“How to Catch a Cold” – A Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine

There is no virtue in recalling the exact moment it occurred. At this point, it might be better to make acceptance (and tissues) your primary focus. It’s tempting to imagine how (and when) this stealthy intruder breached the gates of your now apparently wide-open immune system – but it might be more energy efficient to…

The Multiverse of Coconut Oil 🥥

Coconut oil is naturally anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and moisturizing. Having become as common-place around the house as any fork or spatula, it’s gratifying to know the possible uses are many. Primarily composed of nourishing fatty acids – specifically lauric acid – accounting for about 50 per cent of the fats in the compound – virgin coconut…

Six Healing Sounds and The Tao: Stimulating Vitality

The Tao is a many centuries-old Chinese concept and practice of increasing vital energy through breath, visualization and physical exercises. While an ancient practice, the philosophies and associated movements of the Tao are congruent with current needs and still highly effective. This is very logical as we are still human beings, even centuries later, requiring…

The Likelihood of Healing

“The Likelihood of Healing” is a published excerpt from a student paper, written for Integrative Naturotherapies Studies. Author: Catherine Knott     The likelihood of healing is ultimately based on the individual who requires the healing, be it mental, physical, or emotional. I would like to contribute another category to the defined scope of ‘healing’…

Energizing with Reiki Therapy

  “Energy is all around us. What Reiki does is give you a very positive life force energy, to dispel the negative.” As a practitioner of both Reiki and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Sharon Conroy uses Reiki as a complementary therapy alongside acupuncture, cupping, or Chinese massage. She feels incorporating Reiki into her base treatments…

Healing With Garden Therapy

Conservation Horticulturist, Melanie Priesnitz, spends a great deal of time in the garden. She has been helping the visitors of Acadia University’s Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens unplug and connect to nature, for years. Recalling her career, in Ontario, working in office buildings she says, “I was wistfully looking out the window, wishing I was outside…

Mindfulness in the Classroom

Mindfulness in the Classroom Deep breathing, positive visualization and physicality as a recipe for inner peace and a healthier classroom. This is the intent behind “Go Noodle”, “Flow” and “Think about It” – popular activities in a series of programs aimed at integrating mindfulness into the daily academic schedule. Mindfulness is essentially a conscious focus…