What is the Mind-Body Connection?

The mind-body connection recognizes the reality that the mind and body are intimately and ultimately linked as one.  There is absolutely no separation.  What is thought or felt always resonates throughout the body moment by moment through a bio-chemical reaction.  This reaction is either life and health enhancing or defeating.  It has also been verified that each emotion has a distinct biochemical signature that affects mental and physical health.

Researchers report that meditation, controlled breathing, deep relaxation and directed, guided imagery can boost the immune system, alter blood pressure, decrease pain, and help with problems such as infertility and insomnia.  These practices often help people cope with and recover from unpleasant medical procedures as well as the effects of stress from daily living.  Furthermore, the refinement of consciousness that takes place leads to spiritual growth and maturity.

Positive aspects of this connection consist of and contribute to:

• The ability to accomplish dreams and goals
• Feelings of contentment
• Living in balance
• Physical, emotional, and mental well-being
• Awakening the spirit
• Finding peace and happiness

On the other hand, the mind-body connection can also:

• Undermine one’s health physically, mentally and emotionally
• Create negativity
• Block the flow of creative and healing energy
• Contribute to illness, injuries and disease
• Cause unhappiness and dissatisfaction

Transformational tools that activate and assist this process include:

• Focused breathing
• Guided imagery and creative visualization
• Meditation
• Mind-body fitness modalities like yoga and tai chi
• Affirmations
• Honest expression and congruence of thoughts, feelings and actions

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• Crown Pull
  Stimulates blood flow to your brain. Reduces mental congestion. Helps overcome insomnia.  Strengthens memory. Opens the crown chakra to higher inspiration.
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  Stimulates your energy, boost your immune system, and release stress, relieve pain.

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Trouble sleeping? Insomnia is at epidemic proportions and has dreadful consequences.  A few problems associated with inadequate sleep include feeling irritable, exhausted, lowered immunity, poor mental / emotional health, and heart disease.

Relaxing regularly and deeply is the perfect remedy to conquer stress.  The World Health Organization predicts that stress-related disorders and psychological disorders will be the second leading cause of disabilities in the world by 2020.

Guided Relaxation is another tool for your stress relief toolbox. The secret to gaining relaxed energy is to clear away the mental ruckus and emotional debris to make room for clear thinking.

One of the easiest ways of doing this is through relaxing the muscular tension held in the body by tensing and releasing muscle groups throughout your body using a reliable technique known as progressive muscular relaxation.  Doing so not only releases physical tension, it also teaches you the felt difference between tension and relaxation.

By knowing this, you can catch physical tension early on and before it causes painful headaches, back problems and digestive trouble.  A calming effect for the body, mind, emotions and spirit is awakened as well.

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Crown Pull

Stimulates blood flow to your head.  Reduces mental congestion.  Helps overcome insomnia.  Strengthens memory.  Opens the crown chakra to higher inspiration.

o   Start with your thumbs on your temples with fingertips resting at the middle of your forehead.

o   Apply pressure and slowly pull your fingers apart, stretching the skin.  Breathe deeply, in through your nose and out through your mouth.  Repeat if it feels good.

o    Place your fingertips at your hairline and repeat the stretch.

o    Repeat this pattern starting at the top, center, and back of your head.  Continue until you reach the base of your neck.

3 Thumps

Stimulates your energies, boosts immune system, and releases stress.  Relieves pain.

• Place the fingers of either or both hands in the center of your sternum at the thymus gland.  Tap for 15 – 20 seconds.  Use your thumb and all your fingers.  As you tap, breathe slowly and deeply in through your nose with your tongue at the roof of your mouth and out through your mouth.
• Tap or rub the neuro-lymphatic spleen points firmly for about 15 seconds.  They are beneath the nipples of the breasts and down one rib.
• Tap or rub the spleen acupuncture points located on the sides of the body about 4 inches below the armpits. As you tap, breathe slowly and deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth.
• In the future, use either the neuro-lymphatic spleen points or the spleen acupuncture points if one set is more tender than the other.

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Topics Include

• • How to Lead Deep Relaxation, (Yoga Nidra), Guided Imagery and Yoga Meditation

    – Yoga Alliance Approved Teacher Training
    

    Deep relaxation (Shavasana and Yoga Nidra) and guided imagery are powerful techniques for stress management and personal development.  They are used in a wide variety of settings ranging from yoga and meditation sessions to mental health treatment.  You will:
    –  Expand your skills and build your repertoire of relaxation and imagery guided imagery and meditation techniques
    –  Learn how to create the right atmosphere, use your voice effectively, select the best music, and more
    –  Gain confidence in leading individuals and groups
    –  Find out how to avoid common pitfalls.
    –  Become capable of writing powerful scripts and

  • • Offered at Kripalu (4 years), Discovery Yoga in FL (4 years), Cincinnati Yoga Teachers Association, Atma Yoga Teacher Training (3 years) (back to topics)
      

• Mind-Body Mastery:
  Understand the Principles – Benefit from the Practices

  

  Explore the power of the mind-body connection and put it into action to immediately enhance health in body, mind and spirit. From relieving stress, improving your outlook, cultivating a kind and compassionate heart, to making friends with Spirit, the mind-body connection does it all – and more.

  • Find out what the mind-body connection is and why it is so vital
  • Understand and explore the best tools and techniques to use to harness the mind-body connection positively and productively
  • Find out the remarkable benefits from serious studies to amazing stories.  Put it to the test and see for yourself.
  • Apply the mind-body connection personally to
    • Augment healing – physically, mentally and emotionally
    • Release tension and get energized
    • Learn therapeutic relaxation techniques to conquer stress
    • Understand and use guided imagery correctly
    • Benefit from this workshop through information, experiential activities and lively discussions

    Leave feeling energized and with practical mind-body tools to take home.

