Podcasts about dong quai

In this video, I'll be sharing the most effective way I've found to work with perimenopausal symptoms using herbs and understanding your unique energetic constitution or tissue state. As a clinical herbalist, I believe that finding the right match can make all the difference. I'll introduce you to American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)—an herb every woman entering perimenopause should consider for overall vitality, along with specific dosing tips. Plus, I'll dive into the four most common tissue states that often get out of balance during this stage: Excitation, Depression, Tension, and Atrophy. I'll guide you through how to identify these states in your body and share the best herbs to help restore balance, with dosing recommendations for each. I'll also cover commonly used herbs like Black Cohosh, Hops, and Dong Quai, explaining which specific patterns they work best with and how they can support your journey through perimenopause. I keep things lighthearted and easy to understand, so you can quickly discover the herbs that will help you feel more at ease and vibrant through this transition. Product Links: Herb for All Women - American Ginseng - Panax quinquefolius - https://mountainroseherbs.com/american-ginseng-extract For Hot/Excitation Types  Milky Oat Tops Tincture - https://amzn.to/4fjafJZ  Hops Tincture - https://amzn.to/48gRhkT  Hops Capsules - https://amzn.to/3YBhNC8 For Cold/Depressed Types  Angelica (archangelica - American or sinensis - Chinese) - https://mountainroseherbs.com/angelica-extract and https://amzn.to/3Yz4dix  Black Cohosh - https://www.herbalist-alchemist.com/shop-products-bck-black-cohosh-extract For Tension Types  Blue Vervain - Verbena hastata - https://www.herbalist-alchemist.com/shop-products-bvv-blue-vervain-extract  Hops Tincture - https://amzn.to/48gRhkT For Dry/Atrophy Types  Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus) - https://mountainroseherbs.com/shatavari  Marshmallow Root - https://mountainroseherbs.com/marshmallow-root

In this episode, "Passion Potions: Herbs to Spice Up Your Sex Life," I'll share five of my favorite herbal recipes designed to ignite passion, increase libido, and enhance sensitivity and moisture. With over 20 years of teaching experience and 15 years of clinical practice, I'll guide you through the benefits of herbs like Damiana, Ginger, Cinnamon, Dong Quai, and Shatavari. Together, we'll brew a sweet, honey-infused cordial perfect for date night and a marshmallow tea blend to boost lubrication for days to come. Check out the recipes below to get started! RESOURCES ForLife Blue TeaPot and Strainer: https://amzn.to/3ZtVcsc Bulk Herbs like Damiana: https://mountainroseherbs.com/ "Herbs and Natural Supplements: An Evidence Based Guide" by Braun and Cohen: https://amzn.to/4ewBYXf "Herb of the Month: Damiana" Video: https://youtu.be/V76eFVrVt4k?feature=shared "Herb of the Month: Black Cohosh" Video: https://youtu.be/2ZfcoKxKT2Q?feature=shared Glass Mason Jars/Wide Mouth Drinking Jars: https://amzn.to/4gtZ8Pw RECIPES Passion Potion Tea 2 tbsp Damiana 1 tsp Rose 1 tsp Cinnamon chips or powder Add herbs to a teapot like this one https://amzn.to/3ZtVcsc and fill with about 2 cups of water. Steep for 15 minutes, strain and drink. Passion Potion Cordial 1/4 cup Ashwagandha 1/4 cup Shatavari 1 tbsp Licorice root (optional) 1 tbsp Ginger 1 tbsp Cinnamon 1 tbsp Angelica sinensis/Dong Quai Add herbs to a sauce pan and add 1/2 quart or 2 cups of water. Simmer covered for 1 hour until liquid is reduced to 1 cup. Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup of honey and 1/4 to 1/2 cup of brandy. Mix well and refrigerate. Passion Potion for Moisture 1/2 - 1 cup Marshmallow Root 1-2 tbsp Rose Petals 1-2 tbsp Cinnamon chips or powder Add herbs and water to a glass quart jar. Let steep for 8-10 hours. Strain and drink. You may need a few days of drinking this to feel a full moisture boost but it will happen! Passion Potion for Deep Processing Black Cohosh Tincture Damiana Tincture Angelica sinensis Tincture Take  - 3 -5 drops of each tincture before bed Passion Potion Body Oil Combine a blend of dried Shatavari Root, Chamomile Flowers, Calendula Flowers, Cinnamon, and even Ginger into a glass quart-sized mason jar, filling the jar 1/2 way with a combination of herbs. Add jojoba or sunflower oil to the top and cap. Let sit in a warm bath of water (like a crockpot) for 48 hours or sit in a dark place for 4 weeks. Strain and use for massages and as a body oil.

In the midst of the transformative journey through menopause, let's unlock the power of practical strategies to manage its symptoms. Dive into this episode where I explore essential techniques for navigating menopause with grace. From the crucial nutrients your body craves—omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, and magnesium—to the role of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds in hormone balance, I've got the key ingredients to elevate your well-being.    Discover the herbal heroes like Vitex, Dong Quai, Wild Yam, and Red Clover, and how they play a vital role in modulating hormones. Join me as we delve into the synergy of nutrition, exercise, and herbal support, uncovering actionable insights to empower your menopause journey.   Learn how to maintain muscle mass, joint health, and overall fitness during menopause through strength training, flexibility exercises, and cardiovascular workouts. Balancing different exercise types is the key to optimal results.    Understand the significance of quality sleep in managing menopause symptoms and overall well-being. From circadian rhythm training to relaxation techniques, this episode is packed with practical tips to enhance your sleep hygiene.    Prioritize your well-being, embrace menopause with grace, and tune in to discover the actionable strategies that can truly make a difference in your menopause experience.   And here's a little extra for you: Unlock the secrets to better sleep after 40 with my FREE E-book, "A Woman's Guide to Kick-Ass Sleep." Tailored for those over 40, visit sleep.hormoneshelp.com to grab your copy and enjoy restful nights. Plus, if you've been feeling off lately, take my FREE Hormone Quiz at quiz.hormoneshelp.com. Discover your personalized hormone imbalance and reclaim the joy of feeling like yourself again. It's time to prioritize your well-being and thrive in this transformative season of life. Key Takeaways: [00:02:11] Dietary changes for menopausal symptoms. [00:04:27] Inflammation and Omega-3 Benefits. [00:09:49] High Fiber benefits. [00:12:40] Phytoestrogens and hormone modulation. [00:17:25] Herbal remedy Dong Quai. [00:19:30] Menopausal relief with phytoestrogens. [00:24:28] Impact of exercise on menopause. [00:26:14] Weight training benefits and tips. [00:30:39] High-intensity interval training benefits. [00:33:39] Collagen and tendon injury. [00:39:37] Protecting sleep during menopause. [00:41:42] Body temperature control. [00:46:35] Importance of quality sleep.   Memorable Quotes: "I look for what's the commonality, instead of trying to divide, what's the commonality in all of these diets that generally support health? And so generally, all these diets, whether it's paleo, whether it's Mediterranean, or whatever it is, support the intake of fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds in their whole form." – Betty Murray   "One of the greatest risks for all-cause mortality and early mortality, and particularly mortality after a fracture, is the lack of muscle mass. Not just bone mass, but muscle mass. So, if we were to look at one of the most important longevity strategies a woman can do, muscle mass is important." – Betty Murray Links Mentioned: FREE E-Book: https://sleep.hormoneshelp.com/ FREE Quiz: https://quiz.hormoneshelp.com/ Connect with Betty Murray: Living Well Dallas Website: https://www.livingwelldallas.com/ Hormone Reset Website: https://hormonereset.net/ Betty Murray Website: https://www.bettymurray.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BettyAMurrayCN/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bettymurray_phd/

In the midst of the transformative journey through menopause, let's unlock the power of practical strategies to manage its symptoms. Dive into this episode where I explore essential techniques for navigating menopause with grace. From the crucial nutrients your body craves—omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, and magnesium—to the role of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds in hormone balance, I've got the key ingredients to elevate your well-being.    Discover the herbal heroes like Vitex, Dong Quai, Wild Yam, and Red Clover, and how they play a vital role in modulating hormones. Join me as we delve into the synergy of nutrition, exercise, and herbal support, uncovering actionable insights to empower your menopause journey.   Learn how to maintain muscle mass, joint health, and overall fitness during menopause through strength training, flexibility exercises, and cardiovascular workouts. Balancing different exercise types is the key to optimal results.    Understand the significance of quality sleep in managing menopause symptoms and overall well-being. From circadian rhythm training to relaxation techniques, this episode is packed with practical tips to enhance your sleep hygiene.    Prioritize your well-being, embrace menopause with grace, and tune in to discover the actionable strategies that can truly make a difference in your menopause experience.   And here's a little extra for you: Unlock the secrets to better sleep after 40 with my FREE E-book, "A Woman's Guide to Kick-Ass Sleep." Tailored for those over 40, visit sleep.hormoneshelp.com to grab your copy and enjoy restful nights. Plus, if you've been feeling off lately, take my FREE Hormone Quiz at quiz.hormoneshelp.com. Discover your personalized hormone imbalance and reclaim the joy of feeling like yourself again. It's time to prioritize your well-being and thrive in this transformative season of life. Key Takeaways: [00:02:11] Dietary changes for menopausal symptoms. [00:04:27] Inflammation and Omega-3 Benefits. [00:09:49] High Fiber benefits. [00:12:40] Phytoestrogens and hormone modulation. [00:17:25] Herbal remedy Dong Quai. [00:19:30] Menopausal relief with phytoestrogens. [00:24:28] Impact of exercise on menopause. [00:26:14] Weight training benefits and tips. [00:30:39] High-intensity interval training benefits. [00:33:39] Collagen and tendon injury. [00:39:37] Protecting sleep during menopause. [00:41:42] Body temperature control. [00:46:35] Importance of quality sleep.   Memorable Quotes: "I look for what's the commonality, instead of trying to divide, what's the commonality in all of these diets that generally support health? And so generally, all these diets, whether it's paleo, whether it's Mediterranean, or whatever it is, support the intake of fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds in their whole form." – Betty Murray   "One of the greatest risks for all-cause mortality and early mortality, and particularly mortality after a fracture, is the lack of muscle mass. Not just bone mass, but muscle mass. So, if we were to look at one of the most important longevity strategies a woman can do, muscle mass is important." – Betty Murray Links Mentioned: FREE E-Book: https://sleep.hormoneshelp.com/ FREE Quiz: https://quiz.hormoneshelp.com/ Connect with Betty Murray: Living Well Dallas Website: https://www.livingwelldallas.com/ Hormone Reset Website: https://hormonereset.net/ Betty Murray Website: https://www.bettymurray.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BettyAMurrayCN/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bettymurray_phd/

