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Enhancing Sleep Quality in Winter with Acupuncture
By Dee Dorrance, R.Ac, CNP Enhancing Sleep Quality in Winter with Acupuncture Winter in Toronto brings longer nights, brisker temperatures, and a natural inclination to slooooow down. Yet, for many, this season can be accompanied by pesky sleep disturbances—whether...
Enhancing Sleep Quality in Winter with Acupuncture
By Dee Dorrance, R.Ac, CNP Enhancing Sleep Quality in Winter with Acupuncture Winter in Toronto brings longer nights, brisker temperatures, and a natural inclination to slooooow down. Yet, for many, this season can be accompanied by pesky sleep disturbances—whether due to shorter daylight hours, holiday stress, or changes in routine. Acupuncture, a practice based in Traditional Chinese Medicine...
Gratitude and Green Soup – It’s all about Self-Care and Balance for the Holidays
By Angela Warburton Recipe adapted from The Full Helping Don't forget to carve out some time for yourself over this holiday season. It's so easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle and the frenetic energy that abounds at this time of the year. But pushing...
Postpartum Anxiety
By: Dr. Terrin Kuntz, ND What is anxiety? Anxiety is a fear based emotional response to the anticipation of real or perceived danger. A stimulus, emotional or physical will trigger your fear response. The type of trigger will differ from person to person, but...
Cold and Flu Care
There are so many things you CAN do to boost your immune system, stay strong and help prevent colds and flus naturally. The following are some simple, yet highly effective immune boosters and some common TCM herbs that we use to prevent or at the early onset of a cold...
Seasonal Retreats: The Importance of Self-Care
These retreats were formed, from the number one need that I see in my day-to-day clinical practice - a need for nourishing self-care and the space to stop and simply BE, for a bit. They are focused on self-care, deep nourishment and time away from the daily demands...
Fall Rituals + Recipes to Nourish the Mind, Body and Soul
Written by Sasha Ormond Well, Fall is here and I have a toolkit for survival once the weather starts turning and things start getting dark. The energy I’m filled with during the summer months inevitably starts to fade and I’m left needing to focus more on...
Have You Been Cupped Before?
Kirstienne Lim, Std. Class Acupuncturist Cupping therapy has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousands of years. It is the healing art of small glass or bamboo cups used as suction devices to pull stagnation, congestion and energy through the body, thus...
Workshop: Fall in Love. It All Starts with You.
Identify your unique love style and how to breakthrough those inner barriers that are holding you back from the love you so deeply desire Relationships can be one of the more rewarding things in a person’s life, but they can also be elusive or painful for many. Did...
Preparing for the Fall
Seasonal awareness is important when the days start getting darker. In Chinese medicine, each season is affiliated with an organ system and each organ system is associated with both a spiritual and an emotional aspect. Each time the seasons change, we have an...
Climate Change – What we can do to help
The climate emergency and what we can do about it Guest post by Jesper Grimstrup - Physicist The climate is changing and it is changing fast. We stand at the beginning of a climate emergency, where rising CO2 levels are beginning to have a real impact — heatwaves,...
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