Seminar Detail
5-Day Yoga and Meditation Retreat for Mental Health Professionals
- Where:
- BOONE, NC
- When:
- Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - Sunday, October 11, 2020
Course Description:
Rejuvenate yourself and your healing abilities with an educational retreat in the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Earn up to 22 CE hours in an incredible environment!
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 beautiful Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina. This is the perfect setting to deepen your learning of both yoga and meditation! All levels are welcome.
This meditation and yoga retreat is a rich exploration into practices that can cultivate happiness and healing. We will follow a balanced schedule of meditation, clinical teachings and group discussion, gentle yoga movement, experiential mindfulness 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 and calm our nervous systems.
To ensure rejuvenation there is plenty of free time for walking, contemplation and resting. The Art of Living Retreat Center offers an exquisite landscape, 380-acres for garden walks, and healthful, vegetarian cuisine and stylish accommodation. At times during the retreat, we will maintain silence to facilitate deep transformation.
Rejuvenate yourself and your healing abilities with an educational retreat in the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Earn up to 22 CE hours in an incredible environment!
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 beautiful Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina. This is the perfect setting to deepen your learning of both yoga and meditation! All levels are welcome.
This meditation and yoga retreat is a rich exploration into practices that can cultivate happiness and healing. We will follow a balanced schedule of meditation, clinical teachings and group discussion, gentle yoga movement, experiential mindfulness 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 and calm our nervous systems.
To ensure rejuvenation there is plenty of free time for walking, contemplation and resting. The Art of Living Retreat Center offers an exquisite landscape, 380-acres for garden walks, and healthful, vegetarian cuisine and stylish accommodation. At times during the retreat, we will maintain silence to facilitate deep transformation.
RETREAT SCHEDULE – Wednesday, October 7 – Sunday, October 11, 2020
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, October 8-10, 2020
Sunday, October 11, 2020
* CE is awarded during these specified times
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
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4:00 pm – Check-in at retreat center
5:15 pm – Welcome & orientation
6:00 pm - Dinner
7:30 pm – Educational program*
9:00 pm – Break for the night
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, October 8-10, 2020
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7:30 am – Breakfast
8:30 am – Educational program*
10:40 am - Break
11:00 am – Hatha yoga & meditation
12:00 pm – Lunch & free time
2:30 pm – Educational program*
4:30 pm – Break
4:45 pm – Yoga, yoga nidra, meditation
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm – Educational program*
9:00 pm – Break for the night
Sunday, October 11, 2020
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7:30 am - Breakfast
8:30 am – Educational program*
10:30 am - Break
10:45 am – Closing circle
12:00 pm – Social Lunch
* CE is awarded during these specified times
Retreat Location
Embrace the art of living in a pristine natural setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Boone, North Carolina. Here in this vast mountain range under serene blue skies, you will find beauty to feed your soul and peace to ease your mind. The Art of Living Retreat Center offers a balance of rest and activities to begin your journey:
Sleeping Accommodations
Hotel Rooms
Located on a mountain ridge, these rooms offer beautiful vistas of either the stunning Blue Ridge Mountains or the quiet magic of the forest.
Retreat Rooms
Comfortable and simple, these rooms are located along the Eastern mountain slope and are a great option for those who desire peaceful relaxation accompanied by the music of the forest.
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.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ART OF LIVING RETREAT CENTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE (artoflivingretreatcenter.org)
Embrace the art of living in a pristine natural setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Boone, North Carolina. Here in this vast mountain range under serene blue skies, you will find beauty to feed your soul and peace to ease your mind. The Art of Living Retreat Center offers a balance of rest and activities to begin your journey:
- Hotel and Retreat Sleeping Rooms – all with Private Baths
- 380-acre setting in the peaceful Blue Ridge Mountains
- Healthful Vegetarian Cuisine (3 Meals Daily)
- Shankara Ayurveda Spa
- Nature Trails
- Yoga Classes
- Mind & Meditation Classes
- Labyrinth
- Fire Circle (Sat only)
- Kirtan
- Pottery Studio
- Nearest Airports:
- Charlotte-Douglas International Airport (CLT) in Charlotte, NC (100 miles)
- Tri-Cities Regional Airport (TRI) in Johnson City, TN (80 miles)
- Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) in Greensboro, NC (110 miles)
- Airport shuttle service to and from Charlotte airport can be arranged in advance through Hickory Hop Shuttle (additional fees).
Sleeping Accommodations
Hotel Rooms
Located on a mountain ridge, these rooms offer beautiful vistas of either the stunning Blue Ridge Mountains or the quiet magic of the forest.
- Full or king beds
- Private bathrooms
- Includes amenities such as TV, refrigerator & writing desk
Retreat Rooms
Comfortable and simple, these rooms are located along the Eastern mountain slope and are a great option for those who desire peaceful relaxation accompanied by the music of the forest.
- Two twin beds per room
- Private bathrooms
- Simply furnished
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.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ART OF LIVING RETREAT CENTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE (artoflivingretreatcenter.org)
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 regime.
- 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.
- Explain polyvagal theory and implications for resources for emotional regulation.
- Describe use of Emotional Freedom Technique to help clients with emotional stabilization.
Outline
Brain Perspective
Brain Perspective
- Triune brain and mental healing
- Negativity bias of 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
- Teaching meditation to clients
- 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
- Cultivating inner refuge and pleasant inner atmosphere
- 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 compassion on brain
- Primary and secondary causes of suffering
- Heal shame with understanding, compassion and non-shame physiology
- Non-anxious presence as clinician
Target Audience:
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapists Assistants
- Psychologists
- 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
Course Level: Intermediate. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
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
Course Level: Intermediate. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
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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ADA Needs
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