Nadi Suddhi Breath (NEW)

Nadi Suddhi Breath (NEW)

Nadi Suddhi Breath is one of the best ways I know how to balance polarities, get energies crossing over the mid-line of the body, and get centered...

Discernment and Choices

Discernment and Choices

"There are no wrong choices - just different outcomes." How invested are you in the idea that there are right and wrong choices, and what does it...

The Persistent Energy of Wood Element

The Persistent Energy of Wood Element

The Five Elements of Nature each have a unique vibrational signature to them (Donna Eden calls them the Five Rhythms for this reason). If we look at...

An Equity of Grace

An Equity of Grace

All things cycle. The blessing of being a student of the Chinese Five Elements theory is recognizing that everything under the sun has a cycle: a...

The 10 Principles of Energy Medicine

The 10 Principles of Energy Medicine

The 10 Principles of Energy Medicine, adapted from Donna Eden's Energy Medicine Certification Program.     When we understand what subtle...

The Sacred Pulse

The Sacred Pulse

What good beauty,      without an eye to behold? What good song,      without an ear to hear? What good the sweet flavor of peach      without a...

New Year’s Eve Ritual

New Year’s Eve Ritual

For the past 20 years on New Year's Eve our family of four has gone out for a high-end dinner and done a ritual that we all love. Each person takes...

Celtic Calendar – Seasonal Year

Celtic Calendar – Seasonal Year

This is one of my favorite subjects - the Celtic Calendar, or the Seasonal Year - and how it melds with the Chinese Five Element model of the cycles...

Strengthen Your Immunity

Strengthen Your Immunity

Are Your Tending to Your Immunity? You've probably noticed this - but the world is a very weird place right now. The strength of our stamina and...

YinYang Sweep

YinYang Sweep

Support the facilitation of the YinYang impulses as they move through your body temple.  

Triple Warmer Embrace

Triple Warmer Embrace

A refined and loving way of soothing Triple Warmer, the governor of our Fight/Flight/Freeze response.     With this posture-breath...

Artemis Stretch for Grief

Artemis Stretch for Grief

This posture-breath combination helps to move energy out along Heart, Pericardium and Lung meridians, clearing those channels that are key to...

Moving the Grief of Our Time

Moving the Grief of Our Time

Grief, anguish, and despair are so prevalent in our time that no one is immune.  Unless you’ve had your fingers in your ears, face turned toward the...

Tracing Meridians

Tracing Meridians

Janie Chandler and Debra Burchard illustrate how to trace your meridians to help facilitate the flow of chi in the channels.     Filmed...

The I AM Body Prayer

The I AM Body Prayer

This is an affirmative prayer that I use daily to remind myself that I am an expression of Source, the I AM Presence, and that I am much more than...

Eye Challenge with Janie Chandler

Eye Challenge with Janie Chandler

Here is a very simple but powerful energy medicine routine for the health of your eyes.       These exercises come from Donna Eden,...

Thanksgiving 2018

Thanksgiving 2018

No matter how much gratitude, or grief, you are feeling on this thanks-giving day, take a deep pause and settle into your heart center and remember...

Inner Space – The Final Frontier

Inner Space – The Final Frontier

Space - the final frontier. The frontier I’m referring to isn’t external however, but the internal space that we all have to explore for ourselves,...

Wake Up Your Fascia

Wake Up Your Fascia

Wake Up Your Fascia - a Morning Routine with Janie Chandler.     This unique routine is great to do in the morning - a combination of...

The Core of the Matter

The Core of the Matter

  I first became aware of Kegel exercises when I was in my late teens, early twenties. No doubt they came to my attention as something that...

Nadi Suddhi Breathing

Nadi Suddhi Breathing

This alternate nostril breathing technique comes from the tradition of yoga.     Nadis are channels in the body through which prana, or...

“Dredging” Central Meridian

“Dredging” Central Meridian

Activate the energy within your Central Meridian, via the fascia.     Scar tissue and other issues in the abdomen can disrupted the flow...

All Things Being Equal

All Things Being Equal

Believe it or not, here in the northern hemisphere, we are in the midst of spring, the Vernal Equinox, the season of Wood Element. Though many...