Let's raise awareness for hormonal fluctuations in the lives of women that make us cyclical beings, but let's not normalize period pain and PMS, because for those we have effective and safe herbal remedies! Let's talk about Vitex (Agnus Castus), Shatavari, and Dong Quai as hormonal regulators, but also liver herbs to reduce the effects of toxic estrogen metabolites like milk thistle seeds and supplements like DIM and sulforaphane, and also really important, our gut microbiome/estrobolome, which we can improve by eating a fiber-rich diet and taking probiotics if necessary. For period cramps we have herbs to regulate blood and circulation, and to lower inflammation, like hawthorn berries and rosehips! And of course, calming herbs and nervines like chamomile, hops, valerian, and adaptogens to support our mood and stress response like Rhodiola and Ashwagandha. No one has to keep suffering from PMS and period cramps! If you need my personal help to resolve your health imbalances, I'm here for you! Send me a message through the contact form on my website: ⁠⁠⁠www.herbalhelp.net⁠⁠⁠ Or click on my calendar ⁠⁠⁠to book a free 20-minute call⁠⁠⁠ to find out if you would like to book health consultations and how this would work. I am a professional, clinical Herbalist registered with the American Herbalists Guild and would love to give you personalized help! Sign up for the ⁠⁠⁠Herbal Inspiration Membership on Ko-Fi⁠⁠⁠ and get access to over 20 of my herbal videos, classes, and herbal case studies! A lot of great material to help you learn and deepen your understanding of medicinal herbs and empower you to use herbs in a safe and effective way! Topics of pre-recorded classes are Herbs for the Nervous System, Medicinal Mushrooms, Immune Support, Hormonal Balance, Herbs for the Brain, Ayurveda, Herbal Oils, and more! Your monthly or one-time contribution through the Ko-Fi membership https://ko-fi.com/tamaraherbalist supports the creation of this podcast and of my YouTube Channel! Thank you! Check out the new videos on my YouTube Channel! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Herbal Help by Tamara⁠⁠⁠ Follow me on Instagram: ⁠herbal.help⁠ Join my ⁠free herbal channel on Telegram!⁠  You just have to download and set up the Telegram App on your phone first (it's easy!), then ⁠click this link to join my channel.⁠ This show is meant for educational purposes only. This is not health advice. Please send me a message through the ⁠contact form on my website⁠.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downtoearthherbalism/message

The herbs I take every day vary with time and the seasons but these are some of the herbs that I'm currently taking every day: medicinal Mushrooms like Cordyceps, Reishi and Lion's Mane, Dong Quai and He Shou Wu, two pretty amazing herbs from Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guggul, Aloe gel, Ashwagandha and Nutmeg (widely used in Ayurveda), and now in summer for its refreshing properties: Hibiscus cold-infusions with green Stevia leaf! Not to forget my digestive herbs, Fennel, Anise, Flaxseed, and Triphala or Haritaki! I will explain why and how I take these herbs and hopefully inspire you to take your herbs on a daily basis! Not sure which herbs would be good for you to take, on a daily basis? Would you like to work with me one-on-one and book your Online Health Consultation? Send me a message through the contact form on my website: ⁠www.herbalhelp.net⁠ Or click on my calendar ⁠to book a free 20 min call⁠ to get your questions answered directly or just for a meet and greet! I am a professional, clinical Herbalist registered with the American Herbalists Guild and would love to give you personalized help! Check out the new videos on my YouTube Channel! ⁠Herbal Help by Tamara Would you like to learn more? Join the classes! Upcoming topics are Ayurvedic Herbs, Chinese Herbs, and how to use and make herbal-infused oils! If you sign up for the ⁠Herb Student Membership on Ko-Fi⁠ you will get the Zoom link to upcoming classes, and you will immediately unlock the video recordings of 20plus of my herbal videos, classes, and herbal case studies! A lot of great material to help you learn and deepen your understanding of medicinal herbs and empower you to use herbs in a safe and effective way! Topics of past classes are Herbs for the Nervous System, Medicinal Mushrooms, Immune Support, Hormonal Balance, Herbs for the Brain, and more! I'm looking forward to being with you! Classes include a Q&A part with me, to answer all of your herbal questions, and to share which herbs you are taking and your experience with them so students can learn from each other in a classroom setting. We are a really lovely group of people from different parts of the world and would love to welcome you! Follow me on Instagram: herbal.help Come and join the monthly herbal online classes!  Join my free herbal channel on Telegram!  You just have to download and set up the Telegram App on your phone first (it's easy!), then click this link to join my channel. This show is meant for educational purposes only. This is not health advice. Please send me a message through the contact form on my website.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downtoearthherbalism/message

In this episode we discuss simple tips to deal with PMS and PMDD. ***PMS Herbal Supplements I use: 1. Cell-U-Loss: Helps support healthy water elimination 2. Tang Kuei Plus: Formulated with Dong Quai root which is used for PMS support. Purchase on my Herbalife link 3. Traditional Medicinals Organic Raspberry Leaf tea. Can be bought at target or any grocery store Verse for this episode: Proverbs 4:6-7 Connect with me on IG: @faithxfitnesspod                                           @iamchacha.fxf Email: chanera@faithxfitness.com

Audiovortrag zum Thema Dong_Quai Simple und komplexe Fakten und Meinungen rund um dieses Thema aus dem Yoga Blickwinkel von Sukadev, dem Gründer des gemeinnützigen Vereines Yoga Vidya e.V. Dieser Audiovortrag ist eine Ausgabe des Naturheilkunde Podcast. Er ist ursprünglich aufgenommen als Diktat für einen Lexikonbeitrag im Yoga Wiki Bewusst Leben Lexikon. Zum ganzheitlichen Yoga kann man auch die Theorie von Karma und Reinkarnation dazu zählen. In Ayurveda Ausbildungen erfährst du mehr zum Thema Gesundheit und Prävention. Vielleicht magst du ja deine Gedanken dazu in die Kommentare schreiben. Anmerkung: Gesundheitliche Informationen in diesem Podcast sind nicht gedacht für Selbstdiagnose und Selbstbehandlung, sondern Gedankenanstöße. Bei eigener Erkrankung brauchst du einen Arzt oder Heilpraktiker. Hier findest du: Seminare mit Sukadev Seminarübersicht Yoga Vidya YouTube Live Kanal Online Seminare Video Seminare Yoga Vidya kostenlose App Yoga Vidya Newsletter Unseren Online Shop Schon ein kleiner Beitrag kann viel bewegen... Spende an Yoga Vidya e.V.!

Audiovortrag zum Thema Dong_Quai Simple und komplexe Fakten und Meinungen rund um dieses Thema aus dem Yoga Blickwinkel von Sukadev, dem Gründer des gemeinnützigen Vereines Yoga Vidya e.V. Dieser Audiovortrag ist eine Ausgabe des Naturheilkunde Podcast. Er ist ursprünglich aufgenommen als Diktat für einen Lexikonbeitrag im Yoga Wiki Bewusst Leben Lexikon. Zum ganzheitlichen Yoga kann man auch die Theorie von Karma und Reinkarnation dazu zählen. In Ayurveda Ausbildungen erfährst du mehr zum Thema Gesundheit und Prävention. Vielleicht magst du ja deine Gedanken dazu in die Kommentare schreiben. Anmerkung: Gesundheitliche Informationen in diesem Podcast sind nicht gedacht für Selbstdiagnose und Selbstbehandlung, sondern Gedankenanstöße. Bei eigener Erkrankung brauchst du einen Arzt oder Heilpraktiker. Hier findest du: Seminare mit Sukadev Seminarübersicht Yoga Vidya YouTube Live Kanal Online Seminare Video Seminare Yoga Vidya kostenlose App Yoga Vidya Newsletter Unseren Online Shop Schon ein kleiner Beitrag kann viel bewegen... Spende an Yoga Vidya e.V.!

The inhabitation of a spirt in the form of a human body is a most exquisite pairing. The body, comprised mostly of water, reflects the changes and new energy that we encounter as spirit. The body and spirit meet at the heart center, where the blood (water) of the body is healed. I start by clearly speaking my devotion and love for humanity and Earth. I perceive, from a place of deep knowing that the present injection that many people are willingly and forcibly receiving is a heinous atrocity to the human body, a poisoning of the waters. I invite you to join a reading and healing with the spirit of Dong Quai. I share what I see and encourage your personal experience. How though can we create a vessel for ourselves to exist in pure spirit form? In a world filled with toxins this can be overwhelming. I encourage a level of what I call "havingness" or being OK with some level of toxic exposure because it is nearly impossible to completely avoid at present.  How can we create for ourselves pure food and water, nourishment and fulfillment in our bodies? I speak on the healing that a traditional diet can provide as well as the sourcing for water. How can we enhance our connection to nature? How does nature heal the waters of our bodies? This is my life path. Can we be fulfilled, happy, even exuberant on our paths without having a "job"? How does this relate to purifying the vessel for you to create as spirit and how can we re-frame the idea of a "job"? Community and spiritual practice are essential to the flow of a spirit in body form. Many whom I speak to notice a difference in the way I present spiritual practice. I explain this a bit and share the energetic explanation for what I teach. Being in touch with one's spiritual direction provides the path for their energy to flow. I provide some practice you can use to encourage this energy of flow in your life. Finally: a few notes on the Psychic Herbalism Clairvoyant Program and growing organically. I invite you to share this with someone you believe it will resonate. This is part of the organic growth process. 

In this episode, we review some of the most studied integrative therapies for the woman who is struggling with menopause symptoms (which is 80% of us!).  We review the benefits or the not-so-benefits of: 1. Hypnosis 2. Yoga 3. Aromatherapy 4. Black Cohosh 5. Wild Yam 6. Dong Quai 7. Maca 8. Evening primrose oil 9. Phytoestrogens - Flaxseed Share it with a friend who you know has been complaining of menopausal symptoms, whether it be hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue, depression, anxiety, sleep disorder, etc... Shownotes HERE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Our Manifestation 4-Step Hypnosis Recordings is Still Available on Our Website for a Limited Time You can sign up here! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't forget to check out our social media, FOLLOW and leave us a comment! 1. Instagram @Health_Is_PowHer 2. Facebook  3. Pinterest ------------------------------------------------------------------ We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do, please SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW So you can help us increase our reach to help more women awaken their best selves, have more energy, and live the life they dreamed of while healing and recovering from any pain and health issues! ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Health Is PowHer wellness coaching members club has launched! We'd love to have you and if you're interested in awakening your best self, having more energy, and living the life to your full health potential, and are determined to feel better then check us out with the link below! https://healthispowher.com/health-is-powher-members-club/

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The three main issues to address in endometriosis is inflammation, immune response and hormonal imbalance. All these three affect fertility and can create a hostile environment reducing chances of ovulation, fertilisation and implantation. In this episode, I outline the best methods to track your fertility, introduce an anti-inflammatory diet plus natural products to relieve pain, support the immune system and balance hormones. Links Book a consultation Vitex and Eleuthero- hormone support and pain relief Dong Quai- pelvic pain and anaemia Tribulus- fertility tonic supporting ovulation Adaptogen- Vitality Blend Article: How Your Body Chooses Survival over Fertility ******************************************************************** Wombman Wellness is a pursuit of women's health and wellbeing. It's about helping women take control of their lives and teaching them how to heal themselves.For more information consultations, coaching and products visit our website. Follow us on Instagram @wombmanwellness You can tune in to this podcast via Apple Podcast, Spotify, Anchor.fm, and Google Podcast and other platforms. Click here. Don’t forget to rate and review after you listen! . . . Disclaimer: All information provided here is for education purposes only and should not be substituted for medical advice from your health care physician. The products promoted are not intended to diagnose, prevent or cure any disease. If a condition persists please contact your primary health care physician or health practitioner.

