Patrick De Vlesschauwer

Patrick is psychologist with a focus on emotions and health.

He works for many years with people who are affectively very vulnerable using the model of The Psychology of Interdependence.

In 2009 his lifework De Ultieme Uitdaging (The Ultimate Challenge) was published by Ankh-Hermes in The Netherlands. A book about his search for the healthy mind as the source of the life that is universal and sustainable worth living. His book was inspired by the Mind and Life Institute. A center for dialogue between the two great empirical traditions of East and West. In the summer of 2010 Mind and Life Institute started a Center for Investigating the Healthy Mind – the main theme of his book. The book received good reviews and was in 2010 selected by the Vlaamse Coaches (The Flemish Coaches).

Recently he is finishing his new manuscript De Parel van Gandhi (The Pearl of Gandhi). A book about the inner journey into the deep message of yoga. He will translate the manuscript also in English.

In 2008 he studied one year at The Graduate Institute of New York in Consciousness Studies. This Institute works in cooperation with The Global Shift University of Ervin Laszlo.

In 2010 he was trained by Yogalife Foundation to Yoga Acharya. The training took place in Bhagsu in the Himalayas, at walking distance from the Dalai Lama’s residence. Here two dreams became reality. Creating a manuscript in the land of Mahatma Gandhi, nearby the energy of the Dalai Lama, close to the source of many Yoga traditions. And secondly, gaining deeper insights into the potentials of Yoga as taught by a group of Indian teachers with international experience.

At this moment he wants to combine his lifelong experience in psychology and Yoga into Yoga Psychology Therapy. He is convinced that the ancient tools and insights of Yoga are a very powerful complement to the young scientific insights of the psychology tradition.

His dream is contributing to a healthy, emotional balanced, clear minded, openhearted society through the message of Yoga.