UCLA Arts and Healing and the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program presents ~ Awaken Your Intuition for Health, Healing, and Creativity: A Special Evening with Judith Orloff MD, John Densmore, and Hani Naser

Monday, June 5 ~ 7:00 - 9:00 pm ~ UCLA Semel Institute Auditorium, Room C8-183

· Do you listen to your gut feelings about people?
· Do you pay attention to your body’s early warning signs such as fatigue, to take care of your health?
· Do you listen to the wisdom of your dreams?
· When you sense someone is an energy vampire who drains your energy do you avoid him or her?
· In relationships do you listen to "beware" signs such as getting a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach?
· Do you pay attention to the vibes that people give off, positive and negative?
· Do you act on what moves and inspires you rather than only making decisions by what seems right on paper?

UCLA psychiatrist, practicing intuitive, and best-selling author of Positive Energy, Dr. Judith Orloff, will relate her own experience with intuition and guide the audience in experiential exercises to awaken intuition and rejuvenate the soul. Nurturing the mind’s intuitive healing capacity provides the subtle energy needed create breakthroughs in anxiety, panic, depression, and other emotional blockages. Live music for centering and relaxation will be provided by special guest drummer John Densmore, of The Doors, and oud player Hani Naser.

Free admission. No reservations necessary.

For recorded information about this event, call 310-825-5300. For other information, e-mail pingho@ucla.edu or call 310-452-1439.

Judith Orloff, M.D. is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. She is an international lecturer on the interrelationship of intuition, energy, and medicine and has spoken at medical schools, hospitals, the American Psychiatric Association, Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit, and alternative and traditional health forums. Her work has been featured on National Public Radio and CNN, and in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and O, The Oprah magazine. Dr. Orloff comes from a family of 25 physicians. Her struggles to acknowledge and embrace her gift of heightened intuition, evident to her since childhood, are chronicled in Second Sight. Her second book, Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing, shows how breakthroughs in healing of body, emotions, and sexuality are accomplished by listening to intuition. Her latest book, Positive Energy, takes a probing look at the epidemic of exhaustion in America and how it can be reversed using specific strategies to build energy and combat draining people. Positive Energy is a national and Los Angeles Times bestseller that as been translated into 23 languages. http://www.drjudithorloff.com/

John Densmore was in Maharishi's first meditation class two years BEFORE the Beatles... meditated regularly for ten years, then off and on...has been in Jungian therapy off and on from in utero to now...just finished a one hour film with James Hillman and Michael Ventura called Surfing LA...is in a very famous rock 'n roll band...has toured the world, and so forth. What he didn't tell you was...that the famous band is The Doors...that he has also written a New York Times bestseller, Riders on the Storm...that he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...that he continues to perform music with his new group Tribaljazz...and that he continues to write books. http://www.johndensmore.com/

Hani Naser is a multi-talented, virtuoso percussionist and oud player. The breadth of his talent has earned him the opportunity to perform and record with many of the most influential artists of this era including Jackson Brown, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Los Lobos, The Violent Femmes, Hamza El Din, Warren Zevon, David Lindley, and many other great musicians. Mr. Naser is at home in a multitude of musical styles and has a well-deserved reputation as an expert improviser and prolific songwriter. Mr. Naser also leads intensive workshops entitled "The Healing Powers of Rhythm and Music" at Esalen and other institutions, and has formed a band with Walfredo Reyes Jr., Armand Sabal-Lecco, and Craig Eastman. His lifelong exploration of the spiritual dimensions of music has led him to the realization that "There is a universal rhythm that I am constantly trying to be in touch with. We are vibrations. Sometimes vibrations get out of sync. Music, I have found, brings back that balance." http://www.haninaser.com/ Parking and Directions ~

Parking will be $8, and parking permits for the Center for Health Sciences parking lot can be purchased from the kiosk on Westwood Plaza, which can be found by continuing straight ahead through two traffic lights after you enter the campus on Westwood Blvd. (Westwood Blvd. becomes Westwood Plaza on campus). The kiosk will be located in the middle of the road and you will pass the entrance to the auditorium on your right as you are headed towards the kiosk. The parking attendant will show you the closest place to park, which may be Lot 9 to the right of the kiosk or the Doris Stein Plaza parking lot which can be found by going back to where you entered the campus from Westwood Blvd. and turning left at the second light as you backtrack. It is also possible to park at the Medical Plaza parking lot, which can be accessed by turning right at that same light. The auditorium entrance is on the ground (or "C") level of Westwood Plaza, the second set of glass doors north of the main entrance to the Semel Institute. The Semel Institute Auditorium is in Room C8-183, at 720 Westwood Plaza. General driving directions to UCLA can be found at http://www.ucla.edu/map/.

E-mail notification of future events ~ Programs like these, in Arts and Healing at UCLA, aim to facilitate the use of the arts for healing in the community by offering experiential learning opportunities to health professionals, educators, community workers, caregivers, and the general public. This is part of a larger endeavor to develop innovative ways of engaging youth in constructive expression and self-reflection. If you wish to be notified directly of future programs in Arts and Healing, please send your name and e- mail address to Ping Ho, Coordinator of Educational Outreach for the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program pingho@ucla.edu. Unless you note your preference for arts and healing programs only, you will also receive notification of other experiential mind/body programs, such as meditation and yoga. The advantage of being listed is that you will receive priority for notification of special programs that may not be publicized broadly due to limitations in venue space or publication policies (e.g., submission deadlines, policy of listing only free events, or policy of listing only UCLA-sponsored events). Sponsor ~

The UCLA Pediatric Pain Program offers state-of-the-art medicine in combination with the regenerative power of complementary therapies to treat children suffering from chronic pain. A wide variety of complementary therapies are used, ranging from acupuncture to art therapy. In addition, the Pediatric Pain Program conducts research on integrative therapies and sponsors educational programs for health professionals and the public. The work of the Pediatric Pain Program is described in a recently published book by founder and Director, Lonnie Zeltzer, MD: Conquering Your Child’s Pain: A Pediatrician’s Powerful Mind Body Guide for Parents. http://www.mattel.ucla.edu/pedspain/home.php