Village Medicine

How can we ensure our own bodies are receiving the “right” amount of sleep? In this episode, Dr. Lina Fine reveals the common misconceptions about sleep and gives her guidance on how we can return to our own natural rhythms. Lina Fine is a Neuropsychiatrist at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute and a Sleep Specialist with the Sleep Medicine Program. As a trained Neurologist, Psychiatrist, and Sleep Specialist, she applies a highly integrative approach to finding the perfect treatment for each of her patients. She applies her unique training to treating patients with complex insomnias linked to other medical conditions including cardiovascular disease and the broad range of immune conditions. Dr. Fine’s work improves the quality of her patients' daily functioning, helping to make their lives more energetic, more purposeful, and more enjoyable.

What is missing from our current healthcare system? How can we heal the practice of medicine itself? Join us as we explore these important questions and discuss: What is the future of Medicine? Dr. Carrie Rose, MD is one of the pioneering physicians in Functional Medicine, and the Founder of the Wellness Lab, a medical clinic focused on personalized lifestyle medicine and integrative wellness care. She graduated with her Medical Degree and Masters in Public Health from University of Michigan, performed her residency in Family Medicine at Swedish in Seattle, WA, and is a certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. Seeing patients of all ages, Dr. Rose combines 20 years of experience as a primary care physician with an innovative approach to integrative medicine and has a true passion for caring for patients with complex chronic diseases. Dr. Rose loves the intersection of modern and ancient technologies and uses this knowledge to help her patients achieve optimal health.

After many years of working within the confines of the broken medical system, Ryan started her independent Physical Therapy practice. In doing so, she was free to distance herself from the conventional, allopathic medical model and treat patients in the way that came naturally, with more integrative and holistic techniques. With the principles of Functional Medicine as her foundation, she uses her further education in Women’s Health, Nutrition, and Medical Therapeutic Yoga to help women, through all decades of life, navigate their ever-evolving health needs. Ryan is founder of The Well Woman Way, which she developed to offer a responsible alternative to care, based on science, service, and trust in a woman’s ability to heal. Ryan earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of Southern California. She has 10+ years of orthopedic patient care experience and extensive additional training in integrative healthcare modalities including internal pelvic assessment and treatment, postpartum care, visceral mobilization, nutrition and gut healing protocols, medical therapeutic yoga, meditation, somatics, breath work, vaginal steaming and sexual health. In her early years, Ryan had an independent clinical massage therapy practice and hands-on techniques are still a large part of her treatment programs. Ryan is an empath who is described by others as a bold, multidimensional, free spirit. Together, with her husband and 2 children, she travels between the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest and those of Nayarit, Mexico delivering high quality functional medicine. She cherishes the awe-inspiring natural beauty of these two disparate locations and feels an overwhelming sense of gratitude to be able to move between them, nurturing creative flow and fresh perspective in her practice. Check out her website here: https://thewellwomanway.com/

Broderick has dedicated his life to the process of self-realization not only for his own wellbeing, but so that he may also better serve others. His passion and calling is to aid others as an educator in the art of practicing a life well lived. He sees his role as guide to those interested in acquiring the knowledge, skills and practices that will enable them to develop the characteristics that are conducive to self-realization, wellbeing and flourishing and. A holistic approach to yoga that embraces a broad spectrum of truth claims from past to present over various traditions and disciplines is his means. He also teaches capoeira, a Brazilian dance/martial art, to which h Broderick was introduced to yoga posture practice in 2000 while a graduate student in chemical engineering at Georgia Tech. During this time he embarked on a self-discovery process, exploring ideas about who he was while undertaking significant lifestyle changes to enhance his wellbeing. He also began to lose interest in his dream to teach engineering at a university. His experimentation in healthy living kindled an interest in serving others within the health and wellness profession. To the bewilderment of his research advisor and friends, after completing his PhD, he made the difficult decision to follow his newly perceived calling and forewent a potential career as a professor of chemical engineering. From his experiments in transforming his lifestyle through alternative approaches, he took a risk, and decided to study naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA instead of conventional medical school. While at Bastyr he furthered his own growth and came to a much better understanding of the root of suffering and the path to wellbeing. During this time his interest in yoga was rekindled as a result of his curiosity in psychosomatic healing. In 2009, a year after completing his Doctorate of Natural Medicine, he went on sabbatical to study yoga asana and meditation. While on this pursuit, he realized that yoga was much more than physical practice, and that his yogic journey commenced when he began the process of self-discovery back in 1999 before he ever took a yoga asana class. Broderick went on to get his teacher training certification in 2011 from the Mt Madonna Center under the guidance of master yogi Sri Baba Hari Dass. He has since been a dedicated student, practitioner and teacher. His interest is in a holistic approach to yoga as a means for self-realization that includes physical practices, breathing exercises, meditation, philosophy and selfless service.