    →  Offered at Sivananda / Bahamas, Burke Marketing, and others

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• Stress Relief through Real Relaxation, Guided Imagery and Meditation
  

  Maximize your energy and health by finally getting the practical formula you need for managing stress using guided relaxation, imagery, yoga meditation, and sensible lifestyle changes as your tools. This workshop reviews the dynamics of stress, provides experiences in a variety of proven, user-friendly relaxation methods including guided imagery, yoga nidra, and meditation. You will leave feeling relaxed and energized, with a plan in hand for transforming everyday anxiety into awakened living.  Thousands are already using Julie’s guided imagery and meditation exercises in hospitals nationwide for increasing health.

  Offered at Kripalu Yoga Center (4 years); Integral Yoga at Yogaville, VA, and others
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  Special Retreat for Women:

  M&M’s for the Body, Mind & Spirit

  There’s nothing like a gathering of women to renew yourself.  Together, we’ll find out about the feminine approach to the practice, playfulness and passion of yoga for and about women. It’s a heart-centered way of being  fluid, nurturing, expressive, emotional, cyclical and changeable.  Clarity, compassion, courage and kindness are cultivated.  We will weave this together into a comfy quilt of M&M’s for the mind, body and spirit.  The M’s include movement, music, meditation, mudras, mandalas, mantra, the magic of the mother spirit and more.  Did I mention the Moon Salute?  The ‘S’ in M&M’s will bring us together as a sanga, which means socializing with sages, for satsang (discussion) and the development of our own personal spiritual practice or sadhana.  We’ll enjoy a shakti celebration.  It’s divine! (back to topics)

Yoga Meditation

In this workshop, you will find the meditation method that’s best for you for naturally discovering your inner strength and source of joy and inspiration.  You’ll learn to calm your restless mind and benefit from the healing nature of meditation.  You’ll explore a variety of methods including mindfulness, japa (mantra repetition), walking meditation, and more.  We will also cover how to integrate a meditation practice into a busy lifestyle.  Julie is the author of Yoga Meditations:  Timeless Mind- Body Practices and numerous CD’s.
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• Goddess Yoga

  Embody the Goddess within and around you with yoga postures, breath, sound and more. Come learn posture sequences that honor and embody the feminine Devis of yoga. You’ll find out why and how this is being done. It’s fun, innovative, fluid, intuitive, nurturing, creative and powerful. We’ll also work with the chakras, mandalas, mudras and more. Women and men are always welcome.

  Offered at Kripalu Yoga Center, Sivananda Ashram – Bahamas, and Satchidananda -Yogaville, Jesuit Spiritual Center (back to topics)

• Salutation to the Moon: Chandra Namaskar
  

  Enjoy learning the Moon Salute, a wonderful and powerful yoga posture sequence. Information about the moon and its influences and how the moon’s energy figures into yoga philosophy and practice are shared. We will creatively delve into guided imagery, moonstones, special music and more. (back to topics)

• Journey Inward and Onward
  

  Self-awareness and uncovering your true self is at the very heart of yoga. Based upon yoga’s wisdom teachings this session will take you inward through pranayama (breathing), yoga nidra (deep relaxation) and meditation and onward through guided imagery and journaling to help you unlock the purpose of your life journey and support you with the insight, steadiness, and courage needed to live your life authentically at home, work and at play. (back to topics)

• Desktop Yoga ®
  

  Learn to do self-care yoga stretches and how to take a “2-hour nap in 2-minutes”. Everything is effective, portable and easy and designed to be done in a chair right at the office or workstation. Sequences are also taught to increase energy, improve creativity and to reduce frustration.  Julie is the author of Desktop Yoga ®. (back to topics)

   

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  I’ve done lots of retreats that utilize and combine various aspects of mandala, labyrinth, chakras, salutation to the moon, and the feminine. Each involves, yoga, meditation, a creative project, music, imagery, and more. I especially like designing programs around a theme and am always willing to consider suggestions. (back to topics)

Julie’s Qualifications:

• Of most importance, I’ve taught yoga since 1977 in a variety of settings with a wide range of students.
• Registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 500 E-RYT level with experience.
• Served on the faculty as the co-director for the Atma Yoga Teacher Training
• Taught at the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Conference or led a program every year since 2002.
• Earned yoga teacher certifications through
  • White Lotus Foundation – Certified Yoga Instructor and Advanced Instructor Certification
  • Atma Yoga
  • Nischala Joy Devi’s “Yoga of the Heart” certification
  • Additional master classes with Lilias Folan, Christopher Baxter, Sarah Powers, Michael Reed-Gach, Richard Miller, Sam Dworkis, Donna Farhi, Sally Kempton, Joe Panoor and many others
• Author of
  • Yoga Meditations:  Timeless Mind-Body Practices for Awakening
  • Desktop Yoga (R)
  • 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing – Volumes 1 and 2
  • Mind Body Mastery
  • Complete Chakra Chart
  • Real Relaxation:  Yoga Nidra CD
  • Power of Presence CD
  • Wholesome Relaxation CD
  • Wholesome Energizers CD
  • Refreshing Journeys CD
  • and 6 more CD’s

“I liked the combination of lecture, experience and processing – good learning process. Julie is knowledgeable and walks the talk! I’ve had personal experiences with many techniques and have read some research. I never felt comfortable teaching or leading others. Now I do. ”
Yoga Teacher/ Marketing Consultant.  Warm Springs, VA

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Julie Lusk
Wholesome Resources
Milford, OH   45150

Greater Cincinnati Area