ALKALINE WELLNESS BLOG
What is Missing From Your Education?
https://youtu.be/tVhislawibs I’m in the midst of witnessing my kids in cyber schools, and let me tell you, education is really overrated. As an Asian American, I come from a background and culture where education is highly valued. But today I find myself wondering, if...
Leveraging the Power of Your Mind
https://youtu.be/e7SFdzIlTiY Hey everyone, I hope you had a great Labor Day! The vacation experience feels and looks very different this year, so I've personally opted to hike the local mountain trail. Boy, was it full of people wanting the same thing, as there were...
Revolt Against the Status Quo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6YllKceS9o Hey everyone! This weekend, I spent time getting trained on transcendental meditation. I've been a wannabe meditator for a very long time, over 2 decades! While it's significantly impacted my life, the recent...
Importance of the Whole Body System in Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_f3BDOlZLw Hey Yogis! I've been teaching a lot more lately both at our wellness center as well as for our Autoimmune clients. My head is full of ideas about how to up level the practice even more. In general, the practice of Yoga has...
Core Values and Core Activation in Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrC8B9Quy6U&feature=youtu.be Hey everyone, in case you didn't know already, my name is Dr. Connie. I’m a professional student with over 20 years of clinical experience and advanced degrees in Psychology, Nutrition, Physical Therapy,...
Foundations of Functional Yoga Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzyQLwoXR4s Hey everyone! I have an insatiable curiosity that keeps me constantly looking for better and more innovative ways to do my work. I've always hated being average and striven for excellence all my life. I am becoming...
Using Breath to Bridge the Mind and Body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-TALFG3XhQ&feature=youtu.be Hey everyone. To me, Yoga is a self-healing journey to tap into your core being. Those of you who are reading this are the cream of the crop. You are committed to seeking new and better ways...
Yoga as Functional Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12E-9tuLzZ8 Greetings everyone. I hope all of you are doing well. I can barely contain the excitement for the upcoming Yoga Mastery workshop I'm hosting in our private Facebook group. It's completely free, so if you are a...
Standing for Something Greater in Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXhl9eVBL3U When I began practicing Yoga over 25 years ago, I did so with a DVD of Kathy Smith and Rod Stryker. Internet was not a thing back then. So, if I wanted to practice, I had to turn to my DVD selection. There were...
Yoga Teacher to Yoga Practitioner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDj_7SLuKIM It's been almost four months since COVID-19 shut down our business. As an owner of a wellness Yoga center, the pandemic posed a real threat to it during its closure. Now in Georgia, all Yoga centers are asked to...
Exploring the Eight Limbs of Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5X6Jl71kdU Yoga is many things to many people. The truth is that whatever Yoga serves for you at this moment is exactly what it is. Many westerners refer to Yoga as a sacred practice to aspire to. However, according to...
Benefits of Hot Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJY_2tdqH8c Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing week! During the COVID-19 crisis, I've seen close friends, family and patients become affected by this infectious virus. I marvel at how this pandemic has changed our lives....
Establishing a New Normal: Your Ideal Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6vMQjUuHJg Hey Yogis, I hope you are having a wonderful week. There’s so much going on in the world that it’s hard to keep up with all the changes. With the shelter-in-place order lifting in most parts of the world, some are venturing...
The Alkaline Method ™ Yoga Training Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3tIhy4i82c Hey everyone, I've been pondering the current events and am feeling deeply connected to humanity like never before. There's really no overcoming obstacles: we go through obstacles and transform through the...
The Importance of Focusing on Anatomy as the Foundation for a Safe Yoga Practice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuNqk-hijBk If you’re a seasoned Yogi or a seasoned Yoga teacher, you know there’s so much lacking in our industry on anatomy and alignment. In some practices, it’s "boo hoo’d" as something completely unnecessary. I’ve had world...
Use Social Distancing as a Time for Transformation
It looks like there's light at the end of this Pandemic. From the looks of things, we may be looking to come together once again sometime in May. 🙂 I'm keeping my fingers crossed so we can all find our new normal again. As we think about our current...
How to Use Meditation to Manage Your Mind During a Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQX3_8vRDGY In the midst of this pandemic, I believe it’s more important than ever to manage our minds. Our minds have the capacity to be expansive or be limited. When times are tough, we tend to contract, set limitations, and retract...
