Here are four reasons to take the “Exercise as Medicine” class I will teach at the Open Center this fall: One: A fresh beginning. It is a new season—the start of the ‘year’, so to speak, that will bring us […]

A vacation is only a vacation if one can vacate, right?  Case in point: James Heaton’s post about when he went away last week with his wife and three kids.  I am sure you can relate. I know I can. […]

Chinese Medicine divides the year into five, not four, seasons. Late summer begins around mid-August and ends with the September solstice. Just like all of the other seasons, its unique weather affects our internal environment. Late summer is the dampest […]

What if we did not care what others thought? What if our choices were not driven by materialistic standards or prevailing cultural trends? What if we acted not only for ourselves, but with a deep care for our communities, for […]

The Dead Sea is called ‘dead’ because there are bodies of water running into it but not moving out. It is the same with the skill of acupuncture, or any skill for that matter. If we do not use it, […]

Yesterday at 3 p.m., I headed west to the Hudson River and found some shade under a tree to practice qigong. Under another tree, a young man to my right was practicing an ambitious dance routine. Nearby, a woman lay […]

“Few see it. Fewer choose it. What’s your wild rabbit?” As Don Draper of Mad Men knows, all good advertising pulls you in and gets you to think twice, or best of all, begin to imagine. “Hmmm,” I thought after […]

Last night, a good friend of mine, Dr. Benjamin Abelow M.D., sent me an opinion piece that he wrote for a local newspaper in the Berkshires  where he lives. It made me think about the hamburger I had eaten for […]

The following article by Maureen Goss was published in the March 2011 issue of Westview: The New Voice of the West Village. A List of Things to Do — or Not Do — When Winter Finally Wanes Ah…spring in the […]

Spring arrived in perfect style yesterday with sunshine and temperatures in the 70’s. Here are 3 things I am doing to support my well-being this spring: Juicing: Every other day this week I have enjoyed the new addition to Jack’s […]

“Tea tempers the spirit…harmonizes the mind”. So wrote Lu Yu many centuries ago in his ‘Classic of Tea’. I have a tea room in my office now where clients can enjoy a few sips, if they choose to, after a […]

Happy Valentine’s Day, dear readers. Sending each of you some inspiration on this day that we celebrate LOVE! An uplifted spirit infuses the body/mind with vital life energy to help bring us back in balance.  Here are five words that […]