Summer Solstice and the Divine Masculine Impulse
I love that the celebration of Father’s Day is timed so closely with the Summer Solstice, because they both call our attention to the masculine...
Honoring the Divine Feminine on Mother’s Day
Since on Mother's Day our collective focus is on Mothers, I would like to broaden the perspective and evoke our memory of The Divine Feminine, the...
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 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
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 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
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...
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...
Prayer is Energy Work Using Words and Emotions
I am re-reading The Isaiah Effect by Gregg Braden (Random House, 2000) the subtitle of which is Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy. I...
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...
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
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,...
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...
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” ~ Rumi
I heard from so many of you about January's blog (Life is a Balance Between Holding On and Letting Go) that I thought I'd better continue on with...
Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go” - Rumi Next week my husband Joseph and I will be celebrating our 32nd anniversary of living...
What is Energy Medicine and What Does it Have to do With Me?
Energy is the life force impulse that is inherent in all things, living or otherwise. I'd like to share with you a lecture that I developed, which...
Tending to The Immunity of Our Consciousness
It is my firm belief that consciousness is subject to viruses as much as our bodies are. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin coined the term “noosphere” to...
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
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
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
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...
Musings on November, and Spiritual Practice
I hope that you are enjoying your November as much as I have been. I know we’re weird in this household, but we revel in the cool, damp and...
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™...
The Celtic New Year: Samhain and Dia de los Muertos
Happy New Year! We're fast approaching the "still point" of the year that I mentioned in last month's column - October 31st, Samhain/All Hallows...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...
The Fiery Nature of the Summer Solstice
Ok, one more rant about the messed-up-ness of the Gregorian calendar's perspective on the cycle of the year:June 21st is not the "beginning" of...
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