Psychiatrists Discuss Breath Techniques for Anxiety, Trauma Relief on Internet Radio April 16

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - April 15, 2013 - PRLog -- HaveAHealthyMind.com
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New York – Integrative psychiatrists Richard P. Brown, MD, and Patricia Gerbarg, MD, discuss how to use your breath for well-being as well as for physical and psychic relief from anxiety and trauma with radio host Andrea Garrison on Online with Andrea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm ET on Blog Talk Radio.

To tune in go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onlinewithandrea/2013/04/16/the-healing-power-of-the-breath. The call-in number is (347)426-3895, press #1 to connect on-air. For those who miss the program, it can be found in archives at www.onlinewithandrea.com 24 hours after the air date.

The dialogue will include subjects from the award-winning book The Healing Power of the Breath (with CD, Shambhala, 2012) as well as the Breath~Body~Mind® teachings of Drs. Brown and Gerbarg. The core technique is based on Coherent Breathing (see coherence.com), a modern form of anapanasati practiced by advanced Thai Buddhist monks. This practice, described in a Chinese text 3000 years ago and followed by Zen monks, was independently rediscovered by two modern research groups. The effects of Coherent Breathing are magnified by combining it with advanced breathing techniques from yoga, Qi Gong, and Russian Orthodox monks to bring the body’s systems into optimal balance and a higher energy state.  

Dr. Brown is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York. He gives over 200 medical lectures every year, including full-day courses for the American Psychiatric Association and other professional groups, as well as workshops for non-profits such as Serving Those Who Serve in New York City.   He is a certified teacher of Aikido (4th Dan), Yoga, Qi Gong, and meditation.  His workshops have helped thousands of people deal with everyday stress and enabled survivors of trauma and mass disasters to recover their health and well-being.

Dr. Gerbarg is an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychiatry at New York Medical College.  She graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. In addition to her clinical practice, she provides consultation and facilitates the development of research projects on the health benefits of mind-body practices for recovery from mass disasters.

Dr. Brown and Dr. Gerbarg are co-authors of the award-winning How To Use Herbs, Nutrients, and Yoga in Mental Health Care (WW Norton, 2009) with Philip Muskin, MD, and The Rhodiola Revolution (Rodale). Their new books are the award-winning Non-Drug Treatments for ADHD: New Options for Kids, Adults, & Clinicians (WW Norton, 2012) and The Healing Power of the Breath, with a CD, (Shambhala, 2012).  They have an Internet site at HaveAHealthyMind.com with mental health information combining standard and complementary treatments, their research, other resources, and a free newsletter.      

Radio host Andrea Garrison produces her weekly two-hour program, Online with Andrea, at Blog Talk Radio on the Internet. Topics on her program include explorations of “health, fitness, body, mind, heart, soul, spirit, the spoken word, art, music, dance, theater, film, the environment, planet earth, and beyond.” Garrison is also the author of In the Presence of Angels (Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2013). Garrison’s web site is onlinewithandrea.com.