Dr. Herbert Benson, M.D., an American cardiologist, born in 1935, is a pioneer in mind/body medicine, one of the first Western physicians to bring spirituality and healing into medicine. He is founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute near Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wesleyan University and Harvard School of Medicine.

Dr. Herbert Benson is now the Director Emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI).

He is the author or co-author of more than 175 scientific publications and 11 books. More than four million copies of his books have been printed in many languages.

The Relaxation Response

In the 1960’s Dr. Benson defined the term the Relaxation Response.

Benson is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, Dr. Benson lectures widely about mind/body medicine and the BHI’s work. Dr. Benson’s research extends from the laboratory to the clinic to Asian field expeditions. His work serves as a bridge between medicine and religion, East and West, mind and body, and belief and science.

Books by Dr. Herbert Benson

• The Relaxation Response
   
• Beyond the Relaxation Response

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Martha Lucier is a gifted shaman and teacher who offers a variety of courses through Shamanism Canada. The offices are in South River, Ontario some 2 1/2 hours north Of Toronto and the course work is held at her awesome retreat and lodge Northern Edge Algonguin.

I was introduced to Marth Lucier by my teacher Jeannette McCullough. I was looking to expand my education in Shamanism and Jeannette felt that her old friend and colleague would be a good place for me to begin. Martha and Jeannette had studied together learning Medicine for the Earth with Sandra Ingerman.

Martha has become a very special friend and guide in my life. Here connection with spirit has helped to guide me in so many ways. I am very fortunate to have been introduced to her and become here student.

Medicine for the Earth

Martha has been introducing individuals and groups to shamanism for over a decade and is one of a small group of presenters in Canada who teach Medicine for the Earth.

Core Shamanism

Martha Lucier has practiced core Shamanism based on the work of Michael Harner the founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies since her introduction to Shamanism in 1993.

Northern Edge Algonquin

Martha is based in the most idyllic setting at the retreat Northern Edge Algonquinon the edge of Algonquin Park that she operates with her husband Todd. What a wonderful place.

Explore or Expand your Shamanic Studies

If you are looking to explore or expand your interest in Shamanism I highly recommend Martha Lucier and Shamanism Canada.

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Deena Metzger is a poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman who has taught and counseled for over forty years, in the process of which she has developed therapies (Healing Stories) which creatively address life threatening diseases, spiritual and emotional crises, as well as community, political and environmental disintegration.

Jeannette McCullough introduced me to Deena when she visited Toronto in 2007.

Training

Deena works with individuals and in group settings primarily in Los Angeles, occasionally leading retreats nationally and internationally. She has spent a lifetime investigating Story as a form of knowing and healing. As a writer, she asks: Who do we have to become to find the forms and sacred language with which to meet these times?

She conducts training and supervision groups for healers and medical and health professionals — from physicians to shamanic practitioners — on the spiritual, creative, political and ethical aspects of healing and peacemaking, individual, community and global, drawing deeply on alliance with spirit, indigenous teachings and the many wisdom traditions. One focus is on uniting western medicine with indigenous medicine traditions.

Dare

With her husband, writer/healer Michael Ortiz Hill, she has introduced the concept of Daré from Mandaza Kandemwa to North America . Daré, meaning Council in the Shona language of Zimbabwe, is a creative form of personal and community healing and cohesion, based upon Council, vision, indigenous knowledge and spiritual practice.

Los Angeles Daré

The Los Angeles Daré, devoted to supporting individual and community healing on behalf of the future, relies on council, alliance with spirit and the natural world, ancestor work, indigenous and wisdom traditions and teachings, music healing, dream telling, divination, kinship, story telling to achieve personal transformation and social change.

Books

Deena is the author of many books:

• From Grief into Vision: A Council;
• Doors: A fiction for Jazz Horn;
• Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing;
• The Other Hand;
• Tree: Essays and Pieces, A Sabbath Among the Ruins, Looking for the Faces of God and
• Writing For Your Life.

Family

She has two sons, is married to Michael Ortiz Hill. They live at the end of the road with the wolves, Cherokee, Tsche Wa-Yah and Shoonaq’.

Deena Metzger Website

Deena’s website.

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