Mind-Body Medicine
Professional Training Program
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine's signature training is currently available online. Learn the fundamentals of mind-body medicine in this 4-day online program for your health and wellbeing.
Join the 8,000+ participants in over 50 countries who have completed our Professional Training Program
Discover the impact this training has had on participants around the world.
Is 'life changing' an overstatement? I think not. This was, hands down, the best professional training I have done in all my years in the field. It was the perfect balance between science, learning, and experiencing.
Stephanie Burcusa
PhD, Psychologist
In a fast-paced world where constant motion is the norm, this training provided a valuable opportunity to pause, introspect, and reemerge with newfound skills to navigate life.
Alejandra Zapien Hidalgo
MD, MPH
This training is powerful, and the world needs it. If there could be a stronger realization about the many ways in which people are suffering, along with the adoption of these deceptively simple healing techniques, the impact would be life-changing.
Alexandra E. Morgan
Learn the Science & Experience the Transformation for Yourself
Join our evidence-based training to learn more about the mind-body connection and how to heal from trauma and stress.
Transform the way you care for yourself and others. This four-day online intensive training combines the latest science in mind-body medicine with hands-on learning that you can start using today. Through expert instruction and CMBM's signature Mind-Body Skills Groups, you'll experience the same evidence-based techniques used by thousands of clinicians, educators, and community leaders around the world to reduce stress, build resilience, and support healing.
You'll leave with practical tools, renewed inspiration, and the confidence to integrate mind-body medicine into your work, your relationships, and your daily life.
Meet Your Teachers
James S. Gordon, MD
Founder, Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Dr. James S. Gordon is the Founder and CEO of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. A Harvard-educated psychiatrist, Dr. Gordon founded CMBM in 1991 to make self-awareness, self-care, and group support central to all healthcare and education systems.
Dr. Gordon is currently a Clinical Professor at Georgetown Medical School, and was Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Dr. Gordon has also authored several books, including Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing.
Lynda Richtsmeier Cyr, PhD, LP
Clinical Director, Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Dr. Lynda Richtsmeier Cyr is the Clinical Director at The Center for Mind Body Medicine. She is a Licensed Integrative Clinical Psychologist and has over 25 years experience in private practice, medical clinics, hospitals, community, and academic settings.
Dr. Richtsmeier Cyr earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and completed her internship and fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY.
“I think what makes the program unique is a combination of an atmosphere that is generous and loving, together with teaching people very practical, very simple techniques to change the way they look at the world.”James S. Gordon, MD, Founder, The Center For Mind-Body Medicine
Four Days That Can Change Your Life
Our Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training Program (PTP) teaches more than a dozen practical techniques for self-care and mutual support.
Learn to Heal Yourself First
Learn the skills and techniques to heal from your own stress and trauma and build a sustainable self-care practice.
Evidence-Based Tools for Wellness
Understand the science behind mind-body medicine. Grounded in a healing model we've been teaching, refining and evolving for over 35 years, our training gives you the evidence-based tools to promote physiological and psychological balance.
Find Your People
Healers, helpers, and clinicians often carry their work alone. You'll leave not just with new skills, but with a network that sustains you long after the training ends.
Add to Your Professional Skillset
Every participant who completes the 4-day training receives a Certificate of Completion — a meaningful credential whether you work with clients or simply want more tools for your own healing journey.
Interested in earning a CMBM Certification? Upon completion of our Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training Program, you are on your way towards Certification. Learn more about our Advanced Training Program and paths to Certification in Mind-Body Medicine.
Professional Continuing Education Credits for CMBM's Professional Training in Mind-Body Medicine are awarded by Allegany College of Maryland for Human Service Professionals for counselors, therapists and social workers. Click to learn more.
The CMBM Difference
A proven model influencing global healing and resilience, unlike any other mind-body training in the world.
The Power of Mind-Body Skills Groups
Our model is built around live, intimate small groups where healing happens in real time. You'll experience the safety, connection, and mutual support of our group model firsthand, and you'll understand immediately why participants consistently describe it as an unforgettable experience and the most transformative part of the program.