On Meditation and Making Space

On Meditation and Making Space

One of the conversations I’ve been having quite frequently of late is about meditation. Many of my clients, friends, and kids (I use the term...

The Deep Yin of Winter

The Deep Yin of Winter

For the past 23 years my family has marked the Winter Solstice with our own ritual, which I will hereby relate. When the natural light fades on the...

Immune-Boosting Protocol for Winter

Here is an Immune-Boosting Protocol for Winter Flu Season that we are offering here at our office.  The combination of energy medicine, massage, and...

Winter’s Water

Winter’s Water

We are now fully in the season of Water Element, a time of contemplation and gestation, moving inexorably to the still-point at the bottom of the...

Triple Warmer Speaks

Triple Warmer Speaks

This piece comes from The Vibrant Life System™ a seven week course I teach for energetic self-care. The philosophy behind the Vibrant Life System™...

Greetings

Greetings

I've just returned from my second visit to England this year (and yes, I feel crazy blessed). I love the UK beyond reason, and though I've only been...

Hydrotherapy at Home

Hydrotherapy at Home

Here is my standard hydrotherapy practice (which I use about once a week during the warmer months of the year) to detoxify  my cells and keep my...

The Autumnal Equinox

The Autumnal Equinox

We are now in the fullness of fall. Don't be fooled by the idea that fall begins on the equinox, or that the trees aren't fully golden. The season...

The Wonder of Water

The Wonder of Water

I've been vacillating about when to write about the use of hydrotherapy as a health-care treatment, but I think the time is now. I thought maybe I...

The Artemis Stretch

The Artemis Stretch

This exercise is good for clearing both heart and lung meridians, and since we have moved from summer (heart/fire) into fall (lung/metal) I think...

The Grace of Metal Element

The Grace of Metal Element

With the passing of Lughnasad, we're easing into the season of Metal. This is the season of release and letting go, of cutting away the chaff....

Greetings

Greetings

As many of you know, I came to the world of energy medicine through the doorway of massage therapy. As a beginning massage therapist, I knew that...

Taking Down The Flame

Taking Down The Flame

This is an exercise to use for balancing your Fire Element when you are feeling panicked, outside of yourself, or overwhelmed by chaos. It eases...

Looking Forward to Lughnasad/Lammas

Looking Forward to Lughnasad/Lammas

Come the first of August, Earth Element will enter again to mediate the shift from summer's firey nature into autumn's metal rhythm. This...

Adrenal Fatigue and Herbology

Adrenal Fatigue and Herbology

I have a confession to make. I am challenged by July. Well, it's not July per se that challenges me, but the qualities that July brings with him...

Heaven Rushing In

Heaven Rushing In

I can't think of a better energy exercise to celebrate (and take advantage of) the joyful and abundant energies of high summer than Heaven Rushing...

Spleen Organ vs Spleen Meridian

I have recently been asked by several energy medicine students to clarify the difference between the meridian energy, which governs an organ,...

Harmonizing the Chakras

Harmonizing the Chakras

This easy exercise helps to bring your chakras into resonance with each other.     Nice for "pulling yourself together" and feeling...

Balancing Heart Energy

Balancing Heart Energy

Balance heart energy with simple energy medicine techniques to support the energy moving through heart meridian.  

A Conversation with Donna Eden

A Conversation with Donna Eden

Janie has a brief opportunity to ask Donna Eden to clarify a couple of techniques that have recently made their way into Donna's bag of tricks....

Zip-up & Hook-up

Zip-up & Hook-up

Here is our contribution to Eden Energy Medicine Programs' Hook-up Challenge for August!     Hooking yourself up fortifies your inner...

A quick crown pull

A quick crown pull

Giving yourself a crown pull is a great way to get your brain going!    

Spinal “Flug”

Spinal “Flug”

This is a hybrid version of the Spinal Flush we like to call the Spinal "Flug".    

Spinal Flush with Flare

Spinal Flush with Flare

Here's a more elaborate version of a spinal flush.     To add a little juice - a little more somethin'-somethin' - to your 2010 Spinal...

How To Do A Spinal Flush

How To Do A Spinal Flush

Here's a quick demonstration of how to do a spinal flush.     This is an important part of Donna Eden's Daily Energy Routine....

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