Invoking Self-Healing with Biofeedback and Autogenics
Erik Peper, PhD
1-day workshop
Date: Friday, March 28, 2025
Language: English
Workshop Title
Invoking Self-Healing with Biofeedback and Autogenics
Workshop Description
Unlock the power of self-healing through the synergistic practices of Autogenic Training, Visualization, and Biofeedback. This immersive workshop provides participants with hands-on experience and practical techniques to promote a holistic approach to self-care.
Learn how Autogenic Training, a relaxation technique based on passive concentration and body awareness, can help reduce stress and enhance relaxation. Discover the power of Visualization, using mental imagery to achieve personal and clinical goals. Integrate Biofeedback to gain real-time insights into physiological functions, enabling more effective control over stress and anxiety responses.
Join us to develop personalized self-healing practices that can be applied in both personal and professional settings, fostering overall health and resilience.
Key Topics Covered:
- • Foundations of Autogenic Training: Learn the history and principles of Autogenic Training, a method often overlooked in modern healing practices.
• Standard Exercises and Techniques: Master the core exercises of Autogenic Training, including heaviness, warmth, heartbeat, breathing, solar plexus, and forehead cool.
• Integrating Visualization and Biofeedback: Discover how to enhance the effectiveness of Autogenic Training through visualization and biofeedback techniques.
• Applications and Guidelines: Understand when to use and when not to use Autogenic Training, including indications, contraindications, and relative indications.
• Practical Self-Practice: Engage in hands-on practice of Autogenic Training, peripheral hand-temperature exercises, and imagery techniques.
• Physiological Monitoring: Learn how to monitor your physiological responses during Autogenic Training sessions.
Learning Objectives
- 1) Gain a deeper understanding of your body’s self-healing capabilities.
2) Develop practical skills for stress reduction and relaxation.
3) Learn how to use Autogenic training as a clinical approach for disorders ranging from headaches, pain, depression, to enhancing peak performance.
4) Learn a valuable technique that can be incorporated into your bio-neurofeedback practice.
About Erik Peper
Erik Peper is an internationally known expert on holistic health, stress management, and biofeedback. He is a professor at San Francisco State University, where he was instrumental in establishing the Institute for Holistic Health Studies, the first holistic health program at a public university in the U.S. He is president of the Biofeedback Federation of Europe (BFE), former president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology (AAPB), and has a biofeedback practice in Berkeley, CA at BiofeedbackHealth. He is an author of numerous scientific articles and books such as Make Health Happen, Fighting Cancer-A Nontoxic Approach to Treatment, and Biofeedback Mastery. He publishes the blog, the peper perspective-ideas on illness, health and well-being (www.peperperspective.com). His research interests focus on self-healing strategies to optimize health, illness prevention, optimizing respiration and posture, and self-mastery with biofeedback.
