Category Archives: Health

In the stress common thread, I now would like to address yoga as a possibility to reduce stress and burn-out. There are different types of yoga. In this blog I will give three. The traditional form of Hatha yoga consists essentially of body exercises (the so called asana’s), breathing training and relaxation. Body and mind […]

Some time ago, Myoki asked if I would be willing to write a guestblog on the subject of osteopathy. Of course! I love to share about my wonderful profession. I often relate nature to my treatment, to clarify why it works what I do. The idea behind osteopathy is that the complaint that someone experiences […]

One of last months blogs, dealt with the subject of trauma. Trauma is an energetic impact on your system that can occur when something happens that makes you feel unsafe and scared. This can cause a series of chain reactions in your body and unsettle the chemicals in your brain. Trauma is hard for the […]

Fascia is the connective tissue of the body. It forms a web of connective tissue that is filed throughout the human body. Many animals, like horses and dogs also have fascia. Fascia provides, amongst other things, support, protection, damping and structure. It is both flexible as extremely strong. Fascia surrounds muscles and organs and provides […]

It’s a year ago this month that I was in the operating theatre. So, I thought it would be a good moment to inform you about surgery. In Western medicine, the body is seen as a machine. They try to fix the broken part or take it out. In Chinese medicine, the body is seen […]

We already made a lot of blogs on stress. If you want to re-read them, they are in the archive under the header health. For this month, we thought it would be beneficial for you to put the stress hormone cortisol in the spotlight. So, cortisol is also called the stress hormone. Cortisol is created […]

We talked a lot about stress these past few months and we also talked about what you can do to deminish stress in your life. We would now like to adress trauma, since stress can develop into trauma and trauma gives a whole lot of stress. Let’s start by stating that everybody has trauma’s. So, […]

What? Summer depression? Yes, summer depression! Many people are familiar with winterdepression, but some people also are familiar with summer depression. In Chinese medicine, winter is the most yin period, all energy goes inward and summer is the most yang period, the energy goes outward. Yang cannot exist without yin and yin cannot exist without […]

The hypothalamus is the part of our brain that regulates movement,  thought, action and reaction, so, our emotions. It regulates our body temperature, our sex drive and pro-creation, feelings of hunger and thirst, sleeping rhythm, high/low bloodpressure, heartbeat and our hormones. The hypothalamus takes care of the production of adrenaline when you feel threatened or […]