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Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Healing through Style

In this episode of Wellness Wednesdays, I chatted with personal style coach Sylvie Hart! Sylvie helps women boost their confidence with style so they can look and feel authentic and amazing from the inside out. She does this by helping her clients uncover their personal style and build wardrobes that align with who they are and their lifestyle.

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Uttanasana with Clasped Hands

Most of corporate America spends his/her time sitting at a desk for hours upon hours in a day. This causes hunched shoulders, crunched lower backs, and tight muscles. The perfect antidote? Uttanasana...

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Staying Healthy and Sane When You're Stuck at Home

For some of us spending all day at home is a dream come true, but for the overwhelming remainder it is literally our worse nightmare (this naturopath included). As a New Yorker I am blessed with an abundance of things to do outside of my tiny box called an apartment.

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You happier than ever!

Perhaps I will never be as happy as I was at 2 years old, but there are many things that we can do to make our lives happier and relieve us from the occasional lows. It is unfortunate that in the U.S....

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Detox with Me: A 10 Day Group Detox

Detox Starts Friday November 3, 2017
Via phone and Skype

Has weight loss been something that you've struggled with for years? You've tried every diet but nothing works.  Maybe you have been recently di...

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Don't Fear the Scale!

Detox with Me: A 10 Day Group Detox
Because you enjoyed the 4th and now it's time to detox!
Detox Starts Friday July 14, 2017
Via phone and Skype

Has weight loss been something that you've struggled with...

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10 Easy Ways to Love your heart

As a naturopathic doctor, I don't have the secret to mend a broken heart, but I would say I know a little bit about keeping one healthy.  Our heart is probably one of the most important organs in our...

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Thunderbolt Pose (Vajrasana)

 

Shin-shin-toistu-do is a variation of yoga brought to Japan in the 1940s by Tempu Nakamura.  This form of yoga focuses on developing Ki (life force) through seated and moving meditation, breath techni...

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Going Japanese to Prevent Disease

For many years Japan has surpassed the rest of the world in life expectancy with the average person living to be 83.7 years. Unfortunately, with a life expectancy of 79.3, the US has fallen quite behi...

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Eagle Pose (Garudasana)

Even when I am in Paris, I have to "faire du yoga," One of my favorite places to do my sun salutations en français is Be Yoga. So I decided to ask one of my Be Yoga teachers, Garance Clos, to chose a...

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Paving the Way to Better Memory

It is scary to think that an estimated thirty-five million people worldwide have dementia and roughly 5.3 million people in the United States have Alzheimer's. It is a just another cruel fact of life,...

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Bridge Pose (Setu Bandha)

Sacroiliac pain is often a result of imbalance in the sacroiliac joints, with one side being more mobile than the other. The sacrum gets out of alignment with the iliac bone on the more mobile side,...

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New Ways to Work the Body

You've probably had a chiropractor crack your back, a massage therapist work on your muscles or an acupuncturist needle some points but this only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to body work. I...

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Legs Up the Wall (Viparita Karani)

For IVF patients, one of the most difficult periods is the '2 week wait.' It can be excruciating. So it's important to find poses that nourish, relax, and energize; especially since it's recommended t..

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Chair Pose (Utkatasana)

Hatha Yoga helps build strength, confidence and flexibility. This standing pose stimulates the bones of the hips and lower back, areas often cited in bone loss.   It does not require flexibility and...

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Office Detox

If you are like most Americans (21,638,470 to be exact) you spend a large majority of your time working in an office. The actual amount of time works out to be 1,700 hours per year or about 10 full y...

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Detox with Me: A 10 Day Group Detox

Detox Starts Friday April 1, 2016

Via phone and Skype

 

Has weight loss been something that you've struggled with for years? You've tried every diet but nothing works.  Maybe you have been recently dia...

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