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Sound Meditation For When Everyone Is On Your Last Nerves
Here is a short recording with bowls and chimes to help keep you grounded when everyone is on your last nerves. Listen as often as you need to. And even better if you listen while you do some acupressure on spleen 6. Spleen 6 can help you transform your irritation and frustration as well. Pro Tip: Recordings like this or always best to listen to via headphones or earbuds. If you are interested in learning more about a session where you get to experience the bowls live and how Chinese Medicine can help you or your child’s imbalances please feel free to reach out to me here to book a free 15…
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Add some pep to your step with Black Pepper
Everyone has heard of black pepper, it graces pretty much every eating establishment in America. Including the tables of people who claim they don’t use herbs in their cooking. Black pepper is one of the oldest recorded herbs used, so perhaps its long history in human history has allowed it to wiggle its way into the hearts of even the most stubborn-I-do-not-like-herbs-in-my-food humans. While those humans just think of it as something to shake on to their food to add flavor there are tons of other things our ancestors used black pepper for throughout history. But first, let’s talk about herbal stimulants. Black Pepper is considered a stimulant in the…
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Grounding Sound Meditation
I have had some requests to bring back the short sound meditations I used to provide. So I’m going to start uploading short sound meditations you can give a quick listen to whenever/how many times you need it throughout your day. Here is one that is focused on grounding using only Tibetan bowls. Pro Tip: Recordings like this or always best to listen to via headphones or earbuds. If you are interested in learning more about a session where you get to experience the bowls live please feel free to reach out to me here to book a free 15 minute consultation.
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For The Love Of Cinnamon
Who doesn’t love cinnamon? The smell of cinnamon for many brings about a sense of coziness and sweetness – since cinnamon is often used in fall desserts. And, in Western culture, it’s all over malls and airports in the form of cinnamon buns. The other day I was chatting with someone who said she can’t go to a mall without getting a cinnamon bun, she considers it sacrilegious. I’m not a fan of going to malls, but I do love to put a generous amount of it in yogurt, pudding, cottage cheese, and smoothies. Those are all energetically (and physically) cold items which can be hard on the digestive system…
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Cupping Out the Cold
Here is a quick video and instructions for the homework item of helping the body move out cold I learned from my teacher Acupuncturist Heather Bruce. You will need: A glass jar, a coin that covers your navel, a tissue, a match, some oil or lotions. Instructions: – Warm the jar and the coin in the lowest setting in the oven -Take jar and coin out and put the jar against your navel to make sure it doesn’t burn (if too hot wait a couple of minutes and recheck) -Spread some oil or lotion around the belly button to help seal the jar to the skin -Put the coin in…
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The Secret Life of Cardamom
I loooovee cardamom – I am currently drinking it as I write this (along with some other herbs) but I also love it in my oatmeal, chai, hot chocolate, cookies, and most recently I have been putting it on top of my homemade pudding! Cardamom is so wonderful. The footnote version of this herb is: if you have digestive issues, have a lot of mucus you need to expel, or want to spice up your love life, cardamom might be your new favorite spice and tea herb! But here is a little bit more info you might not know about cardamom. Fun Facts: Cardamom has been used extensively throughout history…
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What’s in your kitchen cabinet? Cayenne!
Every few weeks there seem to be themes that pop up in my practice and with my loved ones. So I felt cayenne would be a prudent next herb to do in my kitchen series because perhaps you might be in a similar theme and need this too! Cayenne is one of the most loved herbs to have during an emergency/crisis (particularly of a heart emergency). Herbalist and acupuncturist Michael Tierra uses up to 1 tsp of cayenne every 15 minutes (while waiting for an emergency vehicle) to help lessen the effects and encourage a speedy recovery of heart attacks and strokes and other emergencies. Nutritionist Gary Null has mentioned…
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What’s in your kitchen cabinet? Cumin!
Last week I shared via a newsletter and Instagram that I am taking Steph Dodd’s Creative Abundance course. I was reflecting on some of the questions Steph asked before the course and had an inspiration hit: I want to do a Kitchen Cabinet Herb series! And here we are. Most likely you use culinary herbs to make your recipes delicious. Our ancestors, of course, also used them to create deliciousness. But they also used them medicinally by changing the quantity of the herb they were using. I chose cumin for this week. Probably because I was in Beers Books a couple of weekends ago (a Sacramento staple for those not…
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