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What is Indian Psychology?
What is Indian Psychology?

Seeking out the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco for my doctoral degree was important and has tremendously helped shape my practice today. Started by Haridas Chaudhuri, student of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, this institute offered a lens into ways to address and help the whole person, not merely the mental aspect of the lived experience. Studying in India deepened my understanding of how art, music, body movement, and states of consciousness are as much an integral part of the practice of psychology as much as are the id, ego, superego, transference and countertransference. It was easy to see the archetypes personified before my eyes as I saw 50 foot statutes of Ganesha and Saturn.

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Denise Renyeindian psychology, Somatic psychology, somatics, meditation, yoga, yoga therapy, pranayama, spiritual practice, spiritual bypassing, whole person, whole person psychology, whole person healing, ritual psychology, ceremony, ceremony psychology, mindfulness, mind-body connection, body, body consciousness, body psychology, body psychotherapy, bodymind, the body, body movement
The Body in Psychology
The Body in Psychology

I sought out my graduate studies beginning in human sexuality because the body is typically a central part of sexual expression. And then I found my way to the California Institute of Integral Studies, where Indian Psychology was, in part, what the school was founded on and Indian Psychology has a deep understanding that the human lived experience is far beyond the mind and most certainly includes the body, at the very least. Somatic psychology, a western psychology field, is a field that explores the relationship between the mind and body, emphasizing the importance of bodily sensations, movement, and physical experiences in psychological well-being and healing.

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Denise RenyeSomatic psychology, somatics, the body, the body keeps the score, healing the body, body psychology, body psychotherapy, pat ogden, somatic experiencing, sensorimotor psychotherapy, hakomi