The Triangle Holistic Center is the headquarters for The Gathering Place. On site is the headquarters for Akamai Uniaversity and The Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), Complementary Integrative Health (CIH) associated with the Global Healing Alliance (GHA) and Dr. Bulbrook's Energy Medicine Partnerships..
The Triangle Holistic Center offers a comfortable setting to relax, grow, heal and change. Centrally located, it is convenient to the airport, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Also training programs are available on line as well.
The center is energetically designed for you to to experience natural healing sounds of falling water, in a home-like tranquil setting. The Center offers individual, couple, family therapy, a variety of holistic classes, seminars, private day retreat and cozy small organizational gatherings on-line as well as in person.
Akamai University Inquire / Call 1.919.724 9657 / info@akamai.university to schedule an on-line appointment or see the web site events section.
The Gathering Place. New room & gathering area for the Triangle Holistic Center. Headquarters of Akamai University and The Institute for (CAM) / (CIH) Studies
Facilitates spiritual development series and houses international sacred items.
Goal: The cutting edge of health care is applying Energy Medicine, Healing Touch and Energy Psychology to transform lives and empower individuals to take charge of their health and healing.
Background: Learn simple energetic tools to make a difference in your life and those you love. Total Wellness is based on the teachings found in Transform Your Life through Energy Medicine, (TYLEM) developed by Dr. Mary Jo Bulbrook, Healing Touch (HT) developed by Janet Mentgen and Dr. Dan Benor, MD, creator of WHEE a form of Energy Psychology. These three programs contain unique strategies that change the energy system, which in turn changes health and healing. Based on the research outlined in the film The Living Matrix, Total Wellness gives you the tools to do this.
In a compromised economy becoming empowered to change your health with managing what is going on in your life’s rather than depending on only health care professionals and the illness system of care will become even more important.
Resources:
Soul Medicine: Awakening Your Inner Blueprint for Abundant Health and Energy. Nurman Shealy, M.D. PhD & Dawson Church, PhD. Forward by Caroline Myss, PhD.
The Roots of Healing Touch: Janet Mentgen, Founder. Written by Dr. Mary Jo Bulbrook, Original Co-author with Janet Mentgen of the Healing Touch Notebooks 2010 and updated 2022
Contains pictures and interventions from the original teaching materials capturing the energy and story as Dr. Bulbrook traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa as well s teaching the program worldwide throughout Canada and USA.
Energy Medicine Partnerships welcomed Lama Surya Das to the Triangle in late February 2010.
His talks included:
Awakening to the Power of Spirit in Your Life: Teachings of the Medicine Buddha
Spiritual and Energetic Approaches for Health and Healing: Awakening and Healing with Medicine Buddha
Opening the Heart to World Service: Spiritual and Energetic Approactes for Healing Trauma, Abuse, and Disaster
Mary Jo Bulbrook with Lama Surya Das in April 2013 at the Dogzen Center outside Austin Tx. Check out the current offerings to share in the light and wisdom of Lama Surya Das yourself.
The Big Questions:
How to Find Your Own Answers to Life's Essential Mysteries
Our instinct to seek & question is what drives us to grow, consciously evolve, and thrive. As humans we are all faced with daunting and pressing questions each day, great to small. We wonder what our purpose is in life and feel perplexed about the mysteries of death and the afterlife. In The Big Questions, best-selling author Lama Surya Das offers his enlightened wisdom and personal experience through incisive instruction in the art of intelligent questioning while unlocking your own crucial questions and helping you discover your pathway in life. The insights he provides helps you transition from a seeker of knowledge to a finder of fulfillment, inner peace, and conviction. The Big Questions is for anyone looking to break through their own personal identity and self-imposed limitations, find the sacred life, and further develop integrity, authenticity, ethical values, meaning and truth.
Lama Surya Das -- Biography and Background
Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. Born Jeffrey Miller, he was raised in Valley Stream on New York's Long Island, where he celebrated his bar mitzvah and earned letters in basketball, baseball, and soccer at Valley Stream Central High School (class of 1968). While a student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he attended antiwar protests, marched on Washington, and attended Woodstock. After graduating with honors from college, he traveled throughout Europe and the East, and he has spent nearly thirty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia.
Today, Lama Surya Das teaches and lectures around the world, conducting dozens of meditation retreats and workshops each year. Based on his relationship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Surya Das founded the Western Buddhist Teachers Network and has organized three week-long conferences of Western Buddhist Meditation Teachers with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. He also teaches regularly at Esalen, Open Center, Omega Institute, Interface, at universities in the United States and abroad, and at spiritual centers of all kinds.
Surya Das is the author of the "Awakening Trilogy"
AWAKENING THE BUDDHA WITHIN: Eight Steps to Enlightenment (Broadway Books, 1997), which appeared on Publishers Weekly Religion Bestseller list, and on lists at the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, and Christian Science Monitor;
AWAKENING TO THE SACRED: Building a Spiritual Life from Scratch (Broadway Books, 1999; and
AWAKENING THE BUDDHIST HEART: Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Life (Broadway Books, 2000).
His new book, LETTING GO OF THE PERSON YOU USED TO BE: Lessons on Change, Loss and Spiritual Transformation, was released in August, 2003. A regular contributor to Tricycle Magazine, New Age, and Yoga Journal, he is also the author of THE SNOW LION'S TURQUOISE MANE: 155 Wisdom Tales from Tibet (1992), and coauthor of NATURAL GREAT PERFECTION: Vajra Songs and Dzogchen Teachings (1995). Find out more about his books here.
