Pregnancy is a miraculous time for women. It often affords women a chance to hone skills that will assist them in labor and even more importantly throughout motherhood. Pregnancy is a time of numerous changes – body changes, emotional changes, hormonal changes – all preparation for the giant step of becoming a mother. One of the lessons that pregnancy can teach women is to go beyond themselves, sometimes for the first time considering the well-being of another before their own personal needs. Women find the strength and dedication to achieve their goals in pregnancy that they could not...

Recently while hiking one of our beautiful trails here in San Luis Obispo, it came to me how good it feels to live in my body, to feel alive and active and part of nature all at the same time. I thought about all the people I try to inspire to connect with their physical bodies so that they may feel better, resolve pain in the muscles or joints, increase their energy and shift their mind to a place of creativity and happiness.  I thought of all the people I’ve worked with over the years and how so many have asked for a magic pill, supplement or secret on how to lose weight, have energy and feel...

As many of you know, I work with many women through the different phases of life – infancy, childhood, puberty, reproductive life, peri-menopause, post menopause, the wise years….there are so many beautiful and sometimes challenging cycles to a woman’s life. Men also have their cycles though less outwardly obvious and less discussed until recent times. Men go through tremendous hormonal change through puberty, as reproductive men and then through andropause (the gradual decline of testosterone and other male hormones) into their wise years. As the years go by, I respect more and more what...