Alternative Therapies

Bookend Your Days

I don’t prescribe a lot of “you must do this” kind of things, because in my experience every person and every body is different. But when it comes to having a consistent, intentional morning practice...

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Dec06

Abhyanga: The Practice of Ayurvedic Self-Massage

Abhyanga is the ayurvedic practice of self-massage that can offer you a moment of pause to honor self. A daily Abhyanga practice can reassure your sense of strength, restore balance, and reinforce...

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Oct05

Enhancing your Immune System with Ayurveda

Modern medicine is just beginning to acknowledge the fact that 80% of the immune system is localized in the digestive tract. Ayurveda has recognized that for thousands of years. Ayurveda, the...

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Oct03

The Four Fertility Factors of Ayurveda

An excerpt from The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility. A woman with an optimally functioning body has the ability to conceive and birth a child with a suitable partner during the fertile years of her life...

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Aug13

Energy as a Language

Energy healing is based on the premise that energy is our essence and that while our bodies appear to be solid, they are in fact a constantly swirling set of energetic exchanges. In The Language Your...

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Aug11

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Mindfulness: The Key to Pausing in Relationships

Energy healing is based on the premise that energy is our essence and that while our bodies appear to be solid, they are in fact a constantly swirling set of energetic exchanges. In The Language Your...

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Feb09

Aromatherapy Materia Medica

Jan26

How Yoga Helps You Relax During Pregnancy

Elizabeth Barletta

Are you having trouble during your months of pregnancy? Looking for some brilliant prenatal yoga postures? Here, you will find remarkable, helpful and sufficient poses that should calm, relax and remove those awful feelings of pregnancy discomfort...

Jan17

Yoga as a Main Physical Activity in Your Life: Is It Enough?

Lavera Stewart

Meta: Yoga as an exercise has been used by both the young and old. Yoga benefits range from health to spiritual. Yoga calms your emotions and strengthens your body. Don’t let yogis and the poses intimidate you. Yoga connects the body, mind, and...

Aug06

General Detoxification and Cleansing

Elson M. Haas MD

Detoxification programs help us to eliminate and cleanse specific common toxins and habits from our lives. It is somewhat difficult to separate the concepts and practices of detoxification from those of fasting. Fasting, or the avoidance of solid...

May15

The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Good Eyesight (Part 2)

Martin Sussman

In the first article of this two part series, I discussed the role of nutrition in nearsightedness as well as the general nutritional principles that govern eye health. In this article I will focus on presbyopia, cataracts and macular degeneration.

Apr18

The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Good Eyesight (Part 1)

Martin Sussman

The visual system — the eyes, muscles, nerves and vision centers of the brain — is one of the most complex and highly demanding systems of the body. More than 25% of the nutrition your body absorbs goes to feed the visual system. The visual system...

Thermometer and medicines used to treat a fever

Dec06

Fever As a Natural Healer

Thomas Kruzel ND

Fever As Healer ;It was Western history's first great physician, Hippocra

A New Vision of Wellness

Three Key Wellness Concepts Beyond basic prevention, achieving balanced wellbeing is an ongoing process. What is wellness? What is wellness? The word “wellness” is used by many people and...

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Sep24

How Health Workers Can Promote Self-Care

Tom Ferguson, M.D. interviews John Travis, M.D. about his approach for self-care, once a specific organic illness is ruled out. He advocates that individuals are turned over to wellness educators...

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Aug26

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