A Hot Bath – Your Rx for Relaxation and Health A hot bath relaxes your muscles, hydrates your spirit, and if you add epsom salts and/or baking soda, can give your body a great detoxifying
Tears on the Yoga Mat, Yes! – for Yoga Students The word yoga comes from the Sandskrit word for ‘connection’ or ‘union.’ A yoga practice connects awareness of the breath with specific poses (asanas), whose
The Future of Healing begins Now – ARCHIVED The future of healing will revolve around gut health, human connection, a conscious turn inward to slow down and listen to the body. It also includes a
The Future of Healing Continues – ARCHIVED Last week I wrote about the Future of Healing Teleconference, a 12-day virtual gathering of many of the stars in alternative medicine, certainly some of the most high-profile.
7 Conscious Eating Tips Here are some practices to start building now for those times when your emotions get the best of you and your eating spirals out of your conscious control. Read the full
New beginnings call for a new vision – my resolution to Move Beyond Fear Happy New Year! It’s a new beginning and new beginnings call for a new vision. My resolution is to move beyond
Building Healthy Habits Takes Time I notice a tendency that once I get stuck in my head, I want to crawl even further up there. The day was full and I had a lot to
Do you eat too fast, too? If you eat too fast, you probably know it – and the problems associated with it, but how can you change such a deeply held habit? Here’s what I’ve
The Essential Power of Plants in their Healing Oils You can have the healing power of plants available any time in your pocket or purse with an essential oil kit like this one I put
Tears on the Table – When Your Client Needs to Cry What do you do when your client or patient bursts into tears? At first, you wonder if you did something to set the person
Home grown food nourishes you I used to think high-grade balsamic vinegar imported from Italy was the best there is. Then a friend gave me some superb banana vinegar he made by fermenting Haiku apple
The Search for Happy, Healthy Fats Phew, the holidays are officially over and I’m in search of happy fat (clean and healthy). I ate too much of foods that leave me feeling out of balance.
Notes from the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco – ARCHIVED Wisdom 2.0 is a conference that aims to unite wisdom and technology – i.e. bring mindfulness and conscious awareness to the reach and scope
Structured water? Learning about structured water is part of a larger tapestry of understanding and awareness about health and HOW THINGS WORK. It comes down to structure patterns (geometry), movement, and patterns of movement. This
How to Find and Receive Great Bodywork Massage, Energywork, Intuitive Healing … We are complex beings. Complete healing includes body, mind, spirit and the emotion that connects them. Bodywork can help heal on many levels
The Social Cost of Eliminating Sugar Whenever I thought about eliminating sugar from my diet, I always felt the social cost was too high. Eating out at restaurants, business lunches, and potlucks, tend to be
You Are Born to Love and Be Loved! You Deserve Love, Support, Understanding and Kindness I just read a great passage in Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses: “I know that my mother loved me
‘Tis the Season – A Case for a Gentler Approach As you Welcome Holiday Sadness, it Transforms Holiday sadness hits can hit anyone during the winter and that’s a good thing. Here’s how to welcome
Personal Sustainability is important, too Sustainability is a hot topic, and rightly so. However it is not a new and radical concept; sustainability simply means that we are supposed to replace what we take and
Positive evolution is happening now Social walls are crumbling. Especially when we face change, we want to know what a positive outcome looks like. Positive evolution includes aging well, embracing diversity, and building sustainable agriculture.
Natural Structure and Movement are key for healing Without our conscious knowledge and without any fanfare, the healing made possible by coordinated structure and movement is everywhere. Breakthroughs in our understanding of molecular natural structure and
Forgive me, my sister – Forgive myself Now that my Inner Kid isn’t sedated with sugar…long-buried emotions are coming up for clearing. I am feeling sister love and sister loss. I’m more than three months
Do you consult your own body first? Your Body is its Best Doctor I am coming to see that the best medical advice – whether dietary or long-term medical – probably comes from one’s body,
Here’s a Playful and Effective Breathing Tool It will Deepen your Breath and Bring You Back into Your Body Do you have tight shoulders? A stiff neck? Do you think too much? Ever catch yourself
What to Eat? Ask Your Body, Ask Nature We have a huge array of food choices available to us now – some great, some not. It used to be that humans ate what they could,
Talking about Your Own Death can be a Rewarding Experience – Here’s how to get started… Oddly enough, the subject of death is becoming wonderful to me – not exactly fun, but fascinating and intensely
Why do yoga? We are born experiencing life from the inside out, through the vehicle of our bodies – our “earth suits”, as my friend, Harriet calls them. As babies, we laugh, and love, and
https://youtu.be/nIsCs9_-LP8 You and I are Still Wonderfully Emotional Babies Inside. It feels good to open your heart and feel! As you watch this video, feel your heart open and reach toward this sincere, open little
The Man with Sobbing Shoulders is the first in my Stories from the Healing Table series. It was first published in my book Issues in Your Tissues: Heal Body and Emotion from the Inside Out. The
The Wounded Wife – Story from the Healing Table This story follows from last week’s story about Patrick, The Man with Sobbing Shoulders. In this case, Carrie, the Wounded Wife, traced her ongoing conflict with her