Mindfulness Instruction ~ Suggested Reading ~ Integral Resources
For Mindfulness Meditation: Many approaches to the practice of mindfulness can be found within the various schools of Buddhism, each emphasizing differing aspects of the basic practice. Each can
be useful in its own way. Here is information about where to learn some of the mindfulness methods particularly helpful in working with emotions, located in Colorado. For information in other U.S. cities or
worldwide, go to www.buddhanet.net. If you can't get to a mindfulness retreat center, a correspondence course is available through:
www.soundstrue.com.
www.rmsc.shambhala.org
www.meditationincolorado.org
www.taramandala.org
www.boulderzen.org - the Boulder Zen Center is dedicated to providing opportunities for traditional Zen practice and welcomes people of all ages and approaches.
www.shambhala.org/center/boulder - The center offers many classes and programs for those interested in meditation including open houses, drop-in
classes on Buddhism, and Shambhala Training intro talks as well as intensive Saturday workshops on meditation
www.naropa.edu - Naropa University is located in Boulder, Colorado, 25 miles northwest of Denver.
Selected Readings
For Schema Therapy: If you want to understand schemas in more detail and explore specific strategies for dealing with a given schema, I recommend Reinventing Your Life by
Jeffrey Young and Janet Klosko (Plume, 1993). For professionals providing therapy, I recommend the comprehensive treatment manual Schema Therapy by Jeffrey Young, Janet Klosko, and Marjorie
Weishaar, for the practice of schema therapy.
Those therapists who have been trained by Dr. Jeffrey Young and his associates are most experienced in schema therapy. The pool of those who practice schema therapy is becoming quite extensive as well as
international. To find out if there is a schema therapist in your area, you can go to www.schematherapy.com.
For Naikan Therapy: If you want to understand this form of Japanese psychotherapy and explore related constructivist living ideas, I recommend Naikan: Gratitude, Grace and the Japanese Art of
Self-Reflection by Gregg Krech. To explore Constructivist Living, you can go to www.todoinstitute.org.
For those interested in combining mindfulness with their therapy practice, I recommend Emotional Alchemy by Tara Bennett-Goleman -- www.emotionalalchemy.com.
Three books that I love to read and re-read for spiritual inspiration, Walking on Lotus Flowers, by Martine Batchelor; Women in Search of the Sacred by Anne Bancroft; and Weavers of Wisdom: Women Mystics of
the 20th Century by Anne Bancroft.
A truly significant book written by a genuinely enlightened being whose message needs to be desperately heard in our world today, Talks with Ramana Maharshi, by Ramana Maharshi (2001).
Basics in Integral Readings
A Theory of Everything, Ken Wilber, (Shambhala 2000)
Spiral Dynamics, Don Beck & Christopher Cowan (Blackwell, 1995)
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Ken Wilber (Shambhala 1995)
In Over Our Heads, Robert Kegan (Harvard University Press 1994)
Eye of Spirit, Ken Wilber, 1997
Integral Psychology, Ken Wilber (Shambhala 1999)
The Radiance of Being, Allan Combs (Paragon House 1997)
Changes of Mind, Jenny Wade (SUNY 1996)
How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work, Kegan and Lahey (Jossey-Bass 2001)
The Phenomenon of Man, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Wm Collins & Sons 1959)
Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo Ghose (Lotus 1985)
For more books by Ken Wilber, go to www.worldofkenwilber.com.
To learn more about Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) - the program for realizing the potential of mind, body, heart, and soul, developed by George Leonard and Michael Murphy, I recommend their book
The Life We Are Given (1995).
Inter Resources
Health
www.youngliving.com - For the highest quality nutritional supplements and therapeutic grade essential oils to support optimum health and
cellular balance. I personally use Body Balancing Trio and Juvatone and a variety of essential oils to support my body’s highest potential. For more information or to order you may contact me directly at
Suzanne@integraltherapist.com or 303.273.5575.
www.healingtouchofboulder.com - Healing Touch Chiropractic of Boulder specializes in family and women's wellness care, sports
medicine, rehabilitation, and acute & chronic injury care.
www.helioshealthcenter.com - Helios Integrated Medicine is a family practice medical clinic integrating the healing modalities of
the world.
www.health-dynamics.com - Carol Dalton and Shirley Joffs provide dynamic team of holistic health care and lifestyle options and
assists in developing and implementing personal plans for optimal health.
www.bch.org/services/maternitycare.cfm/Maternity Physicians -
Boulder Women’s Care - Group of female obstetricians who specialize in the compassionate care of women during pregnancy. They also treat infertility and provide medical and surgical treatment for problems
with reproductive organs.
www.safejourney.com - Spruce Street Internal Medicine – Group of women internists who provide a traditional variety of medical services
with emphasis on women’s health.
Fitness
www.alchemyofmovement.com - The Nia exercise program that integrates mind, body and soul.
www.eldoradoyoga.org - The best yoga classes emphasizing the spiritual aspects of the practice.
www.coloradomassage.com - My pick for a massage in a contemplative environment.