When he's not meditating, teaching, or attending a retreat, Surya Das enjoys music, dogs, swimming, bicycling, hiking, and haiku poetry.
He resides in Concord, Massachusetts, outside of Boston.
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2025 07:30
Holistic Self Care
Written by Mary Jo Bulbrook
Monday, 16 March 2026 00:00
Overview
Are you, stressed, overworked, or just not feeling well? Are you, a family member or friend suffering from cancer, heart-related problems, depression, broken bones or emotional wounds that won't heal? Do you have a back injury, arthritis, HIV or aids, grief, trouble with relationships or family problems? Then energy medicine has something to offer you.
Holistic Self-Care (HSC) treatments are done with the hands, from a gentle heart centered approach.
We are intricate energy systems that have many significant parts affecting physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. TYLEM clears, balances and vitalizes you!
Virginia Satir and Mary Jo Bulbrook, Seattle, Washington
Description
This experiential course is based on the psychotherapy training of renowned family therapist Virginia Satir with Mary Jo Bulbrook's worldwide TYLEM™ training and other energy therapies. Participants will learn ways to enhance and heal relationships with this unique therapy process.
Spiritual intuitive insights from multi-generational and multi-time dimensions reveal locked patterns of energy that hold spiritual lessons for health and healing. Participants develop insights and heal personal and family relationships with this innovative process. (8-16 contact hours)
Satir's prayer that helps portray the "whole person model for becoming more fully human."
Participants will be able to:
Explore the Satir and Bulbrook models of family dynamics and communication patterns.
(View the models here.)
Identify family energetc history using the TYLEM & other energetic assessment processes.
Gain insights into your relationship energetic pattern(s).
Experience multi-dimensional energetic healing.
Clear communication patterns therapeutically and energetically.
Discuss insights to create a new path for yourself.
Experience spiritual congruent communication.
Content
Advanced Energy Medicine Healing Techniques taught in these classes:
Six-Pointed Star Relationship Meditation
Spiritual Congruent Communication
Meditation to Balance the Energy System
Multi-Sensory Cues to Energetic Flow
Energetic Relational Patterns Healing Protocol
Satir Energetic Communication
Bulbrook's Energetic Communication Patterns
Faculty
Mary Jo Bulbrook, EdD
Dr. Bulbrook is a master psychotherapist, spiritual/medical intuitive, energy healer and teacher with over thirty six years experience teaching healing. She has taught workshops in Peru, Chile, South Africa, Australiea, NewZealand, Canada and throughout the USA. She worked closely with Virginia for over 17 years helping her launch her internatinal teaching network.
Her grounded theory approach to research in partnership with traditional healers from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Peru has enriched out understanding of the healing process. Gifted with intuitive insight, Mary Jo has been able to communicate across time dimensions. Her experence with the death process started in 1976. She helped launch Hospice of Salt Lake and served as the first Director of Training.
Dr. Bulbrook's abilities of Higher Sense Perception developed over time as she went around the world teaching, practicing and researching ways to help people grow and change.
Dr. Carolyn J. Nesbitt, PhD
Dr. Carolyn Nesbitt has been playing with, working with and exploring states of consciousness since she had her first out-of-body experience at seventeen years old. Energy work and shamanic journeys come naturally as a way to experience non-ordinary reality. As a senior faculty member of the Banmen Satir China Management Centre, she has led meditation and other deep intrapsychic traing workshops (trauma, anxiety, depression and business leadership in China; as well, she has facilitated Satir trainings in the UD, Ghana, Uganda and Canada.
Alongside her private practice, she worked as a psychologist at B.C. Children's Hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital, Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre for youth in trouble with the law, Simon Fraser University Psychology Clinic and Riverview Psychiatric Hospital. She has taught courses at Adler University and Quest University in British Columbia, Canada, as well as supervising PhD therapies in the supervision of new MA therapists.
In 2024 she joined Akamai University as faculty & Global Healing Alliance Co-Director of Projects & the Satir Center For Becoming More Fully Human.
Virginia Satir
(1916 - 1988)
The late Virginia Satir was a pioneer in the development of family therapy. During her lifetime, she created a dynamic model to help people change and grow. She was identified as a communication theorist, although in identifying herself she would say her mission was to help people build their self-esteem. Through a simple, dynamic process, she developed an effective model to help people grow and change. Her goal was to help people feel better about themselves and be effective in communicating with others. Based on her experience of helping people for several decades, the model called the "whole person model for becoming more fully human" has been enriched to include energy medicine.
Experience the blending of the work of these masters
to bring about growth & change
achieving peace with, peace between & peace among.
Dr. Bulbrook is a holistic registered nurse, family wellness therapist and internationally renown master teacher, spiritual / medical intuitive, mystic, shaman, co-creative healing medium, expert energy specialist, health care professional and psychotherapist with over 50+ years practicing, teaching energy based care worldwide.
Currently she is Dean of the College of Integrative Health, CEO and President Emeritus of Akamai University.
Dr. Bulbrook combines science, spirituality, health care and energy therapies in her work both at Akamai University and Energy Medicine Partnerships where she founded EMP based on her career as a holistic nurse practitioner, educator and researcher.
She has worked extensively with traditional healers from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, & Peru blending their wisdom in her spiritually guided life's work.
The Big Questions: 
Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. Born Jeffrey Miller, he was raised in Valley Stream on New York's Long Island, where he celebrated his bar mitzvah and earned letters in basketball, baseball, and soccer at Valley Stream Central High School (class of 1968). While a student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he attended antiwar protests, marched on Washington, and attended Woodstock. After graduating with honors from college, he traveled throughout Europe and the East, and he has spent nearly thirty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia.
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