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
CMBM's approach is built on a foundation of sharing ancient healing practices drawn from indigenous traditions around the world, refined over decades, and proven in the most demanding settings imaginable, from war zones and disaster relief sites to schools, clinics, and community centers worldwide.
Over 35 Years of Proven Impact
For more than three decades, CMBM's model has changed lives across every background, identity, and circumstance: adults and children, educators and students, healthcare workers and patients, military veterans, first responders, and frontline workers. The results speak for themselves: published research consistently shows that more than 80% of participants who qualify for PTSD no longer qualify after participating in our Mind-Body Skills Groups.
Built for helping professionals of all kinds
Designed for anyone who wants to address their own stress and burnout and bring more healing, resilience, and connection to the people they serve.
Medical professionals
Physicians, nurses, PAs, integrative practitioners who want whole-person tools beyond conventional care alone.
Licensed clinicians
Therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists expanding their evidence-based clinical toolkit.
Educators
Teachers, school counselors, and administrators who support student and community resilience.
Coaches & wellness professionals
Life coaches, yoga teachers, somatic practitioners who want the scientific foundation behind mind-body work and direct experience in a range of techniques.
Community leaders
Nonprofit workers, humanitarian and relief professionals bringing healing to high-need communities worldwide.
And you…
If your work involves supporting the wellbeing of others, or simply learning how to take better care of yourself — you belong here.
A Four-Day Journey Into Mind-Body Medicine
As community leaders, healers, and professionals, we often carry immense responsibility to the people we serve. This training offers the opportunity to fill your own cup to help sustain the important work you do.
Thursday, October 1
Online
9:30am – 6:00pm ETDay 1 — Welcome to Mind-Body Medicine Foundations
Build a strong foundation in the principles of mind-body medicine and connect with your small group. Through expert presentations and experiential practices, you'll explore the pillars of the self-care model, understand the impact of the stress response on health and healing, and learn practical techniques to shift out of fight-or-flight and into greater balance, resilience, and regulation.
Day 2 — The Inner Life: Imagery, Emotions & Eating
Discover how guided imagery, mindful eating, journaling, and emotional awareness can deepen self-understanding and support healing. Through experiential practices and small group sharing, you'll learn and experience techniques to access inner wisdom and work more skillfully with emotions.
Day 3 — Roots & Transformation
Explore how personal history, meaning, and connection shape the healing process. Through breath work, movement, and small group reflection, you'll deepen your understanding of trauma and transformation while discovering tools to foster resilience, purpose, and forgiveness.
Day 4 — Integration & Closing Ceremony
Bring everything together through body awareness practices, reflection, and connection with your small group. You'll integrate the skills and insights from the training, explore how to carry this work forward, and celebrate the impact of the journey alongside your fellow participants.
Be part of a global movement for healing.
Join thousands of clinicians, educators, caregivers, and community leaders creating meaningful change in their own lives and in the lives of others.
Reserve Your Spot
Join us October 1–2 & 5–6, 2026
Regular Tuition $1,475
Early bird deadline August 15, 2026
We offer a limited number of scholarships for the Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training Program. To apply, click here.
Contact us with additional questions about the training or registration.
Experience the work before you decide
Free four-part practice series led by Dr. Gordon and CMBM faculty, live on Zoom. Each session stands alone — no prior attendance required.
How to Regulate Your Emotions When Everything Feels Dysregulated
Explore self-compassion and awareness practices for emotional resilience.
The Mind-Body Practices You Need to Know & the Science Behind Them
Discover the evidence-based tools for creating real change in your life and the lives of those you serve.
Stress & the Nervous System: The Science of Chronic Stress & Tools to Shift It
Deeper understanding of the mind-body connection and stress science
The Power of Groups: Why Healing Happens in Community
Learn about the science of community and the magic of small group support.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this training online or in person?
Right now, our trainings are offered 100% online. As we plan future programs, we are continuing to evaluate resuming in-person trainings.
I have lots of experience with mind-body medicine. Can I take the Advanced Mind-Body Medicine training right away?
Advanced Training is open only to those who have completed the initial Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training Program. Sorry—no exceptions!
