Empty Your Cup
This is a passage I really like from the book Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: Nan-in, a Japanese Zen master during the Meiji era (1868-1912),...
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Apr 4, 2013
Ayurvedic Medicine Part IV: How to Get Healthy if You’re a “Kapha”
In Part I of this series on Ayurvedic Medicine, I described the different constitutional types: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. In Parts II...
Mar 21, 2013
Ayurvedic Medicine – Part III: How to Get Healthy if You’re a “Pitta”
In Part I of this series on Ayurvedic Medicine, I described the different constitutional types: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. In Part II, I...
Mar 5, 2013
What kind of pain do you have?
Hopefully, none! However, if you do suffer from pain, acupuncture, Asian bodywork (shiatsu, acupressure, tuina) and Chinese herbal...
Mar 5, 2013
What Kind of Pain Do You Have? – Part II
In my last article about pain, I discussed how Chinese medicine distinguishes between different types of pain, and adjusts the ...
Feb 28, 2013
Ayurvedic Medicine – Part II: How to Get Healthy if You’re a “Vata”
In Part I of this series on Ayurvedic Medicine, How Knowing Your Constitutional Type Can Help You Heal, I described the different...
Jan 10, 2013
Ayurvedic Medicine Part I: How Knowing Your Constitutional Type Can Help You Heal
Ayurveda is the traditional medicine of India, which originated around 2,000 years ago. Like Traditional Chinese Medicine, which...
Dec 28, 2012
The Yin and Yang of Fertility and Pregnancy: Part 2
In my last blog, I discussed ways for women to nudge themselves into the “Yin cycle” in order to increase their fertility and...
Nov 22, 2012
The Yin and Yang of Fertility and Pregnancy – Part I
Yin and Yang are the male/female positive/negative polarities of nature whose interactions influence the destinies of all living things. ...
Oct 19, 2012
How Healthy Are You Really?
Chinese Medicine is about bringing the mind, body and spirit into dynamic balance. Dynamic balance allows us to adapt to change, ...
Sep 22, 2012
Heal Your Temporal Mandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ) with Acupuncture
Forty five million Americans suffer from chronic headaches, and about a third of headache sufferers have temporal mandibular...
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