Indigestion and IBS are common but debilitating and troubling issues in the modern world. Many people simply accept them, and take medications to manage symptoms, but there is a better way.
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We caught up with London-based Certified Holistic Health/Nutrition Coach and AHN alum, Cheryl Telfer for the next feature in our series.
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COVID prevention, treatment and recovery is a big concern these days. A year into the COVID pandemic, there is now a lot of information on the best ways to use Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to combat COVID problems.
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Drinking tea, the right kind of tea, is really good for your body. And the tea known as matcha definitely falls under the heading of the right kind of tea.
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a very different and holistic way of looking at the body and at health. This system uses five natural elements to metaphorically describe the relationship between nature and the body’s life force.
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Below Letha Hadady, D.Ac., a leading expert on natural health and beauty treatments, best-selling author and faculty at Academy of Healing Nutrition shares how we can transition our diet from winter to spring for elevated energy and wellbeing.
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Read to uncover safe, natural, and gentle tips and strategies that may help support women’s health using the wisdom of TCM.
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A holistic view of health understands that all of these parts of us are interconnected, inseparable. It also considers the social, environmental, and other, more subtle, factors that influence our inner terrain, that feed or deplete us.
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For the second installment of our Morning Routines series, we headed over to Brooklyn to speak with Lily Harris. After graduating from AHN in 2020, Lily became a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and works with her clients to identify the root of their issues. With a background in fashion, Lily stays creative with the beautiful dishes she makes, selling vintage jewelry, and even curating health memes.
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By zooming into the morning routines of our faculty, alumni, and other members of the health community that we admire, we’ll showcase what works for them. In illuminating the difference and similarities of these routines, we hope you’ll find a tangible starting point with your healing. First up, Holistic Nutritionist and artist, Bianca Valle.
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One anti-racist practice to which we can commit is to learn from, honour and enable the work of Black voices. As a school that has built upon, and benefited from, the wisdom of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) healing knowledge, we want here to highlight a handful of Black farmers, healers, herbalists, chefs and food justice advocates whose efforts are deeply needed in our world.
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Winter is recognised as a potent time of cooling, contracting energy, of inward focus. It is the fertile darkness out of which all things will soon arise. In the cold night of winter, we do best not to cleanse, but to build ourselves up, to conserve our resources and nourish ourselves with stillness, with warmth.
The season is associated with the element of water and its salty flavour, with the blue-black colour of the depths of the seas or the night sky and, predictably, with the Kidney-Bladder organ system within our bodies.
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Today marks the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year, and one recognised the world over with festivals of light that gratefully celebrate the gradual return of the sun.
During this current moment of such upheaval, the solstice reminds us that the dawn indeed follows each dark night. When that night is long and we feel weary, we can easily lose sight of the fact that all things move in cycles. Each point in that cycle has significance; we honour the darkness as a teacher and as the fertile soil of all re-creation. Its challenges transform us.
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While in the west, we tend to look at food as a series of nutrients we have to ingest to survive, many cultures of longevity leverage food as a daily effort towards restoring mental, physical and emotional health, and even healing from disease. This article surfaces Eastern and Western traditions that encourage a “food as medicine” approach to health, healing and improving quality of life.
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Millennia-old healing systems such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and India’s Ayurveda have investigated and articulated the practices shown both to prevent disease and enhance longevity. “Blue Zone” and other cultures throughout the world, where people tend towards long life, offer additional insight into the food traditions that support radiant health well into our later years.
This collective wisdom of our ancestors informs what we call the Longevity Diet, a healing, rejuvenating diet that has been the guiding force of what we’ve taught at Academy Healing Nutrition these last few decades.
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Those in the know are adding shrooms to everything from coffee to skincare, says Rosie Fitzmaurice.
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Imagine that our digestion is like a relay team. The runners’ track is the long, winding digestive tract, the gut. Each runner carries a basket of food passing the basket from one runner to the next. If a runner gets tired there is less digestive fire or digestive qi so that digestion is slow and incomplete. If the runner drops the basket in the mud, undigested food, acids, irritants, and toxins become mixed into the food. Worse, if a runner trips and falls, making a hole in the basket, spilling some food, there is less food in the basket. It spills onto the grass making a mess.
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How do we boost our immune system? The answer depends upon who you ask. At Academy Healing Nutrition, we study both natural, modern and ancient approaches (like Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine). This article will help you prevent illness, chronic disease, and the ill effects of aging through immune-system boosting foods, herbs and lifestyle practices.
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The progressive slowing down of growth in autumn is understood to have an affinity with the metal element. In the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) system, the qualities of balanced metal are apparent when we similarly are able to hone our focus and know a shining mental clarity (indeed, metal is associated with a clear or white colour). We also experience this in a sense of self-worth that lets us set healthy boundaries and structures for ourselves.
The organs associated with autumn gives us a clue as to how we protect ourselves at this physically and emotionally vulnerable time of year. Our Lung-Large Intestine system, through the actions of inhalation and elimination, teach us that we don’t hold on to what we absorb. We feel it, use only what is vital, and release the rest.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (also known as TCM) is an ancient philosophical/medical art that has evolved over the past 5,000 years and is currently practiced by millions of people around the world. Although Chinese health and fitness arts have mainly been popularized by acupuncture and martial arts in the West, TCM is a multi-pronged system of healing that includes herbalism and diets based on a complex system of diagnosis, various types of energy balancing techniques using bodywork, movement/meditation practices, and a holistic approach of understanding the vital connections between our body, mind and spirit and our place in the universe.
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