Alternative health medicine seminar coming in March
Love, romance, passion and relationships.
These components are some of the first things that come to mind to contribute to a happy and emotionally healthy heart. On the other hand, meditation, sacred music, ancient spiritual practices and body detoxification approaches may also be included to achieve its overall optimal well being.
With February being national heart health month, an alternative medicine seminar will be held. “Awakening the Dialogue of the Heart” will be at Sherwood Hills Resort on March 6 and 7. It will include eight one-hour sessions for two days. These sessions will include exercises with sound, pictures and images, according to information given.
Dr. Karl Maret, along with his partner, Lesley Carmack, will be directing the seminar.
The heart is more than just a pump, Maret said.
“It is the most wondrous organ in the body,” he said.
It is not only the largest electromagnetic field generator; it has a certain consciousness, warming the whole body. It is an energetic organ with emotional, mental, spiritual components, he said.
“With the latest research in science and medicine, we will be teaching how to get the heart and the mind to work together,” he said.
“We will be teaching ways of self-regulation, biofeedback, and how to get a hold of your subconscious,” Maret said.
At the seminar, Maret wishes to give a more inclusive picture of why heart disease is killing one-half of people in the country. He said he wants to emphasize that women are especially at risk for heart disease. Certain approaches will be taken to work with the heart for lifelong health. It will be more involved than nutrition and exercise, although these are included.
Maret is the owner of The Medical Clinic, Tree of Health, and developer of all instrumentation for the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Mt. Everest. He has chaired the annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM).
Carmack serves as a consultant to allopathic physicians as a healer-facilitator with complementary medicine practitioners. She has co-authored numerous courses focused on problem solving, strategic planning and organizational transformation.
Delphine Haberstick, senior lecturer in health education, arranged for the seminar. This will be the first time it has been held in Utah.
“This will be an opportunity for people in Utah to develop a greater awareness of all aspects of the heart,” she said.
Haberstick recognizes the heart as not just an organ of the body, but as the center of feeling, spirit and unconditional love. The seminar will allow USU students and faculty a broader knowledge and understanding of cardiovascular health, with a combined perspective of Eastern and Western medicine, she said.
The weekend seminar is $250 per person and will include a 45-page color workbook. USU students who register for the seminar may pay an additional $15 recording fee and receive one undergraduate or graduate credit.
“We enjoy teaching students who are interested in complementary approaches to self-care,” Maret said. “This will give students an opportunity to apply these things into their lives, and ultimately make them better students.”
Ed Heath, professor in health and physical education, said he is interested in attending the seminar. It will be exciting to explore more than the physical in terms of health, he said.
It will emphasize the Eastern way of medicine, which involves the spiritual and emotional aspects of healing, he said.
“The appeal is that the leaders of the seminar are experts, and that those attending will understand health from a more holistic point of view,” Heath said.
For more information, contact Haberstick in the department of health and physical education at 797-1435.
-syllee@cc.usu.edu