Is Coronavirus Stress Affecting Your Life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaAjKwVBBP0 For the last few days, I‘ve been reading all that I can about the impact of COVID-19, or the coronavirus. My concerns about the business, students, teachers, patients, kids, and the unknown future all converged to create...
COVID – 19 and Considerations at Alkaline Wellness
We are in the midst of an uncertain time in history.There's so much we don't know about the long term effects of COVID-19 as it affects every facet of our lives.It is with this consideration that we write to you today.We've been torn about the best action to take...
Is Ego Interfering With Your Yoga Practice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUsnuG32P7s The first pillar of the Alkaline Method™ is Anchor. Being anchored means having a firm basis or foundation. In the context of the Alkaline Method™, it requires detachment from who you think you are, the “ego”. Detachment...
Hydration Tips All Hot Yoga Students Need To Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHg4HadFg7M We know drinking water is a healthy behavior. But it’s even more important to do if you practice Hot Yoga, as we do at Alkaline Wellness. We are made up of more than 80% water so regularly hydrating is essential for...
Yoga Fundamentals for Proper Posture and Alignment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tzQxqMx3JQ In our Yoga Teacher Training, we focus on proper alignment, posture, and control through our poses. Because many of us live completely disconnected from our bodies, we don’t understand what proper alignment and posture...
Chakras and Their Effect on Self Healing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXtcVSyeZm8 We’ve all heard about chakras. But what do we really know about the truth of what chakras are? There’s a significant divide between the perception of chakras today vs how they were regarded in the Yogic history. ...
Inflammation: What is It and What Can You Do About It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UntfWemYwg I believe many of us struggle with inflammation. Aging itself is inflammatory. And all diseases, at the root, are due to inflammation. Inflammation can be sneaky. It can creep up on you slowly over time to cause...
Get the Benefits of Fasting Without Avoiding Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Muiti6HTA0 Hey everyone! Just this past weekend, I led a workshop all about fasting. But before I get down to the nitty gritty details of fasting, I believe understanding why you do what you do is much more important than blindly...
Safe Detox for Disease Reversal and Prevention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANk8BEPQ5L8 If you are like most and have a difficult time with losing weight and gaining muscle, or you have fatigue, stress, and lack of motivation, you are not alone. I believe many of us live our lives with a false sense of health....
7 Things to Know for Optimal Thyroid Health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AtkagBzl2A It seems every other patient has thyroid issues these days. Because every cell in the body has receptor sites for thyroid hormones, these hormones play an important role in our overall health. They play a central...
What Does Being Healthy Look Like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvQ60uBfJ6k Being healthy means different things to different people. But what I can tell you is that health is no longer just an absence of disease. The truth is that many of you are not “healthy”. This is so simply because we...
What is the Alkaline Method?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PccufS6Z4MM Hey everyone, I hope you are off to a great start for this new decade ahead of us. My team and I have been so excited to see all the new faces at our center and are so encouraged by the transformations taking place. It truly...
Not Just Functional Medicine, but Lifestyle Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoo6vX1Uycw As a chronic disease patient, I’ve searched East to West for holistic ways to reverse my condition. Conventional medicine proved to be a dead end. “Managing” disease was not good enough for my life. I needed ways to break...
Recalibrate Your Brain for Health and Happiness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D62-ASR2M8 We all want things in life. We want to lose weight, be fit, make more money, have successful careers, etc. But when we really tune into what we want, ultimately we all want happiness. We think we will be happier when we...
Don’t Let Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeR2t2LQCgs It’s that time when many of us begin to make resolutions for the new year. We tend to make resolutions out of habit without true commitment. We all “want” to achieve our goals. But did you know that 80% of New Year’s...
Health is an Investment, Not an Expense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSA_kKWrFm4&list=PL6sFubvxvSID-2vzTFUBD2LIyXfxoX43S&index=2&t=0s Thank you again to those of you who made it to our one year anniversary event this past weekend. It’s super exciting to get closer to the ultimate vision for...
Want to Lose Weight? Don’t Try Another Diet, Try This Instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JofyKcoNp7w&t=1s I’ve always been a health nut. Ever since I was a teenager, I knew that the secret to optimal health was a healthy body and mind. I wanted to be the epitome of health. This lead me to study Psychology,...
