Category: Depth Hypnosis
On the Air: A Meeting of the Ways with Diane Solomon and Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.: Understanding the Experience of the Altered State of Consciousness in Depth Hypnosis, Dreams, and Plant Medicine
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., and Diane Solomon, host of A Meeting of the Ways, discuss the similarities and differences between the experience of the altered state of consciousness in Depth Hypnosis, Dreams, and Plant Medicine, focusing particularly on the way each of these methods of accessing broader consciousness can provide a path to healing and insight.
Video: Working with Psychotropic Plants with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss the way shamans have worked with plant medicine and the way people are working with plants like ayahuasca, psilocybin, peyote, and iboga today. They also examine the problems that arise with integrating the altered state experience and examine how Depth Hypnosis can be a helpful for people working with psychotropic plants that wish to experience deeper integration. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Video: Altered States & Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss the way that altered states, such as meditation, guided visualization, hypnosis, and the shamanic journey, are used in the highly effective therapeutic model, Depth Hypnosis. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Blog: Buddhism in Action Part 1: Depth Hypnosis and Buddha Nature
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
Depth Hypnosis is a spiritual counseling model that integrates many principles from Buddhist thought and practice with hypnotherapy, earth-based methods of healing, and transpersonal psychology. The Depth Hypnosis methodology rests upon the understanding that all imbalance is simply information about the way the person has twisted away from their essential nature, or what is known in Buddhism as Buddha Nature. And this is true whether the imbalance arises on a physical level as an autoimmune problem, on an emotional level as a depression, on a mental level as an anxiety or on a spiritual level in something like a “dark night of the soul.”
Video: Somatic Therapy & Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss how Depth Hypnosis incorporates the principles of somatic therapy, working with the whole person; body, mind, and spirit. Using Eastern and Western understandings of healing, as well as Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychological perspectives, the somatic principles as used in Depth Hypnosis help clients access information held in the body to assist them in healing at a deeply transformational level. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Video: Dreams & Shamanic Practice in Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss the overlap of dreams and the shamanic journey and how these can assist people in gaining deeper personal insight in the therapeutic modality of Depth Hypnosis. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Blog: Insight Inquiry: Calling Forth Inner Wisdom
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
In the therapeutic model I developed, Depth Hypnosis, one of the processes I created for working with clients is a method of asking questions that I call Insight Inquiry. From the point of view of the practitioner, the task in working with Insight Inquiry is, in essence, to ask questions only about the issues at hand that are based on the answer to the previous questions. This process helps clients to discover themselves at a deeper level.
Podcast: Episode 32: Isa Gucciardi: Coming to Peace
Isa Gucciardi (author, educator, creator of the therapeutic model Depth Hypnosis, and founding director of Foundation of the Sacred Stream) responded to the conflict she saw all around her by developing a method of conflict resolution to help families and couples. In her new book Coming to Peace, Isa transforms her years of experience working with people in this way into highly accessible wisdom about the roots of conflict and peace. In today’s episode of the Sacred Stream Radio Podcast, she chats with Laura about Coming to Peace. This episode’s featured musician is Lisa Kellman and her record Nostalgias.
Video: Developing Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss the impetus behind Isa’s development of the highly effective and transformational therapeutic model, Depth Hypnosis. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Shamanic Healing Techniques & Depth Hypnosis with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss how Isa has adapted shamanic healing techniques and the shamanic journey into a therapeutic model she created called Depth Hypnosis. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Video: Depth Hypnosis, Shamanism, and Altered States of Consciousness with Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi and Laura Chandler discuss Depth Hypnosis – the highly effective therapeutic model Isa developed – which combines elements of shamanism, Buddhism, energy medicine, and transpersonal psychology. Isa explains how she works with altered states of consciousness such as meditation, hypnosis, guided visualizations, and the shamanic journey, as well as dream work, somatic therapy and shamanic healing practices to help clients transform deeply held patterns so that they can lead happier and healthier lives. This interview takes place at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, CA.
Article: Sustaining Enlightened Activity in Difficult Times
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
The theme we are going to speak about today is enlightened activity and the courage and dedication that it takes to sustain it.
It has taken courage for each of you to set out on the path toward consciousness in general and the path of Depth Hypnosis in particular. As a client it takes courage and dedication to look deeply at the issues that create obstacles in your life. And as a practitioner, it takes courage to step into the deep levels of integrity that are required to meet another person in the place where they are suffering.
Special Announcement: Sacred Stream Offering Series of Workshops in Iowa’s Quad Cities Region This May
Starting May 9, Sacred Stream will be offering some of their most popular workshops in Iowa’s Quad Cities region. Courses available include: Coming to Peace: Methods of Conflict Resolution (Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center, Hiawatha), Expanding Consciousness: The Four Immeasurables Resolution (Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center, Hiawatha), Embracing the Sacred Feminine (Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Wheatland), Consciousness and Integrated Energy Medicine (Bettendorf Public Library, Bettendorf), and The Path of Service and the Nature of Suffering (Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Wheatland).
Blog: Coming to Peace Within Yourself
By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
In my book, Coming to Peace, I focus on how to resolve conflict in families, communities, and between individuals. Just as important, I also attempt to help people understand the deeper reasons conflicts arise in the first place. Often the causes are far more complex than a simple misunderstanding between people suggests.
Special Announcement: Pilot Study Presentation on the Efficacy Studies of Depth Hypnosis
On Friday, November 11, Dr. Joanna Adler will present the results of a pilot study – “Can Depth Hypnosis Heal Mood Disorders?” – that examines the efficacy of Depth Hypnosis in the treatment of the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as show an increase in experience of well-being. The hypothesis of the study was that symptoms from the three mood disorders would go down, and experience of well-being would rise. The results support this hypothesis.