Dr Ruth Gawler

Dr Ruth Gawler
MB BS (Syd) MGPPsych (Monash)
Fellow of the Australian College of Psychological Medicine

Resourceful Links Associated with Ruth:
 www.mindbodymastery.net
 www.iangawler.com
 www.gawler.org

Dr. Ruth Gawler has recorded a series of guided meditation exercises which are part of the Mindbody Mastery program (www.mindbodymastery.net), a unique online program for learning meditation. The program presents 8 guided exercises in MP3 file format over 8 weeks, along with 6 months of support to encourage persistence with the practise. The ongoing support includes daily e-mail and weekly SMS  reminders, monthly surveys, monthly survey of practice with feedback, integration with Facebook to get friends involved as a supportive peer group, and interactive access to experts through monthly webinars, blogs and directly via e-mail”. If interested, please register atwww.mindbodymastery.net”.

 

Dr Ruth Gawler is a General Practitioner with a specialised interest in Mind-Body Medicine and Psychiatry.
As well as working as a GP and Therapist in the residential programs at The Gawler Foundation since 2001, Ruth has been teaching people how to get the most out of their medical treatments, and teaching yoga and meditation. She is particularly enthused to teach the use of meditation therapeutically – for health, healing and wellbeing. She has been meditating for over 20 years and is currently on the Board of the Australian Meditation Teachers Association.
As Dr. Ruth Berlin, Ruth graduated from Sydney University in 1981, then spent 2 years as a Resident Medical Officer at Sydney Hospital before working in Kenya at the Nairobi Hospital and Tumu-Tumu Hospital (a Presbyterian Mission Hospital in the Kikuyu Highlands) for 2 years.

Ruth returned to Australia in 1985 to work and study at The Rozelle Hospital as a Psychiatry Registrar for a year and then she completed her training with the Family Medicine Program.

From 1990-95 Ruth worked at the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress in Alice Springs. Also, she was Medical Director of the Family Planning Association of Central Australia from 1991-1997.
Prompted in the early nineties by personal difficulties with a debilitating, chronic back condition and severe depression, which were largely both resistant to conventional medical treatments and threatened to require life long medication, Ruth began to expand her way of thinking about health.
After her recovery, she combined her work as a rural GP with a new interest in studying and practicing psychotherapy. In 2001 Ruth completed a Masters in General Practice Psychiatry. Currently, Ruth is a fellow of the Australian College of Psychological Medicine and a member of the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association and the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.
After 10 years in Central Australia, Ruth moved to Victoria to marry Ian Gawler in 2000, and has been working in Insight Health Services and The Gawler Foundation since 2001.
Ruth believes that healing and being healthy is a process of integration, where integration involves the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of life becoming more and more congruent, vibrant and connected.
Meditation is a key technique Ruth has been studying and practising since 1986; initially through Hatha Yoga, and in the last 20 years using Mindfulness-Based Stillness Meditation, imagery and Tibetan Buddhist practices through the teachings of Sogyal Rinpoche. Ruth has studied extensively the teaching of her husband Ian Gawler, and been trained by him directly over many years.