Over the last few years mental health has become a huge concern to many people the young and the older folk alike. TH e sense of not coping with life and feelings of overwhelm have been and continue to be reported widely. Whatever the situation that triggers a wave of mental unrest, be it school […]

More so than in the previous month, from the first day of April you can feel spring in the air as nature wakes up all around us. The very sense of this energy burst and the season itself is associated with the wood element in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and so is the taste of […]

As the days get longer and the light is brighter, we emerge from the winter sleep withthe hope of spring in the air. This is a perfect time for sowing seeds and planting thebulbs of whatever we wish to see blossom later in the year, and that principle appliesnot just to your home garden or […]

Over the past few decades, there has been an explosion of scientific research on the gut microbiome. Scientists have explored the role of this complex microbial community in many aspects of human health, including cancer, immune function, as well as neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases. A healthy gut microbiome contains a diverse array of microbes that […]

New Year’s resolutions & importance of movement WHAT IS MOVEMENT? Movement is part of life and without it we would not stay alive. It is simply a shift in energy, its flow. How it translates into a physical reality, depends on the vehicle. Let’s consider our physical bodies. Our blood needs to move, our lungs […]

It is this time again: autumn in the air! As we come back from our summer excursions or longer stays away, school, uni and work beckons. The warm days are thinning down, moisture fills the air a little more, and the days are getting shorter as the light is fading earlier. On a good day […]

We have not been spoilt this year in the UK with too much of the summer sunshine(an understatement as it may be). So when in the last few days the sun came out infull swing, the heat and lsunight hungry folk came out onto the beaches and into theirgardens to lap it up in abundance. […]

‘Food be Thy medicine and medicine be Thy food’. This old Hippocrates’ saying has always been relevant in today’s world but it comes into its own in summer. When the fresh produce abounds and even wild plants are aplenty, it makes for a perfect time to fortify our health with juices and smoothies made from […]

Life is not always a walk in the park. But how we view it changes the game: a glass half- empty or half-full. Since mindset takes longer to change than the energy in the room, how about resorting to a simple yet powerful tool available to all: laughter. Have you ever considered gifting yourself such […]

When the worlds collide The Secret of Change Is to focus all of your energy, Not on fighting the old, But on building the new. Socrates I have written this blog just before the total solar eclipse on 8/4/24. For some this phenomenon in itself was scary to witness it in its entirety: darkness falling […]