Grief and spring are a potent container for embarking on the “back nine.” This is a big deal, and I’m making a special offer to celebrate!
Reflections on a half-century
2024 – Wisdom and Challenges: Healing into the New Year, the Ancestral Path, and the Holy Nights
January 12, 2024 Late winter tends to be a difficult time for many people, due to seasonal imbalances, post-holiday exhaustion, and internal pressure to succeed with self-imposed “resolutions.” This time of year, in the northern hemisphere, nature beckons us inwards,…
Ayurveda and Weight Loss – Accessing the power of Wegovy, Ozempic, and Rebelsus without the cost or side-effects of Rx drugs
Why choose Ayurveda over GLP-1 semaglutide treatment? Accessibility, safety, and efficacy!
Time and Space – Kala and Akasha
When I work with Time and Space in a healing session, you may feel particularly “seen” or “heard” and you will leave feeling soothed. During a Core Synchronism session, you may feel deep and profound sense of rest, which induces similar healing mechanisms to those experienced in deep sleep.
Ayurveda vs. Western Medicine
Is there a place for Ayurveda in healing what ails us? Most certainly. But this debate goes back as far as the practice of modern medicine, and the introduction of Ayurveda to the west, in the early 20th century.
Take control of your health: the top reasons for seeing the Doctor can be addressed with botanicals, herbs, spices, and Materia Medica plant allies
Tired of pharmaceuticals? Adverse side effects making you more sick? Plants are truly an ally along the health journey. Research has increased exponentially in the past 10 years, supporting the traditional use of plants and botanicals for each of the top reasons people see their primary care doctor.
What’s wrong with the world? A musing on allopathic (western) medicine
In 2022, the rate of burnout among doctors was exceptionally high, with rates of alcohol abuse reported among 20% of physicians.
We have developed a system of medicine in which providers, under enormous pressure, simultaneously abuse the sweetness of sacred soma, “spirits” per se, on which the foundations of healing were established, while dissociating from their own humanity.
How to protect your family from flu using ancestral “folk medicine” – elderberry and echinacea
Updated September 22, 2023. Originally posted January 2018. Have you noticed the hacking and coughing yet? While around the world we may have attempted to “flatten the curve” with the COVID-19 mandates in 2020 and 2021, an unintended consequence may…
Connect the dots: Oral bacteria and gut inflammation, the role of Ayurvedic oral hygiene and probiotic supplementation in health
A recent report by IM Practitioner – Insights into Integrative Medicine highlights the role of oral bacteria in gut health. Researchers Professor Hattori and Professor Kenya Honda of Keio University School of Medicine in Japan found that when the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae…
Ayurveda and women’s health – if our girls only knew
Ayurveda and women’s health – if our girls only knew. Girls who begin their menarche earlier than age 10 have a higher chance of developing depression and antisocial behaviors, a new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests. But this does…