Learn about Kundalini Yoga meditation techniques for OCD, and 3 clinical trials demonstrating effectiveness.



Overview

David Shannahoff-Khalsa’s scientific publications include three clinical trials showing the efficacy of Kundalini Yoga meditation techniques for treating those with OCD. His basic science also provides a new perspective for the rhythmic nature of psychophysiological states and how to self-regulate these states. In this webinar, David will provide insight into how the two cerebral hemispheres alternate in dominance with an “hourly-like” rhythm that is tightly coupled to the nasal cycle, during both waking and sleep. This rhythm plays a critical role in our behavior, attitudes, cognitive skill performances, desires, metabolism, emotions, drives, sexual functions, eating habits, ability to fall asleep, neuroendocrine activity, immune functions, cardiovascular functions, and the temporal nature and variance of the severity of psychiatric disorders. He will also review his three clinical trials demonstrating how Kundalini Yoga can be used to effectively treat OCD.

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Instructors

David Shannahoff-Khalsa

David Shannahoff-Khalsa is the Director of The Research Group for Mind-Body Dynamics at UCSD’s BioCircuits Institute, and a member of the UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine. Prior to coming to UCSD in 1994 he spent 23 years at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, first working on the building blocks of the genetic code, and then pioneering novel studies in the neurosciences. He has discovered a novel step in the evolution of the nervous system that gives new insights to mind-body (psychophysiological) states and how to control these states. He has published widely in scientific journals and conducted three clinical trials using Kundalini Yoga meditation techniques for treating obsessive compulsive disorders and OC spectrum disorders, and pioneered the use of whole-head magnetoencephalography brain imaging to study these and other yogic meditation techniques. He has presented and taught Kundalini Yoga Meditation at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meetings 11 times (including 10 full day CME courses) since 2003 for a wide range of psychiatric disorders. He has written four books that include 100+ different meditation techniques and disorder-specific protocols for all of the major psychiatric disorders. His 3 books published by W. W. Norton and Co. include: Kundalini Yoga Meditation: Techniques Specific for Psychiatric Disorders, Couples Therapy, and Personal Growth, 2006; Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Complex Psychiatric Disorders: Techniques Specific for Treating the Psychoses, Personality, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 2010; Sacred Therapies: The Kundalini Yoga Meditation Handbook for Mental Health, 2012. And Psychophysiological States: The Ultradian Dynamics of Mind-Body Interactions, Academic Press (Elsevier Scientific Publications), 2008.