Shadow Yoga, Shamanism & Psychology
This course explores the nature of trauma and the way it drives our everyday experience – often in unrecognized ways. We will look at the different ways in which we ‘store’ traumatic experience and explore different methods for approaching the resolution of traumatic experience. The class focuses on the personal transformation model of Depth Hypnosis. We will explore how Depth Hypnosis addresses the symptoms of trauma by drawing on Buddhist understandings about the nature of suffering, earth-based wisdom techniques for catalyzing change, energy medicine methods of addressing trauma on the subtlest levels of experience, hypnosis as a vehicle for the exploration of the deeper self where traumatic experience is often registered, and transpersonal psychology as a framework for integrating these methods into the clinical setting.
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. holds degrees and certificates in transpersonal psychology, cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, hypnotherapy, and transformational healing. She has been a dedicated Buddhist practitioner for forty years and has spent over thirty years studying spiritual, therapeutic, and meditative techniques from around the world. Isa has worked with master teachers of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism and Sufism, as well as expert shamanic practitioners from a variety of traditions.
Isa is the creator of Depth Hypnosis, a groundbreaking therapeutic model that has won rave reviews from psychotherapeutic and spiritual counselors alike. She is also the Founding Director of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream, a school for consciousness studies in Berkeley, California. Isa teaches and speaks nationally and internationally, and has published numerous articles, podcast episodes, videos, and the books Coming to Peace and Return to the Great Mother. She maintains a private practice with institutions and individuals in Depth Hypnosis and Coming to Peace processes. Isa speaks five languages and has lived in eleven countries. She is the mother of two children and lives with her partner in San Francisco.
4 Downloadable Videos & MP3s
Course Readings
10 Yoga Alliance Cont. Ed. Credits
10 Embodied Philosophy Credits
In our first module we will look at definitions of trauma and explore Carl Jung and other transpersonal psychologists’ theoretical frameworks for working with trauma in the clinical setting. We will explore how hypnosis and other altered states of awareness offer pathways for accessing and understanding the effects of traumatic experience.
In this session we will explore the paradigms Buddhist psychology offers regarding the generation of trauma and its resolution. These include perspectives on reincarnation, the nature of karma, karmic patterns and karmic conditioning, the Four Noble Truths, the Two Truths. We will also explore the role of compassion in the resolution of trauma.
Earth-based wisdom systems offer comprehensive methods for understanding what generates trauma and powerful technologies for healing it. We will explore such concepts as power loss and power retrieval and soul loss and soul retrieval. We will also look at how this ancient wisdom can best be integrated into the clinical setting.
Energy medicine provides tools for highlighting and resolving the effects of trauma on the subtlest levels of experience. We will learn how energy medicine works with the tools of sound and light to affect change on the level of spirit, which supports the resolution of trauma held on a physical, mental or emotional level.
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This course, plus:
Unlimited Access to Course Archive
2+ New Courses Every Month
Access to Lecture Library: Over 200 Hours of On-Demand Content
New weekly talk curated from our most recent live event
New Yoga Seminar talk every month
New MindBody Seminar talk every month
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