10 Rules to Lose Weight, Boost Energy, and Become Your Healthiest Self in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFJU2oAJiz4 As we approach the holidays, many of us start to think about our health goals for next year. I know many of you struggle with weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, and general weakness. It’s not you, it’s our...
Brain Health and ADHD Aren’t Just for Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awqewt7tOB0 Hello, Hope all of you are enjoying the cooler weather here in Suwanee, GA. For the last three weeks, we’ve been talking about brain health, as well as ADHD and its implications including: Neurotransmitter...
Brain Organization to Improve Focus
Hello! For the past couple weeks we’ve been talking about the underlying causes of ADHD. We've looked at how a holistic treatment modality, such as Interactive Metronome, can address these issues more effectively than prescription medications. Today I want to dive...
The Importance of Timing for the ADHD Brain
Hello, Last week we started a series on holistic treatment of ADHD. We discussed the neurotransmitter imbalances in various regions of the brain typically seen in children and adults with ADHD. This week we are going to discuss the functions of the brain that are...
ADHD and Neurotransmitter Imbalance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaoUXEsqVW8 ADHD affects 1 in 5 young kids and can cause major issues with interactions at home and school. Also, it affect their ability to socialize. There are millions of cells, known as neurons, densely packed into various regions...
Having a Positive Impact on Your Baby During Pregnancy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_k9YGvLbn0 Last week we discussed the physiology of pregnancy. By now you understand what a miraculous body you have and how amazing you are. The nine months of carrying your baby can be magical, but it’s also important to prime your...
Prenatal Yoga and the Physiology of Pregnancy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srx0k6epquw&list=PL6sFubvxvSID-2vzTFUBD2LIyXfxoX43S&index=120&t=0s Pregnancy is a miraculous process for women. As such, it’s so important to honor yourself and the baby during this time because you can have a huge impact...
Preventing the Mom Bod: A Series on Healthy Pregnancy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SyO_YpSXZY&t=3s Women tend to take on so many roles in their lives. From mother, daughter, wife, to friend, women play every role with so much responsibility. This often means a typical woman will gladly sacrifice her own...
Food for Thought: How to Make Lasting Lifestyle Changes
Hello again! Thank you for joining me as we wrap up our Eat to Replete blog series. If you’d like to go back and read the previous messages in this series, click the links below: Week 1: Digestion 101Week 2: Macronutrients: The Building Blocks of FoodWeek 3: Is Brain...
Is Brain Health Affected By Your Gut?
We’re in week 3 of our Eat to Replete series and so far we’ve debunked some confusion around diets by going back to the basics of nutrition and understanding how our bodies use the food we eat. If you happened to miss the previous blogs on digestion and...
Macronutrients: The Building Blocks of Food
“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” -Ayurvedic Proverb As we continue our Eat to Replete series, we are learning to move away from the dogma of “diets” and instead explore how our bodies use food for fuel. ...
Digestion 101: From Food to Fuel
This week we’re kicking off our Eat to Replete series! For the next few weeks, we’ll be focusing on some nutrition basics that will help us use food for fuel. With the amount of nutrition information found on the internet, it’s hard to know where to start if you’re...
Positive Affirmations for a Clear Body and Mind
"Clutter is not just physical. It's old ideas, toxic relationships, and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support our better self "-Eleanor Brown The human body is so amazing, and as a machine it requires regular maintenance to run...
Elimination Diet: 3 Reasons Why You Should Do It
Hi there! Leslie here again. Today I want to talk to you about 3 reasons why you should do an elimination diet. You might be wondering, what is an elimination diet? Let's discuss that first. An elimination diet is a diet in which foods that are known to cause...
Using Yoga as Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xK0qJIqmi0&list=PL6sFubvxvSID-2vzTFUBD2LIyXfxoX43S&index=118&t=0s Hey everyone! We are so excited to get back to our “normal” routine after summer. I know those of you with kids are probably feeling the same way. We’ve...
Effects of Excess Estrogen and Hormonal Imbalance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTer7d8tv2c&list=PL6sFubvxvSID-2vzTFUBD2LIyXfxoX43S&index=117&t=0s Estrogen dominance occurs when you have excess estrogen with very little progesterone to balance its effects in the body. For many women, estrogen levels...