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Mission Organization Certification Workshops About Breathing Professional services Instrumentation Business Opportunity Downloads Links Contact us	THE MINDFUL PHYSIOLOGY INSTITUTE Mindful physiology is “intelligent” physiology, self-regulating physiology that learns and evolves based on experience. As Fritjof Capra says in his book The Web of Life (1996), “the organizing activity of living systems, at all levels of life, is mental activity.” This organizing activity is “mind,” the consequence which is self-regulation, homeostasis, and life itself. Understanding that physiology is mindful means that optimizing health and performance is “personal.” It means that health and performance is about YOU. It means coming from “inside-out,” through “intelligent” physiology, where presence, embracement, connection, and awareness provide for discovery, the creative process of unfolding mindfulness. Imagine, for example, harnessing the science of placebo effects, rather than simply discarding them as artifact or as non-treatment effects. Traditional and alternative healthcare emphasize “outside-in,” where “help” is in the form of “treatment,” wherein services and tangible products are “administered to” or “applied to” a person, and where “expertise” often insists that you “give up your body” in the name of health and the experts who make claim to it, e.g., surgery, drugs, herbal remedies, massage, chiropractic. Implicit in this agreement is disembodiment, an abandonment of the mindfulness of physiology. Establishing practitioner-client partnerships that combine inside-out with outside-in for arriving at creative solutions to health and performance challenges, offers more productive, cost-effective, and humanizing solutions than the “bankrupt” treatment model that separates people into “experts” and “victims,” AND, where financial assistance is provided only for those who “do not help themselves.” CapnoBreath Training, for which the Institute offers certification, is an example of where these two approaches can come powerfully together, health-care practitioner and patient, consultant and client, coach and trainee, teacher and student. Mindful Physiology Institute teaches principles and applications of the inside-out paradigm through offering educational services. Specifically, the Institute currently offers breathing evaluation, training consultation, Internet coaching, and lecture events to laypersons, and workshops and a CapnoBreath Certification Program to professionals.