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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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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