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In October 2016, 400 Traditional Tibetan Medicine practitioners, scholars and experts conferred in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital city. They came together to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Men-Tsee-Khang, also known as the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute, a Tibetan hospital that was pivotal in the development and preservation of Traditional Tibetan Medicine throughout the ages. Since the 1950’s, Tibet, or Xizhang …
I begged my husband to stay with me on the couch as we started the first episode of the new television series on Netflix called “The Haunting of Hill House.” After all it is the Halloween season, so it seems right to curl up on the coach with the big warm blanket to watch something that will make me scared to …
When you say “the bush” in the United States, you likely think of shrubbery and landscape design. But, the bush in Australian culture is as iconic as the Outback. To Australians, the bush means lush, barely-inhabited regions of their mainland (whereas Outback represents the more dry, interior areas of the continent). And, Aussies have attached bush to many terms over …
While it’s common for us to discuss (and we will do so here) Africa as a whole, it’s important to remember that the second-largest continent on our planet is home to more than 50 sovereign nations. The African continent is split by the Equator and Prime Meridian, meaning that it is our only continent that sits in all four hemispheres. …
In the early to mid-1970’s, Dr. Herbert Benson, Harvard Medical School professor of mind/body medicine, founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, writes in his book, The Relaxation Response, about a simple practice of counteracting the flight-or-flight response. The Relaxation Response practice in the book outlines nine steps, but the essential elements are the use of a …
Thank you, Giver of Life, for all the life that was brought here before we arrived in this world. I thank Grandfather Sun for giving us our shadows because our shadows are direct representations of our ancestors who have gone before us. And, they follow us everywhere we go. They protect us. They guide us. So we thank Grandfather Sun …
In the yoga tradition, your body bases its fulfilling your healing and wellness maintenance needs on the use of a conceptual framework called chakras. Chakras have a long history within Hinduism and Buddhism with varying degrees of similarity to what is commonly understood of chakras in modernity. Chakras can be understood today in integrative medicine as metaphors for the energetic …
In Western medicine, we consider the human body an open system, says Dr. B. M. Hegde, Indian medical scientist, educationist, and author, and Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal, Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes. But, he tells the audience in his 2016 TEDx MITE talk, “Ayurveda Over Western Medicines,” that the human body is a closed system. All it …
Human song is as old as time. Before mankind knew how to speak words, singing was likely mimicry of the sounds of nature and eventually developed into spoken word languages, according to scholars on the subject. The depth of music in our global cultures runs to our cores, and it’s why sound is so powerful to our well-being. Have you …
In Hаwаіі, thе ѕауіng gоеѕ thаt Mау Day (May 1st) іѕ Lеі Day. Ruth and “Red” Hawk write in their song аbоut thіѕ сuѕtоm back from 1927, аnd thе ѕоng іѕ often performed аѕ a hula dance in present day. But, there іѕ much more tо Lеі Dау than thе ѕоng thаt is so familiar to Hаwаііаnѕ. The lеі іѕ …
