Fallingwater will present later this month a free online lecture by the Dalai Lama’s personal physician, Dr. Barry Kerzin, on “creating balance in our lives.” The Zoom event was arranged after covid-19 restrictions postponed Kerzin’s scholar-in-residence visit this summer at the historic Frank Lloyd Wright house in Fayette County.
On Sept. 29 from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Kerzin will offer a morning with “discussion, meditation and joy” for his presentation, “Environment Creating Healthy Wellbeing, Wellbeing Creating Healthy Environments.”
“When we are balanced, all life around us is balanced,” he said in a post on the Fallingwater website. “When nature and our balanced-self meet, a crescendo of energy and subtle joy is evoked. Then all is well.”
Registration on the Fallingwater website is required for the Zoom event.
A California native, Kerzin is a family medical doctor, Buddhist monk and personal physician for the 14th Dalai Lama. He lives at the Dalai Lama’s compound at Dharamshala, India.
He has visited Pittsburgh before, consulting with UPMC to teach doctors and nurses about how mindfulness, compassion and resiliency can promote good health and reduce job stress.
Fallingwater’s partnership with UPMC is making the free lecture possible.
Kerzin’s inclusion in Fallingwater’s scholar-in-residence program has been rescheduled for next year, said Justin Gunther, director of Fallingwater and vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
“We’re appreciative that Dr. Kerzin still wanted to offer a meaningful way to support Fallingwater by discussing nature, balance and harmony — all attributes evoked from Fallingwater’s architecture and landscape,” he said.
The public can visit the Fallingwater grounds and its 1.5 miles of trails for a self-guided exterior tour. Cost is $18.
The 5,119 acres that surround Fallingwater, known as Bear Run Nature Reserve, is free to the public. It has 28.5 miles of trails.
