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The Tao of Health
Insomnia and restless leg syndrome are nerve-related problems that take hold when your Liver is unbalanced, and being called upon to deliver energy that it doesn't have.
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Oriental Medicine
- A Balanced Meal Is An Energetic and Healthy Meal
- A Healthy Discussion
- A Healthy Liver: Eating the Five Element Way
- A Question of Balance and Oriental Medicine
- About Kitty Bradshaw
- Acupuncture Can Reduce Chemotherapy Side Effects
- Acupuncture: East Meets West
- Antibiotics and Chinese Medical Herbs
- Antibiotics: Helpful or Harmful?
- Asthma and Oriental Medicine
- At-a-Distance Health Consultations
- Autumn Equinox: The Yin Deepens
- BALANCED Beet Soup
- Balanced Diet and Nutrition - The Oriental Medicine Way
- Beginning Chi Kung
- Being Consistent—Being Healthy
- Benjamin Franklin and Oriental Medicine
- BIOM ReTweets—Join the Conversation
- Calm Your Spring Nerves
- Calming Springing Nerves
- Chi and Oriental Medicine
- Chi Kung for Health
- Chinese Medical Herbs and Your Health
- Class Update: Movement, Meditation and Oriental Medicine
- Cold and Flu Remedies
- Collapsing Honeybee Colonies & Your Immune System (Part 1)
- Consequences of Excessive Antibiotic Use
- Controlling Your Liver Energy
- Cultivate Kindness: Strategy For A Balanced Healthy Liver
- Detoxify and Tonify Your Liver
- Early Spring: Rebuilding Kidney Energy
- Eat Shiitake Mushrooms in Spring
- Fall Health Tips: Metal Energy and the Lungs
- Feeling Hungry
- Fire Energy of Summer: Arriving Early This Year
- Flu Season Is Approaching - Get Ready With Oriental Medicine
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
- Gator In The Garage
- Get Ready for a Healthy Fire Season
- Get Ready for Spring and Surging Liver Energy
- Getting Well With Oriental Medicine
- Getting Well with Oriental Medicine
- Headaches and Stress
- Health Tips for Spring—Staying Healthy: The Oriental Medicine Way
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar-invitation
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Three
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Two
- Healthy Insights
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- Herbal Medicine: Everything Old Is New Again
- How Are You Feeling?
- How Oriental Medicine Works … When You’re Feeling Sick
- How To Eat Salad
- How To Protect and Strengthen Your Lungs In Autumn
- Improve Your Digestion in Springtime
- It Helps To Know Yourself
- It's Springing Up
- Jumping Into Spring
- Kidney Health In Winter
- Knowing Is Technology
- Lunchtime With Kitty
- Massaging Hands and Feet for Health
- Meditative Breathing In Traffic
- Metal Controls Wood: The Five Elements & Your Health
- Mid-Spring Check-up—The Oriental Medicine Way
- Mid-Spring: Observations and Insights
- Military Doctors Embrace Acupuncture
- Movement, Meditation and The Medicine
- Oriental Medicine - Past and Present
- Oriental Medicine and Your Retirement
- Oriental Medicine News
- Oriental Medicine: A Common Sense Approach to Health
- Oriental Medicine: How It Works
- Oriental Medicine: Picking A Treatment Plan That Works for You
- Preparing for a Healthy Future: An Interview
- Preventing Colds and Flu (and More)
- Preventing Illness With a Strong Immune System
- Reclaiming The Yin in June
- Recognizing and Managing Stress
- Revitalized Communities: For A New Society—An Evening With Nicole Foss
- Scallion Broth To The Rescue!