Can I attend half/part of the program?
No. Because this is a training program, not a conference, we ask for a commitment from you to attend the entire training program, including all didactic and group sessions.
What is mind-body medicine?
Mind-body medicine is based on the scientific understanding of the inextricable connection among our thoughts, sensations and feelings, and our mind, body, and spirit – between ourselves and the social and natural world in which we live. It focuses on the interactions between mind and body; and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social and spiritual factors can directly relieve stress and improve health. It is used with individuals, groups, and entire populations. Mind-body skills are scientifically validated to reduce stress and restore physical and psychological health. The mind-body approach heals individual trauma and builds community-wide resilience. The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) approach to wellness is grounded in practical, evidence-based skills for self-care, self-awareness, and group support. It emphasizes an approach that respects and enhances each person’s capacity for self-knowledge and self-care.
What’s the science behind it?
Mind-body approaches use the conscious mind to directly affect the workings of the brain and the rest of the body. The techniques exert their effect on the hypothalamus, the switching station in the brain, which exercises control over the autonomic nervous system (which controls heart rate, blood pressure etc.), the endocrine (glandular) system and the immune system. The scientific literature on these approaches is now rich and robust. Studies dating from the late 1960’s have shown the power of mind-body techniques to balance the over-activity of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system (“the fight or flight” and “stress” responses) which is implicated in many physical and emotional diseases and conditions, with parasympathetic nervous system stimulation that promotes relaxation. More recently, these techniques have been demonstrated to create beneficial changes in many of the body’s physiological responses (including blood pressure, stress hormone levels, pain response and immune functioning) and to make a significant clinical difference in conditions as diverse as hypertension, HIV, cancer, chronic pain, and insomnia as well as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
What Time Zone is this training being hosted under?
This online training will be hosted under Eastern Time Zone (GMT-04:00).
What are the technology requirements?
- You will need a consistently reliable and quality internet connection.
- Using a desktop or laptop computer is strongly recommended. A phone or tablet can be used as a backup if your primary device fails.
- It is also required to have a web camera (built-in or external), microphone (built-in or external), and headphones in order to participate in small groups and other live sessions. Web camera, microphone, and headphone use are required throughout the small group sessions as this is a vital factor in the group experience.
- We will be using Google Sites for course content navigation & Zoom as our video conferencing technology. Closer to the program date, you will receive instructions for using these systems.
What video conferencing platform will be used for this training?
We will use Zoom conferencing system and a Google Site for all navigation of the training sessions.
How do I prepare a private space for participation?
Review our guidelines here.
Since this is an online training, will these sessions be recorded for later viewing?
Yes, all large group didactic sessions will be recorded. Small group sessions will not be recorded to ensure the safety and confidentiality of the small group setting.
CEU Information & Evaluation
Professional Continuing Education Credits for CMBM’s Professional Training in Mind-Body Medicine are awarded by Allegany College of Maryland for Human Service Professionals.
Completing the full program as verified by CMBM and submitting an additional evaluation is required for your certificate to be emailed.
It is the responsibility of the participant to ascertain whether this program is within the scope of practice of their profession as determined by their regulatory body.
Continuing Education Units are approved as follows:
Addictions Counselors:
Allegany College of Maryland has been approved by the Maryland State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists as a sponsor of Continuing Education. This program has been approved for 30 Category A hours for Addiction counselors.
Professional Counselors:
Allegany College of Maryland has been approved by the Maryland State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists as a sponsor of Continuing Education. This program has been approved for 30 Category A continuing education requirements.
Psychologists:
Allegany College of Maryland is authorized by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of Continuing Education. This training qualified for 30 Category A Contact Hours for Psychologists.
Social Workers:
Allegany College of Maryland is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for 20 Category I continuing education units. Live, interactive, real-time.
Founder, The Center For Mind-Body Medicine
“This training is powerful, and the world needs it. If there could be a stronger realization about the many ways in which people are suffering, along with the adoption of these deceptively simple healing techniques, the impact would be life-changing.”Alexandra E. Morgan Watch Full Testimonial
