A couple of years ago, Nathalie and I facilitated a workshop called Healing Hands: Using Touch with Partner and Children for Healing, Connection, and Presence Practice. What came to mind...
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Medicine for the Age of Awakening
The Age of Awakening is now, and the medicine of this time is something invisible. The medicine of this age is personal growth and consciousness. It includes energy healing, gratitude,...
Read MoreReflections on Facing your Fear
For months I’ve been feeling a pull to dive in or tap into with greater sincerity the energy that’s ever-present, known as the divine feminine. Intuitively, I began to see...
Read MoreThe New American Dream – Curiosity, Acceptance and Love
Yesterday Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election. Around San Diego there was a lot of celebrating. Cars passing by honking, people hanging out their windows with cowbells, others...
Read MoreVeil Between Worlds
This weekend I participated in a workshop called White Global Mesa – Healing the Divine Feminine. I’m filled with gratitude for the teachers at the Shamanic Yoga Institute in Squamish,...
Read MoreHealing Power of Honey
During the summer, my 8-year-old cut his foot on a rock while at the beach. It wasn’t bad enough to need stitches but uncomfortable to walk on. He would gingerly...
Read MoreSt. George and the Dragon
Michaelmas was celebrated this past week on Tuesday the 29th and in my world (before COVID-19) it was usually a day set aside for me to attend a play at...
Read MoreCOVID 19–Statistics, Politics, Emotions, Fear, Ego: Don’t Get in the Ring with Any of Them—and Notice Immune Health Benefits
Our immune systems go all out for us–and will fight what’s real or what’s not real, according to our personal and collective operations. What do we know is true and...
Read MoreStress Management, Immune Health and Allergies
Stress Management, Immune Health and Allergies You might be wondering how those health issues relate to each other? Well, throughout the 10 years of being in business and another 10...
Read MoreTruffula Tree
The other day I heard some news about a tree in San Diego that inspired Dr. Seuss to create the story, The Lorax. This tree, the Monterey Cypress died and...
Read MorePlants 🌱 that Promote Health and Personal Power
If Lucidia works for you, you’re lucky. I don’t know which caused which, me walking the path of getting to know myself led me to the magical world of plant...
Read MoreLiver & Gallbladder Health
Recently, I experienced some low back achiness, a tenderness on the right side of my abdomen under my ribs and some restless sleep in the middle of the night. After...
Read MoreWhat do Allergies and Chronic Neck Tension have in Common?
For some people, allergies and chronic neck tension go hand in hand. For these people (including myself), Chinese Medicine explains that Yang energy is going up to the head and...
Read MoreWondering What to Eat This Winter? Try Grandma’s Persian Chicken Soup
It’s easy, delicious, and acupuncturist-approved healthy! Do you ever get tired of trying to figure out what to eat or make for the kids?  I do. Especially with all the...
Read MoreWhat it Means to Finish
In February 2018, I decided to expand on my love of yoga and go through a 200-hour teacher training course. Â I recall not feeling too thrilled about teaching yoga, I...
Read MoreSo you might be wondering, “What’s The Void?”
So you might be wondering, “What’s The Void? The Void is the term used in Qi Gong practice to describe the place beyond the realms that we know. It is...
Read MoreTop 5 Foods that Make Allergy Symptoms Worse
Part of natural allergy relief is avoiding things that exacerbate the problem. This means more than just avoiding the actual allergens themselves. We can limit exposure to things that add...
Read MoreShamanic Journeying
Shamanic Journey defined by Sandra Ingerman: Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the “invisible worlds” beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in any area of...
Read More3 Step Somatic Meditation Practice to Transform Anxiety
This practice can also be used to develop self- awareness and energetic perceptivity. It uses the power that exists in the given moment to fuel the desired state of existence....
Read MoreCold and Flu Season: What to Do When You Are Getting Sick
Rest is to let the body focus on overcoming the virus and to recover its energy from overwork or stress. We usually get sick because we are run down, not...
Read MoreFevers and Why We Need to Embrace Them
I had the privilege a couple of years ago to meet a really well-respected Anthroposophical doctor named Philip Incao. He’s written many articles over the years, but the one that...
Read MoreThe Festival of Martinmas
On November 10, the Waldorf community will celebrate the festival of St. Martin (the date of his death was November 11, 397 AD.). The festival of Martinmas dates back to...
Read MoreMy Personal Journey of Meditation and 5 Things That Help Me Stick With It
Ever since I could remember, whenever I would sit down to meditate, I would last no more than 10 minutes. Why just 10 minutes? Well, one of two things would...
Read MoreTeen Anxiety: What Can We Do About It? 5 Simple Ideas that I Decided to Try with My Own Children
A close family friend of ours could not go to school today because she was overtaken by anxiety. The stimulus was college day and the PSAT for freshmen. I felt...
Read MoreAn In-Depth Look at Our Natural Antihistamine
Here at Artemis Therapeutics, we are very proud of our natural antihistamine LUCIDIA. Unlike pharmaceutical antihistamine products, Lucidia is completely organic and side effect free.
Read MoreAllergies and The Elements: How Traditional Chinese Medicine Can help
Sometimes a different way of thinking of things can broaden our understanding of the way things work. In western medicine, we think of specific allergens that aggravate our allergies, such...
Read MoreHow Do Essential Oils Work?
Using essential oils for their benefit to the body or mind is called aromatherapy. From essential oils for deep sleep and calming to essential oils for sinus and congestion, aromatherapy...
Read MoreTreating Anxiety – the Natural Way
Anxiety is a very common issue; it is in fact the most common of all mental health disorders and as many as one in four of us will be affected...
Read MoreMicrocosmic Orbit Breathing Meditation for Sinus Relief
This simple Taoist meditation can immediately alleviate sinus congestion, start to regulate blood pressure, and balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. In traditional practice, it is used for qi...
Read MoreAllergy Relief without Pharmaceuticals
It’s that time of year. For some of us it’s spring; others will suffer in other seasons and some poor souls suffer all year long… Allergies. They can make you...
Read MoreHelping Ease the Irritation of a Bug Bite
Summertime and bug bites seem to go hand in hand.  I noticed that some people attract more mosquitoes than others and some react to bites more strongly than others.  So...
Read MoreA Lesson in Love Part 2-4
A couple of weeks ago my 5-year old lost his first tooth (super exciting!) and it had me thinking about the changes that constantly fill his life. The first years...
Read MoreGood Routine is Good for Your Health
Young children have an immense amount of information coming at them every day and as parents, we sometimes forget, have tuned out or have built up a tolerance for all...
Read MoreOutgrowing a Food Allergy – Is it Possible?
The other day, I was talking to a friend who said she took her 5-year-old daughter in for her annual peanut allergy check-up. It had been decided by doctors early...
Read MoreA Lesson in Love Part 1-4
I recently posted a blog about the importance of routine for young children (and their health) and gave some examples of how you can bring routine into your family life. ...
Read MoreAllergies: What you Need to Know
Allergies are the bane of life for so many of us. More than one in five people in the West are affected by allergies at some point in their life,...
Read More7 Areas of Your Health You Can Affect to Reduce Your Allergies
Which of these 7 aspects of health is the main cause of your allergies? Â Identifying can show you where to start to take a huge load of your body, reducing...
Read MorePostpartum Self Care
Having a baby is one of the best experiences a woman can have but it does place stresses on the body. Once the baby arrives, focus is often all on...
Read MoreWhat does accepting people for who they are, as they are, have to do with allergies?
I actually don’t know, but when I did the following exercise, my lifelong allergy to cats went away. Since then I have had and lived with a cat for 10...
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