It took a while this year but I am finally starting to delight in winter citrus, pine wreaths, deep dark evenings, and an abundance of peppermint-themed desserts. Merry, merry.

This time of year—the thinning of the Veil—is an optimal time to remember and connect with departed family members. One beautiful way to do this is by making a special place in your home for an ancestor altar.

Our new acupuncture and massage clinic in San Francisco’s Marina district provides holistic healing services to people dealing with pain. Come in for a session and experience the remarkable power of acupuncture and massage in dealing with pain.

What IS abundance, and how can we tap into abundance to make more money and feel more joy?

The Eight Extraordinary Meridians aren't like the other channels. They're special. They're extraordinary! These channels are the spiritual skeleton of your system. Deep, old energy is stored here, including ancestral trauma, karmic patterns, and repressed emotions.

In Chinese medicine, we always want to nourish the lungs during the dry autumn season. This is especially true if the air is full of smoke and particulate matter as the world burns down around us. Generally we choose foods and herbs that are moistening, nourishing, and cooling.

I offer these case studies as examples of my work. Note that the identity of the subjects is carefully protected, and every session is very different.

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My very favorite TED talk!

Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. -Ramana Maharshi

“In the fullness of silence, there is only consciousness, but no thoughts.” - Ramana Maharshi

I’ve been reading Christiane Northrup’s book, “Goddesses Never Age,” which has some really lovely parts. The gist is that joy and self-love keep you youthful and vivacious.

“It is not happiness that makes us grateful It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy. Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens.” ― David Steindl-Rast

“Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?” - Sri Ramana Maharshi

“When practicing mindfulness, even directed toward something as ordinary as breathing, we enhance the part of the mind that is aware of the way things are while diminishing the part that is stressed because things are not the way we want them to be.” —Andrew Olendzki

The root of a meditation practice, in the Advaita Vedanta tradition, is the Hridaya, the sacred heart. We talk about centering ourselves in the sacred heart as a meditation technique, bringing our consciousness from the ever present mind into this space just to the right of the center of the chest, and resting there.

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.”

Here we are about a month into quarantine. We’ve spent a month in this Great Pause. Let’s just let that sink in for a second: this past month isolated in our homes, getting used to this ever-changing new reality, which is also called getting used to impermanence.

Life is challenging right now. We have tax stress on top of pandemic stress on top of general life stress. Stress causes pain.