Category - Chinese Medicine
Beat the Heat of Summer
Chinese Medicine, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasons, Uncategorized
Summer is Fire, one of the Five Elements. It is symbolic of the maximum activity and the greatest Yang; a time of heat and movement, nature at its peak of growth. Summer heat is expressed in the body…
Rest is the Story
Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons, Uncategorized
ENTERING AUTUMN As we enter the Autumn season, the air becomes cool and crisp, and the leaves are starting to turn. Autumn brings the harvest of crops, shorter days and preparation for winter. It is a time of ripening, withering, and completion.…
100-Hr Certification – Art & Science of Restorative Yoga
Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Teacher Training, Workshops & Intensives, YB LAB, YTT
Art & Science of Restorative Yoga Better health and wellbeing in older age is critical to us personally, and as a society. World demographics have changed and we will soon have more older people than children, which will…
Seasonal Detox and Cleanser
Chinese, Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Personal, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons
Since childhood, my family has used herbal elixirs and tonics to help heal the body and mind, and I remember my beloved Grandmother making strong ginger root tea for menstrual cramps or snow fungus and goji berries for…
Heart Speak
Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Language
Crossing Multi Culti Bridges If you have spent any time with Asian people, you may notice the world of difference in the way we think, act and treat each other than in the West. As someone who is…
The Power of Rest – Restorative Yoga as Treatment
Chinese Medicine, Featured, Teacher Training, Yoga, YTT
Yoga as Medicine There is growing evidence that Yoga is an effective rehabilitation tool. Medical institutions and leading health organisations have tested the efficacy of Yoga in clinical trials for cancer treatment and rehabilitation, heart disease, PTSD, metabolic…
Awakening Spring Green
Chinese, Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons, Teacher Training
Spring = Wood energy = Liver In Chinese culture, the world is a harmonious place where all beings live in balance with Nature. There are rhythms and movement in the weather and Seasons, and we exist as part…
Slow Down for Kidneys Sake!
Chinese, Chinese Medicine, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons, Teacher Training
“The wise nourish life by flowing with the four seasons and adapting to cold or heat, by harmonising joy and anger in a tranquil dwelling, by balancing yin and yang, and what is hard and soft. So it…
Harmonising Yin Yang – published in Yoga Journal Thailand
Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, inspiration, Teacher Training, Yoga, YTT
This is a translation of an article published in Yoga Journal Thailand April 2011 Harmonising Yin Yang To Squat or Not to Squat In Asia, it is natural to squat. It’s comfortable, and a part of daily life…
Welcoming the Light
Chinese, Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasons, Teacher Training, Yoga
As days grow warmer and longer, coats and sweaters are put away, and we wait anxiously for spring to burst in our gardens! The cold, grey days of winter begin transition into spring’s warmth and sunshine, and the…