“Let food be thy medicine.” -Hippocrates Do you or someone you love suffer from migraine headaches? From my experience of treating migraines for the last 8 years, I find the most common causes of these debilitating headaches are neck and shoulder tension from stress and whiplash injury, diet, toxin exposure, screen time, and a lack …
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As a practitioner and student of oriental medicine, I have spent the last seven years of my life trying to understand the knowledge and concepts of the human body’s pathological and healing mechanisms through the lens of ancient wisdom that has been passed down to us for more than 2,000 years. Healers and alchemists of …
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The first time I experienced craniosacral therapy with my colleague Albert Stern, L.Ac, was a monumental shift in my understanding of energy medicine as a modality that not only approaches healing from an integrative perspective, but as an experience that allows you to communicate with the deepest potential of your inner awareness and create a …
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Serving per person: 8 oz water 4 oz milk or alternative milk (I’ve been using oat milk.) 4 crushed cardamom pods 10 fennel seeds 1/4 inch diced ginger root 1 star anise 1 cinnamon stick 1 black tea bag or loose herb equivalent Simply multiply the ingredients per the number of people you’re serving. I …
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the winter months correspond to the Water element and the energetics of the Kidney and Bladder. These are a yin-yang pair: the Kidney being yin and the Bladder being yang. While the short days of winter invite us to going inward into the deep, emotional, transformative aspects of our yin, the …
Living on the Colorado Front Range in the greater Denver-Boulder area, we are at an elevated altitude between 5,280 and 5,328 feet. As many of us are transplants from other states, it can take anywhere from one week to six months+ for our bodies to produce the blood oxygen necessary to adjust to this climate. …
The Chinese Lunar New Year starts on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, and ends on Feb. 11, 2021. This is the year of the Metal Rat! The Rat is the first sign of the 12 zodiac signs and therefore represents new beginnings and potential. 2020 is going to bring energies of new possibilities, financial success, and …