Inner Healing: Mind-Body Skills Training

Using the Mind-Body Connection to Benefit Your Health and Your Life

During this 4-week course, you will be led by the experts at Duke Integrative Medicine to discover the potential you already have within you to make a dramatic difference in how you experience your life. With each successive class you will build a powerful skill set that can help you work with - rather than against - any condition you may have. You will develop the ability to:

Optimize the healing potential of other treatments you may be receiving.
Conquer fears you may be experiencing.
Focus on all that is good in your life - inside and out.
Open up all the possibilities that exist for health and healing.

Duke Integrative Medicine Mind-Body Therapist and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Instructor, Jeanne van Gemert, M.F.A., L.M.B.T., M.A., L.P.C., leads the Inner Healing course. With gentle guidance and informed encouragement, she will focus on core areas of the mind-body connection that have been shown to benefit physical and emotional health:

Breathwork: Breathing techniques that enhance the awareness of your body and help you to shift the focus to what is working well every moment of your life.
Single Movement: Gentle exercises that connect you with the ongoing strength and resilience off your physical body.
Mindfulness: Present-moment awareness strategies that help you to linger with and enjoy the best parts of your life.
Visualization: Using your imagination to see all the possibilities that are available to you.
Healing Expression: Accessing your unique inner roads to health - through drawing, writing, or any other creative expression.

Instructor Information

Jeanne van Gemert, M.F.A., L.M.B.T., M.A., L.P.C.

Jeanne van Gemert is a Mind/Body Therapist utilizing Body-Centered and Expressive Arts modalities as well as Mindfulness Meditation. Jeanne assists individuals and groups to understand, transform and integrate their emotions, beliefs, thoughts and spirit. Using skilled attention, Jeanne offers collaborative multi-modality interventions that promote the unfolding of individuals' psyches and provide deeply meaningful experiences. Jeanne has been an Instructor in the Duke Integrative Medicine Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program since 1999 and is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader training program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Jeanne is a co-founder and teacher at Triangle Insight Meditation Community in Durham, NC.