These are my personal practices and tips for womb healing and menstruation support. This was a YouTube video that I've converted into a podcast episode for you... recorded 2 weeks BEFORE I got my period back!!!I share a little here about my journey through amenorrhea, leading to a deep womb connection. Here I share what I personally do to support my womb health and connection, emotionally, energetically, and physically. For your references, here are the links and list of recommendations:- Dancing - Painting - Talking to her - Meditations (Hz, subliminal, guided on YouTube)- Massage (belly massage esp.)- Yoni Egg & Yoni Wand - Moon Cup (when I do bleed)- Ashitaba (green leaf) tea- DONG QUAI (which I just started taking that day & feel was a BIG PART of why I finally did bleed 2 weeks after recording this).- Blood building foods (Daily dragonfruit)- Lots of fruit in general & more food + less exercise- Belly massage - Yoni Steaming Herbs: https://bit.ly/37yMR7M- MycoBotanicals Mushroom Herbs from Host Defense: https://hostdefense.com/products/woman- Yin Love Tonic: https://medicinal-foods.com/shop/yin-love-herbal-tonic-female-hormone-balance/    /// Claiming Feminine is a podcast dedicated to women exploring their power, passion & purpose in the world through honoring your masculine side, whilst harnessing your feminine. This isn’t a regular ‘feminine energy’ podcast. This is for the grounded woman, looking to connect more to her feminine side, whilst being in the real-world & maintaining her roles as a boss-lady, playful & passionate partner, & most importantly, a unique individual woman.I’ll be having juicy chats to you about all things LIFE, especially how us women who DO IT ALL, can maintain a sense of balance, and find lightness & play even as we navigate the spiritual world of ‘inner-work.’I interview inspiring women who have been through their own challenges & come out the other side to create incredible things in the world. This is for any woman who has ever struggled with over-controlling, over-thinking, and over-giving to the point of feeling dull, exhausted, & completely confused at why she’s -‘off-track’Let’s explore the delicious ways we can tap back into our feminine essence to get back to our creative, inspired & vibrant side.My mission is this: To spark insight & remembrance of your own power, where you feel more confident to speak up for yourself, step up to your dreams, set boundaries from your heart, let go of what you don’t need, flow & surrender to life, & feel buzzing with vibrant & sparkly energy from the inside out. Because that is what happens when you CLAIM YOUR FEMININE. So, let us begin. /// If you vibe with this podcast, please share, rate & review so more women like you can receive these messages! Find me on:IG: @shae_claimingfemininehttps://www.instagram.com/shae_claimingfeminine/YouTube: Claiming Femininehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A7EWVNURmb5Nsg0Tu3sPwFB: Claiming Feminine with Shaehttps://www.facebook.com/claimingfeminine/WEBSITE:https://www.claimingfeminine.com/ 

