Illness related to mold exposure is something that I had heard of, but did not take to heart until recently. This fall I started Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training which required a daily home practice. I set up my yoga props in a cozy corner of the carpeted finished basement and practiced there for at least an hour every day. Kundalini… [Continue reading]
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Creating Peace, Balance and Protection Through Breathing
Many patients who come to see me are suffering from a wide variety of auto-immune and psychiatric conditions, which are due in part to an inability to truly relax. A constant state of low level fear exacerbates their symptoms and erodes their sense of safety, leaving them feeling self critical and focused on what is wrong with themselves… [Continue reading]
The Heart of Psychiatric Holistic Health
The foundation of cultivating psychiatric holistic health is attending to the reality that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Western medicine treats the body as a piece of flesh to manipulate with pharmaceuticals and procedures, without any consideration or inclusion of the Sacred. The prevailing paradigm in the West, which divorces Spirit from Matter, is… [Continue reading]
Tapering Psychiatric Medications
These days many new patients who call are interested in getting off of psychiatric medications. Often they do not feel that the medicines are effective, they hate the side effects, and worry about the long term consequences of ingesting synthetic chemicals. I was trained to believe that stopping a psychiatric medication was not a big deal; you… [Continue reading]
New Moon in Aries, Makana and Bernie
Early in the morning on April 7, 2016, at 4:24 AM Eastern Standard time there was a new moon in the sign of Aries, the first sign of the zodiac. A new moon occurs when the Sun and the Moon join together at the same point in the sky. The Sun is associated the Masculine and… [Continue reading]
