Wellness Expert Articles

The Power of Yoga as a Doorway for Transformation by Dr. Dean Ornish

If you haven't heard about Dr. Dean Ornish and his work in heart disease research and lifestyle modification programs, just think about those salads with fruits and nuts that are now widely available at McDonalds. His work at The Preventive Medical Research Institute has led to healthy food options at fast food franchises, among many other things.  Read more

Yoga as Medicine Conference

Yoga Journal's medical editor Timothy McCall, author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing, opened the day with welcome remarks at YJ's one day "Yoga as Medicine" workshop. Although there have only been a small number of studies and the methodology has room for improvement, yoga's been known to help conditions from MS and cancer to fertility.  Read more

Viniyoga and Yoga Therapy According to Gary Kraftsow

Gary is the founder of the American Viniyoga Institute and author of Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation.Veteran Ashtanga practitioners may find Viniyoga challenging for its slow, calculating pace, when it may in fact restore any repetitive stress injuries they've developed from a demanding sequence of asanas.  Read more

TCM Diet Recommendations

Diet Diet plays an important role in improving and sustaining your health. My dietary recommendations are based on TCM approaches, which view diet as very specific to the individual patient and his or her condition. Rather than focusing on which foods to avoid, I will suggest foods to add or emphasize in your diet.  Read more

How Can Applied Kinesiology Help Me?

We asked a member of our trusted network, Eva Whitmore, DCM, this question, and this is what she had to say: "By utilizing AK combined with Chiropractic, I will be working to find the underlying cause of your individual health problems and needs to restore your body to balance.  Once balance is restored, the organism resumes optimal functioning.  Read more