I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Wollman about healthcare and wellness today on Well.Org radio. Dr. Wollman is an esteemed “Medical Guide” who helps patients navigate their way through our crazy healthcare system. He’s a deep guy with tons of insight and spent several years on the front lines as an ER doc. He’s seen it all and has some great wisdom to kick down for people trying to get healthy.

Dr. Wollman is another featured physician in the upcoming “Vitality Movie”.

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Talking about life and time management with Alberto Villoldo, I had a chance to get a brief story from him about how he deals with time.  As I had mentioned in a previous post, time management is event management.  This is for people who are looking to learn about how to manage their affairs better.  In this conversation, Alberto Villodo and I speak about another aspect of this- what about when you have time to waste?

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This is a fun listen.  Leonard Orr speaks about his encounters with great yogis and the immortal Babaji in India.  He speaks of incredible healings, levitation, dematerialized bodies, transfiguration, and much more.  In my world of Qi Gong, I often refer to the purification rituals found in yoga because I find them to be very effective.  Leonard Orr bridges into some of those here.  I’ll be releasing more of this over time but look to see him in the upcoming Vitality Movie this spring.

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I recently had the privilege of working with Mari Winsor while filming the Vitality Movie (set to release this fall).  This was just a small clip of our conversation but it illustrates a point I’d like to make here.  Whether you call it The Power House in Pilates,  the Core in functional fitness,  The Center in Dance, the Hara in Yoga, or the Dantien in Kung Fu/Qi Gong, it is all pointing to the same region of the body.  Our central pelvic area is the biomechanic pivot of our whole body.  The ancient Chinese understood this and applied it to their martial and internal arts.

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I had the distinct pleasure of hanging out with Doctor Bruce Lipton yesterday.  I was interviewing him for the Vitality Movie which is a documentary I’ve been working on with Sacred Mysteries Productions.  The movie is set to release soon and has an incredible cast of notable figures in the Health and Wellness sphere in it.

I’d like to start off by saying that Dr. Lipton is a great guy.  He knows his stuff but keeps the twinkle in his eyes from the rock and roll era he grew up in.  He’s a musician which makes him an artist and a scholar- a well rounded combination.  This was a fun interview.

We discussed the nature of how cells process information and how that impacts our overall health.  We discussed the problems with the current healthcare system and he had wonderful things to say about how to create solutions for it.  We discussed Acupuncture, Chiropractic , nutrition, energy medicine (qi gong), and psychotherapy as integral facets of the new healthcare model.

The power of the subconscious mind was a big subject and we discussed a variety of strategies on how people can change their lives and free themselves of their mental entrapment.  Bruce has some very nice ideas about conscious parenting and what it means to take on that responsibility.  I highly suggest reading his book: “The Biology of Belief” and I’ll be getting this footage over to the editing department so I can leak some excerpts of our talk.

I love meeting with scientists like Dr. Lipton because it offers an incredible opportunity for integration of esoteric knowledge with new science.  My years of training in alchemy and energy work have introduced me to far out concepts and interesting people along the way.  It is great to sit with someone like Dr. Lipton and discuss these topics through the looking glass of cellular biology.  We really have come full circle and it is a wonderful time to be alive.

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Have you ever noticed that when you are stressed or afraid, you stop breathing?  It happens all of the time.  Our emotional state overtakes our energy field and we stop circulating the flow of vital energy throughout our bodies.  This locks up the coherent flow of our Vitality and entraps thoughts, emotions, disease, and toxins in our system.  We start to breathe in a shallow fashion and we feel compressed- actually we literally are.  The torroidal field of our vital energy starts to collapse and we densify- losing the flow of the Levity inducing charge that keeps us young and vibrant.   It is one of the most common ways we ail- something so simple.

Hanging out with Leonard Orr this summer, he and I discussed his form of circular breathing and how he uses prescriptions for people who come to him for a whole host of ailments.  This is very similar to what we do in my Qi Gong tradition- breath work for homework.  It is so easy yet so difficult.  Why so hard?  Because we don’t want to feel what has come up- breathing life to a thought or emotion dislodges it and moves it through our field.  If we learn to observe it with equanimity and an open heart, it simply passes and is gone.  The problem- we freak out and hang on- then the repressed charge gets so strong that we can hardly breathe.

The fix is easy- deep lower abdominal breathing for ten minutes or so and then breathe to the area of repression.

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For the past few months, I have been busy filming a documentary on health called “Vitality“.  Working with Sacred Mysteries Productions, we have been traveling around the country speaking with the leading experts in various health/wellness fields.  The point of the movie- all the debate in Washington has been about Health Finance Reform- not health reform.  We are setting out to define what true health and wellness really are.  Vitality is about a way of life, a feeling of richness, abundance, and meaning.  Our guests speak about a broad range of topics ranging from the country’s over-reliance on drugs, the insurance industry, lack of meaning in life, and basic preventative measures.

 

I have personally met with each guest (so far- we’re still filming…) and can only say that I am VERY proud of what this movie is and what message it carries.  Here is the list of guests in the movie:

Bruce Lipton,  PhD – Author- “The Biology of Belief”

Hyla Cass, MD – Author- “Natural Highs”

Eric Pearl, DC – Author – “The Reconnection”

Leonard Orr – Author – “Breaking the Death Habit”

Don Campbell – Author- “The Mozart Effect”

Roger Callahan, PhD – Author – “Tapping the Healer Within”

Skip Atwater – President – The Monroe Institute

Paul Rademacher – Author – “A Spiritual Hitchhiker’s Guide”

Shiva Rea – Master Yoga Teacher

Scott Stoney, MD – Esteemed Pain Management Doctor

Mari Windsor – Director – Windsor Pilates

Datis Khorazzian, DC – Author – “Why do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms?”

Justin Frandson – Director – Athleticism

Benjamin Rubin, MD – Esteemed Orthopedic Surgeon

Carl Totton, PhD – Director – The Taoist Institute of Los Angeles – Grandmaster in Kung Fu/Tai Chi

Master Yo Hoon – Zen Meditation Master

Joe Pizzorno, ND – Author – “Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine”

Marylin Tam – Author- “How to use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want”

Jason Deyo – Esteemed Holistic Nutritionist

Jon Rose – Pro Surfer – Director of Waves for Water Charity

 

You can google each of these people to see what they’ve done/written.  It has been an honor to work with them.

 

In the next few weeks, I’ll be posting some exclusive footage from the interviews and bringing you more details on the project.  The movie is set to release in Spring 2011.  Please subscribe to this blog to be kept in the loop on details.

Yours in health,

 

Pedram Shojai

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