By Bryan McMahon, L.Ac The Wandering Cloud Ancient Chinese Medicine The alarm is going off and all you want to do is stay in bed. Daily chores are just too much effort and at the center of all of it, you just don’t feel like yourself. The doctors have diagnosed you with hypothyroidism, or …
Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc. Last week, I sat down with D.A. Wiley, LAc at Kwan Yin Healing Arts. She told me about how the ancient practice of sound healing can reach deeply into the heart in a way that no other form of healing can, how obsidian stones can help us to ground, and …
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By D.A. Wiley, LAc When you start to feel as though your life is crumbling right before your eyes, it may seems as though you are in a deep, dark chasm. Combine depression and anxiety with body pain that won’t improve, and that is a recipe for suffering. You may stay close to tears, want …
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In the United States, we have been on an 80-year trend toward increased anxiety, and it’s no wonder why.[1] We live in a world that is obsessed with productivity. Our political situation seems to be in a constant state of upheaval. Fear-based messaging is prevalent in the media. In a world inundated with stressors, what …
By Sarah Clark, LAc InnerDialogue is a healing form that allows us to use body symptoms—our joint pain, our insomnia, our digestive distress, our anxiety–to access a deeper understanding about where we are out of balance. The practitioner and patient use the ancient, non-verbal language of mudras and kinesiology to explore what is truly at …
By Dr. Chloe Scheel, ND, LAc There are 4 main signs that are important when tracking fertility. These are listed below. Ideally, after 3-4 months, you will have enough data gathered to really understand your cycle, predict ovulation, and predict your fertility window. This data can be tracked in an app on your phone or …
By Dr. Lindsay Wilkinson, ND, LAc Yesterday, an article published in Medscape reviewed a recent cohort study linking IBD (Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis) to a significantly increased risk for “arterial events” including cardiovascular ischemia (heart attack and angina), cerebrovascular disease (stroke and TIA), and peripheral arterial disease. The study compared the frequency of …
Interview with Sarah Clark, LAc, by Lindsay Wilkinson, ND, LAc Lindsay: Winter can be a tough season for a lot of people. Can you speak to that from a Five Element perspective? Sarah: Winter is the most yin time of the year. We’ve gone through the deathing season of fall, and now everything is in …
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Interview by Kellyn Adams Kellyn: How did you make your way to practicing acupuncture? Sarah: My first introduction to acupuncture was through being a patient and experiencing a profound opening through receiving it. Kellyn: And you taught writing before you became an acupuncturist, right? Sarah: Yes, I was a writing teacher at the time, working …
Photo: Moonrise in the Himalayas, Leela Longson Relax and Nourish with Better Sleep (How Your Body is Like a Smartphone App) When you think about it, your body is just like one of those apps – you know, the ones that come …
Five Simple Ways Acupuncture can Boost your Mental Health What does it take to go from walking to bicycling or dancing, from tapping your fingers to painting or playing the piano? There is a whole symphony of coordination among muscles and joints, senses and reflexes, tendons and ligaments. There’s also endurance, tenacity, curiosity, and …
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By Lauren Chandler When it’s cold outside, don’t you want to stay warm and cozy and fill your home up with wonderful aromas? I know I do. Once I’m home at the end of a long day, and it’s dark and cold out, the last thing I want to do is head out again …
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Recently I sat down with naturopathic doctor Candida Schwartz. She told me about how she strikes a balance between offering traditional nature cure, running labs, and working with blocks to consciousness through energy work for her patients. Here is what she had to say. Sarah: Tell me about your journey to becoming a healer. …
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by Sarah Clark, LAc Developed by psychologist and bodyworker David Berceli, TRE®, or Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises, is a series of simple and easily accessible exercises that activate the body’s natural vibrational healing. When we experience stress or trauma our bodies tend toward contraction. Most of us live in a state of relative nervous system hyperarousal …
Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Recently I had an opportunity to sit down with Dr. Whitney Hayes, who specializes in treating gastrointestinal disorders. She talked about the causes and the mechanism of small intestine bacterial overgrowth, healing the gut through antimicrobials and dietary changes, and the reality of how gut dysbiosis affects our mood. Here …
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Recently, I had an opportunity to sit down with Joanna Present Wolfe, LAc, at Kwan-Yin Healing Arts Center. She told me about the joy she takes in the creative process of being a healer, about the way she perceives and moves blocks in the meridians, and about the fulfillment she …
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc. Last week, I sat down with D.A. Wiley, LAc at Kwan Yin Healing Arts. She told me about how the ancient practice of sound healing can reach deeply into the heart in a way that no other form of healing can, how obsidian stones can help us to ground, and …
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc. Justin Levy is a shamanic healer and acupuncturist at Kwan Yin Healing Arts. I had a chance to sit down and talk with him recently about his own initiation into shamanic healing, the deep healing power of clearing energetic blocks, and the grace spirit brings to his patients. Here is …
Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc I had an opportunity to sit down last week and talk with Dr. Chang about his passion for treating chronic pain, and the ways in which he supports athletes to reach their full potential. This is what he had so say: Sarah: Tell me about how you work with …
Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Melissa Kuser, ND, LAc at Kwan Yin Healing Arts. We talked about her experience of “docere”, or doctor as teacher, and how she teaches her patients about the heart. Here is what she had to say. Sarah: How did …
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Gibran Ramos, ND, LAc about how autoimmune disease originates in the body and about the way the body can heal from it. This is what he had to say. Sarah: Gibran, how did you decide to become a …
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by Michelle Winchell ND LAc Strokes, or cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs), are basically heart attacks that occur in our brain causing tissue damage due to decreased blood flow. There are two basic types of stroke – ischemic and hemorrhagic. Ischemic strokes happen when an artery in the brain gets clogged or closes off, while hemorrhagic strokes …
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By Dr. David Palacios, N.D. What is ozone? Ozone, (O3), is an energized form of oxygen which contains three atoms of oxygen rather than the two atoms we normally breathe. Ozone is the second most powerful sterilizer in the world and can be used to destroy bacteria, viruses and odors. Ozone is 1,000 times …
If you are incredibly sleep deprived, there are some researchers in southern Australia that would be willing to help you – by waking you up 50 times in one night. They are studying a cutting edge, controversial and yet promising insomnia treatment called Intensive Sleep Retraining (ISR). ISR participants are hooked up to an electroencephalogram …
By: Melissa Kuser, ND, LAc As we say goodbye to National Heart Health Awareness Month and move closer to the warmer temperatures of spring, let’s heat up the conversation around heart health. Inflammation, dubbed “the Silent Killer,” (https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20040223,00.html) has been linked to nearly every chronic disease of industrialized society, including cardiovascular disease. As early as …
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By D.A. Wiley, LAc When you start to feel as though your life is crumbling right before your eyes, it may seems as though you are in a deep, dark chasm. Combine depression and anxiety with body pain that won’t improve, and that is a recipe for suffering. You may stay close to tears, want …
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By Melissa Kuser, ND, LAc Piggy-backing on the high visibility of Valentine’s Day red heart-shaped boxes, February has been declared National Heart Health Awareness Month. It seems only reasonable to discuss the heart health topic from a naturopathic perspective and to dispel a few common misunderstandings. In my practice, one of the most common questions …
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by Dr. Jennifer Karon-Flores, ND Well, it’s happened. I have not had the flu in years, but guess what? Last week was my week to get sick. I had a fever and chills, cough, and generally felt quite sorry for myself (though I'm on the mend). If you had an appointment with me earlier this week, …
By Dr. Melissa Kuser, ND, LAc Get moving or get dying. This truth was well-understood by the Chinese over 5,000 years ago when they understood the genesis of disease to be the lack of movement of qi and blood in the body. Like a summer pond with no breeze to circulate the waters, stagnation in …
by Dr. Jennifer Karon-Flores Stressed? Of course you are. We all are. Our nervous systems are still living in the stone age, when stress was a very different animal. Back in the days before cell phones, mechanized transit, and artificial light at night, our nervous systems evolved to keep us alive. Our fight or flight …
By Dr. Dave Allderdice, ND, FABNO Currently one in three of us will deal with cancer at some point in our lives. Science has discovered some of the genetic links that trigger cancer and in doing so, we’ve also learned that the vast majority of cancer is caused by the way we live our …
By David Berkshire, LAc AUTOIMMUNITY-YIKES! THE CHINESE VIEWPOINT Autoimmune disease–a term none of us want to hear, though many of us have encountered it sitting in the doctor's office. Perhaps your friends or family have been the ones to bear the news of autoimmune disease: An immune response by the body against …
By Dr. Ilana Gurevich ND, LAc For years you've known that something with your gut just isn’t right. For as long as you can remember, digestion has been more painful than easy. You suffer from gas,bloating, diarrhea or constipation. At times it even seems like one minute your bowels are totally loose, and the next …
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by Muir Ferdun, L.Ac. Lots of children get ear infections. No, really, LOTS of children. It's the most common reason for non-routine doctor visits in the under-4-years-old set. So, here's the drill. You see your child start getting grumpy, pulling at her ear, rubbing a cheek, running a fever without much nasal congestion, or not …
by Dr. Ilana Gurevich ND, LAc "You have cancer." You hear these words and your heart goes cold. All of a sudden your whole life feels like it is over and you think that you have a death sentence and there is nothing you can do to get out of it. After the "C" …
by David Berkshire, L.Ac. My father-in-law brought home the USA Today last weekend, and the front page declared "The deadliest flu season ever, half the US population may be infected!" I checked the NY Times and it was a little calmer about it, declaring we don't know what will come of this season. Every year …
We all want to trust that our bodies will keep up with our desire for activity and adventure in life. But when diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia, the strength of our bones becomes questionable. Along with many other conditions that are considered parts of aging, there is a great deal of prevention we can do …
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