Mother Earth provides medicine for all forms of healing, helping in many aspects of our overall well-being. Her medicines are strong and they heal our minds, bodies, and spirits.
Psychiatric Disorders such as anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder and phobic conditions can be treated naturally just as any physical ailment or disorder can. Mother Earth’s medicine is amazing in that way.
These past couple years have been taken over by the wellness trend, with yoga, meditation, juicing and even vegetarianism becoming mainstream. With that shift comes a slew of new dieting and self-help books that are no longer seen as taboo. Instead, everyone from celebrities to world leaders has something to say about how to be “well.”
Whether your substance of choice is alcohol, nicotine, or prescription drugs, a dependency on any of these may lead to a significant impact on your emotional, mental, and physical health. For those of you on the road to recovery, or exploring ways to begin that journey, the future feels terrifyingly uncertain.
The best way to get (and stay!) clean is to explore and embrace new passions that support behavioral change.
Sitting stagnant in an office all day has detrimental effects on your body; your posture, your blood sugar levels, and your muscles all suffer from lack of movement.
Benefits:
Improves balance and coordination.
Strengthens knees and legs.
Tones lower spine. Good for sciatic pain.
Challenging but stimulating.
Foundation & General Alignment:
One foot and one hand, bearing weight equally.
Standing foot is at a 90 degree angle, four corners weighted.
Legs are fully engaged, knees lifted.
Lifted foot is flexed encourages lengthening of the low back, keep foot fluid.
The agave plant ranges from the southwestern United States down through Central America to the northern regions of South America. It is the same plant that is used to make tequila. For centuries, the native peoples gathered the plants and removed the leaves to extract the sap from the core. They boiled the sap to form a thick nectar. Agave nectar did not find its way into modern America until the 1990’s when the process of hydrolysis could be applied to the agave. This process heats the extracted agave juice in a mass production, making it a viable commercial product.
There are currently 25 states that have legalized the use of medical marijuana. Regulations and restrictions vary from state to state.
Benefits:
Good pose for learning how to properly align (especially the shoulders and pelvis).
Great variation pose for people with carpal tunnel, shoulder, and low back issues.
Stretches the hamstrings.
Helps lengthen the back and spine.
Foundation & General Alignment:
Facing wall, align heels of the hands at ribs, forearms are parallel to the floor.
Hands are shoulder width apart.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, Everyone! I know this series covers medicinal plants and all healing things provided by Mother Nature but this week’s article will be a little more on the creepy side.
There are millions of plants across the planet but today I bring to you 5 Creepy Plants Possessing Healing Properties. Some of these plants are beautiful and it’s the seed pod that looks scary, or maybe it’s a scary story behind the plant itself.
If there’s one activity gym-goers are likely to cut out of their workout, it’s stretching. While the warm-up, workout and cool-down are all-important components to a fit and limber body, stretching ensures your joints have full range of motion and you can maintain or enhance your flexibility. Additionally, stretching post-workout delivers blood to the muscles, helping to reduce soreness.