As a Pediatrician and Allergy & Immunology specialist with a Masters in Public Health, I have always had a deep interest in both U.S. and developing world medicine, health care, and innovation. Since 1992, I've served in South America, Asia, Africa and the Americas, engaging in volunteer medical service through service organizations such as Curamericas, International Medical Corps and Health for Humanity. I've worked in the U.S. on health access and grass roots public health programs with NICHQ, Texas Pediatric Society, and Refugees Northwest. While I am mentoring trainees in clinical medicine and public health, I also help find their place with volunteer advocacy opportunities, specifically with a special focus on pediatric obesity, injury prevention, environmental health, and international health. My training and experience in Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Relief and Wilderness Medicine, combined with my life long deep interest in Space Medicine has forged a diverse and dynamic map in my career. I'm passionate about helping trainees and health professionals activate and advocate on social media and use this valuable tool to promote health, inform the public about how to make medical decisions based on reliable information from reputable sources, and engender collaboration across disciplines. I combine treatment modalities from mainstream allopathic medicine with the best of traditional healing practices via Functional & Integrative Medicine philosophies to treat the whole person in their environment. I've been an avid yogini since my teenage years. Some years ago I noticed that I had begun using yoga poses and breathing techniques in treating my patients in the clinic setting. I might teach an athlete with an injury a therapeutic pose to relieve pressure on a joint or stretch tight muscles, or guide a teenager suffering from panic attacks through a calming pranayama breath practice and meditation. Noticing that I had begun to use yoga as a therapeutic modality prompted me to pursue training as a yoga teacher formally and I enrolled in a Hatha Teacher Training program in Viniyoga, the parent lineage of Yoga Therapy. Since graduating from that intensive 9-month-long 200-hour program in 2009, I have furthered my yoga education by training in the Kundalini tradition through Radiant Child Teacher Certification, and also by completing advanced studies in Yoga Anatomy and Alignment, as well as Pranayama and Meditation. I also became certified in Prenatal Yoga in 2014 as part of a 500-hour advanced Yoga Therapy Training program. I find yoga therapy to be an extension of my work as a healer, a tremendously rewarding experience and a wonderful opportunity to share the benefits of yoga - which I consider an ancient self-healing art. I consider it vital to immerse in nature and prescribe nature therapy as a part of healing. I love to dance, enjoy fitness and outdoor sports, exploring nature, healthy cooking and baking, and learning new languages!

Originally from Toronto, Dr. Franks received her degree in Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University. She began practicing in Renton, Washington in 2008 under one of the founders of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and is fluent in the complex interactions of hormones and the endocrine system. She served as a consulting physician for medical doctors using 24 hour urine hormone testing to monitor bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. She co-authored the article “Estriol: Its Weakness Is Its Strength” published in August 2008 by Life Extension magazine and is mentioned in Suzanne Somers’ book, Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer. She is one of few physicians in the Northwest Region, trained in breast thermography and has been using this FDA approved screening tool to help women successfully prevent breast cancer. Dr. Franks offers chelation therapy to remove heavy metals and also offers detoxification classes. She has successfully helped people with a wide variety of health issues through the combination of proven natural therapies and identifying root causes to illness: from high blood pressure, menopause, menstrual disturbances, autoimmune issues, digestive problems, high cholesterol, chronic fatigue, prostate enlargement, Meniere’s disease, fibromyalgia, cancer prevention, low thyroid and other endocrine ailments to ear infections, headaches and seasonal allergies. Dr Franks is pleased to bring her skills to the local community. Check out her website: www.droliviafranks.com

Hello Beautiful Beings, Welcome to the Village Medicine Podcast. Our sacred intention is to host a respectful and honest conversation among a diverse collective of healthcare practitioners and advocates. We explore health topics from a truly open and integrative medical approach. At Village Medicine we strive towards change-making through the collaborative arts of science, spirituality, environmentalism and community. One of the things that sets us apart is our respect for the diversity of how healing can happen. So we bring together Naturopathic Physicians, Researchers, Nurses, Spiritual Care Mentors, Medical Doctors, Osteopathic Physicians, Acupuncturists, Surgeons, Physical Therapists, Chefs and Nutritionists, Neuroscientists, Artists, Midwives, Musicians, Activists, Attorneys and Healers in the hopes of collaborating on what bring wellness. As providers in our tribe we not only advocate empowerment and informed choice around health and healing but we also strive to practice it ourselves, both inwardly and in our greater community. The providers we ask to join us in these discussions all share our mission and values with a focus on authenticity, curiosity, self-reflection and shear brilliance.