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Amelia Barili, PhD
Born into a family of healers and teachers, Dr. Barili has observed, studied, and practiced energy medicine with masters and healers throughout the world. She specializes in the authentic healing methods of yoga and qigong. Dr. Barili graduated in 1972 from Kaivalyadhama Yoga School in India, with a Diploma in Yoga Therapy and Philosophy and has taught yoga internationally for many years. She is also a disciple of Grandmaster Yang Mei Jun, the 27th inheritor of the Taoist Medical Qigong system developed in the temples of the Kunlun Mountains in China and only recently brought to the West. Currently, this form of Qigong is being widely used in China as preventative medicine.
Dr. Barili, who is a professor at University of California, Berkeley, the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, and the Institute of World Religions, has brought these time-tested practices to the academic environment and teaches some of the meditative techniques as tools for overcoming stress and fostering creativity in her classes at UC Berkeley.
At Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, she teaches classical yoga and qigong, integrating the healing aspects of both wisdom traditions. She shows how to practice these powerful techniques in the form of easy daily routines that generate awareness of the body as energy and promote self-healing and optimal well-being.
Through inquiry and more advanced practices of meditation, she teaches the psychological aspects of the deep teachings of yoga in her class Cultivating Happiness: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. As explained in this 2,250-year-old scripture, yoga goes beyond the cultivation of the body and peace of mind, through postures and breathing, to much deeper levels of awareness and happiness. Based on the Sutras, Dr. Barili teaches effective practices to have good relationships and awaken the full potential of our mind.
Dr. Barili also teaches other dimensions of healing through writing and storytelling. In some of her courses at UC Berkeley, she teaches service as a form of healing and effective learning. For example, in Globalization and the New Global Civil Society, her students engage with the community beyond the university through service at nongovernmental organizations as a way of healing themselves while healing their environment, and learning through direct experience while mastering an academic subject.
Dr. Barili's work to bridge the gap between science, spirituality, and healing is present in her ongoing dialogue with Fritjof Capra, from which stemmed their Deep Ecology workshop. In their more recent workshop, The Emerging Consciousness, they compare traditional Indian and Chinese teachings on the body as energy to the latest discoveries of science on the subject of consciousness and healing, highlighting the amazing potential for self-transformation inherent in us. Dr. Barili also teaches powerful ancient healing practices to help us cope with change and stress and to support the transformations we are bringing forth in our self and our community.
Her article “Shamanic Dreams and Experiences in Jorge Luis Borges and José María Arguedas,” published in the most recent issue of Elixir, and her conversation with her friend Jorge Luis Borges, published in the New York Times, present the connections between this 20th century giant of Latin American literature and wisdom traditions of ancient cultures of India and South America. These articles and the book she is writing on self-healing, express the deep understanding of the ancient healing and spiritual practices that she embodies and her multifaceted experience as a world traveler, writer, teacher, and healer. |
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