What is Integrative Nutrition Therapy? We are bombarded everyday with the latest and greatest nutrition and diet recommendations. From Dr. Oz to Shape magazine to WebMD, we are inundated with mixed messages about what to eat and what is healthy. How has something so simple as food
Read More... →Home Remedies We all have aches, pains and hopefully, only occasionally, injuries. Even our old injuries can create tension in our muscles that we are unaware of. Whether you deal with chronic pain or are suffering from something more acute, try a natural home remedy to ease
Read More... →HOW DOES ACUPUNCTURE INFLUENCE OUR SYSTEMS? We haven’t been able to fully explain the myriad of effects and mechanisms of how acupuncture works from a biomedical perspective. It can be difficult to comprehend how stimulating a specific point on the body can lead to such broad and
Read More... →Massage Cupping: An Innovative Approach to a Traditional Technique Cupping, and the signature dark marks left on recipients of its treatments, is gaining steam in western culture. This form of bodywork has been receiving mainstream attention with the media’s exposure of marks on Olympian athletes in Rio,
Read More... →Pilates for Scoliosis Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine that can happen either during a persons’ development in utero when there is an abnormality to one or more vertebrae- structural scoliosis. Or, a curve can be created due to lack of mobility or strength in the
Read More... →What is Visceral Manipulation? I recently had the good fortune to spend a week at the Esalen Institute on the spectacular Big Sur coast in California improving my Visceral Manipulation skills. Esalen is a very special place to be able to spend time learning more about the
Read More... →It Can Be Difficult to get Adequate Mental Health Care Our country has been mentioning accessibility to mental health care more and more lately, especially in light of all of the mass shootings and bombings that now seem to be daily affairs. When I listen to journalists
Read More... →Live Longer with Laughter Happy people tend to live longer and experience better health than their unhappy peers, according to more than 160 studies. One lead author, University of Illinois Psychology Professor Ed Diener, summarized his findings by stating: “The general conclusion from each type of study
Read More... →Massage with Mary Jane’s Medicinals A Ganjassage is a massage that uses cannabisinfused massage oil to help soothe the body from sore muscles and promote relaxation. Here in Telluride, we are lucky to be able to purchase Mary Jane’s Medicinals (MaryJanesMedicinals.com) which just won first place at
Read More... →Massage is for Teens Too! While the majority of my massage clients range in age from their thirties to seventies, I’m delighted to be seeing an increasing demand for massage for teenage clients! Adults generally come in for relief of chronic pain of one sort or another,
Read More... →RESETTING YOUR INTERNAL CLOCK FOR BETTER SLEEP We are deeply tied to the rhythms of life around us. With the incredible advancements of modern living, one of our challenges is to stay tethered to the biological pulses that keep us balanced and thriving. Traditional Chinese Medicine offers
Read More... →Pilates is an exercise for the brain as well as the body One of the things I love about Pilates is how the rest of the world fades out and I am completely centered in myself and the movements in my body. It’s like movement meditation. I
Read More... →Eating Disorders Eating disorders are characterized as an unhealthy relationship with food. The literature in the field discusses anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binging eating disorder (BED). Additional focus on behaviors related to eating disorders would be on compulsive eating, anorexia athletica (or compulsive exercising),
Read More... →“Tech Neck” Tech neck is a term that is being used more and more to describe symptoms which stem from looking down at phones and devices. As mobile technology becomes more important in our every day lives this problem will only get worse. I am especially concerned
Read More... →Steps to “Super-Wellness” Wellness is quite more than simply the absence of disease. Similarly, to be “well” does not automatically mean one is fit. Rather, there is a spectrum that improves from sickness, to wellness, to fitness. Fitness can be thought of as “super-wellness”. Fitness keeps us
Read More... →Get the Lead Out ‘In THAT direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw round, ‘lives a Hatter – and in THAT direction,’ waving the other paw, ‘lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.’ Thus, Lewis Carroll immortalized the term “Mad Hatter” in
Read More... →Let it Flow! By Alessandra Jacobson, LMT What does the San Miguel River and a healthy human body have in common? As a former environmental educator with a passion in natural sciences, and a current massage therapist with enthusiasm for making peoples’ bodies feel better, I often
Read More... →Couples: Don’t Wait Too Long to Get Help Relationships give us meaning in life. We live in relationship to our families and families of origin, friends, societal and business groups, and most of all, our partners or significant others. When a relationship is bad, it affects our
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