Michal Barnea-Astrog

Michal Barnea-Astrog, PhD, is a researcher in the field of psychoanalysis and Buddhism, a senior Hakomi trainer, and therapist in private practice. She studied the Refined Hakomi Method in the UK, and is the founder and head of the Three-Year Hakomi Training in Israel. She teaches at the East Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University, and has been a Vipassana meditator for most of her adult life.

Michal teaches courses and seminars focusing on the concepts of projection, projective identification, transference, containment, reverie and holding; karma, conditioned arising and more. She discusses the relations between sensitivity, fear, holding, and non-clinging; and the relations between our basic tendency to crave pleasure and reject pain, our sense of self, the way we perceive reality, and the ways in which we generate and distribute suffering.