2020 TWIMS Conscious Wellness: Tuning the Mind and Body for Health & Prevent: Full Schedule

9:00am PDT

Early Check-In

Friday May 22, 2020 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
LK101/102

Registration

9:30am PDT

Tibetan Medicine Level I

Speakers

Tashi Dorjee, Menpa

སྨན་པ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྡོ་རྗེ།Menpa Tashi Dorjee was born in Kathmandu, Nepal. He completed his primary and secondary education in both Nepal and India. He received his Menpa Kachupa degree in Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) from the Tibetan Medical... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2020 9:30am - 10:20am PDT
LK101

Pre-conference Workshop (optional)

9:30am PDT

Art of Compassion: Sand Painting Creation

Speakers

Lobsang Partsang, Menpa, Geshe Ngarampa

དགེ་བཤེས་བློ་བཟང་ཚེ་རིང།Geshe Lobsang was trained for Tibetan medicine at Sorig Khang International. He holds a Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from University of East West Medicine and is a candidate of Doctor of Acupuncture... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2020 9:30am - 11:20am PDT
LK102

Pre-conference Workshop (optional)

10:30am PDT

Pre-conference Workshop: Tibetan Medicine Level II

Speakers

Kunchog Tseten, Menpa

Friday May 22, 2020 10:30am - 11:20am PDT
LK101

Pre-conference Workshop (optional)

11:30am PDT

Lunch Break

Friday May 22, 2020 11:30am - 12:15pm PDT
TBD

Break

12:15pm PDT

Welcome Speech

Friday May 22, 2020 12:15pm - 12:30pm PDT
LK130

Plenary

12:30pm PDT

Opening Meditation

Speakers

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD

Alejandro Chaoul is the Huffington Foundation Endowed Director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston, bringing a new approach for helping healthcare professionals flourish by reducing stress and burnout, and improving health, resilience and nourish the human... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2020 12:30pm - 12:40pm PDT
LK130

Grounding/Meditation/Yoga

12:40pm PDT

Opening Keynote: A Gentle Rain of Compassion

The purpose of medicine is to relieve suffering. Compassion is the heartfelt desire to relieve suffering. Therefore, compassion is a key component of medical practice. However, in Western medicine we have no tradition of actually training people in compassion; at best we like to just encourage people to be more compassionate. In recent times, there has been more interest in offering compassion training to people who are studying medicine. This training is often aimed at stimulating a basic level of compassion. Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, on the other hand, aims to allow practitioners to achieve very high levels of compassion, allowing for a compassion that becomes more stable, vast, and effortless. This talk will present the basis of Tibetan Buddhist training in compassion, and how it could be adapted to the training of those studying medicine.

Speakers

David Shlim, MD

David R. Shlim, M.D. first visited Nepal in 1979 to work as a volunteer doctor for the Himalayan Rescue Association, at an aid post at 14,000 feet. After three stints near the base of Mt. Everest, he moved to Kathmandu in 1983 to begin what became a fifteen-year career as the Medical... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2020 12:40pm - 1:10pm PDT
LK130

Keynote Speech

1:10pm PDT

Explorations and Dialogues 1: Burnout and Balance

Increasing numbers of healthcare professionals from multiple disciplines are affected by the Burnout Experience: exhaustion, cynicism, and a decline in professional interest and efficacy are just some of the symptoms. Panelists will share their understanding of conditions contributing to the problem of burnout, and ways to facilitate balance between work and rest, giving and receiving, times of activity interspersed with stillness--for the wellness of not only the provider, but patients and clients and the work community as a whole.

Moderators

Sakti Srivastava, M.D.

Speakers

Phuntsog Wangmo, Menpa

Menpa (Dr.) Phuntsog Wangmo is the Academic Director of the Shang Shung School of Tibetan Medicine, located in Conway, MA. Menpa Phuntsog received her advanced degree in Tibetan Medicine from Lhasa Tibetan Medicine College (Men-Tsee-Khang) and trained with two of Tibet’s foremost... Read More →

Eva Weinlander, MD

Kellen Glinder, MD

Jennifer J. Daubenmier, Ph.D.

