“Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation has been an underappreciated public health crisis that has harmed individual and societal health. Our relationships are a source of healing and well-being hiding in plain sight – one that can help us live healthier, more fulfilled, and more productive lives,” said U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. “Given the significant health …Read More
Category: Health
Positive Aging
How does our attitude to aging impact health? A Yale study published in 2002 by psychology researchers “found that older individuals with more positive self-perceptions of aging, measured up to 23 years earlier, lived 7.5 years longer than those with less positive self-perceptions of aging.” In other words, a positive attitude towards aging will help …Read More
Qigong for Balance ~ Mantak Chia
According to Mantak Chia, an internationally celebrated master of inner alchemy and Qigong, the key to good health, longevity, and even abundance, is balancing the positive and negative energies that exist both within us and in nature. Ideally, if we can achieve balance — internally and with the natural world — our body, our life, and all of our existence …Read More
Get up and move
In my recent post, I told you why I’m just tired of sitting. Now I’m going to tell you what I’m currently doing about it. Get up and move. One great resource is the 10 to 15 minute stretch and exercise video on YouTube. There are many of them out there to try. This virtual …Read More
I’m tired of sitting down
I used to want to sit down when I’m tired. Now with an overabundance of virtual meetings on the computer, I’m just tired of sitting down. With my eyes on the computer screen, my head falls forward, shoulders hunch up, back rounds in a slouch, and my body gets stiff. When I look up at …Read More
Body wisdom exercises to move from anxiety to calmness ~ Suzanne Scurlock
During times like these, it’s easy to feel powerless, helpless, and even fearful — from mild anxiety all the way to total terror. Perhaps you’re being re-triggered in ways you thought you’d resolved. Overpowering feelings — of any kind — can cause us to separate from our body. When that happens, predominantly linear thinking (i.e., …Read More
Heal Your Life in the Dreamtime ~ Robert Moss
We all have the capability — like the Indigenous shaman — to look to our dreams to better our lives, says bestselling author and dream shaman Robert Moss. You stand at the edge of this power when you remember your dreams, wake up to what’s going on in them, and take action to embody their …Read More
Watch an actual TeleHeath Energy Healing Session
Want to see an actual distance healing session? I’ve been doing energy healing sessions by telephone with some of my clients. This had been really helpful in TeleHealth sessions. Exploring physical complaints, emotional imbalance like anxiety and mood, even life challenges like “I just don’t feel right,” I have been continually impressed by the power …Read More
Awareness Through Movement, Feldenkrais Method
Many of us aren’t moving in the ways we used to. We’re spending more time sitting, glued to our computer, eyes focused forward, neck and shoulders hunched and tense, belly and diaphragm contracted, our breathing shallow… A lot of us are also holding underlying fear and anxiety throughout our bodies, and possibly grief or emotional …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