For health care professionals who want to go deeper into the tools to improve resilience and enrich their quality of life, the Living Well Intensive Retreat combines the powerful breathing practice of Sudarshan Kriya with the profoundly relaxing Sahaj Samadhi Meditation.

This 3-day retreat is an opportunity to learn simple self-care practices that

• Reduce stress, exhaustion, and compassion fatigue
• Enhance physical, mental, spiritual, and social well-being
• Help to navigate the challenges of personal and professional life with more tranquility and dynamism, resulting in improved performance.

The program also gives HCPs an opportunity to earn 20 CME/CNE credits as provided by joint partnership of Art of Living Foundation with NYU Post-Graduate Medical School and ANCC respectively. See below.

Objectives

Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to

1. Recognize the connection between body, mind, breath, and Self
2. Manage the mind to help bring awareness, alleviate stress and burnout  
3. Relate to the science of breath and breathing techniques as tangible tools to increase energy and reduce stress    
4. Identify and optimize the sources of energy to maximize personal well-being
5. Demonstrate, perform, and practice yoga asana, breathing techniques, and the unique process of Sudarshan Kriya®
6. Learn the science of consciousness—how to handle thoughts and the stress relief process during meditation
7. Create a daily Sahaj Samadhi Meditation practice
8. Incorporate what you learn into daily life to create regular self-care practices for life-long benefits.

Curriculum

Yoga Asanas

Various gentle and vigorous postures including a specific sequence of invigorating and soothing yoga postures called Padma-Sadhana®.

Yogic Science of Breathing

Various Breathing techniques including Victory Breath (also known as Ujjayi Breath), Bellows Breath (also known as Bhastrika), Alternate Nostril Breathing (also known as Nadi Shodhan), and Bee Breath (also known as Bhramari).

Rhythmic Breathing

Sudarshan Kriya® Yoga (also known as SKY practice) is a powerful breathing process that is the centerpiece of the course. It uses specific natural rhythms to facilitate the release of deep stress and harmonize the body-mind complex.

Sahaj Samadhi Meditation®

Sahaj means natural or effortless and Samadhi means the state of deep peace and rest that underlies thought and activity. This is an ancient meditation practice that allows the conscious mind to settle deeply into itself in a natural, effortless way.

Science of consciousness and its four states in context to meditation.

Yoga Psychology

Cognitive Behavioral Reframing is an Interactive experiential processes based on ancient and modern science.

Mind/Body R&D

Yoga Genetics—Neuroplasticity—is used to develop your personal self-care routine for improving resilience.

Benefits

• Learn tools and techniques to prevent and reverse the burnout, enhance personal and professional performance. 
• Create a daily self-care practice to live a happier and healthier life.
• Earn up to 20 AMA PRA Category 1TM CME credits for MDs and 20 AANP contact hours CNE credits for Nurses.
• Lifetime access to weekly Sudarshan Kriya® practice groups in more than 10,000 Art of Living centers around the world in over 155 countries through Journey membership.
• Opportunity to connect with a global community of meditating doctors and other HCPs.

Research

Research has demonstrated that Sudarshan Kriya® and related practices can

• Reduce levels of stress; reduce cortisol, the stress hormone
• Relieve anxiety and depression (mild, moderate, and severe)
• Enhance well-being (increase prolactin)
• Regulate brain function (increased mental focus, calmness, and recovery from stressful stimuli, including PTSD)
• Support the immune system
• Increase antioxidant protection
• Help to restore normal sleep patterns.

Accreditation

NYU—New York University Post-Graduate Medical School

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint provider ship of the NYU Post-Graduate Medical School and the Art of Living Foundation. The NYU Post-Graduate Medical School is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT

The NYU Post-Graduate Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AHNA—American Holistic Nurses Association

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

This continuing nursing education activity is approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission (ANCC) on Accreditation.

Continuing Education Credits

This program is approved for the following continuing education credits.

Physicians

CME Credits—20 CME under the standards of Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) for MDs.  

MD Participants will receive a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. 

Nurses

CNE Credits—20 Contact Hours Continuing Educational Credits for Nurses under the standards of American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

Nurses will receive a maximum of 20 CNE contact hours. 

Other Health Care Professionals

Certificate of Attendance for all other Health Care Professionals.

Participants may also wish to attend the free 2-hour pre-session, Introduction to the Living Well Programs, and free 2-hour post-session, Follow-up to the Living Well Programs, to earn up to 1.5 additional continuing education credits. These sessions are offered at specific times and venues, before and after the program; please contact the program coordinator for the schedule.

More information on Sudarshan Kriya® and Sahaj Samadhi Meditation can be found at

• Sudarshan Kriya – Science of Breath
• Research on SKY & Sahaj Meditation
• Meditation Now & Then
• Living Well Programs