- Snowy Haiku
- Spring Health Tips
- Spring Health tips
- Spring Insights
- Spring is Hay Fever Season
- Staying Cool in Summer
- Staying Healthy in Spring
- Staying Healthy in Spring—The Five Element Way
- Staying Healthy in Turbulent Times
- Staying Healthy In Winter
- Staying Healthy: The Oriental Medicine Way
- Stressing Health
- Summer Health
- Summer Health—Our Trip To The Black Sheep Gathering
- Summer Solstice Health Tips
- Summer Solstice: Being in Rhythm With the Season
- Summer: Being in Rhythm With The Season
- Tai Chi For Gardeners ~ At The Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- Tasty Diet and Nutrition
- Thanksgiving Interview With Jackie O' Lantern
- The Ant ... The Grasshopper ... and Oriental Medicine
- The Meaning of BIOM
- The Oriental Medicine Treatment Process
- The Power Of Liver Energy
- The Power of Oriental Medicine
- The Root of the Matter
- The Treat in the Treatment
- The Way of Prevention
- The Way Through
- The Year of the Rooster
- Thermography & Breast Health: Something To Consider
- Tips for Staying Healthy In Spring
- Understanding Energy ~ Inside and Out
- Unique Chinese Medical Herbs
- Valentine's Day: A Matter of the Heart (and Kidneys)
- Weathering The Seasons: Late Summer—Early Fall
- What Is Integrative Medicine?
- What People Say About Kitty Bradshaw at BIOM
- What To Do For The Winter Yin Blues
- What You Need to Know About Winter
- Winter Solstice ~ 2013
- Winter to Spring: Everything Old Is New Again
- Yin and Yang: Your Health and Your Life
- Your Health and Five Element Theory
- Your Inheritance
- Your Knees and Tai Chi Walking
- 5 Element Theory
- Acupressure
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Acupuncture
- Acupuncture
- Acupuncture a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care
- Acupuncture Can Reduce Chemotherapy Side Effects
- Acupuncture Eases Back Pain More Than Usual Care
- Acupuncture: East Meets West
- Herbal Medicine: Everything Old Is New Again
- Oriental Medicine News
- The Benefits of Acupuncture Become Obvious Once Your Try It
- What is Acupuncture Good For?
- Cancer Care
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Chi_Kung
- A Chi Kung Experience
- Autumn Chi Kung
- Beginning Chi Kung
- Chi Kung for Health
- Class Update: Movement, Meditation and Oriental Medicine
- Practicing Chi Kung
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Seasonal Chi Kung at BIOM: The Ba Gua Form
- Tai Chi For Gardeners ~ At The Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- Winter Chi Kung
- Your Knees and Tai Chi Walking
- Chinese Medical Herbs
- Facial Rejuvenessence
- Women's Health
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5 Element Health Coaching
- 5 Element Coaching for Health
- At-a-Distance Health Consultations
- Diet and Nutrition Workshop at BIOM
- Food That Heals
- Tasty Diet and Nutrition
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Diet & Nutrition
- 5 Element Diet and Nutrition
- A Balanced Meal Is An Energetic and Healthy Meal
- A Healthy Liver: Eating the Five Element Way
- BALANCED Beet Soup
- Balanced Diet and Nutrition - The Oriental Medicine Way
- Class Update: Movement, Meditation and Oriental Medicine
- Diet & Nutrition: The 5 Element Way
- Diet and Nutrition Workshop at BIOM
- Feeling Hungry
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
- Food That Heals
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar-invitation
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session 4
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session One
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Two
- How To Eat Salad
- HUGELing! At BIOM
- Jack O'Lantern's Post-Halloween Health Tips
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Summer Health—Our Trip To The Black Sheep Gathering
- Tasty Diet and Nutrition
- Thanksgiving ... For A Healthy Digestive System
- The Taste of Your Food Affects How You Feel
- What To Do For The Winter Yin Blues
- Your Relationship With Food: Know Thyself
- Personal Coaching
- The Four Steps
- Weight Loss
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Healthy Eating
- A Healthy Liver: Eating the Five Element Way
- Healthy Digestion and Happy Holidays
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar-invitation
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session 4
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session One
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Three
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Two
- Scallion Broth To The Rescue!
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Seasonal Health Tips
- Antibiotics: Helpful or Harmful?
