrate yoga, restorative yoga postures, yogic breathing and mediation to help the patients in their healing process.
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 17
7:30 – 9:30am
The Path Yoga Training Class taught by Gary Kraftsow
Gary will train the patient advocates Vinyoga therapy to develop specific treatment strategies, based on individual assessment, the address a patient’s structural, physiological and psycho-emotional condition. In this session, participants will experience an example of this integrative process, using movements, breath adaption and meditation techniques.
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 18
7:30 – 9:30am
The Path Yoga Training C lass taught by Richard Freeman
Richard will teach the patient advocates the essentials of Ashtanga yoga, ones that can be utilized in the hospital setting. He has distilled the Ashtanga practice into crystal and gems.
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 19
7:30 – 9:30am
The Path Yoga Training Class taught by James Murphy and Mary Dunn
James and Mary will be training patient advocates using their cast collective experience in the practice of Iyengar Yoga. The panelists will demonstrate various ways that Iyengar Yoga postures affect a person’s physical, mental and psychological state. You will learn how and why these postures empower to create structural and physiological change.
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 21
7:30 – 9:30am
Open Tai Chi Class taught by Master Ren Guang-Yi, accompanied by Lou Reed
Master Ren will teach a form of ‘meditation in motion’ where the continuity of its movements, combined with the evolution of one’s undivided attention, heal and revitalize both the body and mind. The class will help return the body and mind to its original pure and healthy state.
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 22
7:30 – 9:30am
Open Tai Chi Class taught by Sharon Gannon and David Life
David and Sharon are the founders of Jivamukti Yoga. They will be training the patient advocates in a multitude of yoga techniques that branch from sound to silence and movement to stillness.
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 23
9am – 12pm
Meditation, Walking, Dharma Talk
Special Reading by Laurie Anderson
Morning Afternoon Evening
May 24
7:30 – 9:30am
The Path Yoga Training Class taught by Collen Saidman Yee
Colleen will train the patient advocates in the art of the feminine energy in yoga. She light s up when women gather to practice yoga and engage in dialogue. She uses yoga practices to uncover the innate endless compassion that allows us to touch those in need in need in these times.
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