Dr. Daubenmier is Assistant Professor in the Holistic Health Studies program in the Department of Health Education at San Francisco State University. She has conducted research in the field of integrative medicine for the past 15 years. Her primary interest has been to understand... Read More →

Friday May 22, 2020 1:10pm - 2:40pm PDT
LK130

Panel Discussion

2:40pm PDT

Coffee/Tea Break, Poster Session, Sand Painting

Friday May 22, 2020 2:40pm - 3:10pm PDT
LK130

Break

3:10pm PDT

Explorations and Dialogues 2: Understanding the “Mind”

“Mind is the King, and body is the Servant.” In many Asian medical traditions, to change our physical experience, we have to start by changing our mind. Growing research in Western medicine is demonstrating the power of the mind to affect all disease processes, from the whole system organism to the cellular level. Relying upon one another, mind and body are inseparable. Speakers will share current understandings of the mind-body relationship and distinct insights from multiple disciplines.

Speakers

Namgyal Qusar, Menpa

སྨན་པ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ཁྱུ་གསར།Menpa Namgyal graduated from Dharamsala Men Tsee Khang College in 1987 with Kachupa Degree (equivalent to MS) and then with Men Rampa Degree (equivalent to MD) in 1997. During his work in Men Tsee Khang, Dr. Qusar... Read More →

Rucha Kelkar, BAMS, PT, DPT

David Bullard, Ph.D

Yangdron Kalzang, Menpa, LAc., DAOM

སྨན་པ་སྐལ་བཟང་དབྱངས་སྒྲོན།For 21 years, Dr. Yangdron Kalzang has been practicing Tibetan Medicine, 18 years of which have been here in the United States. She was born in Lhasa, Tibet and was introduced to Tibetan Medicine as a child... Read More →

Khan Dasmina

Friday May 22, 2020 3:10pm - 4:40pm PDT
LK130

Panel Discussion

4:40pm PDT

Dedication Meditation

Speakers

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD

Friday May 22, 2020 4:40pm - 4:50pm PDT
LK130

Grounding/Meditation/Yoga

4:50pm PDT

Closing + Photo

Friday May 22, 2020 4:50pm - 5:00pm PDT
LK130

Plenary

8:30am PDT

Early Check-In

Saturday May 23, 2020 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
LK101/102

Registration

8:45am PDT

Morning Nejang: Tibetan Yoga

Speakers

Christiana Polites

Christiana Polites received her Bachelor of Arts in the Comparative Study of Religion at Harvard University and has been immersed in Eastern spiritual traditions for over twenty years. She has studied both Tibetan and Chinese Daoist healing arts and received a Masters in Acupu... Read More →

Saturday May 23, 2020 8:45am - 9:30am PDT
LK101/102

Grounding/Meditation/Yoga

9:30am PDT

Mindfulness Meditation

Speakers

Lobsang Partsang, Menpa, Geshe Ngarampa

Saturday May 23, 2020 9:30am - 9:40am PDT
LK101/102

Grounding/Meditation/Yoga

9:40am PDT

Opening Keynote

Speakers

Yangdron Kalzang, Menpa, LAc., DAOM

Erica Weirich, MD

Dr. Erica Weirich is the founder and director of Global Health Research Foundation (GHRF). She is in her 17th year of practice in Family Medicine at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and serves as Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine, Family and Community Medicine, at Stanford University... Read More →

Saturday May 23, 2020 9:40am - 9:55am PDT
LK101/102

Keynote Speech

10:00am PDT

Explorations and Dialogues 3: Infusing the Body with Mindful Solutions

Panelists will share Western and Tibetan medical approaches that use integrated mind-body understandings to demonstrate direct treatments and strategies of prevention that target the underlying cause of an illness and support overall greater health and wellbeing. This panel will focus on engaging therapeutic change in the body through integrating mindful solutions to treatment, both applied by the clinician and cultivated by the patient.