Mason Taylor and Tahnee McCrossin; the King and Queen of SuperFeast, join forces on the pod today to bring us a beautiful conversation around the healing art of Chi Nei Tsang. Chi Nei Tsang is the ancient form of massage practiced in the Taoist healing system. Chi Nei Tsang is used to detoxify and energise the body's organ systems via the release of stagnant Qi. Chi Nei Tsang is performed primarily on the abdominal region however the technique is a full body practice. Tahnee shares her personal healing journey with the practice both as a student and Chi  Nei Tsang practitioner, outlining the methods you can use at home to encourage the smooth flow of Qi throughout the body as a whole.    Tahnee and Mason discuss: Tahnee's healing journey with Chi Nei Tsang. Chi Nei Tsang as a healing art. The core philosophy of Chi Nei Tsang. Integration and congruency as an integral part of personal evolution. Tonic herbs as vessels for change. Health sovereignty and home based health care. The energetic personality of the body's organs. The value of rest and listening to your body's wisdom.   Who are Mason Taylor and Tahnee McCrossin? Mason Taylor: Mason’s energy and intent for a long and happy life is infectious. A health educator at heart, he continues to pioneer the way for potent health and a robust personal practice. An avid sharer, connector, inspirer and philosophiser, Mason wakes up with a smile on his face, knowing that tonic herbs are changing lives. Mason is also the SuperFeast founder, daddy to Aiya and partner to Tahnee (General Manager at SuperFeast). Tahnee McCrossin: Tahnee is a self proclaimed nerd, with a love of the human body, it’s language and its stories. A cup of tonic tea and a human interaction with Tahnee is a gift! A beautiful Yin Yoga teacher and Chi Ne Tsang practitioner, Tahnee loves going head first into the realms of tradition, yogic philosophy, the organ systems, herbalism and hard-hitting research. Tahnee is the General Manager at SuperFeast, mumma to reishi-baby Aiya and partner to Mason (founder of SuperFeast).   Resources: Nourishing Her Yin Event Video (The Chi Nei Tsang portion of the chat starts around the 38:45min mark) Mantak Chia Website Mantak Chia Self Massage Book Mantak Chia Chi Nei Tsang Book Dan Keown   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here: Mason:   (00:01) Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. I'm sitting here with my lovely Tahnee.   Tahnee:   (00:07) Hi.   Mason:  (00:08) So Tahnee, as many of you know, is SuperFeast mumma, my baby mumma. And well, one thing we haven't been doing as much as we'd like because Tahnee is running SuperFeast and teaching yoga and getting ready for yoga teacher trainings and doing all kinds of things while we raise our little human, and our dog as well that we have now.   Mason:  (00:34) One of the things we haven't done as much is sit down and jam on the podcast, but we've really worked hard to be able to carve time for that as we focus more and more and more on the educational piece. Now, as you guys know, when it comes to SuperFeast, we're really rock and hard on these Daoist Tahnee herbs and in talking about them and educating and taking them in that frame of sovereign health and taking responsibility for our own health.   Mason:  (01:04) And that is why also we educate about many, many other things, not just herbs. And today, we're going to be kind of revolving around organ health and that companion to herbalism, which is massage and self-massage, and we're going to say where it goes. Tahnee studied Chi Nei Tsang Daoist abdominal massage. As we were just saying, it's designed to be a self administered healing art. Right?   Mason:  (01:35) Again, something we work with herbalism. Everyone knows our herbs. You need to go to a practitioner to get herbs. I can't possibly figure out what herbs to take, especially when you see really institutionalized Chinese medicine, it's very like this paranoia around herbs. You might as well not eat any food because every bit of food that you eat is going to have an energetic impact on your body. That's like extreme institutionalization.   Mason:  (01:58) But massage can be like that as well, just a subconscious, “Hey, I got to go and see a masseuse in order to get my healing.” But one thing we're going to dive in today with Tahns is how we can bring that into our own lives. So why don't you … I know roughly, but why did you choose to go and do Chi Nei Tsang massage out of everything you could have been doing?   Tahnee:   (02:23) You remember me having a crisis of faith before I went in to that?   Mason:  (02:26) Yeah.   Tahnee:   (02:28) I had an eating disorder growing up was why, and I kind of hated my tummy, not even just physically, but I just always felt like all of my health problems came from there. It was always bloating or gurgling or not digesting something or there was pain or there was just weird sensations. And I just felt like it was this kind of mysterious land in the middle of my body.   Tahnee:  (02:59) And so much of my practice, up until that point, had been on the anatomy of the muscles and the tendons and the bones. And yoga is very physical, but we don't talk a whole lot about the organs per se. It sort of gets mentioned. You've done yoga training as well. You know it's like, “Yeah, this is good for your organ health,” but doesn't … in terms of really the unique characteristics of the organs, their personalities, their functions.   Tahnee:  (03:27) I'd studied Chinese medicine a little bit at that point, so I kind of knew that there was some interesting stuff there, but I hadn't really gone deep into it. So I don't even remember how I heard about Chi Nei Tsang. I think it was on the internet somewhere and I just had this weird feeling like, “Oh my God, I have to study that.” And it made absolutely no sense. I'd never received one. I'd never seen it done.   Tahnee:  (03:51) It was literally like … I believe in writing maybe in a blog post or something. And it kind of coincided with me being about to travel and a few things kind of happened. I think I was traveling like the next year or something. Anyway, I looked up who invented this thing and where it came from and I found Master Mantak Chia, who was kind of teaching it in Thailand and that he'd revived this lineage, which got lost in China after Chairman Mao kicked out all the healers and philosophers and artists and intelligent folks.   Tahnee:  (04:24) That's a bit of a broad stroke, but a lot of people had to leave China around that time. And so in Thailand, one of the remaining masters of this art survived and my teacher met him. This man saved his uncle's life and so he was curious about studying it, so he basically apprenticed himself to this guy for a few years.   Mason:  (04:44) That guy was Mantak's uncle, you said? That was insane. It was like three days with the deepest kidney disease, was that right?   Tahnee:  (04:51) Yeah. So apparently in Thailand, if you get unwell, they don't want your death on their records because it reflects poorly on their funding and stuff. It's like the more people that die in the hospital, the worst funding they get, sort of thing, or they get investigated or something. So basically, the doctors apparently told this guy he had to go home and die because they couldn't do anything for him.   Tahnee:  (05:12) He had kidney disease and it was so far along that it was just done. And Master Chia's family had heard of this guy and they contacted him. He was in Bangkok. So they traveled to Bangkok and took the uncle there. And apparently, he had three days of excruciating treatment, which from what I understand, and hopefully if anyone knows better than me, they can let me know, but I'm pretty sure it was like 12 hour days of massage and this man was screaming in pain.   Tahnee:  (05:40) It was apparently incredibly painful, but the healer was able to free whatever was causing the problem probably on a multidimensional level. And yeah, he walked out of there three days later, fine and lived a long, happy life as far as I'm aware. So Master Chia was so impressed. And this is a guy that traveled back to Hong Kong as a teenager to start studying Daoist healing.   Tahnee:  (06:06) He had a master who … he used to work to preserve his life and he was very much au fait with the whole canon of healing tradition that came out of the Daoist philosophy and he was just so impressed with this. He was like, “I have to keep this alive.” So yes, he basically studied with this guy. I think he was an apprentice for a couple of years and then kind of his peer.   Tahnee:  (06:29) He worked alongside him for a while and then he basically systemized what is now Chi Nei Tsang. So there's a few places you can study it around the world. Thailand tends to have a bit of a hotspot of it. And then in The States as well, it's more common. It's not really well known in Australia and certainly when I first google at … I don't even know if I spelled it properly and I couldn't really work out.   Tahnee:  (06:51) There was nobody I could find to give me Chi Nei Tsang. Anyway, I ended up going traveling and in Guatemala, I received one from a woman at a little town off San Marcos, La Laguna. That's where I was. Lago de Atitlan was the lake and she gave me one and I remember going home and I felt like shit and I cried. I think I was very resistant to it. I was like, “Yuk.”   Mason:  (07:19) It's like when you discovered … whenever you find something that ultimately becomes a love … I don't think it with me, but you hide it. That was the same with doing, yin yoga, right? You absolutely hated it.   Tahnee:  (07:31) I think I have a really strong resistance to what's good for me probably. I think I'm really confronted sometimes by the depth of my own suffering like how shitty I can feel through my own self and Chi Nei Tsang really highlighted for me how much stuff was stored in my body that I was just ignoring. So I think there's this part of me, this maybe more intelligent part of me that knows it's good for me and then there's this other part of me that has a toddler tantrum about the situation.   Tahnee:  (08:02) So I had my toddler tantrum, decided I was never going to do that again. Then I ended up somewhere else in Thailand at the sanctuary, which is this like a resort. And there was a guy there doing Chi Nei Tsang as well, and it was a completely different experience with him. And I wouldn't really say I enjoyed that either, but it was more just … I didn't enjoy the therapeutic relationship.   Tahnee:  (08:24) I felt it just wasn't something that I enjoyed. It didn't really do anything for me compared to the first one, which obviously moved a lot of stuff. I found it to be quite kind of superficial and I was like, “Oh, okaymaybe I'm wrong about this whole thing.” So that, I was in traveling through Thailand on my way to this training. So I was kind of having a lot of doubts.   Tahnee:  (08:54) And then I obviously spoke to you, I think you were back in Australia and I was in Chiang Mai and I was going, “Oh my God, what am I doing? I'm about to spend $4,000 on this training with this guy I've never met, with this thing I'm not even sure I like.” And like I guess my gut, funnily enough, drew me to it and … yeah, I decided to go and I was very, very ill when I arrived. I'd very stupidly eaten some fruit off of the ground in Thailand.   Tahnee:  (09:24) And would you believe I got sick? And it was probably the worst gastro I've ever had ever or could even imagine, lying in a toilet … Oh sorry, lying in the shower with the shower, running just pooing because I couldn't get to the toilet. It was so bad. And that went on for three or four days. I was supposed to get there early and enjoy the grounds and do some practice and spend the whole time pooping.   Tahnee:  (09:47) And the cute little staff were bringing me soup and trying to look after me and I just couldn't handle life. And I met Mantak Chia the night before we were supposed to star and he said to me, “Tahnee, you need to go to the hospital.” I said, “No, Master Chia, I want to do your training.” And he was like, “Well, my advice would be you need to go to hospital. You're very sick.” And I said, “Yeah, I know, but I want to stay.”   Tahnee:  (10:05) And he said, “Okay, well. Then we'll take care of you.” And yeah, within three days, I felt amazing having like … I was being practiced on every day. It was a really great group. They all looked after me for the first week while I was healing and the second week, I just felt amazing. So yeah, it just was really proof in the pudding, I guess, of how effective it was. And just … yeah, it's such a beautiful thing.   Tahnee:  (10:29) I think so many of us are so vulnerable with our tummies and we don't like being touched there. And even within our love making, a lot of us are sensitive to having our tummies touched and played with and I think it's something now as we evolve as a culture, it's really useful to start to think about, “Well, what's going on there?” And that's what's so interesting about the Daoist perception. It's that it's not the brain that thinks and creates thought and emotion.   Tahnee:  (10:57) It's the organs. The Heart receives everything that comes through and then it filters it out to the different organs of the body. And so anything that's stressful, the Liver is going to deal with. So that can manifest into anger and irritability, but just any kind of a stress. Any fear is going to come through the Kidneys, any thought, analyzing, thinking and that can turn into anxiety and worry that comes through the Spleen.   Tahnee:  (11:23) The Heart receives joy, but too much joy, excess joy can injure the Heart. I think I've missed one. The Lungs. The Lungs kind of perceive our grief, but also that bittersweet beauty of life. So there's this really … working with those as archetypes, I think it's a really powerful way of starting to live because you're out of your head and you're down in your belly.   Tahnee:  (11:47) You're not just perceiving with … even like in spiritual traditions, it's like, “just feel with the heart,” and it's like, “well, no. That's not enough.” There's different seats of consciousness in the body and when we look at it through this lens, it really aligns a lot with yogic thought as well. And when we look at where the energy of the organs manifest from, it manifests from the chakra, from the multidimensional body, but that's kind of a more complicated story.   Tahnee:  (12:13) But we're looking at this really kind of … we're looking at the organism being a powerful receiver and transmitter of thought energy and emotion as well as an alchemizer of physical compounds. You can put something into the digestive system and it can be alchemized into Blood and bone and transport it out to the Liver and the Kidneys and moved around. We can breathe through the Lungs and that becomes this fuel that fires our entire body, our metabolism.   Tahnee:  (12:44) That's just, to me, some real mystical shit right there. Science can talk about these things, but it can't really explain them. And when you look at what Daoist practice is all about, it's about alchemy. It's about how do I take these kind of gross material things and transform them into something more? How do I be a physical body and at the same time be a spiritual being?   Tahnee:  (13:06) And how do I have enough strength and enough capacity in my energy that I can hold that spirit in me? And it'll not just be this idea or this concept, but actually an embodied experience. So, yeah. So Chi Nei Tsang opened up that a lot more for me, I think. I think yoga had started that process and I think I just … Obviously, having had an eating disorder and having had digestive stuff through my life, it made me realize you literally digest your entire life.   Tahnee:  (13:36) It's not just food, it's thoughts and feelings. And so I started to realize, yeah, I wasn't digesting my life fully. There was some work around that for sure. It wasn't an easy process, but worthwhile.   Mason:  (13:51) So the Chi Nei Tsang is speeding up the emotional or energetic processes around that?   Tahnee:  (13:57) You've heard it. Like you touch someone's organ and suddenly, they're in tears and it's like, “ well what happened?" You know? And it's like acupuncture, it's like herbalism. It's like therapy or any of these things. Part of it it's the practitioner's Qi, so the ability of the practitioner to facilitate and transmit energy so that the person's body can respond. And it's partly the person, it's the individual. And I think what I love about Chi Nei Tsang and Master Chia is it's all about self healing.   Tahnee:  (14:32) It's not about someone else doing that healing for you. So I don't heal anybody when they come on my table, but I can facilitate what maybe needs to move for them to release the blockage to healing. So yeah, I might touch someone and they might cry, and to me, that's a positive thing because their energy that was blocked is now moving and all that energy wants to do is move.   Tahnee:  (14:54) That's... Health is movement, is flow. Anytime we have a blockage to movement of Qi, of energy, we're in trouble. That's what all bad things in the body are, tumors, injuries, any kind of inflammation, anything like that, it creates a blockage to flow. So when we start to move that, then we get a chance to get fresh blood into that space, fresh energy into that space, nutrients that are required for healing.   Tahnee:  (15:23) So the touch part of it is therapeutic in that there's a transmission of Qi and a mechanical movement of tissue which creates space for healing. But then I think a lot of people just to be touched in a non-sexual way with intention is really powerful too. So I think there's that side of it. And then a lot of the techniques are based on Qi Gong, so we have to visualize color and sound and use different positions and hand positions.   Mason:  (15:51) Do you find yourself doing that?   Tahnee:  (15:53) Yeah. So the idea is that as a practitioner, you're the bridge between the heaven and earth. So you're releasing toxic Qi down to the earth because the earth … Like how a tree loves our carbon dioxide and we love its oxygen, the earth is really happy to receive what's negative for humans. It's like compost for it. It turns it back into positive good stuff. And the heavenly Qi is what we can use for healing.   Tahnee:  (16:20) It's like universal violet light Qi which comes down and again, you learn to feel and transmit these things. And I'm certainly not a master at this like Master Chia is a master at this, but as you get more sensitive to it, it becomes more perceptible definitely. And yeah, these things are all really powerful.   Tahnee:  (16:38) So as a practitioner, your job is to be open to that flow and to be able to channel it, and as the receiver, you're obviously starting to build your perception of these things. So one of the reasons a therapeutic relationship is useful at the beginning is many of us can't feel our energy. We don't know what Qi feels like. We don't know what our organs feel like. It's just tense and tight and painful.   Mason:  (16:58) Well, it's almost like we're scared to actually go in there and touch it. Like, “Am I allowed to do this? Can I just touch my liver like this? Is that bad? Is it going to explode?”   Tahnee:  (17:08) Yeah. Well, you've seen people at workshops that I do. They're like, “Aah.” And I'm like, “Just press into your tummy.” And they're like, “What?” And people freak out of it and I get that. Again, I was like that when I first started exploring this stuff.   Tahnee:  (17:22) And I think I still like … Massage may tell me sometimes, because my mom used to tell me to do it when I needed to poo and stuff, but I never really liked … I had an idea of where the organs were from studying anatomy, but I didn't … I would never have gone and, like you said, and tried to poke my own liver because like you say, it's like, “Well what happens if you do that? Is it a balloon that'll just pop or?”   Mason:  (17:45) Yeah, I think the extent of what everyone has, I think it comes up sometimes in yoga teacher trainings and anatomy trainings of just following the line of the colon. That's what it would be like. And even in geriatrics and that kind of thing, it says, “That's what I'll do. I'll just follow that line,” and that's probably the extent of it.   Tahnee:  (17:59) Yeah. I think for a lot of people, even to touch their colon is to not appreciate that this is an organ that is working against gravity for a solid portion of the transit of your feces. So it's going up the right side of your body underneath the liver. The liver is meant to deposit toxins down through its tissue into the large intestine to be transported out.   Tahnee:  (18:18) Often, a lot of people have congestion there, so the liver remains toxic and that goes back into the blood then that has to go across the body again. Not exactly the most mechanically simple process given that we all sit all day in a half rounded shape, and then it goes down the descending colon and to exit the body. So there's a lot of potential just in the colon for things to go wrong.   Tahnee:  (18:47) But then you've got the Liver, you've got the Stomach, Spleen kind of system. You've got the gallbladder's there, which can often get blocked in a lot of people. The bile gets very thick and sticky especially if people are in a really low fat diets and stuff. The fat actually triggers a release of bile. Anyone who's done a liver flush will know all about that.   Tahnee:  (19:06) And the kidneys, which are harder to massage, like I usually have to work with someone for at least … best case scenario, probably three or four sessions to get there because just for most people, they're too tense and they can't relax enough to let me go into there.   Mason:  (19:20) Yeah, I think you've got that one-   Tahnee:  (19:21) Abdominal cavity. Yeah.   Mason:  (19:22) … maybe once with me.   Tahnee:  (19:23) Yeah. I think once. But, yeah. And then obviously they can, especially if someone has a diet or has the sense of proclivity toward calcium build up and stuff, they can get quite painful if people have that. So I suspect that it was what happened to Mantak Chia's uncle. It was that they had to work on the kidneys to break up all the calcification in order that the kidneys could start to filter again.   Mason:  (19:50) Well, it's the same … It's same plaque build up. It's just one of those things that make us susceptible to gravity. And it's always that. When you were talking about that story again, that's actually what I was thinking. I was like … It makes sense that this guy's … Like what gets the turtles, the great turtles. They're hundreds of years old and it's just this bad calcium arthritic buildup that eventually just makes it, “Nope, can't swim anymore. I'm tightening up.”   Tahnee:  (20:13) Freeze.   Mason:  (20:13) It's what happens to organs naturally. It's like plaquey build up in the heart, plaquey build up in through the brain for stroke and so on and so forth. Arthritis has a lot to do with age, has a lot to do with the fact that we've got inflammation, blockages of Qi, low immunity, all these kinds of things. But then, it's always … It seems like this big leap in perception of self healing.   Mason:  (20:41) It's like to be like we've got our exercise and that moves our lymph … Yet we've got such a hectic world that it would … Superficial massage and superficial movement isn't a lot of the time.   Mason:  (20:55) It'll do a lot, but as soon as he started getting into really spending an hour or spending two hours, or even spending 20 minutes of yourself really getting on verse, just doing a rub in a clockwise direction on your belly, all of a sudden, it just opened up this whole layer of deeper intention, which I was just like, “Oh man, if we had this in hospitals, you would just completely and utterly avoid so much shit.” I mean, I think it's like one of the-   Tahnee:  (21:28) We're very scared of pain though and it hurts. This is a thing. I was actually talking to our acupuncturist about this the other day because he does the traditional Chinese massage, which is painful, right?   Mason:  (21:39) It can be.   Tahnee:  (21:42) And Master Chia teaches us to massage. We get in between each rib and we rub really hard and it's like to break up all that gristle and that fascia in there. It's painful. And I remember like cry laughing when I first had it done. I was like, “This is outrageous.”   Mason:  (21:57) Especially in the ribs because … I think a lot of guys relate. You said the cry laughing like that. You see all this … What you're seeing when you've really overly ticklish and skittish, you can see it's like a compensation that you have with your [crosstalk 00:22:12].   Tahnee:  (22:11) Yeah. Well, and Master Chia said they're people that avoid pain through laughter. So there'll be people that make a joke when they're feeling uncomfortable or so he said, “You can tell a lot about a person's personality when you're massaging that part of their body because there'll be people that avoid discomfort with humor.”   Mason:  (22:31) Yeah. That's me.   Tahnee:  (22:32) Yeah, me too, to some degree. And he said, “As they get more comfortable with …” And I think all of us … I certainly know over my … I think I've been practicing yoga now since I was 15. I'm 34 and that's a long time. And meditating not anywhere near that long, probably like 10 years at the most, maybe eight. I feel like my personality has changed a lot.   Tahnee:  (22:58) Not that I don't find humor in things, but just that I don't need to avoid discomfort as much as I used to, so I don't have as many compensation patterns. And if you think about avoiding an emotion, that energy has to go somewhere. This is one of those … I think it's Einstein's laws or... “Energy doesn't leave. It just gets transformed.” So if we don't express our emotions, then the energy has to be stored.   Tahnee:  (23:24) And so it will be stored as tension, usually in the body. And so what you'll find is people will have chronic patterns of tension, which are related to emotional patterns. A really common one is neck tension. A lot of people have that and they find if they get stressed, they get neck tension, which is the Yang channel of the Liver, the Gallbladder channels.   Tahnee:  (23:42) It's all around the neck and the trapezius muscles there and the back of their heads. If you ever get those kind of back of the neck headaches, they're often related to Gallbladder, which means your Liver is stressed and which means you're stressed. That's kind of the pattern. And this is an emotional thing. You're not capacitated to deal with the level of input you're experiencing and it's manifesting as stress.   Tahnee:  (24:07) So that's an emotional response to an external stimulus that manifests as a physical symptom. So people would go take a painkiller, but that's done nothing to deal with what's actually going on. So a better thing to do would be to learn to manage stress or reduce the input so that there's less external stress.   Mason:  (24:26) Look, another thing there is when you're getting rubbed and you're hitting a point, it's possibly like a trigger point. What's it called? The ouchy points.   Tahnee:  (24:40) Well, all trigger points, acupuncture points.   Mason:  (24:42) Acupuncture points. That's what I am thinking… I forget the name, but it just means it was like an ouchy point. It's like a barefoot name for the, those running around barefoot acupuncturists, but you can't stop the perception that you're going to be able to get it out of your body. You're in Meridian at that point.   Mason:  (25:00) That's always one of the things I was like … I really think about the fact that feeling emotions, feeling your Qi and then feeling your physicality, that's all intertwined in that. That's all related, right? So it's constantly getting these headaches in the back of the head and you're getting this tension in the back of your neck. One of the things we're trying to do is go like, “All right. Well, let's feel you know and what's the path of least resistance?   Mason:  (25:26) Is it feeling where physically, that tension pattern is coming from?” You're feeling the emotion that's associated to it and I think I can relate to the fact that we're also not embodied that. You can quite often try and intellectualize that idea and it's hard to slow down to get that perception of whether it's the emotion or the physicality.   Mason:  (25:48) I was feeling it this morning when I was running with Goji. I was like, “Oh, for the first time I can feel why sometimes when I run, that tension emerges into my neck,” and all I did is it took me having less agenda with my running and slowing down.   Tahnee:  (26:05) Yeah. It's adrenaline which creates stress as well because running is a stimulus to the body that you're in danger. You have to work … In my opinion, you have to work very hard to maintain equanimity while running that you don't have a negative effect on your adrenals. That's another story.   Mason:  (26:19) Absolutely. Absolutely. That's why I like barefoot running as a philosophy.   Tahnee:  (26:23) Yeah. And I think if you are stressing the Kidneys, it'll affect the Liver. That's where your manifest that tension from, because the sinews will tighten because the Liver gets stressed. But again, if you can manage it, I think it can be very healthy as well. But, yeah-   Mason:  (26:37) It's healthy because then the dog's worn out.   Tahnee:  (26:42) We have a Kelpie. She needs running. Yeah, I think it's healthy that there's … I think from … This is where herbs certainly are useful because I look at … Let's say there's someone with a chronic liver pattern. Herbs that support the liver are going to really support their capacity. So I would look at yoga practice. I would look at … This is why with Tai Chi Yin especially, but you can do this in a Yang practice too.   Tahnee:  (27:09) It's just a bit easier to communicate these ideas to students because it's slower, but you can work on the Liver channels when you're about to bleed for example, because your blood is moving and your body's kind of creating new blood and there's all this good stuff happening on account of your menstrual cycle about to occur. So if you work on the Liver channel in that time, you take your liver herbs, you nourish and support yourself with enough rest and minimal stress.   Mason:  (27:36) Which Liver herbs are you talking about?   Tahnee:  (27:38) Well, I'd look at things like He Shou Wu, I'd look at … It depends on the person and the constitution, but typically, you're going to look at … From our end, we're working with tonics. If you wanted to be more kind of medicinal about it, you could certainly work with other ones. But I'd be looking at things like Dong Quai, things like He Shou Wu, things like maybe Schizandra if you're constitutionally appropriate for you, Reishi.   Tahnee:  (28:01) There's all going to manage the symptoms. Again, it would depend on the woman and what is going to work best, but they're the ones I'd be looking at. And for me, I'm a Livery constitutiony person, so liver herbs in general just work well for me and they keep me balanced. Whereas someone who's more of a Speeny constitution person would be better with Qi herbs and so on it goes.   Tahnee:  (28:25) So I think the thing with herbs as we work with them, with the tonic kind of side of things, it's like I'd stick to stuff that works really well for your body and generally, we're going to find that most of the herbs we sell work on the Liver, Kidney, Spleen areas, which are the most important in terms of general metabolic health. For sure, if you're asthmatic, work on your Lung channel. That's super important.   