Traditional Naturopathy

 

 

I help educate on becoming a healthy you. Together we look at your diet, lifestyle, and your thoughts and how they play a part in how you’re physically and mentally feeling. Our physical bodies are designed to repair and heal. Our body always knows exactly what it is doing and why. We just need to look at how we can assist it naturally, the way we were made to be.  Our own health is our responsibility and learning to be an active participant is exciting and empowering.   Click here to read more on the history of naturopathy!

 

A health assessment, individual stretching, meditation, bodywork, energywork, and helping you to move consciously, mindfully, through your transitions are covered over a seven session series or individual sessions. 

 

The practice of naturopathy is based on six key principles:

 

1. Promote the healing power of nature.

2. First do no harm. Naturopathic practitioners choose therapies with the intent to keep harmful side effects to a minimum and not suppress symptoms.

3. Treat the whole person. Practitioners believe a person's health is affected by many factors, such as physical, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, and social ones. Practitioners consider all these factors when choosing therapies and tailor treatment to each patient. A health assessment, individual stretching, meditation, bodywork, energywork, and helping you to move consciously, mindfully, through your transitions are covered over a seven session series or individual sessions.

4. Treat the cause. Practitioners seek to identify and treat the causes of a disease or condition, rather than its symptoms. They believe that symptoms are signs that the body is trying to fight disease, adapt to it, or recover from it. Instead of prescribing, Traditional Naturopaths educate their clients, who, in turn, make their own choices. A Naturopath may teach clients about the use of various herbs and homeopathic remedies, as well as about the healing properties inherent in other foods and nutritional supplements. However, since drugs may be toxic to the body, Traditional Naturopaths do not generally believe in the use of drugs.

5. Prevention is the best cure. Practitioners teach ways of living that they consider most healthy and most likely to prevent illness.

6. The naturopath is a teacher. Practitioners consider it important to educate their patients in taking responsibility for their own health. I help educate on becoming a healthy you. Together we look at your diet, lifestyle, and your thoughts and how they play a part in how you’re physically and mentally feeling. Our physical bodies are designed to repair and heal. Our body always knows exactly what it is doing and why. We just need to look at how we can assist it naturally, the way we were made to be.  Our own health is our responsibility and learning to be an active participant is exciting and empowering.

 

 

 

The seven-session visits address the body, mind, and spirit

 

The Body-

	Looking at your diet and food intake, what’s missing, what’s excessive
	Daily stretches, observing where
	You feel stuck
	Keeping a daily wellness journal
	Incorporating an exercise plan, just for you

 

The Mind-

	Paying attention to where your thoughts are
	Positive affirmations/even if you don’t believe them
	Keeping an emotional journal

 

The Spirit-

	Daily sitting and quiet time, paying attention to your breath.
	Build a relationship with the Greater Mind within all of us that keep us going, even when we’re not paying attention.

 

Our physical bodies are merely “the tip of the iceberg” of who we really are.  Much of who we are lie beneath the surface of what can be seen, or measured.  I found that my beliefs and approach are very similar to the Seven Levels of Healing by Jeremy Geffen MD, They are as follows:

 

Level One: Education and Information

To fully relax, the mind must have a sense of confidence and clarity about what is happening. 

 

Level Two: Connection to Others

We are deeply interconnected. One must honor the need we have for love and support.

 

Level Three: The Body as Garden

Honor the body as a garden, not a machine, a sacred precious garden.  Learning to cleanse, nourish, strengthen and nurture the garden of your being.

 

Level Four: Emotional Healing

Exploring the realm of your inner experiences, the heart and feelings that accompany any illness.  Helping to uncover and release deep-seated emotions.

 

Level Five: The Nature of the Mind

Understanding how our thoughts and beliefs and the meanings we give to events influence our experience of life.  Our mind influences us on every level.

 

Level Six: Life Assessment

Looking at your most important goals, explore and clarify the deepest meaning and purpose of our lives.

 

Level Seven: The Nature of Spirit

Embracing the domain of being in life, not only doing life.  Stopping the focus of what you do and sink into appreciating beauty, magnificence, and truth of who we actually, already, are.  It is our deepest essence.

 

 

 

 

Your first two visits we learn about you.  You will be learning techniques and about your plan. The next four will be hands on sessions. The last, we will do some things together and assess your progress.   Your seven-week plan is as follows:

 

1. Initial health assessment: - 1 ½ - 2 hours

2. Follow-up:  addressing your plan and learning the meridian stretches and meditation   for stress reduction - 1 to 1 ½ hours

3. Shiatsu Bodywork session – 1 hour

4. Energywork session – including chakra work – 1 hour

5. Tissue release session – including Lympathic Drainage Technique – 1 hour

6. Cranio-Sacral session and attunement therapy – 1 hour

7. Stretching and Meditation session and your follow up plan – 1 hour

 

It would be most beneficial to do this 7 weeks in a row, but if finances and time don’t allow, do the best you can to get these as close to possible in scheduling. You can commit to yourself, for yourself. You can feel better, you will feel better, if you do the work.  It’s up to you.

 

The whole food supplements I recommend for your care are a variety of formula’s from Standard Process, www.standardprocess.com  and Innate Response formula’s from Biosan Labs, www.innateresponse.com .

Both companies use 100% organic whole food and because they are 100% organic whole food source they are completely bio-available. Please visit their website’s to learn more.