Tell Your Story, Transform Your Life Storytelling changed my life, and it can change yours. Storytelling is the art of connection. In a touch-deficit world, stories touch us deeply. Stories touch our emotions, change our minds, and inspire our spirits. We do not forget stories because stories make us feel. “I’ve learned that people will …Read More
Author: Dr. Joel Ying, MD
Physician-Educator-Storyteller. Integrating the power of story into medicine, healing sessions, workshops, speaking and performance.
The day the solar system broke ~ Fatimah Asghar
Today, most of us know what it is like for the world as we know it to shift. You wake up one day, and it’s nothing like yesterday and nothing like any of the tomorrows that you had envisioned. Perhaps, even your place in the world has changed. In 2006, scientists decided that Pluto was …Read More
Somatic Movement Summit ~ Free Online Event
How are you engaging with movement these days? Do you have a healthy movement practice? Explore Your Innate Body Intelligence: The Gateway to Resilience, Health & Wholeness Cultivate Resilience Through Motion Discover Fluid Motion as a Medicine for Body and Mind Discover Motion as Medicine and a Pathway to Wholeness Embody All of Yourself Through …Read More
Like light, we can’t be broken ~ Amanda Gorman
Amid times of crisis, inaugural American youth poet laureate delivers words of comfort and hope. With the powerful conviction of her voice, she recites one of her poems from the Los Angeles Central Public Library. “The question is not if we will we will weather this unknown, but how we will weather this unknown together…. …Read More
One Today ~ Richard Blanco
One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by our silent gestures moving behind windows. …. We head …Read More
Pandora’s Box ~ Finding Hope
So we’ve opened Pandora’s Box, now what? The Greek myth of Pandora does not end with the fateful opening of the box that contains “disease, war, pestilence, and all the afflictions of man.” The story goes on with a message of hope. As with all ancient stories that travel the world told from person to …Read More
Meditation: Square Breathing
Learn the technique of Square Breathing to balance the nervous system. When we are stuck in an anxiety state of chronic sympathetic overdrive, breathing meditation can activate the parasympathetic relaxation and down-regulate the nervous system. The breath is always in the present moment. As we slow down to meet the breath, the nervous system will …Read More
Masaka Kids Africana #StayHome & Dance With Us
Here are some kids making the best of #StayHome and doing what they can to fight COVID-19 coronavirus. During these difficult times with fear and isolation, it is important to find some inspiration and joy. Lift your spirits and watch them dance. #StayHome & Dance with Masaka Kids Africana Watch more videos of Masaka Kids …Read More
Andrà tutto bene! ~ Everything is going to be alright!
As Italy struggles with the lockdown due to coronavirus for more than a month, the country is beginning “to see the curve flatten.” This is the scientific way to say that the reported deaths due to the virus on Sunday, April 5, 2020, was the lowest that it had been in the two previous weeks. …Read More
FREE TeleHealth Check-In
As my community service this month to my fellow Florida residents during these difficult times: FREE 15-minute TeleHealth Check-In For online booking only, I am offering FREE 15-minute TeleHealth Check-In appointments. New patient, first appointment only. Check-in with a medical question. Traditional to holistic, all questions welcome as my approach encompasses body, mind, and spirit. …Read More