Tahnee:  (28:53) If you're going through a lot of emotional stress with grief, work on the Lung channel. This is where these ideas of emotions become really powerful because it's like, “If I know I'm going to …” say someone dies, it's like that would be a time to really ramp up my Lung herb regime because it's really common. And some of you may even know people that someone dies and then that person grieving gets a really bad respiratory infection or pneumonia.   Tahnee:  (29:20) Actually, I've read some studies that correlate a lot of the secondary deaths after married couples, like say the husband dies and the woman will die of pneumonia or some kind of respiratory failure. And that makes a lot of sense. If you look at what Chinese medicine says, that level of grief is going to injure the Lung literally on a physical level and then it's going to be susceptible to pathogens which are bacterial infections or whatever.   Mason:  (29:42) And then you're looking at physical manipulation as well.   Tahnee:  (29:47) In terms of massage?   Mason:  (29:48) Yeah.   Tahnee:  (29:49) Yeah. Well, so that's why Chi Nei Tsang is just another tool in your tool kit. So it's like, “Okay. Well, I know I'm going through something really potent and powerful. I'm going to massage my ribs. I'm going to take my herbs. I'm going to talk about my feelings. I'm going to meditate or do some kind of a practice that connects me to my body and myself.”   Tahnee:  (30:05) That isn't a mental thing, like you were saying. This idea of being able to think through your emotions is kind of futile because they're not a thinking process. The brain in Chinese medicine is from the Kidney's and has little to do with feeling, if anything really. It's more of like the feelings tell the brain what to do. The feelings dictate the response.   Tahnee:  (30:26) So if I have to go on stage and I'm afraid of speaking in public, then my Kidney's are going to tell my brain to initiate my panic response and I'm going to go into, like, my bowels might empty. I might start hyperventilating. I might … Whatever people-   Mason:  (30:43) That's an extreme.   Tahnee:  (30:45) Well, that used to happen to me when I had to public speak. I used to get the poos. This is what I mean. My belly was so sensitive to things. As a kid, I used to say to my mum, “I feel sick.” And she'd be like, “You have to poo.” And I'd be like, “Oh.” I was so disconnected from that part of my body and I would respond to everything through it.   Tahnee:  (31:05) If I was heartbroken, it would show up in my belly and I was like … I feel everything through my tummy and I was terrified of having it touched because I guess subconsciously knew that that's where it was all going to be. And I actually managed to get through the training without any massive emotional dramas.   Tahnee:  (31:27) A few people I worked on that fully broke down and had some pretty big crises on the training. And I think probably because I'd been meditating and doing a lot of other stuff in the lead up to being there, I was probably in a better position than if I'd gone-   Mason:  (31:42) It can just crack you wide open.   Tahnee:  (31:43) Yeah. I think, if anything, meditation did that more for me than Chi Nei Tsang. But Chi Nei Tsang really for me, gave me a practical tool and a piece of biofeedback where I could … I know that if I'm touching my tummy, it's really sensitive and inflamed that I need to probably, first of all, check in with my diet, maybe drink a bit more water and then look at what's going on emotionally in my life and what I might need to balance out.   Tahnee:  (32:08) And similarly with clients and anyone I work on, it's just like there's so much information there. You look at the navel area, it's where we were connected to our mothers for 10 months of our lives. So there's all of this idea of nurturance and what we did or didn't receive in the womb that remains with us after we are born. Again, this is energy that doesn't disappear or just get consumed. It just changes form.   Tahnee:  (32:36) So it still exists. Our ancestral line, the navel is associated with the ancestry of our entire lineage. So I've had people that are very open, energetically have big visions of their past lives and various things through that center because they've been able to connect to it through that. And again, there's a transmission that occurs when two people who are energetically open work together.   Tahnee:  (33:02) So that's something that can happen if I'm working with someone who's on that level, I suppose. I've had people obviously with trauma stored around their uterus and different parts of their body where we've worked through that kind of stuff. It's always really interesting what the body holds that the person isn't willing to share.   Tahnee:  (33:25) And I mean I would never … It's something as a practitioner obviously you're really mindful of, but I never try and force anything out of anybody. Often, I'll see or hear something that I try not to … And I mean that more on an energetic level. I don't literally hear anything but I can sometimes have visions of things or whatever and I'll just wait and see if the person wants to share that with me or not.   Tahnee:  (33:50) Sometimes I might offer it if they ask, but that's probably the trickiest part to navigate, I guess because often, like I said, it's stuff that we've blocked away for a reason.   Mason:  (34:03) Well, it's interesting. I think what you're talking about there when you didn't get blown out of the water and have a huge peak experience that was hard to integrate, which I think is an interesting. It's like anything. It's like whether you go to meditation, silent retreats, plant medicine or you do like huge doses of the mushrooms when you begin to like in a lot of the time and sometimes it's because we're desensitized and sometimes, it's because when we need it.   Mason:  (34:27) We have this huge peak experience that's super transformational a lot of the time. And then it's, “Okay. And now it's a time to integrate.” And what is integration? Well, integration is you know, you've got a lifestyle that consistently is supporting you to stay healthy. So your physical tissue and your Qi can work through anything that you're bringing up as well that you've got the foundation so that psychologically, you can handle these changes that are occurring. And it's quite simple, but-   Tahnee:  (34:59) Jing, Qi, Shen, right?   Mason:  (35:00) It's very simple, Jing, Qi, Shen. But what I like … Again, what comes up constantly with Chi Nei Tsang, it's like, “Oh great.” Well, we like a peak experience and they're fun. However, generally … Especially if you're going to be doing the chop wood, carry water and integrating a little bit into your own lifestyle, you are consistently working psychologically and emotionally on something.   Mason:  (35:25) And hopefully, you can keep that in a point where you don't consider yourself that you're someone that … You've got something wrong with you or you're bad or broken because you always have to be working on something. That's the development of our Shen. It's the whole point of taking life experiences and taking it through the peculator and hopefully, bringing out some wisdom so that our virtuous nature can come forth.   Mason:  (35:48) So I mean, important to not expect all these knock-it-out-of-the-park experiences. I like to, I think, when it comes to Chi Nei Tsang. I know that's definitely-   Tahnee:  (35:58) I mean, I don't think that's common. I mean, I think for whatever reason … My yoga teacher talks about this a lot. He's like, “The karma has to be right for these things to happen. You can meditate for 40 years and never have a peak experience. It doesn't mean you shouldn't meditate.” I think he says that he's meditated for 40 years and never had a peak experience.   Tahnee:  (36:19) And I've meditated for less than 10 years and had a bajillion peak experiences. And why, I don't know. For whatever reason, I'm predisposed to them and he isn't. It doesn't mean that he shouldn't teach me or that he shouldn't teach or … He is, as far as I'm aware, a very advanced meditator, far more advanced than me and able to maintain his focus for much longer. And I think it's just like anything.   Tahnee:  (36:48) It's like for some reason, sometimes certain stars align and stuff happens and other times it doesn't. And I think that's my experience with Chi Nei Tsang. I've had clients where we just have a beautiful healing, connection. I just massage their bellies and we spend time together and that's all it is. And then there's people that are puddles on the floor and I have to spend three hours talking to them to get them calm down again. So I think it's just-   Mason:  (37:15) And all in all, if we're trying to sustainably create this ongoing system in our lifestyle to help us consistently transform right, I think that's kind of fair to say whether it's on a micro or macro level as we're moving along, we'd love relationships to become richer, to work more towards passions or get more onto the path of our destiny. I think this has been a really, really nice practice for me.   Mason:  (37:42) It's not something I'd sit there and do in 20 minutes of every afternoon, but every now and then, I can really … I feel it and I get in there. And it's a nice one having a tool and the arsenal because you're moving along and you get to these crescendos when you're possibly going to really get some distinction on an emotional set that you have or something that's going to allow you to create distance between your noticing and your reaction, something most of us are working on and especially working on at the moment.   Mason:  (38:10) And then just having … And then you've got your herbs to support that. You've got your personal practice, your time in nature, your relationships and having … You've got your physical practice and you've got your fascia stretching, whether it's Yin or whether it's the work I'm doing with Benny, Movement Monk Benny. We got all those things.   Mason:  (38:25) But then having this … I think this in the arsenal, quite often for me, it's enough to just bolster all my efforts to make sure that I bring it up to cresendo that point and then I don't just … it doesn't just slide back down and actually I can't get the boulder over the mountain. It's just one of those things I can use to just really bring it along that physical touch, that physical manipulation.   Mason:  (38:47) And it's the same with any deep healing, as you were saying, when you've got menstrual issues that are hardcore congestion in through the female sex organs or a tumor sitting within an organ. Why would we not touch these things? It's so difficult for the body to overcome these huge blockages.   Tahnee:  (39:08) Well, it's painful, is reason one … Usually when there's stagnation, which is what you're talking about in those two examples, then there's pain because things congest around there, the toxins build up and it's usually a got an emotional component. And pain science is one of the most fascinating areas of science because it's purely subjective. I could have cut my arm off and you could cut your arm off and we can both describe completely different levels of pain.   Tahnee:  (39:32) It's not like there's one pain scale that everyone, like they go, “Oh, happy pain or sad pain at the hospital,” but they're completely subjective experiences. You tell the doctor how you're feeling and that's where to digress a little bit. Like lower back fusion, it's proven to be completely pointless. It doesn't stop lower back pain whether it's fuse the discs of the lumbar spine, usually, it's all completely, the surgery is a waste of time.   Tahnee:  (40:01) And I feel very confident in saying that, what was actually proven to be best is psychotherapy and movement. And the combination of those two are going to relieve stress. They're going to manage emotions. They're going to support the Kidney and Liver channels, which low back pain typically is correlated to. So we're looking at this system, I suppose, with the body as opposed to individual symptoms.   Tahnee:  (40:26) So if I was looking at menstrual symptoms or a tumor in my sessions, it's like tumors are typically cold stagnation, so you want to warm that up. And again, cancer's a tough one for us to talk about. As everybody knows, it's the big thing you can't talk about. And if I have someone come with cancer, I obviously don't work directly on their tumor usually because it's not appropriate, but I'll do energy work on it.   Tahnee:  (40:52) So I've only worked with one person with bowel cancer and that felt to me like a black sticky tar-like energy, so I just spent time countering that with healthy Qi. And she was going through different courses of treatment anyway, so it wasn't really appropriate for me to do anything beyond that. I was just there to support.   Tahnee:  (41:18) But from my experience working with a lot of types of infections and things as well, anytime I felt anything really chronic and bad, its felt like black tar. I can, in really heightened states, which is not frequent for me, unfortunately. I can feel like I can pull that out. But that's only been like twice that I've felt that. And I've spoken to some acupuncturists and healers about it that I know and they have said, “Yeah, that's when you're a really strong Qi Gong practitioner.   Tahnee:  (41:48) You're able to actually pull that out on an energetic level,” which I'm sure there are healers out there that can do that. I'm not at that point. But yeah, I think normally, it's like, well, if you're warming it up, you're increasing blood flow and circulation. In general, these are going to be really helpful things to get going. Like menstrual disorders work really well with Chi Nei Tsang. If anyone out there has any kind of menstrual stuff going on, start massaging your uterus every day.   Tahnee:  (42:13) You don't have to do anything fancy, just scoop around your pubic bone and your inner pelvis and just get in there. And if it feels painful, spend some time rubbing it until it stops feeling painful. It's that simple. It doesn't have to be complicated. In Chi Nei Tsang we have lots of complicated techniques and I've certainly used a lot of them, but I also have found when teaching people, it's best to just … simple, simple, simple.   Tahnee:  (42:38) So just if it hurts, spend some time on it, breathe into it, send some love to it, give it a good massage and generally, you'll find that these things dissolve. That's what I've found really interesting in my body. It was like you feel something that feels like a huge knot or a lump that it's really painful and it's like, “I can't possibly deal with this.” And 10 minutes later, it's gone. And it's like, “Wow.”   Mason:  (43:02) And sometimes, it's not.   Tahnee:  (43:02) Yeah. Well, sometimes it's 20 or 30 or 40 minutes later. And like I said, I've had clients that come back three or four times and I finally get to a point where I'm able to soften them up enough. So there's lots of things that can happen...   Tahnee:  (43:15) But yeah, I think in general, anytime we're looking at pain when there's touch and those kinds of things, it's generally coming from some kind of Qi stagnation and it's usually helpful to massage it. Again, within reason. Don't go hard on yourself.   Mason:  (43:34) Well, that's kind of the real … we mentioned barefoot running. It's like that's something that's very obvious for people to say, “You start running barefoot, not in shoes. If you put that little bit of new stress on your ankles and your arch and your knee, the whole rule is if you feel little tweaks or if you feel anything becoming, feeling really vulnerable, you open yourself up to something.   Mason:  (43:54) That's it. Your session's done for the day. And I feel like it can be the same like this. And in terms of techniques, I mean, I really started like going deep when I let go of the techniques. When I was rubbing my organs and I let go a little bit more of going like, “All right, now here I'm in the duodenum. Okay. Now, in the pyloric valves and …” again, I was intellectualising a lot rather than just getting to know myself through feeling and through touch.   Mason:  (44:28) Because my mind quite often works like if I can't explain what I'm doing externally, how do I justify doing this in the first place? And through that, my techniques got more advanced in relationship to my unique little organ system rather than trying to use a particular technique. That was really nice, getting that little insight.   Mason:  (44:48) But I think that's just something … This is … Everyone's on practice here. Even though it's called Chi Nei Tsang, it's literally just you sticking fingers and-   Tahnee:  (44:58) Yeah. Well, look, I've only received Chi Nei Tsang from probably let's say 20 or 30 people in total in my life and let's say 30 of them were on training. Oh, sorry. 20 of them were on a training. And then I've had Master Chia, Utah, the lady in Guatemala, the guy in Thailand, probably … I'm trying to think of any other professionals who've massage me … oh, Sola.   Tahnee:  (45:26) I've had a few professionals messaged me and they've all been very different in how they approach Chi Nei Tsang. And even friends of mine who having received them from me were like, “Oh my God, I have to go study this.” They called me up and were like, “It's so different to what you do and I wanted to learn what you do.”   Tahnee:  (45:42) And I was like, “Well, I think like anything … Anyone who's learned to teach yoga or done anything, it's like you put your own spin on things.” So I certainly think while I respect Master Chia's work and his techniques … And he's very much a stickler for the techniques. I'll often start much further along than he recommends in the flows that he teaches and stuff.   Tahnee:  (46:07) I think I've just found intuitively there's different techniques I'm really comfortable with and ones I'm not comfortable with. There's ones that I've found effective in general for people that I wouldn't … I had … Utah did one on me one time where she just pulled my spleen for like an hour and went, “Oooh,” and that was it.   Tahnee:  (46:27) And I was like, “Well,” and it was amazing, but on paper, that sounded like there was no flow to that. It wasn't a massage per se. It was kind of a shamanic style of healing. So I think there's probably a lot more of my influences from her and on that side of things where it's just-   Mason:  (46:47) She's Mantak's student-   Tahnee:  (46:49) Yeah, yeah. She's in her 60s and has been living with him in Thailand with her husband for, I would guess, 20 or 30 years. I remember speaking to her about it, but I can't remember exactly. And she's European, so she travels all through Europe teaching this and she's a master in her own right. And just like … we've spoken a few times about that she has a different style to Master Chia and teachers differently to him.   Tahnee:  (47:11) And I know there's people in The States that have developed their own versions of Chi Nei Tsang now and this woman in Thailand who has her own version. So I don't think there's a right or a wrong way. I think it's anything that just each practitioner will have their truth and the best way of expressing it. But I think if you're just curious about touching your own belly, you've got permission.   Tahnee:  (47:32) Go do it. And it's interesting. The history of it, I find really interesting because it correlates a lot to what happens in our culture now. I think is, it became unfashionable to touch. The healers weren't allowed to touch the higher cast of person they want … Especially not allowed to touch women. It went from being like a village-based medicinal practice to like a more systemised medicinal practice.   Tahnee:  (48:02) And Chinese medicine has evolved a lot over the centuries and the millennia. So Chi Nei Tsang came about from a much older time when hands-on healing was considered appropriate and then that lost favor especially as Western styles of healing penetrated into China. And I'm studying acupuncture at the moment. So I just learned that that was around the late 1800s, early 1900s.   Tahnee:  (48:29) But yeah, I think when we look at that, we see that we lost a lot of the touch based healing arts from China. And massage, in the West, is very different to Tui Na, the Chinese style of massage, which is more similar to what I have learned. And you've had massages with John, our acupuncturist. He gets into all the gristle and runs up and down the bones and gets right into all the fascia.   Tahnee:  (48:55) Most Swedish style massages, they're nice for moving Chi at a superficial level like you're talking about, but in terms of getting Chi into the joints, which is where it really matters and that's why Yin Yoga, Qi Gong, that type of massage is so important because the joints are where the Qi … This is when you talk about calcification and stuff before. It's where the Chi will stagnate the most easier because the joints are dense.   Tahnee:  (49:17) There's no blood. Blood andi are really close, but when you're looking at an elbow or a knee, there's very little blood in there. And so these are really prone to deterioration really quickly, especially if our Liver is struggling, which again, like we said, everyone is stressed. So that's really common in our culture. So it makes a lot of sense to do these painful joint based massages like we do in Chi Nei Tsang.   Tahnee:  (49:41) Chi Nei Tsang isn't just the belly, just to be clear. It covers the entire body, so we'll do anything that needs doing, really. I've done Chi Nei Tsang on a friend of ours who's in his 70s … Nearly in the 70s and it was all around his knees and his pelvis because that was what was required. And it's really about where are the blockages of Qi, how do we break it up so that these blockages are removed.   Tahnee:  (50:06) Again, it was a very painful session for him, but he felt incredible and could walk differently afterwards. So it's these kinds of ideas of maybe the session won't be that fun, but the benefits are going to be huge because you're breaking up adhesions and … Yeah. Anyone who's had a frozen shoulder and had manual therapy done on that, I've heard it's very, very, very painful. And it's the same idea. It's like to get that fascia to dissolve-   Mason:  (50:31) Adhesions on the fascia, yeah.   Tahnee:  (50:32) … Yeah, you need to heat it up and it needs to be broken up in a lot of cases. And there's some really interesting work around how sensitive fascia is and that breaking it up isn't always that helpful if there's a really strong emotional component because it just creates more trauma. And I think there's something to that, so I think you want to work with a good practitioner who understands the nuance of when it's appropriate and when it isn't.   Mason:  (50:54) Or have your own ability to actually process emotions and just look historically how you've done it that it's very accessible.   Tahnee:  (51:00) Yeah, I've worked with this really inspiring woman when I taught yoga in Newcastle. I think she came to my classes for … I'd want to say like 18 months to two years of Yin Yoga and she had a frozen shoulder and she'd just sit there. She'd sit next to the wall and she'd do half versions of everything because she couldn't really do a lot. And I remember speaking to her and she's like,” I can like lift my arm up over my head now.”   Tahnee:  (51:24) She was just … And it took a really long time, but she just kept showing up. And that was a really inspiring to me and that's really indicative of how long it takes to change fascia. We're literally talking about reshaping ourselves and the shape we are is because of our thoughts and how we respond to the world and how we respond to life and what we were conditioned to postulate ourselves toward or against.   Tahnee:  (51:45) You'll see people in families have same posture and those kinds of things and it's because we learned so much of this and we're conditioned as children to pick up on our parents physiology and their responses to things and how they … We've both done therapy, all about that. So our bodies hold that just as much as our minds and our personalities and our thoughts and emotions do.   Tahnee:  (52:07) So it's a lot quicker to change a thought than it is to change the body. I think that patterns are very slow to change, but again, I would say the pattern is more closely correlated to the body. The yogic tradition talks about samskara's and vasana's, so these character traits and conditioned ways of behaving. So a samskara is like a conditioned pattern of behavior and vasana is like when that becomes who I am.   Tahnee:  (52:37) So I might say I'm Tahnee and I am a yoga teacher and I've been doing the thing, teaching yoga so long that I identify with that as me. And if you take that away from me, I'm going to suffer because it's who I am. And that's just a silly example, but it's a good one to demonstrate it.   Tahnee:  (52:55) So when we look at the body, the body will often mirror these same ideas because your yoga teacher will walk a certain way and they will hold themselves a certain way and they will think certain things and they will speak a certain way, and so as a result, you start to embody this idea of something instead of actually just maybe being more authentically like you.   Tahnee:  (53:14) And so yoga is all around how do we remove these hats that we wear, all these masks that we wear to the world and find out what's really underneath. And I think Chi Nei Tsang is one of the tools that we can use to start to dissolve some of those attachments and conditioned patterns I suppose. So I think it all fits into me to the same framework.   Tahnee:  (53:35) I separate yoga and Taoism when I teach because it's easier that way, but I see them as being very similar, if not the same, at the risk of offending some people. I think that the ideas fundamentally are very, very similar.   Mason:  (53:48) When you get bare bones about it, everything is, unless there's a very, very unique spiritual intention that someone would have.   Tahnee:  (53:59) Yeah. Well you could look at maybe Tantra as deviating because it starts with the assumption that there's oneness, whereas … I mean, I think … Oneness to me is a whole another podcast, so I don't think we'll go there. But if anyone's interested, let us know and we can go there because I love talking about this philosophy stuff.   Tahnee:  (54:18) But coming back to Chi NeI Tsang, I think when we can embody ourselves fully and unify with ourselves, that's the first step. It's the absolute foundation. It's the fundamental step to any personal growth and transformation and evolution, which is what this path is about. You can't take tonic herbs without changing and evolving and this is why we do this. It's certainly what motivates me to get out of bed every day.   Tahnee:  (54:45) And it's not this idea of becoming someone better or … It's just like I can feel that there's so much that I look through when I look at the world that isn't me. And it's like … And I've felt me, and these two things aren't completely congruent yet and that's okay. I'm still really young and I think that there's time, but I think that the more I practice and the more I explore these really ancient healing traditions, that I can feel this congruency coming.   Tahnee:  (55:17) And that's what yoga talks about. It's like we start to abide in our true selves. It's not this split where we think we're one thing and we do something else. And we're all hypocrites, every single one of us, and yoga doesn't say hypocrisy is bad. So much as it says, well, it's a sign that your inner and outer worlds aren't aligned. You say one thing, you do something else. You think one thing, you do something else.   Tahnee:  (55:36) There's no congruency there. It's because you haven't fully integrated. And that's what I think all of these healing tools point us toward. It's this idea of being able to be congruent and cohesive and consistent and all of the good things.   Mason:  (55:55) So we'll put the video from the Nourish Her Yin event where you're on stage taking everyone through a little massage sequence.   Tahnee:  (56:05) Can we do a better video than that?   Mason:  (56:05) Yeah. That's what I was going to say. It would also... Goji's (dog) getting in there. It'd be really good to just have a couple of different series like YouTube videos.   Tahnee:  (56:16) Well, what I've got in mind is doing a self massage one and then showing a simple partner massage or something, just a little flow.   Mason:  (56:27) Well, especially it's a good for mums and dads in the household to just have a little bit under your belt in terms of a little digestive flow.   Tahnee:  (56:35) Yeah, well, if you have a bubba, I wouldn't do Chi Nei Tsang so much as just rub their tummies really gently in a circular … So you want to go, I'm never good at this way, but clockwise, I think. Is that the right way? Yeah. So you want to go-   Mason:  (56:48) Looking at the belly clockwise.   Tahnee:  (56:49) So if you're looking at your baby's tummy, you want to go clockwise around. So basically, from their right to their left, an arc like a rainbow, that's going to help, especially if they get colic or any kind of constipation or anything. It's going to help to move what is stuck. And babies, like us, they process a lot through the digestion.   Tahnee:  (57:12) They're very open energetically, so it's always interesting to have a look at what else is going on in the family life if that sort of stuff is happening, what they might need to be buffered from or what they might be experiencing. I mean, these amazing little perceptive beings they are, so pretty cool. But yeah, Aiya doesn't love being massaged, unfortunately.   Tahnee:  (57:35) I always had dreams of, “I'll massage my baby.” And Aiya is, “Oi, get off.” So maybe when she's a bit older, she'll appreciate having a massage therapist mum.   Mason:  (57:44) That's all I was thinking. It's like when you get a little bit older, it's like having your little herbal remedies around and you have your Gua Sha stone around-   Tahnee:  (57:49) She does like Gua Sha.   Mason:  (57:54) … she does like Gua sha. You have your little Chi Nei Tsang technique. I mean, all we're talking about is a very practical focus even like putting too much on it and it's just very simple skill sets that hopefully, are going to keep you out of a doctor's office.   Tahnee:  (58:08) Yeah. I kind of always think-   Mason:  (58:10) Or a naturopath's office.   Tahnee:  (58:11) Well, I've said this to you before, like about being a cool old grandma, and I think it's such a shame in our culture. We've lost … I know … even when I was in Japan, when I was 16, the grandma and grandpa and the aunty and uncle all lived in the same compound and they were old, the grandma and grandpa and they did all the prayers.   Tahnee:  (58:30) They'd light all the incense, set up the alters every morning, facilitate that. If I saw the kid had a cold or something, grandma was boiling up stuff. I was too young to really comprehend exactly what it was, but now I'm thinking she was probably doing some herbal treatments or something. It's like they were holding that wisdom and that role in the family of just providing the health care. And you'd use a doctor only in a really extreme situation.   Tahnee:  (58:55) And I think there's really something … I know you saw me, I started reading nursing books and how to look after sick people because I was thinking, “Well, if I Aiya's unwell, how do I manage that?” And I think there's this lack of skill in our culture that us younger people have especially, that we don't know basic home remedies for things that aren't silly.   Tahnee:  (59:20) Like, “Oh, garlic if you have a cough or whatever,” I'm thinking more like, “How do I actually know when a fever is okay and not okay?” Because fevers, in my opinion, are an incredibly powerful healing tool and it should be left alone in general, but I know there's a point when they can get dangerous too. So it's like we've got to … h

