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Yoga in Medicine: An Ancient Solution for Modern Illness

Yoga in Medicine: An Ancient Solution for Modern Illness More than 2000 years old, yoga is just… [more]

Why Yogic Breathing & Mindful Meditation are Powerful Rehab Tools (VIDEO)

Why Yogic Breathing & Mindful Meditation are Powerful Rehab Tools (VIDEO) Integration of yoga-based… [more]

The Minimalist Physical Therapist: Using Yoga as Medicine?

The Minimalist Physical Therapist: Using Yoga as Medicine? A minimalist pares away all unnecessary… [more]

Lady Gaga’s Hip Labral Tear: Are You At Risk for One?

Lady Gaga’s Hip Labral Tear: Are You At Risk for One? Also see the full post featured on Modern… [more]

Anti-Cancer Living 101: Avoid Pesticides

Anti-Cancer 101: Avoid Pesticides Here's How: Eat Seasonally Learn about the ways veggies (and… [more]

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The Science of Green Parenting

The Science of Green Parenting Green parenting can go a long way toward improving the health of America’s mothers, families, children, and of the entire planet. I encourage all parents to reduce, reuse, and recycle (The 3-R’s) when they can. Simple strategies include ridding the home of unnecessary chemicals like cleaners, pesticides in the yard [...]

The Minimalist Nursery – What Does Baby Really Need?

The Minimalist Nursery – Preparing for Baby This topic may seem slightly off or less “scientific” than my typical posts about integrative medicine, yoga, and holistic well-being. But actually, The Minimalist Nursery is actually very grounded in science – making it what I like to call the “yoga of parenting.” Caretaking our babies and our [...]

Sunrise Belly on the Beach
Ginger's first pregnancy

Five Myths of Childbirth (VIDEO) by Sarah Buckley MD

Medical doctor Sarah Buckley discusses the Five Myths of Childbirth. Dr. Buckley discusses myths that surround nutrition, hormonal shifts, fatigue, when to stop working during pregnancy, fear of labor and pain during labor, and the birth experience. I discovered the amazing Dr. Sarah Buckley about midway during my pregnancy with my first son Michael. I poured through more than [...]

PYTS Founder & Medbridge Instructor, Ginger Garner

Yoga as Integrative Medicine: Why Health Care Pros Should Offer It

Yoga as Integrative Medicine: Why Health Care Pros Should Offer It In a 2002 study of people with chronic heart disease, more than 80% of patients used integrative medicine. (1) Patients cited numerous benefits to the use of integrative medicine, including maintaining better health and sleep, boosting self-esteem, hope, and peaceful mind, and reducing anxiety, [...]

Episiotomy Scar Pain? Perineal Massage May Help

Episiotomy rates continue to decline in the US today, but prior to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist’s 2006 Official Statement on Restricting Use of Episiotomy, episiotomies were common practice. ACOG’s statement included this admission, “The best available data do not support the liberal or routine use of episiotomy. Nonetheless, there is a place [...]

14 Foods You Should Never Eat (Rodale Press)

Rodale Press has just released a succinct list of 14 foods you should never eat, and I think it is the best list I have ever seen (so far). Although the EWG (Environmental Working Group) just released the official 2013 Dirty Dozen foods and Clean 15 Foods, they fail to address GMO’s (genetically modified foods) and [...]

Yoga is Powerful Medicine in Your Hands

Yoga Is Powerful Medicine for Health Care Providers More than yoga can deliver alone, a medical professional is able to evaluate, diagnose, and prescribe yoga as medicine. Licensed medical professionals, for this reason, are ideally suited to deliver yoga as medicine. The PYT Certification Program merges yoga with evidence-based practice in medicine and rehabilitation. The PYT program [...]

No I Am Not On A Diet

No I Am Not On A Diet This is such a short, sweet post that I could not resist passing up the wisdom that this little phrase debunks. Have you ever gotten handed this phrase on a proverbial platter before: “Oh honey, you should just enjoy life. Eat what you want. Don’t worry about your [...]

Why You Need C-section Scar Massage (VIDEO)

Why You Need C-section Scar Massage; This week’s featured blog post is by guest author Lynn Schulte-Leech, PT. Visit Lynn at Intuitive Hands PT Much of the recovery process after a c-section birth feels out of your control. Really, other than “taking it easy,” patients are given little information on how they can help avoid painful [...]

Medical Minimalism Using Yoga (Part Two)

Medical Minimalism Using Yoga (Part Two) In Part One of this blog post, I shared my story of the “aha” moment that led me to use yoga as medicine. The benefits of yoga as a proven medical therapy are numerous and growing. Yoga is my minimalist medicine. I have been using it on myself and [...]

Yoga in Medicine: An Ancient Solution for Modern Illness

Yoga in Medicine: An Ancient Solution for Modern Illness More than 2000 years old, yoga is just beginning to gain respect in conventional medicine and practice. It is being used in medicine, and is now receiving much attention as a 21st century ‘ancient solution’ for modern illness. The ancient lifestyle practice of yoga predates written [...]

Why Yogic Breathing & Mindful Meditation are Powerful Rehab Tools (VIDEO)

Why Yogic Breathing & Mindful Meditation are Powerful Rehab Tools (VIDEO) Integration of yoga-based practices, like yogic breathing and meditation, can be effective in the treatment of a broad array of disorders exacerbated by stress, according to researchers at Boston University’s School of Medicine. Two studies support the effectiveness of yoga in correcting parasympathetic nervous [...]

My Birth Story – Third Time is a Charm

My Birth Story – Third Time is A Charm A woman will never forget the moment she became a mother. I even cry when I read or hear a birth story, so for me this is the most important post I have ever written. Birth is that transforming and important to me, and I believe [...]

Breathing Better for A Safer Spine: The Yogic TATD Breath (Video)

Breathing For A Safer Spine: The Yogic TATD Breath The deeper stabilizers of the trunk are well supported in the literature, such as transversus abdominus (TvA), to be the major players of lumbopelvic force closure. They are responsible, as part of a global stabilizing system, in conjunction with the multifidi and other synergists such as the respiratory diaphragm and the [...]