Dr. Meggie Smith By visiting author: Yoli Joseph Spring’s weather changes can feel like a relief after a biting cold winter or one with lots of snow and wind. Even 50 degrees feels so warm that we may even go outside in a t-shirt! According to Ayurveda this early Spring season is dominated by Kapha, […]
What is BGI and who is Dr. Will?
At Chiropractic First you are receiving a type of chiropractic care called Bio Geometric Integration. BGI is based on an awareness that your body is connected. And that it is easier to change and heal when you are in a state of peace and ease rather than defense. Anyone who has tried to have a […]
Processing is the Name of the Game
I can always tell the impact of a yoga class I’ve taught by the depth students go into deep relaxation. If we have stimulated all aspects of the nervous system, done every type of yoga movements (forward, backward, twisting, inversion, balancing) and performed poses from each position (seated, standing, prone, dorsal) the mind and body […]
What is This Pain Trying to Tell Me?
When you are in pain, you may just want it to go away. However, what if rather than wanting the pain to go away, you got curious and tried to learn more about it? Pain contains powerful messages. It is brimming with useful information, if you listen. There are times in your life when you […]
The Polarity of the Holidays
A breathing exercise to help with a season of stress and joy The holiday season is filled with dichotomies. We are excited by the wonder and beauty of the freshly fallen snow (or hopefully we will be soon). And we are challenged by shoveling and driving in the snow. We enjoy the opportunity to spend […]
Keep the Digestive Fire Alive!
Yoga and its sister science Ayurveda both agree that immune health begins with the digestive power. This power is derived from the digestive fire called Agni. Just like how a fire can be dampened with water or made too big with wind, your digestion can be supported by increasing foods that build the power, lessened […]
Hear, See & Taste the Difference Chiropractic Can Make
Often times people with similar symptoms come into health care offices in bunches. Carolyn Myss, an author and gifted medical intuitive, suggests that this happens so that doctors can learn more about the presentation and healing of a set of symptoms. Maybe that is why, or maybe it is simply that we start looking for […]
Life Transformation & Yoga
By Yoli Maya Yeh There has never been a time like the present moment in human evolution and growth on the planet. Thanks to the industrialization, modernization and the massive rate of information exchange, humans have the most input, experiences and sensory information to process then ever before. We are amazingly adaptive beings whose bodies, […]
Experience More Life
When you think about health, do you think about feeling more of your body, or less? Do you think about being more present to your physical experiences, or less? Before you began chiropractic care, you may have thought that you would be healthy once you stopped feeling certain things. You might have thought you would […]
Living According to The Seasons
By Yoli Maya Yeh Yoga and Ayurveda are both ancient traditions that teach about the health and wellness of mind and body. They we both written down around 3000 BCE but are even older than 5000 years, as oral traditions. That’s a lot of time to innovate ideas of how this body works in accordance […]