- August Health Tips
- Calming Springing Nerves
- Detoxify and Tonify Your Liver
- Dog Days of Summer
- Fall Health Tips: Metal Energy and the Lungs
- Fire and Water in Summer: Dealing With Heat-Related Health Problems
- Fire Is Waning
- Food Remedies for Colds and Flu
- Get Ready for a Healthy Fire Season
- Get Ready for Spring and Surging Liver Energy
- Getting Ready for Fire Season
- How to Stay Warm
- It's Springing Up
- Jack O'Lantern's Post-Halloween Health Tips
- July Health Tips
- Kidney Health In Winter
- Mid-Summer Checkup: Heat-Related Health Problems
- New Year Health Tips
- Preventing Colds and Flu (and More)
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Spring Health Tips
- Spring Health tips
- Spring is Stirring
- Staying Healthy In Autumn
- Staying Healthy in Spring
- Stressing Health
- The Way Through
- Tips for Staying Healthy In Spring
- Valentine's Day: A Matter of the Heart (and Kidneys)
- What You Need to Know About Winter
- Winter Food Tips
- Winter Health Tips
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Fall Health Tips
- An Enlightening Interview With Jack O'Lantern
- Autumn Beach Retreat
- Autumn Equinox: The Yin Deepens
- Fall Health Tips: Lungs and Kidneys
- Fall Health Tips: Metal Energy and the Lungs
- Fall Health Tips: Your Heart
- Fall Health Tips: Your Immune System
- Fall Health Tips: Your Liver and Lungs in Autumn
- Fall Health Tips: Your Lungs
- Good Sense in Autumn
- Healthy Digestion and Happy Holidays
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- How To Protect and Strengthen Your Lungs In Autumn
- Planting a Fall-Winter-Early-Spring Garden
- Staying Healthy In Autumn
- Thanksgiving Interview With Jackie O' Lantern
- The Ant ... The Grasshopper ... and Oriental Medicine
- Weathering The Seasons: Late Summer—Early Fall
- Winter Solstice Retreat: Following Your Energy Inward
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Winter Health Tips
- A Winter Solstice Retreat
- BIOM Winter Solstice Retreat—2012
- Early Spring: Rebuilding Kidney Energy
- Getting Ready for Winter
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Three
- Kidney Health In Winter
- Staying Healthy In Winter
- The Ant ... The Grasshopper ... and Oriental Medicine
- Valentine's Day: A Matter of the Heart (and Kidneys)
- What To Do For The Winter Yin Blues
- What You Need to Know About Winter
- Winter Solstice
- Winter Solstice ~ 2013
- Year of the Wood Sheep
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Spring Health Tips
- Calm Your Spring Nerves
- Controlling Your Liver Energy
- Cultivate Kindness: Strategy For A Balanced Healthy Liver
- Detoxify and Tonify Your Liver
- Early Spring: Rebuilding Kidney Energy
- Eat Shiitake Mushrooms in Spring
- Fire Energy of Summer: Arriving Early This Year
- Get Ready for Spring and Surging Liver Energy
- Getting Well with Oriental Medicine
- Health Tips for Spring—Staying Healthy: The Oriental Medicine Way
- How To Eat Salad
- Improve Your Digestion in Springtime
- It's Springing Up
- Jumping Into Spring
- Maintaining a Healthy Relationship With The Internet
- Metal Controls Wood: The Five Elements & Your Health
- Mid-Spring Check-up—The Oriental Medicine Way
- Mid-Spring: Observations and Insights
- Spring Haiku
- Spring Health tips
- Spring is Hay Fever Season
- Staying Healthy in Spring
- Staying Healthy in Spring—The Five Element Way
- The Importance of Inspired Creativity
- The Power Of Liver Energy
- The Taste of Your Food Affects How You Feel
- The Way Through
- Tips for Staying Healthy In Spring
-
Summer Health Tips
- Fire Energy of Summer: Arriving Early This Year
- Five Steps To Creating The Life You Want To Live
- Mid-Summer Checkup: Heat-Related Health Problems
- Planting a Fall-Winter-Early-Spring Garden
