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What is Integrative Medicine?
Integrative Medicine (IM) is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and evaluating the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, functional medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual. Read more.
What is Massage?
Massage is the practice of soft tissue manipulation with physical, functional, and in some cases psychological purposes and goals. Massage involves acting on and manipulating the body with pressure – structured, unstructured, stationary, or moving – tension, motion, or vibration, done manually or with mechanical aids. Target tissues may include muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, or other connective tissue, as well as lymphatic vessels, or organs of the gastrointestinal system. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, forearm, and feet. There are over eighty different recognized massage modalities.
What is Acupuncture?
Traditional Chinese medicine (acupuncture being one of the modalities under that umbrella) has been used as a healing art for over 2,500 years. The general theory is based on the premise that there are patterns of energy flow called Qi (chee) throughout the body which are related to the organs and tendino-muscular system. When the energy flow is disrupted due to trauma, poor diet, medications, stress, or other factors, pain or illness results. The focus is on correcting these imbalances of energy flow by inserting thin needles under the skin to stimulate specific points in the body which unblock the channels and encourage an even flow of Qi, restoring the body’s balance, relieving pain and other symptoms. TCM practices include such treatments as herbal medicine, acupuncture, dietary therapy, and both Tui na and Shiatsu massage. Qigong and Taiji are also closely associated with TCM.
Acupuncture and oriental medicine are among the newest primary health care professions in the United States. The benefits of acupuncture have become widely recognized and integrated with mainstream health care. TCM's complex system of diagnostic methods take into consideration the person as a whole, not just isolated symptoms. TCM works with the body, harmonizing and balancing energy.
What is Kripalu Yoga Dance?
Kripalu Yoga Dance invites you to experience the soul stirring modalities of yoga, dance, and music into one amazing class. Beginning with an attunement to center the body and relax the mind, warm-up yoga exercises then lead you on a journey of movement that is sometimes guided and at other times self-led, all of this accompanied with incredible music. The rhythm of the music becomes more rapid, elevating the energy of the dance, offering a great workout, and ending with a deep relaxation. Yoga Dance offers an invitation in awakening the connection between body, mind and spirit. It is a celebration of the magnificence that is inherent in your nature, and a great way to have fun in a safe atmosphere! Yoga Dance is a dynamic way to connect with grace in the body and your vital spirit, offering a tool for relieving stress and encouraging freedom in physical expression. This is ideal for participants who are curious about the liberating qualities of yoga and/or dance, but have no prior experience. It is also ideal for those who enjoy postures in yoga and enjoy moving out of postures and allowing the body’s wisdom to determine the movement. Yoga Dance creates opportunities for those who love to be guided, and for those who like to move to their own drummer. Click here to see information on classes.
What is Energy Healing?
Energy Healing is an enlightening system of healing that combines hands-on healing techniques with spiritual and psychological processes touching every aspect of your life. Based on the living dynamics of our Human Energy-Consciousness System and its relationship to the greater world of which we all are intimately a part, Energy Healing can transform your life into the balanced, enlightened experience of mystery that you have always wanted it to be.
What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine based upon principles first defined by Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. A central thesis of homeopathy is that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the illness. Practitioners select treatments according to a patient consultation that explores the physical and psychological state of the patient, both of which are considered important to selecting the remedy. According to Hahnemann, serial dilution, with shaking between each dilution, removes the toxic effects of the substance, while the essential qualities are retained by the diluent (water, sugar, or alcohol).
What is Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Traditional Chinese Medicine (also known as TCM) includes a range of traditional medical practices originating in China. Although well accepted in the mainstream of medical care throughout much of Asia, it is considered a complementary or alternative medical system in much of the western world. TCM practices include such treatments as herbal medicine, acupuncture, dietary therapy, and both Tui na and Shiatsu massage. Qigong and Taiji are also closely associated with TCM. TCM theory is extremely complex and originated thousands of years ago through meticulous observation of nature, the cosmos, and the human body.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a spiritual practice developed in 1922 by Mikao Usui. After three weeks of fasting and meditating on Mount Kurama, in Japan, Usui claimed to receive the ability of "healing without energy depletion." A portion of the practice, tenohira or palm healing, is used as a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Tenohira is a technique whereby practitioners move "healing energy" (a form of ki) through the palms.
What is Herbalism?
Herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as botanical medicine, medical herbalism, herbal medicine, herbology, and phytotherapy. Many plants synthesize substances that are useful to the maintenance of health in humans and other animals. These include aromatic substances, most of which are phenols or their oxygen-substituted derivatives such as tannins. Many are secondary metabolites, of which at least 12,000 have been isolated — a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total. In many cases, these substances (particularly the alkaloids) serve as plant defense mechanisms against predation by microorganisms, insects, and herbivores. Many of the herbs and spices used by humans to season food yield useful medicinal compounds.
What is Naturopathy?
Naturopathic medicine (also known as naturopathy, or natural medicine) is a complementary and alternative medicine that emphasizes the body's intrinsic ability to heal and maintain itself. Naturopaths use natural remedies such as herbs and foods rather than surgery or synthetic drugs. Naturopathic practice includes many treatment modalities, with practitioners emphasizing a holistic approach to patient care. Naturopathy has its origins in the Nature Cure movement of Europe.
What is Nutritional Counseling?
Nutritional Counseling involves a complete evaluation of the patient in order to determine areas where additional nutritional supplements or attention need to be focused. Once specific areas are designated, work can begin to alieviate problematic symptoms by the introduction of negleted vitamins, minerals, or physical exercise.