In Traditional Chinese Medicine, our Lungs are the Prime Minister or Minister of Heaven for the body - protecting and detoxifying the body through the skin and the breath - taking in fresh prana to "feed" the body, and helping maintain balanced fluid through working with the kidneys.

The Lungs...

Welcome to {Y}ingenuity - practices diving deeper into Traditional Chinese Medicine and including long, deep holds to allow you to settle, soften, and become more introspective.

Today we are working with the Shen, or the House of the Spirit - the heart. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Hear...

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, our liver filters, detoxifies, nourishes, replenishes, and stores the blood - helping move blood and Qi throughout the body. The liver stores sugar in the form of glycogen, releasing it into the blood stream whenever the body requires extra energy and builds vari...

Chi, prana, or vital energy has a pathway - intake, assimilation and elimination. We are born with a certain amount of chi which is stored in our Kidneys and throughout our lives, we also acquire Chi through food, breath, environment. This "acquired chi" moves through the body from the Lungs/He...

I admit, I didn't always know what my Spleen exactly did other than was involved in immunity. But now - I have a whole new respect for this little organ system that does so much from digestion to filtration to controlling blood and fluids in the body to immune function to holding white blood cel...

There are two kinds of chi - inherited and collected. Our kidneys house our storage of inherited energy which is what we want to conserve for a longer life! Together, the kidneys and adrenals are like a power plant - the adrenals are the spark and the kidneys are the energy storage. To bring b...

The Pericardium protects the heart physically AND emotionally - regulating blood distribution, linking the sacral chakra to the heart chakra, and protecting the heart from excess/deficient emotional energies.

In this practice we focus on the upper body - chest, inner arms, neck and upper back to...