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Blog: Buddhism in Action Part 2: A Depth Hypnosis Case Study
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
Most of us are very attached to having what we want happen and preventing what we don’t want from happening. But when we try to create a life in this way, we develop misconceptions about ourselves and the people and world around us. In the Depth Hypnosis method, when considering the issue a client presents and their emotional history, practitioners draw upon this Buddhist idea that we suffer when we are unaware of the way our attachments and aversions drive our behavior, or when we have misconceptions about what our life presents to us and about what that might mean for us.
On the Air: A Meeting of the Ways with Diane Solomon and Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.: Understanding the Experience of the Altered State of Consciousness in Depth Hypnosis, Dreams, and Plant Medicine
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., and Diane Solomon, host of A Meeting of the Ways, discuss the similarities and differences between the experience of the altered state of consciousness in Depth Hypnosis, Dreams, and Plant Medicine, focusing particularly on the way each of these methods of accessing broader consciousness can provide a path to healing and insight.
Podcast: Episode 33: Thupten Jinpa: A Fearless Heart
This month Laura reaches back into the Sacred Stream archives for an interview she did with Thupten Jinpa when he was on his book tour for A Fearless Heart. The interview was impromptu and took place at Laura’s kitchen table, where she talked to Jinpa about his work with H.H. Dalai Lama, CCare, the Compassion Studies, and his perspective on generating more compassion in the world. This episode also contains a talk Jinpa gave at the Sacred Stream Center on Language and Reality. The featured music is from the Monks of Gaden Shartse Dokhang, Jinpa’s former monastery, and their album, The Sacred Chants of Tibet.
Video: Working with Psychotropic Plants with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss the way shamans have worked with plant medicine and the way people are working with plants like ayahuasca, psilocybin, peyote, and iboga today. They also examine the problems that arise with integrating the altered state experience and examine how Depth Hypnosis can be a helpful for people working with psychotropic plants that wish to experience deeper integration. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Video: Altered States & Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss the way that altered states, such as meditation, guided visualization, hypnosis, and the shamanic journey, are used in the highly effective therapeutic model, Depth Hypnosis. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Special Announcement: Isa Gucciardi’s Coming to Peace Book Tour
Isa will be offering a series of book readings and signings all around the Bay Area for her new book, Coming to Peace, in the upcoming months. The resolution process of Coming to Peace is unique because it offers ways of mediating external conflicts with others, as well as methods for recognizing and addressing the places where we may be out of balance within ourselves.
Blog: Buddhism in Action Part 1: Depth Hypnosis and Buddha Nature
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
Depth Hypnosis is a spiritual counseling model that integrates many principles from Buddhist thought and practice with hypnotherapy, earth-based methods of healing, and transpersonal psychology. The Depth Hypnosis methodology rests upon the understanding that all imbalance is simply information about the way the person has twisted away from their essential nature, or what is known in Buddhism as Buddha Nature. And this is true whether the imbalance arises on a physical level as an autoimmune problem, on an emotional level as a depression, on a mental level as an anxiety or on a spiritual level in something like a “dark night of the soul.”
Special Announcement: Robert Thurman’s Man of Peace Book Tour
Sacred Stream is happy to announce that it is sponsoring Robert A.F. Thurman’s Bay Area book tour for his new graphic novel, Man of Peace, which is a biography of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Dr. Thurman wrote this book in collaboration with William Meyers and Michael Burbank. This book is unique in that it captures all of the aspects of a very complex life in an accessible way.
Video: Somatic Therapy & Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss how Depth Hypnosis incorporates the principles of somatic therapy, working with the whole person; body, mind, and spirit. Using Eastern and Western understandings of healing, as well as Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychological perspectives, the somatic principles as used in Depth Hypnosis help clients access information held in the body to assist them in healing at a deeply transformational level. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Video: Dreams & Shamanic Practice in Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss the overlap of dreams and the shamanic journey and how these can assist people in gaining deeper personal insight in the therapeutic modality of Depth Hypnosis. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Blog: Insight Inquiry: Calling Forth Inner Wisdom
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
In the therapeutic model I developed, Depth Hypnosis, one of the processes I created for working with clients is a method of asking questions that I call Insight Inquiry. From the point of view of the practitioner, the task in working with Insight Inquiry is, in essence, to ask questions only about the issues at hand that are based on the answer to the previous questions. This process helps clients to discover themselves at a deeper level.
Podcast: Episode 32: Isa Gucciardi: Coming to Peace
Isa Gucciardi (author, educator, creator of the therapeutic model Depth Hypnosis, and founding director of Foundation of the Sacred Stream) responded to the conflict she saw all around her by developing a method of conflict resolution to help families and couples. In her new book Coming to Peace, Isa transforms her years of experience working with people in this way into highly accessible wisdom about the roots of conflict and peace. In today’s episode of the Sacred Stream Radio Podcast, she chats with Laura about Coming to Peace. This episode’s featured musician is Lisa Kellman and her record Nostalgias.
Video: Developing Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss the impetus behind Isa’s development of the highly effective and transformational therapeutic model, Depth Hypnosis. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Shamanic Healing Techniques & Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss how Isa has adapted shamanic healing techniques and the shamanic journey into a therapeutic model she created called Depth Hypnosis. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Blog: Thinking about Grief
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
When I first read On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in the early seventies, I was thrilled that someone was actually talking about death. I had just moved to the United States, after having spent most of my early years in other countries. As I was trying to orient myself to the American culture, I had become acutely aware of the way no one around me really wanted to talk about things that I thought were pretty important – death, for example. I had resigned myself to watching television just so I would have something to talk about with the other teenagers at school, but it was not really that interesting to me.