Are Meditation and Rest Really Beneficial For Your Holistic Health?

Are Meditation and Rest Really Beneficial For Your Holistic Health?

Meditation and mindfulness are common words these days, and people often associate them with spirituality. However, they’re not just for those seeking or practising spiritual enlightenment; they can be beneficial practices for everyone’s natural health. Meditation, mindfulness, rest; however you look at it, can be beneficial for healing the body and the mind naturally; they’re […]

Read More
Visceral Manipulation: How to Relax and Listen to What Your Body Needs

Visceral Manipulation: How to Relax and Listen to What Your Body Needs

The body is complex and intelligent. It knows when there’s a problem and tries to communicate this through pain and discomfort. But all too often, we don’t listen or don’t have the time to deal with it. That is until we can deal with it no longer. When we reach the end of our tether […]

Read More
Exhausted after giving birth? Postnatal Depletion & How Traditional Chinese Medicine May Help

Exhausted after giving birth? Postnatal Depletion & How Traditional Chinese Medicine May Help

Are you a new mum suffering from postnatal depletion? Do you feel intense fatigue, anxiety, have difficulty concentrating, or have a loss of libido? Or are you find yourself acting like a meerkat, always on the alert for danger? Know you’re not alone. Postnatal depletion is common and can make an already difficult time in […]

Read More
Suffering from Constant Pain? Visceral Manipulation May Be the Answer

Suffering from Constant Pain? Visceral Manipulation May Be the Answer

We often experience pain in various areas of our body, but our pain doesn’t always stem from the site where we feel the pain. The cause and the source of the pain can be completely different from the pain site. Our body works as a whole machine, and when one piece breaks down, the effects […]

Read More
Is Acupuncture An Effective Scar Tissue Treatment?

Is Acupuncture An Effective Scar Tissue Treatment?

At some point in our lives, we’ve all experienced a traumatic event, which has resulted in not only physical scars but emotional scars also. Perhaps you suffered a sporting injury, burns, injuries from a car accident, or an attack; whatever the event, the scars that remain are with us for life. But, perhaps this need […]

Read More
Cupping – the Natural Tummy Tuck

Cupping – the Natural Tummy Tuck

Reaching and maintaining your weight loss goal is a real accomplishment, one to be very proud of. However, many people who have achieved significant weight loss are not proud of the excess skin left behind. They want to show off their slimmer, leaner body – and so they should; they’ve worked very hard for it. […]

Read More
What is Western Herbal Medicine? 

What is Western Herbal Medicine? 

Taking the plant path for healing may be beneficial to many health suffers, but little is known about Western Herbal Medicine here on the Gold Coast. Is it the same as Naturopathy? Similar to Chinese Herbal Medicine? Or dissimilar to both? What is Western Herbal Medicine, and what role does it play in the medicine […]

Read More
How to Choose an Acupuncturist on the Gold Coast

How to Choose an Acupuncturist on the Gold Coast

Acupuncture may be a natural health option if you struggle with a common health issue such as stress, pain, fertility, fatigue, or the like. No two Acupuncturists are the same. This is largely due to their skill, experience and personal touch. Choosing an Acupuncturist is a very personal choice and can be likened to that […]

Read More
How Naturopathy Could Improve Your Health

How Naturopathy Could Improve Your Health

Are you health conscious or looking to improve your overall health? Are you looking for alternative forms of treatment? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then naturopathy may be one form of alternative medicine worth looking into. Naturopathy is often misunderstood and misconceived. Some of the most common myths are: that naturopathic […]

Read More
Increase your energy with every bite

Increase your energy with every bite

Japanese Mindfulness Traditions and Health Japan is one of the several other Asian countries influenced by Traditional Chinese Medicine, and is also one of the few developed countries where mindfulness has traditionally been an important part of mealtimes.  Children are taught to eat mindfully and with a sense of appreciation at both home and school.  […]

Read More
Food as medicine

Food as medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is more than just acupuncture and the odd herbal formula. Nutritional advice plays a key role in our holistic treatment plans, with colds being no exception. The common cold is most often classified by TCM principles as Wind-Cold attack, although some presentations are known as Wind-Heat or Summer Heat Dampness. In […]

Read More
Nurturing Life through the wisdom of Feng Shui

Nurturing Life through the wisdom of Feng Shui

There is a time to sow and a time to reap. There is also a time to let the soil rest, it’s called cover cropping. It’s when a Winter crop is planted with the intention to till back into the soil to increase the nutrients available to the seeds sown in Spring.   When we […]

Read More