Chinese Medicine
A Point for Opening the Chest and Calming the Stomach: Landscape of Your Body #14
https://leilaninavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Kidney-27.mp4 Every time I press this point, I find myself drawing in a deep, slow breath. It’s tender, but it feels so good. Kidney 27 (a.k.a. Shu Fu, or “Shu Palace”) is known to “unbind the chest,” for people who are dealing with lung tightness, coughing, or phlegm. That unbinding action also sometimes helps bring…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 11: Herbal Medicine & Systems Thinking (with Judyth Shamosh)
“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” – The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien That’s a favorite quote of my guest Judyth Shamosh, which she relates to seeing each person’s health as a whole system, and as part of even larger whole systems.…
Read MoreA Point for Shoulder Tension, Headaches and Feeling Pressured: Landscape of Your Body #13
“Storing stress” in your shoulders? Ever have tension headaches? Feeling pressured by too many responsibilities? For all those reasons, I love massaging this point with a massage cane until it softens up, sometimes giving a twitch or two on its way to release. I talked about Gall Bladder 21, called Jian Jing (Shoulder Well) in…
Read MoreLive Video: Anger, Sprouts, Pressure, and Getting Pissed About Dirty Socks (the Wood Element)
Ever heard that the Liver is affected by anger, or PMS is “a Liver thing”? Let’s dive a little deeper into what Wood energy is all about, different flavors of anger (irritability, resentment, frustration, feeling pressured…), and how the Liver/Gall Bladder impacts anger AND, vice versa, anger impacts the Liver/Gall Bladder network. If this kind…
Read MoreLive Video: Decision-Making, Grief, Judgmentalness, and Sunset (the Metal Element)
An impromptu live video at Heart time (the mid-day hours), about Metal energy in the Fall season, in our bodies, and in our emotions. + 3 ways to connect to and support your Lung/Large Intestine Metal qualities. If you want to dive deeper into explorations and tools like these, contact me and we can connect…
Read MoreWhy I Feel Called to Do What I Do, My Grandpa’s Feasts, and a Frozen Chicken Sausage Epiphany
Sharing some things you probably don’t know about why I do what I do, and how I came to feel the way I feel. A story about my grandpa’s five-flavored feasts, a time when I felt guilty if I shaved my legs, and my frozen chicken sausage epiphany. This is why I feel so called…
Read MoreAn Mian (Peaceful Sleep): Sneak Peek at Acupressure for Restorative Sleep (live video)
In this live video (originally posted on Instagram), I share the point An Mian. Its name translates to “Peaceful Sleep,” and that’s exactly what it’s for. This is one of the points we’ll be learning in Acupressure for Restorative Sleep. Get all the info and sign up right here: https://leilaninavar.teachable.com/p/acupressure-for-restorative-sleep Ready to learn the Qigong…
Read MoreA Point for Breathing, Sleeping & Grieving: Landscape of Your Body #12
https://leilaninavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lung-1-Video-September-2021.mp4 Here’s a need-to-know point on the body landscape when dealing with breathing concerns, sadness or grief, or waking up between 1-3am. This is the first place that the Lung Channel rises to the surface of the body. We call it Lung 1 in English and Zhong Fu (Central Palace) in Mandarin. We also know…
Read MoreEpisode 35: The Dreams that Shape Us (with Leilani Navar & Steve Ernenwein)
Something new and much more personal for this Full Moon: You’re about to hear me share a series of 3 of the most potent dreams of my life, and how they’ve been woven into my healing. There’s the personal physical level, the ancestral, and the societal levels. There’s a yurt at the sandy confluence of…
Read MoreEpisode 34: Dreams of Exes plus Bathroom & Gotta-Go Dreams (highlights from Dreamers’ Den members episodes with Leilani Navar & Kezia Vida)
Do you recall any dreams of being back together with an ex? How about needing to pee and not being able to find a bathroom? These are more common dream-themes than you might realize, and there can be much more going on here than the obvious. Click Play below to hear a deep-dive on these…
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