A patient of mine came in to my Washington DC acupuncture office a few months ago with chronic and severe ankle pain. One of her great loves is walking through the city daily with her husband, and also walking and hiking on her many travels. In addition, as she entered her 60s, she wanted to be sure that she was able to maintain her physical strength and mobility, and to lose and keep off the weight that had been accumulating over the past 5 years. ChiWalking I immediately thought of ChiWalking. ChiWalking and ChiRunning are written by Danny and Katherine Dreyer. Danny is ...
Unusually for me, I found myself fairly wide awake last night, around 2:45 am, and I started wondering how I was going to get back to sleep. I remembered that my mom had mentioned a book by a woman who had tried all the western and alternative cures for insomnia, and had finally found that qigong was the only thing that really helped her. I have to say that I like the title: Wide Awake: What I Learned About Sleep from Doctors, Drug Companies, Dream Experts, and a Reindeer Herder in the Arctic Circle, by Patricia Morrisroe As a ...
