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Ashtanga Yoga as a Practice of Structure and Regulation
Ashtanga is challenging in a very specific way. It does not shift to meet your mood. It does not change based on how much energy you have that day. The sequence stays the same. The work is to show up honestly and meet yourself where you are within that structure.
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Somatic Breathwork: A Physiological Pathway to Emotional Release
Somatic breathwork is not gentle in the way people expect it to be. It is not something you casually participate in while hoping to feel better afterward. It is real work. It asks for effort. It asks for presence. It asks you to stay when your body is doing everything it can to return to…
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Kambo: Working With Frog Medicine
Kambo is not psychoactive and it does not alter perception or cognition in the way psychedelic medicines do. Its effects are primarily physiological. The secretion from the Phyllomedusa bicolor frog contains a complex mixture of bioactive peptides, which are short chains of amino acids that interact with receptors throughout the body.
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Sensuality, Sensation, and Coming Back Into the Body
For a long time, I thought being healthy meant doing the right things. Eating well. Moving my body. Managing stress. Staying productive. Understanding myself intellectually. I was good at that part. I could analyze patterns, connect dots, and explain why I felt the way I felt. I knew the language of wellness. I knew the…
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Wim Hof: A One-Year Reflection
Once I started understanding the physiology behind the breath and the cold, everything I was experiencing stopped feeling mysterious and started feeling logical. The sensations, the calm, the clarity, even the discomfort all had explanations rooted in how the nervous system and immune system work.
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Growing, Changing, Becoming
We talk about growth as if it is something you arrive at. Like there is a moment where you finally “get it,” where you are healed enough, self aware enough, evolved enough that you stop making the same mistakes and start moving through life cleanly. But real growth does not work like that.
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My Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Journey
After years of talk therapy and coping strategies, I experienced what happens when healing reaches the nervous system itself. Ketamine opens a powerful neuroplasticity window — and that window helped me release grief, reconnect with safety, and breathe fully again. Here’s why KAP needs to be part of the future of mental health care.
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What Is the Purpose of Life?
There’s one question that I’ve returned to again and again—not out of distress or confusion, but because it’s just so damn fascinating: What is the purpose of life? It’s a question that has echoed across cultures, disciplines, and centuries—asked by philosophers, scientists, mystics, and five-year-olds alike. It’s primal, human, and deeply woven into how our…
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The Power of Pages: Why Reading to and With Children Shapes Their Minds for Life
When we think about reading to children, it’s easy to picture a cozy bedtime ritual, complete with pajamas, stuffed animals, and a stack of colorful picture books. But beneath that simple routine lies something profound: reading to and with children is one of the most powerful tools we have to support their cognitive, emotional, and…
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Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster: An Approach to Lasting Happiness
Happiness is often sold to us as a destination—something we arrive at once we’ve healed enough, achieved enough, or checked off all the right boxes. But the truth is, happiness doesn’t live at the end of the path. It lives within the ride itself.
Expanding Minds, Grounding Bodies, and Planting Roots
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