Protecting Your Brain for the Long Haul: How Acupuncture, Diet, Exercise, and Herbs Can Help By Dr Nicola Loizou Does Any of This Sound Familiar? You’re somewhere in the middle of life juggling school pickups, helping with homework, managing work deadlines and at the same time, you’re watching your parents slow down. Maybe you’ve noticed [...]
Tai Chi: Movement, Alignment, Focus and Relaxation by Simon Murray Tai Chi Chuan (a.k.a. Taijiquan) is a series of interconnected movements and postures. Initially an effective martial art, it’s now more commonly practiced slowly and mindfully to maximise its health benefits. There are 5 main schools or styles of Tai Chi, as well as many [...]
Burnout and the Nervous System: What’s Really Happening by Tara Hearne Burnout Isn’t a Personal Failure; It’s a Nervous System Issue! Burnout doesn’t always look dramatic Sometimes it shows up as keeping up with work, caring for others, and getting things done, all while quietly feeling depleted and exhausted inside. You may be functioning, even [...]
The Particular Agony of the Premature Baby by Anna Papadakis, Body-Centred Therapist I have been a body-centered therapist for fifteen years and was a birth worker for twelve. In that time, I have attended births, taught about birth, trained doulas, and spent decades listening deeply to people’s bodies and stories. Again and again, I have [...]
The Power of Touch “Touch...our primary language of compassion, and a primary means for spreading compassion..”~ Dacher Keltner The sense of touch is one of the most powerful yet underestimated tools of compassion that we all have access to. It’s the first language we learn at birth, and we use it without bias as a [...]
How are you sleeping? This is something I like to ask to all of my patients. Sleep is such a huge determining factor to our mental and emotional wellbeing as well as daily energy levels. And if things in this area aren’t going as well as they could, Acupuncture and Chinese medicine treatment may help [...]