- Staying Healthy in Summer
- Summer Health—Our Trip To The Black Sheep Gathering
- Summer Solstice Health Tips
- Summer Solstice: Being in Rhythm With the Season
- The Ant ... The Grasshopper ... and Oriental Medicine
- The Simple Joy of Creativity
- Weathering The Seasons: Late Summer—Early Fall
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Musings
- 2010: The Year of the 'Metal' Tiger
- 80% of Good Health is Just Showing Up
- Agate Pass Bridge Work: Delays Expected for 3 Weeks
- An Afternoon With Roger Lauen
- An Enlightening Interview With Jack O'Lantern
- Autumn Equinox: The Yin Deepens
- Being Consistent—Being Healthy
- BIOM ReTweets—Join the Conversation
- BIOM Winter Solstice Retreat—2012
- Chinese New Year: Year of the Water Snake
- Cultivate Kindness: Strategy For A Balanced Healthy Liver
- Dancing Dragon
- Five Steps To Creating The Life You Want To Live
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HUGELing! At BIOM
- Human Being
- Jack O'Lantern's Post-Halloween Health Tips
- Late Summer Haiku
- Living in Stress-filled Times
- Lunchtime With Kitty
- Meditative Breathing In Traffic
- New Year … New Beginnings … New Opportunities … New Hope
- NORTHENDIA PERMACULTURE ~ BIOM Presents ... An Afternoon With Nicole Foss
- Olympic Peninsula Fiber Farm Tour
- Planting a Fall-Winter-Early-Spring Garden
- Recent Tweets
- Return of the Magi: An After-Christmas Tale
- Revitalized Communities: For A New Society—An Evening With Nicole Foss
- Seeing the Light on the Darkest Night
- Signs of Autumn
- Tai Chi For Gardeners ~ At The Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- Tassajara Journey: A Late Summer Retreat
- Thanksgiving Interview With Jackie O' Lantern
- The Importance of Inspired Creativity
- The Night of the Iguana
- The Root of the Matter
- The Simple Joy of Creativity
- Understanding Energy ~ Inside and Out
- Winter Solstice
- Winter Solstice ~ 2013
- Year Of The Ox
- Year of the Water Dragon—2012
- Year of the Wood Horse
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Interviews
- An Afternoon With Roger Lauen
- At-a-Distance Health Consultations
- BIOM is Evolving
- NORTHENDIA PERMACULTURE ~ BIOM Presents ... An Afternoon With Nicole Foss
- Oriental Medicine: How It Works
- Preparing for a Healthy Future: An Interview
- Thanksgiving Interview With Jackie O' Lantern
- The Treat in the Treatment
- What People Say About Kitty Bradshaw at BIOM
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Podcasts
- Fall Health Tips: Lungs and Kidneys
- Fall Health Tips: Metal Energy and the Lungs
- Fall Health Tips: Your Heart
- Fall Health Tips: Your Immune System
- Fall Health Tips: Your Liver and Lungs in Autumn
- Fall Health Tips: Your Lungs
- Mid-Summer Checkup: Heat-Related Health Problems
- Revitalized Communities: For A New Society—An Evening With Nicole Foss
- Staying Healthy In Autumn
- Staying Healthy in Summer
- Staying Healthy In Winter
- The Year of the Fire Dog
- Winter to Spring: Everything Old Is New Again
- Reclaiming The Yin
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Retreats
- A Winter Solstice Retreat
- Autumn Beach Retreat
- BIOM Winter Solstice Retreat—2012
- Reflecting on a Winter Solstice Retreat
- Seasonal Retreats at BIOM
- Summer Health—Our Trip To The Black Sheep Gathering
- Tai Chi For Gardeners ~ At The Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- Tassajara Journey: A Late Summer Retreat
- The Importance of Inspired Creativity
- Winter Kaiseki: A Celebration of Yin
- Winter Retreat at BIOM (2009)
- Winter Solstice Retreat Update — Early November
- Winter Solstice Retreat Update: Plan To Benefit
- Winter Solstice Retreat: Following Your Energy Inward
- Winter Solstice ~ 2013
- Health Myths
- The Way of Tea