By Robin Brain
Rolfing is named after its founder, Dr. Ida Rolf (1896-1979), an American biochemist whose therapy was intended to integrate manipulative forms of treatment with bioenergetics (the study of energy in living systems). Rolf recognized that when we are well aligned, gravity can flow through us, allowing us to move easily. A poorly aligned […]

By Tl Kleban
You’ve made the big decision to begin a body detox. You’re on your way to losing all those toxins from your body. Ok. Now what? Well to start you should probably go food shopping since there are certain foods you need to eat. Diets during your detox diets […]

By Robin Brain
This humanistic approach, developed by Fritz Perls, grew rapidly in the United States in the 1960s. Although Perls’ methodology became more and more direct, the aim from the first was that clients should learn from their own experience to acknowledge previously denied feelings and aspects of their personalities.
Well-known Gestalt techniques include increasing the […]

By Mike Hirn
Why is there a need to detoxify human body with a sauna? Well maybe we could start answering that through saying that our body, itself, has a unique detoxification process that could not be copied even by modern technologies. Nonetheless, our present medical solutions for helping in the maintenance of our body could […]

By Ellis Peterson
Have you ever noticed that the two prevalent colors on the planet Earth (before cities and blacktop roads) are the colors of Nature, Green and Blue.
Green Forests and Blue sky is the color of the oceans. The color Green is also one of the more powerful and useful healing colors known to man.
When […]

By Emily Belllows
You may have heard about colon cleansing but you are not sure if it is for you. There are some factors that should be considered before taking the steps to a cleaner colon.
Waste can settle in your colon and sit there, causing toxins to leak into your body that should otherwise be flushed […]

The terms alternative medicine and complementary medicine are often wrongly used as synonyms. Actually, the term alternative medicine refers to medicine systems like Ayurveda or Acupuncture that are used in place of conventional medicine, while complementary medicine refers to those therapies like massage that are used in conjunction with conventional medicine.
However, both end up performing […]

Introduction
Many people today have a renewed interest in the whole area of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. This is a very good thing because Conventional Medicine cannot always provide a cure for any illness that comes along
You may have heard the saying “after [some illness] he or she was never the same again”! The […]

By Sandra Kim Leong
Acupuncture for detoxification of the body is a one of the many beneficial uses from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The principle behind acupuncture, which rests on TCM, lies on the balance of Qi (otherwise known as chi), the vital energy that harmonises and energises the functions of the body.
Let us first look […]

By Robin Brain
Probably the most widely known Western system of movement therapy, the Alexander Technique is a method of bringing the way we move under our conscious direction and avoiding a buildup of muscular tension.
F. Matthias Alexander, who was born in Tasmania in 1869, developed his theories in an effort to save his career when […]