In this final episode of season one, I finish the series by talking about herbs,their actions and how they can be used for balancing hormones and conditions like fibroids, endometriosis, infertility, PCOS, PMS, heavy bleeding etc. The second half of the episode is all about lifestyle, how your emotions contribute to hormonal imbalance and poor health plus a few simple practices you can start to do to manage your emotions and mental state. A major contributor to hormonal imbalance in women is stress and a lack of rest. Sleep and rest are ESSENTIAL for hormonal harmony and overall vitality, in my 90 Day Wellness Programme we work through all these stages making sure that at the end of your 90 day programme you are emotionally stable, level headed and have mastered the art of rest. The final part is about toxins and pollutants that are endocrine disruptors, Xenoestrogens of particular note found in our food sources, cleaning and personal care products. I also mention Dioxins, in the episode I mention only one major source however another major source is high fat foods, particularly animal products that are high in fat, check out the our Instagram post on dioxins for more. Below are the links to everything I mentioned in this episode. Drasanvi Superfoods CHLORELLA POWDER https://www.floraforce.co.za/shop/chlorella-powder/ Newsletter for more helpful natural health info https://mailchi.mp/47e842dc68bc/chocolate-salami-2019?e=6022748625 Checkout Drasanvi Superfoods Instagram page for amazing healthy recipes HARMONY hormone support, SKIN RENEW tea, African Black Soap, IRON WOMBMAN blood tonic (contains Dong Quai) can all be found on the Earth + Root Botanicals online store https://earthandrootbotanicals.com/shop/ ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Wombman Wellness is a pursuit of women's health and wellbeing. It's about helping women take control of their lives and teaching them how to heal themselves. To find out more about Wombman Wellness and the services available to you go to https://naturallyhealthybywanga.com/wombman-wellness-programme/ or email me at wanga@wombmanwellness.com Follow us on Instagram @wombmanwellness and SUBSCRIBE to the Wombman Wellness podcast so you never miss a life changing episode. Rate, review and send in your thoughts or comments via voice-notes on Anchor.fm You can tune in to this podcast via Apple Podcast, Spotify, Anchor.fm, and Google Podcast. Click here. . . . Disclaimer: All information provided here is for education purposes only and should not be substituted for medical advice from your health care physician. The products promoted are not intended to diagnose, prevent or cure any disease. If a condition persists please contact your primary health care physician or health practitioner.

