Kindling Spirit

Kindling Spirit: Healing From Within is an experiential journey that will expand your mind, touch your soul, and maybe change your life.

Kindling Spirit: Healing From Within is an experiential journey that will expand your mind, touch your soul, and maybe change your life. Dr. Carl Hammerschlag is a distinguished psychiatrist, author, and healer whose work with Native Americans has been chronicled in three critically acclaimed books, chronicling his transformational journey from doctor to healer. In Kindling Spirit, he shares the cumulative wisdom of almost 45 years working with Native people. In his inimitable storytelling style, he reveals the critical elements that allow us to stay healthy and thrive in the face of life's challenges.

Carl A. Hammerschlag is a master storyteller and internationally recognized author, physician, speaker and healer. A Yale-trained psychiatrist; he has spent more than twenty years working with Native Americans. He is an expert on how to survive in rapidly changing cultures. Now one of the worlds leading proponents of Psychoneuroimmunology (mind-body-spirit medicine), he is a faculty member at the University of Arizona Medical School. He is a faculty member at the Univ. of Arizona Medical School, and founder of the Turtle Island Project, a non-profit, multidisciplinary organization whose programs integrate the principles of mind/body/spirit medicine with Native American rituals and ceremonies. Dr. Hammerschlag's life work has been chronicled in three critically acclaimed books: The Dancing Healers, The Theft of the Spirit, Healing Ceremonies, and two children's books. He holds the highest honor given in the speaking profession, the CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame Award and is a recipient of the National Caring Award. Selected by the Caring Institute of Washington D.C. from more than a quarter million nominations, the award honors "the ten most caring adults in America." In his presentations, Dr. Carl Hammerschlag brings his gift of storytelling, a wealth of legends, and unique insights which bridge the worlds of science, spirit, and culture. With poignancy and humor, he leads his audiences on a joyful journey that will stimulate and renew their creative potential.