Learning & Education
www.renewaltrails.org - Shamanic teachings, techniques and trainings by one of the wisest of all Wise Women, Ruby Gibson.
www.integralinstitute.org - Integral Institute, a center in Denver comprised of over 400 leading integral thinkers dedicated to
creating and producing genuinely integral approaches in the various areas of human activity.
www.sacredstonehealing.com - Sacred Stone Holistic Education Center is dedicated to providing high quality learning experiences through homestudy programs
and on-site classes for massage therapists, aestheticians, yoga enthusiasts, and other healing professionals. They specialize in the art of stone bodywork with the principles of Ayurveda.
http://www.thefourwinds.com - Alberto Villoldo, PhD and distinguished faculty offer programs for those of you called to professional training as a healer, as well as those on a
path of personal development. Each year Dr. Alberto Villoldo leads journeys and expeditions to Peru, India, and Africa. The journeys to Peru offer an experience of the shamanic teachings at their source
with Inca master shamans.
Community
www.ihadboulder.org - The "I Have a Dream"® Foundation of Boulder County (IHAD) is a long-term dropout prevention program run by
volunteers for low-income children in Boulder County, Colorado.
www.ci.boulder.co.us - Boulder, a cosmopolitan town of 100,000 nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains , offers a variety of
holistic, cultural and natural resources.
www.bouldercoop.org - The Co-op is the only vegetarian grocery and organic vegetarian cafe in Boulder providing locally grown produce
and a wide selection of locally made natural and holistic products.
www.boulderteahouse.com - a gift from Dushanbe, one of Boulder’s sister city’s.
www.hikingincolorado.org - Brainard Lake in the Indian Peaks Wilderness area north of Boulder offers something very precious -
solitude amid the most superb scenery you can imagine. This spiritual sanctuary is one of the most awe- inspiring places I have found where the nothingness that I feel when experiencing my small self in the
vastness of earth and space is offered as a divine gift. Take the hike to St. Isabel Glacier and you’ll see what I mean.
Music & Art
www.nawangkhechog.com - Nawang Khechog is a former Tibetan monk and Grammy nominee and one of Boulder's foremost world music composers
and musicians.
www.investrarephoto.com - James McCrea’s visionary “Phusion” photography that unites the inner and outer world of phenomena and
creates within his camera the inter-relationship of physical and metaphysical reality.
www.homeimport.com - Indochine, an import store that offers aesthetic beauty in asian inspired furnishings, décor and sculpture.
www.alisonwright.com - Alison is a freelance photojournalist based in San Francisco, specializing in documenting the traditions and changes of endangered people
in remote areas around the world. She is the 1993 recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in documentary photography for her photographs of child labor in Asia. She lived with exiled Tibetans in Nepal and
India for over a decade, recording their culture and the challenges which exile has brought.
www.stuartdavis.com - Stuart Davis offers intelligent and spiritually challenging music. He’s an exceptional songwriter and considered a rare genius in pop music.
www.alexgrey.com - Alex Grey is a brilliant and pioneering painter.
Spiritual
www.pathwork.org - The Pathwork is a collection of teachings that point the way to genuine love of self, others, and the Divine.
www.simhas.org/bokar.html - My main meditation teacher.
www.kcc.org/mahamudra_india_2003.html - The Very Venerable Bokar Rinpoche and Khenpo Lodro Donyo Rinpoche are conducting a retreat covering the complete stages of the path of Mahamudra. Bokar Rinpoche, the
spiritual heir of Kalu Rinpoche and holder of the Shangpa Kagyu Lineage, has formulated this retreat seminar and an accompanying year-long program of meditation practice to meet the needs of lay
practitioners of Buddhism.
Women’s Wisdom
www.themothermagazine.com - "The Mother is an international magazine of fertility awareness, conscious conception, peaceful pregnancy, sacred birth,
extended breastfeeding, natural immunity and attachment parenting.
www.drnorthrup.com - Dr. Northrup is a leading proponent of medicine and healing that acknowledges the unity of the mind and body, as well as the powerful role of
the human spirit in creating health. Dr. Northrup stresses that to improve health, women need an entirely new way of thinking about and caring for their bodies.
www.myss.com - an interactive internet community to learn about holistic, energy, and intuitive medicine.
www.wildwritingwomen.com - A group of San Francisco Bay Area writers who have been meeting together for over ten years to critique one another's work.
Non-Profit / Charity / Geo-Political
www.mtkailash.org - A non-profit Tibetan refugee sponsorship organization focused on providing sponsors for Tibetan’s living in exile in
Nepal , such as children, the elderly, and TB patients as well as providing funds for irrigation projects, planting of fruit trees and for medical and educational supplies within this camp.
www.savetibet.org - The International Campaign for Tibet works to promote human rights and self-determination for Tibetans and to protect their culture and
environment.
www.heifer.org - The Heifer Project is courageously addressing some of the most difficult problems facing our world today--ending hunger, preserving the environment,
empowering women and building strong, self-reliant families and communities.
www.warchild.com - War Child is a non-profit organization working across the world to help children affected by war. War Child stands on the twin beliefs: that we’re
not free to ignore an innocent victim’s plea for help and that children are the seed-corn of society, its future hope.
www.mightycompanions.org - A Los Angeles based non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the awareness of ourselves as a One Life. They produce events,
projects and communications to support a shift of consciousness from outer focus to inner, from separation to union.
Publications
www.shambhalasun.com - Shambhala Sun Online - Excerpts past and current issue are available.
www.tricycle.com/p_home.html - Tricycle Magazine - Online articles
www.wisdompubs.org - Wisdom Publications - Dedicated to books on Buddhism.
www.bodhionline.org - Bodhi Magazine a publication for the Nyingma and Kagyu sanghas, now provides an online adjunct to the magazine
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