It’s a given, backpacking and thru-hiking in the wilderness requires a level of being physically fit to feel capable of accomplishing your dream adventures on the trails. Your adventures also require some mental fortitude. Not the attitude to just keep pushing beyond yourself; that’s violence to one self, and you and your hiking partners will Read More…
Medicine of Movement - Harness Your Health through Movement
The Amazing Health Benefits of the Nasal Breath – Nitric Oxide
Nitric Oxide was originally discovered in 1986 by Dr. Louis Ignarro in his lab. And he and two of his colleges were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998. This naturally produced gas is as important for the health of the human body as Vitamin D. YEP!!!! From Dr. Ignarro are the Read More…
Medicine of Movement – It’s vitally important to go down to find your flexibility
If the well is distant, its water does not quench the thirst of the pilgrim – Chinese Proverb Your health is being flexible, and your flexibility is not about how your stretch……it’s about how you descend to harness fluidity in your tissues and your mind. Just like in the desert, or in the mountains, the Read More…
Medicine of Movement – Surprising ways to Create Balance & Coordination
YES!!! Our feet and our hands have vital importance for integrative vital movement. From a neuroscience perspective, the homunculus of the somatosensory cortex, the map of the motor and sensory fields in our brains, illustrate this occupancy of high functional capacities for the feet and hands. The only other areas that get this much “attention” are Read More…
Medicine of Movement – Amazing Health for your Joints!
It turns out “Motion promotes lotion. Everything is in motion” What happens when we introduce motion into a structure, our body? In a recent podcast from NPR – new research has determined the primary cause for increases in Osteoarthritis, specifically looking at the knee joint, was related more to an increase in sedentary activity and Read More…