Image: Forest and Kim Starr / CC BY 2.0 This is The Season of Transition. Asian healing traditions often identify the time between Summer and Fall as a fifth season, with particular healing gifts for issues around food and nourishment. Some call this Late Summer or Harvest Time. I call it the Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer. So different from earlier Summer months! More settling - and sometimes more unsettling. …
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Crazy Daze of Summer
ANNOUNCING: Holistic Practitioners Discussion Forum
We are starting a peer-education group open to any holistic health practitioner who wants to talk with practitioners in their own and other modalities, including massage therapists and bodyworkers, acupuncturists, energy workers, holistic physicians, holistic psychotherapists, and others. The purpose of the group is skill-building, sharing information and experiences, and discovering methods we can use to develop ourselves and support each other. …
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Riding the Summer Waves: Part 2 of Healing with the Seasons
We're near the peak. On this part of the planet, we're coming closer to the sun. We're feeling its rays more directly than we will again till next June comes around. All this extra light, warmth and daytime has huge affects on our body, mind and spirit. And, like every season it's a mixed bag. There's no such thing as a blessing that's not mixed, I often say. …
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2015 Open House Highlights
Did you miss our 2015 Open House? Please enjoy this video of highlights, and mark your calendar for the next one on October 9, 2016!
…Chronic Ankle Sprain
by Susan Lawrence, PT We've all done it - gone over on our ankles whether running, playing a sport or stepping off a curb the wrong way. It's painful, it swells ... it's embarrassing - you try and "walk it off". Say you do all the right things to make it better—the initial RICE (rest, ice, compression and elevation), you even add the "P" (protection) to the acronym, but weeks, months, maybe years after, it still just doesn't …