Yoni SteamingWHAT IS IT?https://www.soulvibrance.com/yoni-steam/http://mayamoonhealingarts.com/bajos-vaginal-steams/ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a14512508/diy-budget-yoni-steam-review/According to this website: Yoni steaming, also known as vaginal steaming, is a practice in which a woman allows the warmth of herbal steam to permeate the exterior of her vagina. Respected by healers around the globe, yoni steaming is an opportunity to reconnect with your body and utilize the wisdom of plant medicine to heal your cycle.What it’s SUPPOSED to do:Significantly reduce pain, bloating and exhaustion associated with menstruation.Decrease menstrual flow as well as reduce dark purple or brown blood at the onset or end of menses.Regulate irregular or absent menstrual cycles.Increase fertility, especially when combined with ATMATSpeed healing and tone the reproductive system after birth.Reduce uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, uterine weakness, uterine prolapse & endometriosis.Assist with the repair of a vaginal tear, episiotomy, or C-section scar.Assist with the healing of hemorrhoids.Relieve chronic vaginal/yeast infections, and works to maintain healthy odor.Ease symptoms of menopause including dryness or pain during intercourse.Detoxify the womb and remove toxins from the body.Release stored emotions and tap into the energy that is our creative potential.What has it been proven to do?...I don’t know. The only scientific anything i’ve been able to find is that there’s No scientific evidence that it does work. But no links to the science?Maybe why you shouldn’t do ithttps://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19949929/gwyneth-paltrow-v-steam/It can burnWorse case scenario it can get too hot and burn youIt can mess with your vaginas good bacteriaJust like regular douching, trying to "cleanse" your vag with steam can be drying and disrupt the natural bacteria that lives up in there. And since the vagina is a self-cleaning machine, you don't need to take any action to keep it that wayIt won’t actually balance your hormonesThere are no hormonce produced by/in your vagina. That only happens in your ovaries and the steam isn’t going to make it up that far.What is in it? It is preferable to use dried herbs unless you are using rosemary, juniper or cedar – you can use those plants when they are fresh as they contain a high amount of volatile oils when fresh.The typical ratio is 1 Quart of fresh herb or 1 Cup of dry for a large pot of water. Choose 1-5 herbs for your steam.You can choose plants that you have a spiritual connection with that may not be specific for the physical ailment but will support your emotional well being.Herbs that have an affinity for the urinary and reproductive organs; Red Raspberry Leaf, Juniper, Motherwort, Peony and Dong Quai.Herbs that contain volatile oils; Basil, Oregano, Lavender, Rosemary, Marigold, Garden Sage, Peppermint and Lemon Balm.Herbs that are astringent or tonifying; Witch Hazel, Yarrow, Cedar Berries, Rose and Juniper.Traditional herbs the Maya use are Oregano, Basil, Marigold, Rosemary, Chamomile, Damiana, Plantain, Yarrow.How do you do it? It is important when working with the plants that you build a relationship with them. You can do this by asking the plants and the water to help you in what you are trying to heal at that time.Choose your formula.1 qt. fresh herb or 1 cup dry.Place herbs in a pot of lukewarm water.If possible, let sit in the moon light overnight, imbuing the water and plants with the moonlight, with your prayers and allowing the water and plants to absorb each other.The following day, bring to a gentle simmer with the lid on for 20 minutes.Set up your steam space; turn off your phone, put music on if you’d like, or grab your favorite book, light candles, or make a cup of tea to enjoy while you are steaming.Once you are set up pour your steam water into a different pot as to avoid burning the floor.Place your steam pot under a slotted chair, step stool with slot, lawn chair or steam stool.Remove your clothes from the waist down, leaving your socks on, keeping your upper body warm.Sit on your designated seat over the steaming herbs making sure the steam pot is placed underneath the body so the steam gets to the perineum.Drape your lower body with blankets that extend all the way to the floor to ensure the steam is contained.Be careful not to burn yourself. If necessary, create a small vent to allow excess steam to escape, it should feel pleasant.Sit over your steam for about 15-20 min. depending on the temperature.Simply enjoy the healing and nurturing time you have set aside for yourself.When you are done, dry yourself off.Rest quietly after the steam in a warm room, free of drafts, open windows or air conditioning, for at least 20 minutes.When you get up, dress warmly and protect yourself from cold drafts or sudden temperature changes for 24 hours.Release the herbs and water back to the earth –  giving thanks for their support in your healing.Vaginal Detoxinghttps://metro.co.uk/2016/01/14/people-are-putting-balls-of-herbs-into-their-vaginas-to-detox-their-wombs-5622949/https://goddessdetox.org/products/goddessvaginaldetoxpearls?variant=10854907137Steaming is considered a type of detox, other ways that people try to “detox” their vaginas is with “detox pearls” which are little balls of herbs/oils and they actually stick them up into their vagina.Most of the articles and how to videos I found say that it detoxes your womb… Lets just take a minute to point out that your vagina is not your womb.What is in themMuslin ClothMotherwortAngelicaBorneolrhubarbVagina TighteningLotions and gelsAll of the ones I found online  say that you put the lotion on your fingers and rub on your vaginal walls to help tighten itA StickIT’S A STICK“This vagina tightening stick has rapidly tightening effect on women's vaginal relaxation, it can help you to regulate sex apathy, improve elasticity of the vagina and enhance sex sensation. Adopts pure natural ingredients, which is safe, healthy and convenient prevent and cure gynaopathy. With this stick, can let your husband and you find the feeling of the newly married.”https://www.walmart.com/ip/Yosoo-Lady-Vagina-Hygiene-Healthcare-Cleaning-Women-Vaginal-Tightening-Wand-Shrink-Stick-Rod-Vagina-Tightening-Stick-Vagina-Tighten-Stick/200599177?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=7754&adid=22222222227236912532&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=280635795298&wl4=pla-469170890310&wl5=9060400&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=115794707&wl11=online&wl12=200599177&wl13=&veh=sem Exercise!Good ol kegels The vagina is a muscle, nothing can “tighten” it except exercising the pelvic muscles.

