Healing Adrenal Dysfunction with Yoga
How Can We Take Charge of Our Energy? Fatigue, irritability, poor sleep, PMS, weight gain, sugar cravings....what do all of these symptoms have in common?They all most likely stem from a condition called adrenal fatigue or adrenal dysfunction: a state of exhaustion...
How Yoga Helped Me Process Secondary Trauma
Bearing Burdens My journey with yoga started at age 23 out of sheer necessity. I found myself desperately looking for tools to manage my own stress, which was a result of working as a sexual assault crisis coordinator right out of college. I was faced daily with the...
Balancing Female Hormones
Hormones and Holistic Practices As a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist specializing in women’s health for the past fourteen years, I began to see similar patterns of hormonal imbalance symptoms in my female patients. Weight gain, irritability, insomnia, fatigue,...
Building Bone Mass With Yoga
What's Happening to Our Bones? Did you know that every 1 in 2 women over the age of 50 will experience a fracture due to bone loss? Bone loss; known as Osteoporosis or Osteopenia, which is an early stage of bone loss, is on the rise. It is a natural process of aging,...
Neurogenic Yoga: The Revolutionary Technique in Trauma Healing and Stress Reduction
Your Nervous System is in Charge If you have ever nervously stood up to speak in front of an audience or even been in a minor fender-bender, you may have experienced your body responding in all kinds of interesting, and potentially uncomfortable ways. Increased heart...
What is the Franklin Method?
What is the Franklin Method? Imagine being able to practice anywhere, anytime, no yoga mat required. What if you knew exactly how your body was designed to function, what you need moment to moment, and you could be your own trainer, teacher, best coach? What if you...
What is Reiki?
What is Reiki? What exactly is Reiki? I get this question all the time. Curious students who are sometimes looking to deepen their yoga practice....some just looking for healing in some form. For some it is just a simple question to clarify. The practice, which has...
How to Kegel The Right Way (and Decide Whether You Even Should)
Exercising the Pelvic Floor Kegels often seem like ‘the’ go-to exercise for the pelvic floor, yet many women aren’t sure they’re doing them correctly, how many they need to do, and whether they’re doing any good. After all, I’ve heard from a number of women that...
Yoga Through the Hard Times
I have been practicing yoga for most of my adult life. My yoga practice helped me through the stresses of going to school full time while working two jobs. Yoga relaxed my achy body and keep my mind focused, when I had the genius idea of training for and completing an...
Natural Menopause Therapies: Using Mindfulness to Reduce Hot Flashes
Relief in Mindfulness Hot flashes affect up to 80% of women during the transition into menopause, ranging in severity from mildly irritating to significantly uncomfortable, depending on a variety of individual factors. Treating hot flashes with natural...