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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.
Video: Depth Hypnosis, Shamanism, and Altered States of Consciousness with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss Depth Hypnosis – the highly effective therapeutic model Isa developed – which combines elements of shamanism, Buddhism, energy medicine, and transpersonal psychology. Isa explains how she works with altered states of consciousness such as meditation, hypnosis, guided visualizations, and the shamanic journey, as well as dream work, somatic therapy and shamanic healing practices to help clients transform deeply held patterns so that they can lead happier and healthier lives. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Community Event: Ahhhmuse: Crystal Trunk Show, Readings, & Workshops
Ahhhmuse is Marilyn and Tohmas Twintreess, two beautiful beings who have listened directly to spirit daily…for decades. They travel internationally, offering thousands of living crystals, quantum-leap workshops, evolutionary tools, spiritual books, sentient gems, superfood elixirs, amazing singing bowls, and glorious jewelry. As stone guardians and listeners, they work directly with elementals and the plant/mineral/animal kingdoms, helping evolving humans learn how to connect directly with spirit in extraordinary ways. Being with Ahhhmuse is a profound experience – it isn’t just being in the presence of so many thousands of crystals or beautiful resources – it’s about how they listen deeply to each person, to assist that being with exactly what they need in the moment they’re in.
Blog: Managing Initiation
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
In traditional cultures, the way a culture meets and manages the initiatory processes of its individual members is one of its defining qualities. The management of these initiations is generally accomplished by helping the initiate move through a ritual of some kind. Initiatory rituals can be very elaborate and well defined. In fact, anthropologists generally learn about a culture through the study of initiation rituals.
Rituals and culturally defined structures are good management tools to direct and hold the power of the initiatory process. However, a significant drawback to many rituals and cultural structures is that they have been designed to direct the power that is released in the initiatory process into the society’s structures, rather than dedicating it to the initiate.
A Meeting of the Ways with Diane Solomon and Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.: Huna, Ho’oponopono, and the Nature of Forgiveness
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., and Diane Solomon, host of A Meeting of the Ways, explore the Huna concept of ho’oponopono and the nature of forgiveness. They also discuss Isa’s upcoming workshop on the Big Island of Hawaii, where students visit sacred sites, including Kīlauea, the active volcano on the island.
Blog: Awakening the Wisdom of Ancient Hawaii
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
While Laura Chandler and I were in Iowa during the past week on our book tour for Coming to Peace, I found myself talking more about my childhood in Hawaii than I normally do as the friendly and curious people in Iowa asked questions about the history of the book. Everyone was interested in Hawaii and the ancient Hawaiian practices that are discussed in the book.
In August, I will be teaching a workshop on the Big Island of Hawaii called Huna: The First Psychology. As I answered questions about the workshop, I was reminded of Max Freedom Long’s reports on his research in the Hawaiian Islands in the early part of the 20th century. His book The Secret Science Behind Miracles offers a peek into the experience of the Hawaiians after a century of colonization, and his reports on his research into the body of work he named Huna is very compelling.
Blog: Buddhist Perspectives on Grief and Loss
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
In Robert Thurman’s prelude to his translation of Bardo Thodol, commonly translated as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, he takes to task scientific materialists’ perspective that death is a terminal state, a state of nothingness where life is destroyed. He points out that these materialists “have never observed even one material thing become nothing. Why should the energy reality of a state of awareness [life] ……be the exception to the law of physics that energy is conserved and only transformed?”
I have always appreciated Dr. Thurman’s willingness to take on monolithic prejudices, in the name of science, in response to spiritual questions. I have always felt the wholesale rejection of notions such as the possibility of life after death and the existence of spirit was highly unscientific. In order to step into the universe of life beyond death from the Buddhist perspective, we have to allow ourselves to be disabused of the ways in which we may have unwittingly digested the viewpoints of scientific materialism on these subjects simply because they dominate in our education system.
Video: Robert Thurman Discusses Man of Peace with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi sits down with renowned Buddhist scholar, Dr. Robert Thurman, who has co-written a no-holds-barred graphic novel about the life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Article: Sustaining Enlightened Activity in Difficult Times
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
The theme we are going to speak about today is enlightened activity and the courage and dedication that it takes to sustain it.
It has taken courage for each of you to set out on the path toward consciousness in general and the path of Depth Hypnosis in particular. As a client it takes courage and dedication to look deeply at the issues that create obstacles in your life. And as a practitioner, it takes courage to step into the deep levels of integrity that are required to meet another person in the place where they are suffering.