Moderators

Erica Weirich, MD

Speakers

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD

Philip Weber, MD

Saturday May 23, 2020 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
LK101/102

Panel Discussion

11:35am PDT

Group Photos

Saturday May 23, 2020 11:35am - 11:45am PDT
LK101/102

11:45am PDT

Lunch Break

Saturday May 23, 2020 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
TBD

Break

12:45pm PDT

Explorations and Dialogues 4: Beyond the Mind and Body - Cultivating Spirit

Physical measurements and signs are widely used across mainstream health care systems, health insurance bodies and biomedical research to determine success of therapeutic effect. This panel will explore measures that not only integrate patient responses in mind and body, but demonstrate qualities of the overall patient experience in the healing process. Patient testimonials can be one form of demonstrating patient experience of therapeutic effect that is increasingly integrated into research paradigms and clinical efficacy assessments. Studies of patient reported outcomes are also providing insight into the myriad of factors that drive patient recovery and healing, integrating aspects of diet and nutrition, lifestyle, emotional patterns and mental states, stress response, sociocultural environment and so forth. This panel will look at the integration of mind, body and spirit in clinical practice and research paradigms for Tibetan, Western and integrative medicine physicians, as well as the challenges and difficulties of integrating such perspectives in the areas of education, research and healthcare development for our future generation of medical providers.

Moderators

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD

Speakers

Payal Bhandari M.D.

Dr. Payal Bhandari, M.D. is a leading practitioner of integrative functional medicine and the founder of SF Advanced Health, a San Francisco-based integrative medical center focusing on reversing disease. Dr. Bhandari is an expert on cell function and combining the best in Eastern... Read More →

Tenzin Chogkyi

Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi is a Buddhist nun, activist, and popular Buddhist retreat leader and teacher. She loves bridging the worlds of Buddhist thought, current events, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. She is passionate about social justice, and has taught... Read More →

Lobsang Partsang, Menpa, Geshe Ngarampa

Kunchog Tseten, Menpa

Saturday May 23, 2020 12:45pm - 2:15pm PDT
LK130

Panel Discussion

2:30pm PDT

Compassion Therapy

This experiential workshop offers practices - and ways of understanding them - for feeling physically released, mentally and emotionally at peace, enlivened, connected, and resilient. You’ll experience brief mindful body scanning, yoga, walking/sitting meditation + self-compassion and lovingkindness practices, and learn some of their history, and the research regarding them. These practices help in cultivating the “allowing awareness” of mindfulness; ways to transform difficulties; kindness for ourselves and others; and a deepening sense of inner connection, belonging, and wellbeing.

Speakers

Renee Burgard

Renée Burgard is a licensed psychotherapist, owner of The Center for Mindfulness & Health in Los Altos, CA, and a leading San Francisco Bay Area Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction/MBSR and Mindfulness + Self-Compassion/M+SC educator, teacher trainer, and consultant. She worked for... Read More →

Saturday May 23, 2020 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
LK205/206

Workshop Session I

2:30pm PDT

Eating and Living for Who You Are

Speakers

Yangzom Gesang

Saturday May 23, 2020 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
LK304/305

Workshop Session I

2:30pm PDT

Nejang: Tibetan Self-Healing Yoga

Nejang (Tibetan གནས་སྦྱངས་) is a gentle healing yoga practice consisting of twenty four simple physical exercises which use breath work and self-massage to open the channels, balance the internal energies, relax the mind, and nourish the inner organs. With roots in the Kalachakra tradition, such exercises have been prescribed by Tibetan physicians for centuries to improve health and vitality and to support spiritual practice. In this workshop, Christiana Polites will introduce the theory behind this unique practice, teach the principles of Nejang posture and breath work, and guide participants through the a selection of the twenty four exercises with explanation of their specific health benefits.

Speakers