Zagreb might be where you have your layover, but it’s probably not on your itinerary. The beach cities like Dubrovnik and Split seem to get all of the love. An acquaintance stopped by for four hours during a layover and told me that she felt like she’d seen everything. I had to tell her it’s one of the rare cities that gets better with time.
Read MoreCroatia is big right now. Yacht week. Hot beach destinations. It’s the it place for your Instagram story in Europe. And that was before they got to the final of the World Cup.
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Like myself, Bronwen Williams started her practice after experiencing trauma and injury. Her work is based on healing arts, shamanism, and yoga philosophy and her practice includes craniosacral therapy and bodywork. Here's what she had to say about the positive health effects of craniosacral therapy.
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Dr. Joanna Fassl is a practitioner we really respect. She practices out of a beautiful apartment in SoMa and has several different modalities that she can draw on. In addition to being a chiropractor (she was the valedictorian of her Chiropractic Medicine class) she's an artist, musician, and yoga and pilates instructor.
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Renee Hahn's office is at 44 Gough at the Mission/Market St./Hayes Valley border. She has a doctorate in Chinese Medicine is a skilled acupuncturist and herbalist in addition to practicing craniosacral. She told me that Chinese medicine is the great love of her life. I found her style to be calm, cerebral, methodical, and deeply dedicated.
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There are two types of neuro-biofeedback (which is usually called neurofeedback), protocol based and dynamic. At San Francisco Neurofeedback Center we use Neuroptimal, which is dynamic neurofeedback. Dynamic neurofeedback does not try to "downtrain" or "uptrain" your brain into any particular frequency. Instead, it reads where your brain currently is and lets your brain make gradual changes back to its normal state. Dynamic neurofeedback has the benefit of being condition agnostic.
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There are three therapies that come up over and over again as successful in helping people recover from head trauma.
1) Neurofeedback. It's gentle, it's straightforward, and you can do it by yourself at home. I'll dedicate the next post to why it's become so popular. In San Francisco it seems like every other person now knows what neurofeedback is. Exciting times.
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As I noted in the last post, while I don't believe that your MD has the answers to accelerate your recovery from a concussion, there are a lot of good things that she will tell you to do. In this post I will talk about the advice that most MDs give and tools you can use to follow their directions.
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I'm not a medical practitioner. So I can only speak from my own recovery experience and my experience witnessing people close to me recover from concussions. What does neurofeedback have to do with this? We'll find out!
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If you workout then you have probably experienced happiness and joy after working out. Maybe you just think that these are endorphins. Chemicals in your brain temporarily making you happy. Okay. Let me provide a more convincing example.
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In Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as other non-allopathic medicine it is usually accepted that the mind and body are deeply connected. This can sound like just another meaningless maxim promoting mental health until you really start thinking about some examples of the connect between mind and body.
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