Happy new year to you! I’d like to pose a question to you…..how is the health of your heart? At this time of the year (Summer in Australia) there is often a big focus on digestive health. People want to start the new year feeling healthy and vibrant. It’s also a great time to remember that the health of your heart is just as important. After nine years working as a herbalist and naturopath, I am now specialising in the following areas: Cardiovascular health: cholesterol manag...

Whether you are behind a desk, behind the wheel or just wake up in the fetal position, our posture is likely to suffer as we round through the shoulders and tighten through the chest. With poor posture often comes a myriad of other issues such as muscle imbalances, headaches, pain and acheyness, neural impingement, shallow breathing and disc degeneration just to name a few. Aesthetically a hunch back and forward head posture doesn't do much for our physique so with a new year beginning why not s...

1 Dimensional Breathing Breathing is something that comes naturally it is something we do without even thinking about it. That being said we are able to disrupt our “normal” breathing pattern weather it is through injury, prolonged periods of poor posture, prolonged illness or bad habits, this causes us to re-learn how we breath the problem with this is it can lead to difficulty exercising to our full potential, pain and tension in neck and chest, poor breathing habits can even be a caus...