Buddha’s Brain: Lighting up the Neural Circuits of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Rick Hanson and Jan Hanson Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA September 28 – October 3, 2014 On methods to increase levels of key neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine without medication – for improved mood, attention, and motivation. Research-based foods and supplements to optimize neurochemistry. For more information and to register, go HERE.

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Your Best Brain

A Benefit Workshop for The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom October 26, 2014 Your brain is the bottom-line for how you feel and act: change your brain, and you change your life.  In this four-hour workshop on Sunday, October 26, 2014, in San Rafael, CA (see map below), we’ll cover ten great ways […]

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Using Amino Acids to Brighten Your Mood

Neurotransmitters are the molecules of communication between neurons in the brain. They are required in optimal amounts to have a good mood, the ability to be relaxed, and energy. A lack of neurotransmitters can result in depression, anxiety, fatigue, obsessive thinking, and many other states of emotional unwellness. Several neurotransmitters are probably familiar: serotonin, norepinephrine, […]

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Your Best Brain

Your brain is the bottom-line for how you feel and act: change your brain, and you change your life. In this four-hour workshop on Saturday, April 14, 2013 in San Rafael, CA, we covered ten great ways to change your brain for the better – for more joy, more fulfilling relationships, and more peace of […]

Category : Past Workshops

Buddha’s Brain: Lighting up the Neural Circuits of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Rick Hanson and Jan Hanson Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA July 21-26, 2013 On methods to increase levels of key neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine without medication – for improved mood, attention, and motivation. Research-based foods and supplements to optimize neurochemistry. More information and registration: http://www.esalen.org/workshop/11946

Category : Past Workshops

Buddha’s Brain: Lighting up the Neural Circuits of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Rick Hanson and Jan Hanson Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA September 23-28, 2012 On methods to increase levels of key neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine without medication – for improved mood, attention, and motivation.

Category : Past Workshops

Your Best Brain

Your brain is the bottom-line for how you feel and act: change your brain, and you change your life. In this four-hour workshop on Saturday, March 12, 2012 in San Rafael, CA, we covered ten great ways to change your brain for the better – for more joy, more fulfilling relationships, and more peace of […]

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Your Biochemical Foundation

To have the best possible foundation for psychological well-being and spiritual growth, we all need to nurture the physical substrate of our body. And that means good nutrition, since that is how you get the building blocks of that substrate into your body. There is simply no other way. Nutrition Is Molecules At the physical […]

Category : Articles &Diet &Vitamins

The Road to (Brain) Health Is Paved with Good Intestines

How the Gut Affects the Brain through the Immune System Your gastro-intestinal (GI) system affects the health of your brain through many pathways, including the immune system. The GI system is also a part of the body that it is very easy to intervene with and improve in ways that are natural and beneficial. You […]

Category : Articles &Diet &Intestine &Vitamins

The Dance of Hormones and Neurotransmitters

Most women past the age of puberty sense an interaction sometimes between their mood and their hormonal state. Why is this? Well, in fact, hormones and neurotransmitters – the chemical communicators in the brain – are interconnected in a very complicated web, which science is only beginning to understand. Estrogen is the primary “female” hormone, […]

Category : Articles &Hormones