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Mind and Life Summer Research InstituteJune 16 – June 22, 2012Mary Taylor began studying yoga in 1971 while earning a degree in psychology. It was not until theearly 80s, when she moved to Boulder and started studying yoga with Richard Freeman, that yoga becamea central thread in her life. Before that, yoga had provided a means of relieving stress, and honinga sense of focus and well being. In 1988 Mary traveled to India to study with K. Pattabhi Jois, andbegan to see the overlay of yoga with her interests in food, cooking, movement, anatomy and art. Maryhas authored three cookbooks and co-authored a book which explores yoga, meditation and findingone’s personal dharma as a means of bring lasting meaning and happiness. (What Are You HungryFor? Women, Food and Spirituality.) As the Yoga Workshop’s director, Mary has attended all ofRichard’s teacher trainings, and feels she’s just beginning to understand the subject at hand. She bringsto her teaching a deep respect for the healing and calming effects of yoga. Her classes are engagingand fun, focusing on the flow of breath, steady movement and the feeling of completeness that can becultivated through a lasting practice. Visit www. yogaworkshop.comEvan Thompson, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He received his A.B.in Asian Studies from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is the authorof Waking, Dreaming, Being: New Light on the Self and Consciousness from Neuroscience, Meditation,and Philosophy (Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2013) and Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology,and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007). He is also the co-author ofThe Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991), and co-editor ofThe Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of Self, No Self?Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions (Oxford University Press,2010). Thompson is also Co-Chair of the Mind and Life Institute Program and Research Council.Peter Wayne, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the Directorof Research for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine jointly based at the Harvard Medical Schooland Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also the founder and director of the Tree of Life Tai Chi Center.His research to date, supported by more than 20 NIH grants, has focused on evaluating how TaiChi and related mind-body practices clinically impact a variety of health conditions (osteoporosis, balanceimpairment, heart failure, pulmonary disease, depression), and understanding the physiological,mechanical, and psychological mechanisms underlying mind-body practices’ therapeutic effects. Peterhas more than 35 years of training experience in Tai Chi and Qigong, and is an internationally recognizedteacher of these practices.Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D., is President of the Mind & Life Institute. From 1978 to 2012 he was Professorof Physics at Amherst College. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University ofMichigan. He has been visiting professor and research scientist at the Ecole Normale Superieure inParis, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and the universities of Rochester and Hannover.He has been Fulbright Professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His research has includedstudies in electron-atom physics, parity violation in atoms, quantum optics, the experimental foundationsof quantum physics, and the relationship between science, the humanities, and the contemplativetraditions. He has written extensively on Goethe’s science work. He is author of the book: Catchingthe Light, Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry, co-author of The Quantum Challenge, and co-editorof Goethe’s Way of Science. In 1997 he served as scientific coordinator for the Mind and Life dialoguepublished as The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama and co-edited TheDalai Lama at MIT. He has directed the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, which supports appropriateinclusion of contemplative methods in higher education. He has also been a co-founder ofthe Kira Institute, General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society, president/chair of the LindisfarneAssociation, and was a senior program director at the Fetzer Institute.26
Mind and Life Summer Research InstituteJune 16 – June 22, 2012AcknowledgementsMeeting Organization andAdministrationArthur Zajonc, President, Mind & Life InstituteAlfred Kaszniak, Chief Academic Officer, Mind & Life InstituteDiego Hangartner, Director of Operations and Advancement –Europe, Mind & Life InstituteMind and Life Boulder, CO Staff:Chris O’Brien, Development and Communications Officer,Mind & Life InstituteAngela Teng, Program Manager, Mind & Life InstituteDave Womack, Program Manager, Mind & Life InstituteMind and Life Hadley, MA Staff:Mark Cherrington, Event Coordinator, Mind & Life InstituteJacqui DeFelice, Director of Operations and Advancement,Mind & Life InstituteNed Dunn, Webmaster, Mind & Life InstituteWendy Hasenkamp, Program and Research Director, Mind &Life InstituteLise Lawrence, Event Coordinator, Mind & Life InstituteLila Mereschuk, Controller, Mind & Life InstituteDick Sclove, Director of Strategic Development, Mind & LifeInstituteMindi Winter, Administrative Assistant, Mind & Life InstituteJonas Berzanskis, AV Production, STS Productions, LLCBerry Berzanskis, AV Production Assistant, STSProductions, LLCLinda Downey, Events Manager, Garrison InstituteRob Gabriele, Chief Operating Officer, Garrison InstituteJeanne Johnson, Deputy COO/HR Manager, GarrisonInstituteAlexandra Khoobani, Registrar, Garrison InstituteSpecial thanks to Diana and Jonathan Rose and theGarrison Institute staff:James Basciani, Shelley Boris, Adam Chodoff, KellyDuncan, Troy Gangle, Henry Garcia, Joan Jewell,Amy Johnson, Erin Koch, Mario Porco, AdaScanga, Rosanna Scanga, Erin Schulman, DennisStobinski, John Teagle.Financial Support: Mind and Life Summer ResearchInstitute and Varela Awards SponsorsAnonymousThe 1440 FoundationThe Bradford Family Gift FundThe George Family FoundationThe Hershey Family FoundationThe John Templeton FoundationThe Lostand Foundation27
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