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Stress, fear, and overwork drain the energy reserves of the Liver and the Kidney—two organs responsible for healthy reproductive and hormonal function. Learn how you can use Qigong to help bring balance back to your body.

There's no need to sneak in that extra piece of chocolate or extra cup of coffee. These bitter treats have been proven beneficial to cardiovascular health.

Struggling with your weight? Instead of focusing on your food and fitness routine, start looking at the role that stress and emotions play on your physical body. Your body, mind, emotions, and spirit are an interrelated whole.

How can you be like water—a smooth yet unstoppable force?

When you let go of things beyond your control, Mother Nature steps in.

A pickle a day may keep anxiety away. Sour tastes stimulate the Liver, the organ that is most sensitive to and energetically processes stress, tension, and emotional turmoil. Most fermented foods are salty as well - salt is the taste associated with Kidney function, which in turn energetically regulates fear. Because social anxiety is often fear-based, balancing and strengthening the Kidney with salted foods can also help modulate anxious feelings.

After years of chronic fatigue, and numerous efforts to improve her health, Ann discovered the Dragon's Way. It has changed her life in countless ways.

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Chinese medicine practitioners intuitively discovered that nature and the human body are all deeply interconnected on the energetic level, and that many specific interrelationships could be practically applied for self-healing purposes. One such important relationship is that of each season’s energies to specific organ systems in the human body. The Kidney, […]

Just when you thought you figured it out, everything changes! One of the profound wonders I get to witness everyday is the way children transform throughout their lives.  Preparing parents and children for these changes can help them navigate the deep mysteries of growing up.  Nowhere is this more important than in the dramatic transitions […]

Night sweats, hot flashes, mood swings, vaginal dryness: all these symptoms uncomfortably herald the beginning of menopause. And it doesn’t end there! A recent ground-breaking study published in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that women often experience menopausal symptoms long after the fact, even up to twelve years later. Believe it or not, these symptoms are not […]

Happy Hallow’s Eve! This fun-filled, carnivalistic holiday is practically synonymous with pumpkins, those bright globes scattered on many a doorstep and store display. Many people are reluctant to try this intimidatingly orange member of the gourd family, except in the form of Thanksgiving dessert. But once you learn what a nutritional powerhouse this over-carved, under-eaten […]

Because everything is energy, according to this famous quantum equation, your emotions and your thoughts profoundly impact your body and physical health, and vice versa! Watch this Youtube video to hear what Master Nan Lu has to say about these interconnections of body, mind, and spirit and how it impacts your healing and well-being.