I spent 3 powerful and challenging months with Coach Rob Hedequist at Ronin Awaken
Here I include the podcast interview from just a few days ago. It sufficiently encapsulates how the coaching helped be grow my practice and align my business with what I value most in life - authenticity, presence, and relationships.
Using mushrooms for their medicinal properties is nothing new, especially in Asia, where they have been used for centuries. While recent attention has focused on the immunological and anticancer properties of certain mushrooms, holistic nutritionists say they offer other potential health benefits, including reducing cholesterol, protecting the liver and having antihypertensive, antioxidant, antidiabetic and antiviral properties.
The simple act of deepening the already automatic breath is of immense benefit for our health. Even a little amount of stress increases the tension we hold in our bodies, and this tension causes our breath to become more shallow. But we need oxygen for our health, for energy, for our brain to function, for everything our body is designed to do…
Its called stress. And I know that just saying that can make us feel even more stressed. So I will cut to the chase and offer some very potent things you can do on a daily basis to lower the amount of cortisol running through your system. Cortisol is one of the main stress hormones, liberated into the blood stream to prepare the body for fight or flight. But we don’t actually need to be in fight or flight all day long…
A good night’s sleep is one of the best things for our health. When we are down or feel like we are getting sick, a good night’s sleep can generally take care of things. In childhood, sleep is a time when the body does much of its growth and development. As adults this is when our body takes the time to repair, renew and recalibrate itself. Sleep is brilliant and wholesome medicine…
Diets and nutrition programs profess to be the cure-all for everyone. But how can this be when we are so incredibly different? Even though no one can really tell us ‘what’ to eat exactly, here are a few guidelines for ‘how’ to eat. If your digestion is not causing you to suffer in any way, then you don’t necessarily need to shift anything…
The transition time between the seasons are powerful times. This period between summer and fall is particularly dynamic and beautiful. The light is different, the leaves are changing, there is a chill in the air. Personally, the way I feel in my body starts changing. I start thinking about making soup, reading my growing stack of books, turning inward and cuddling up on the couch in the evening, taking walks as the trees start to release their leaves…
Within East Asian Medicine, we work with microcosms and macrocosms. All aspect of the Universe interrelate and interdepend. This is an understanding of the world of fractals. Fractals are the basic yet complex pulsing in and out of Creation, the expansion and construction or spanda of form and formlessness…
