Workshops
Free Virtual Workshops Every Other Saturday on
Letting Go of Anxiety and on Developing Resilience
Twice-monthly virtual workshops. In an effort to assist our larger community in these challenging times, these workshops are going to be taught online via Zoom for free. We want all of you to have access to them.
Each session will include effective practices to boost your immune system, strengthen your respiratory system and to help you let go of fear, anxiety and depression. Anyone can practice these techniques regardless of age.
If you practice them everyday, they will help you develop inner strength and resilience. They are easy to learn. I will show you how to integrate them into a daily routine to achieve greater good health, clarity and inner peace in the midst of challenges.
Upcoming Fall 2025 Polyvagal Institute Course
Embodying Safety:
A Certificate for Integrating Yoga, Qigong & Polyvagal Theory™
Instructors: Amelia Barili PhD & Stephen Porges PhD.
Offered through the Polyvagal Institute, taught by Dr. Amelia Barili, this 35-hour certificate course integrates the wisdom healing traditions of Yoga and Qigong with Polyvagal Theory. Learn how to use your nervous system and your vital energy to promote good health and to achieve your highest human potential. Once you have learned them and experience their benefits, you can share these practical applications of integrating neuroscience and wisdom healing traditions with clients and loved ones. You can take in the course material at your own pace within each module and meet once a week with Dr. Barili for LIVE group meetups.
Enrollment open now!
Self-Care: For a Healthier, Longer and Happier Life
Workshops at the UC Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI)
How can we work with our body and mind to foster good health and wellbeing? What are the ancient wisdom healing traditions and the most recent discoveries of neuroscience telling us about the enormous potential we all have to overcome physical and emotional challenges? In this 3 part-workshop you will learn powerful practices for self-care that you can easily integrate in your daily life.
Upcoming 2025 UC Berkeley OLLI Workshop
How to Reset Your Nervous System: Ancient Wisdom and Neuroscience
UC Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
September 17 – October 18, 2025
Wednesdays, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. PT
Our nervous system shapes the quality of our daily life. It affects our health, relationships, and well-being by influencing our body, mind, and spirit. In this course, you will learn embodied practices for sustaining good health and healing, and thriving as a human being. They help us shift from states of anxiety, fear, and feeling overwhelmed into states of safety, ease, and connection.
Integrating Yoga & Qigong™
Amelia Barili has taught for many years personal transformation at major institutions and retreat centers nationally and internationally.
Drawing from the wisdom traditions of Classical Yoga and Qigong, and from the latest findings of the Neuroscience of Resilience, Amelia teaches ancient powerful practices that foster good health and a sense of inner guidance and peace. These practices are easy to learn and to integrate in daily life. They are recommended for anyone wanting to live a healthier and happier life, and for health care and counseling professionals.
Meditation, Volunteering, & Positive Neuroplasticity
Since the arrival of COVID we have been teaching our popular OLLI at UC Berkeley course online. The online format has allowed us to enrich even further our academic and experiential course/workshop by having distinguished neuroscientists, authors and educators present their research to our learning community. In dialogue with Amelia via zoom, they share with the class scientific evidence on how we can work with our body and mind for greater health and happiness. Participants are invited to practice at home the guided meditation with which we start every class and other contemplative practices they might know as a way of cultivating positive neuroplasticity in their daily life and in their volunteering.
Testimonies
Amelia is truly an exceptional teacher of Yoga and Qigong, and a genuine gift to her students. With much expertise and patience, she guides her students, through the graceful movements of the exercise, while teaching an outer attention to the form and an inner intention to the movement. Practicing in this way becomes truly transformational.
– Phil Waltz
Learning about Qigong and yoga practices which help to maintain health, energy and a general sense of well being are easy and enjoyable with Amelia. She has an amazing ability to teach.
– Lucinda Gobin
Amelia’s insights, sparkling wisdom, talents and tenderness are all that a guide is for me. How grateful I feel to have been part of this workshop.
– Celie Placzek