Herbal medicine can be a little scary for those that are thinking of having a baby or trying to conceive. You may be asking, "are the herbs safe to take?" "What happens if I get pregnant, will they hurt the baby?" You may just feel overwhelmed with the options and not sure if you're making the right choice for your unique situation. In today's episode, we go over 8 botanical herbs that are known traditionally and clinically to be helpful in fertility: Black cohosh, Chaste Tree Berry, Dong Quai, Red Raspberry Leaf, Tribulus, Rhodiola, Shatavari, Wild Yam. These herbs are safe when taken is recommended doses from a reputable source. If you find out you're pregnant while taking these herbs, it's important to work with a licensed practitioner to know what's safe to continue. Most of the herbs we discuss should be stopped once you have a positive test. At the end of the episode, we name a few of our favorite herbal blends to use with our clients. You can find show notes for the episode and link to resources we discuss on our website here: https://tinyfeet.co/my-podcast/44. Take the FREE Quiz: Are You Healthy Enough to Get Pregnant?

I'm so excited to share that I'm PREGNANT and in this week's episode I'm sharing my journey to conception with my husband. We talk about our excitement and fears, how we each prepared and the decisions we've made so far in our pregnancy. I hope you enjoy this week's episode. Please remember to subscribe to the Rise Parenting Podcast on iTunes Podcast for notifications about new episodes! Show Notes: Fertility herbs I mention… Pre-Conception, Fertility Support: - Herbs: these I took each morning in warm water like a tea for several months, then twice a day leading up to ovulation/conception and Derek began drinking this same tea leading up to conception as well: -- Ashwagandha - powder -- Slippery Elm - powder -- Shatavari – powder -- Maca – powder - Tea – I made this tea in bulk and drank it in the evenings: -- Red raspberry leave, Red clover, Nettles, Liquorish root, Dong Quai, and Rose -- While at work I'd sometimes have Traditional Medicinals Pregnancy Tea - Milk Thistle – capsules - Evening Primrose Oil – capsules - Rainbow Light Prenatal One - I also take a liquid probiotic every day During Ovulation and Post-Conception: Some of the above herbs while supportive of hormones and fertility are contraindicated or lack research around pregnancy so after we “opened our prayer” I only took: - Rainbow Light Prenatal One - Probiotics - And drank Traditional Medicinals Pregnancy Tea Now that I'm Pregnant I'm taking: - Rainbow Light Prenatal One - Probiotics - Parental DHA - Vitamin D (as I tested as being low) - And Traditional Medicinals Pregnancy Tea Other supports I utilized during pregnancy-prep: - Nutritionist, changed my diet, no caffeine or alcohol - Womb message - Acupuncture - Meditation - Hula-hooping - Yoni Steaming - Yoni Egg - Tracking periods While I've been asked to share what herbs I've taken I want to be clear that I am not a medical professional and you should do your own research and consult your doctor before taking any new herbs or supplements. Podcast Music: England by Pictures of the Floating World, License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/legalcode

The Empress is ALL about love and creation and nurturing what we love! Let’s go on a journey together and expand our view of herbs with The Herbal Tarot by Michael Tierra. You can purchase the deck & book together: planetherbs.com/shop/herbal-tarot-deck-spirit-of-herbs-companion-book-set/ And remember to become a patron of Herbal Marie today to really help this herbal podcast grow! www.patreon.com/herbalmarie --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/herbalmarie/message

Update on my life from a wobbly brain with a bit of bird action and some musical improv xxx the herb is called Dong Quai this dude has lots to say about it -> https://youtu.be/t3QDn9QVnzk

Kurzer Vortrag mit einigen interessanten Einsichten zu Dong Quai. Simple und Komplexe Überlegungen rund um Dong Quai in diesem Audio Kurzvortrag. Eine Ausgabe des Naturheilkunde Podcasts von und mit Sukadev Bretz, Yogalehrer bei Yoga Vidya. Anmerkung: Gesundheitliche Informationen in diesem Podcast sind nicht gedacht für Selbstdiagnose und Selbstbehandlung, sondern Gedankenanstöße aus dem Gebiet der Naturheilkunde. … „Dong Quai“ weiterlesen

The most common herald of menopause is the appearance of hot flashes. These are virtually synonymous in the experience of many women. An adjunct to hot flashes are night sweats where you awaken drenched in sweat, so much so sometimes that you not only need to change your night clothes but the sheets on your bed as well. Both night sweats and hot flashes can be disconcerting if you are frightened of them. Don’t be. A lot can be said about hot flashes, but there are only two facts that you need to know: First, they are completely harmless. Second, hot flashes are the only symptoms among a long list of stuff usually attributed to menopause that genuinely belong to it. Women of all ages get hot flashes especially strongly when their ovaries are removed surgically. During pre-menopause, thinner women often experience more drastic alterations in their estrogen levels and are therefore more likely than their bigger sisters to get stronger hot flashes. In most women, hot flashes are at their most intense during the last year or so before the end of menstruation and during the first year afterwards. Estrogen levels tend to be lower in pre-menopausal women with hot flashes than those without hot flashes. Yet it is quite clear that low estrogen, although it continues to get the blame for hot flashes, it is by no means all that is involved in their production. It is the sudden drop of estrogen in your body that is the real issue. And once your body becomes accustomed to lower levels of estrogen, most hot flashes gradually diminish. Often low estrogen is not involved in hot flashes at all. Hot flashes happen to women if they have been taking supplementary estrogen in HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) for a time and then stop. . There are certain foods and habits known to contribute greatly to the incidence of hot flashes. Stop cigarette smoking, drinking, caffeine, and eating hot spicy food. An overactive thyroid can cause hot flashes too, as can insulin resistance, the use of all sorts of potentially dangerous drugs from Big Pharma, and diabetes. Hot flashes are often the result of allergic reactions to foods and the chemicals in the environment. The high levels of steroid hormones used in pharmaceutical hormone replacement suppress important functions in your body, such as those that are connected with allergies and with your body's attempt to detoxify itself. When estrogen decreases rapidly in a menopausal woman who has been taking artificial hormones, then the underlying allergy or toxicity that was being masked by the hormones comes to the surface. Foods can give you reactions such as migraine, headaches and rises in blood pressure as well as hot flashes. It is time to look at your diet, since when offending foods like milk and all cows’ milk products, including yoghurt and cheeses, wheat, chocolate, or oranges are removed from the diet, hot flashes will diminish and may even cease altogether. By the way, extra estrogen does not “cure” hot flashes. It only masks them for a while. Actually, there is nothing to “cure,” because hot flashes are not a symptom of disease. They are a normal bodily change associated with the transition between the menstrual years and menopause. The standard medical treatment for hot flashes is estrogen. If you decide to go on estrogen for a few years “to get you through the rough patch,” what you are not told is that when you come off it, your hot flashes are likely to return in force—three years down the road or twenty. Women who have been filled full of fear of menopause—particularly professional women—sometimes sit in trepidation lest a hot flash come over them while in a business meeting to betray that they are menopausal. Women always think they are more evident to the outside world than they are. But even if they were, so what? Why should any woman agree, even tacitly, to buy into the general nonsense that menopause—or perhaps a swollen belly during pregnancy—is something disgraceful to be hidden? If you have been experiencing hot flashes, change your diet. Also use some powerful and benign herbs. Here are my favorites. They work beautifully: Sage: Make an infusion of 1 teaspoon of the dried leaves in a cup of water, allow it to steep for 10 minutes, then drink 1 tablespoon of the tea 1 to 4 times a day. Or you can use 10 to 25 drops of tincture of sage every day. Motherwort: It does not make a great tasting tea, so I prefer to take it as a tincture. Take 10 to 25 drops of tincture every 2 to 6 hours. Chastetree: Take 1 capsule of powdered berries 3 to 4 times a day, or 15 drops to 1 teaspoon of the tincture 1 to 3 times a day. Dong Quai: Make an infusion of a teaspoon of the dried root in a cup of boiling water and drink once a day. Or take 15 to 30 drops of tincture 1 to 3 times a day. Remember this: The long traditions of natural medicine view hot flashes as the body’s way of detoxifying itself and enhancing immunity. And recent research shows that even a slight raise in temperature in the body can be instrumental in doing both. For my personal recommendations click here.

In this discussion, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD shares CytoSolve Molecular Systems Analysis of Dong Quai effects on the Lung Congestion and Lung Health.