’Tis the season of Gratitude! My favorite time of year! Take as many moments as possible during the day to place your hands on your heart, listen to your breath (and your heartbeat), feel your chest rise and fall as … Continued
Happy Autumn -the time where the trees say good-bye to their leaves. A Time of Letting Go. In Chinese Medicine, Autumn is the time of the element Metal and the organs are Lungs and Large Intestines. The breath technique for … Continued
Our diaphragm, the major muscle of breathing, is located between the thoracic cavity (heart and lungs) and the abdominal cavity (stomach, spleen, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, kidneys and intestines). When we deeply inhale it expands downward massaging all the organs below … Continued
Navigating these varying temperatures can be tough. Will it rain with thunderstorms today? Will it be cool and breezy? Will it be hot and humid? It can be a bit unsettling to try to figure it all out! Try this … Continued
Being Present in Nature Whether it be working out in the garden, sitting on the deck with a book, basking in the sunlight at the lake’s edge or hiking one of the 46 High Peaks, being able to take deep … Continued
Summer is almost here and the summer heat has seemed to bear down on us quite early this year. Try one of these breathing techniques to cool down your insides!
Be in the Pause. One of the quickest way to settle the mind and enter into a state of calmness is by focusing on the pauses between the in-breaths and the out-breaths, and the pauses between the outbreaths and the … Continued
The Energy of Spring is an up, up, upward energy of the Element Wood (according to Traditional Chinese Medicine). It inspires creativity, growth, and new ideas (and commitment to follow through on such new ideas!) Sometimes, though, in this … Continued