Transitioning from Spring to Summer with TCM - Root + Bones

Transitioning from Spring to Summer with TCM

TCM conceptualizes the transition from spring to summer as a significant shift in the balance of Qi (life force energy) and the body’s relationship to our external environment. As we continue to experience building Yang...
Emerging with Hun: The Spiritual Force of Spring - Root + Bones

Emerging with Hun: The Spiritual Force of Spring

Traversing the cycles of the year to the rhythm of the seasons, we are time and again reminded that each element has multidimensional connections that shape our lives. The Spring season corresponds to the element...
Spring, the Liver, and Hormonal Balance - Root + Bones

Spring, the Liver, and Hormonal Balance

The Spring season marks the transition from the Yin to the Yang phases of the year, as the focus shifts from substance to energy. It is an important time to release the accumulations of Winter...
Harmonizing the Transition to Spring - Root + Bones

Harmonizing the Transition to Spring

As the days lengthen and temperatures start to climb, we begin crossing over into the Yang phase of the year, though we are wise to remember that we remain in the domain of the liminal....
Nutritional Presence: Eating with the Seasons - Root + Bones

Nutritional Presence: Eating with the Seasons

The belief that nature is inherently intelligent shines through all of TCM, which prioritizes teaching us to align ourselves with that intelligence in the pursuit of truly vibrant health. One of the arguably simplest ways...
Nurturing Radiant Health from Spring to Summer - Root + Bones

Nurturing Radiant Health from Spring to Summer

Traditional Chinese Medicine can aptly be understood as the art of radiant health – a state of optimal well-being and vitality founded upon balance in the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. Thus, the cultivation of...
Schizandra for the Transition to Spring - Root + Bones

Schizandra for the Transition to Spring

Traditional Chinese Medicine offers a framework to understand our place in the web of life, drawing connections between Earth and the body’s life force that can be seen as a magnificent and all-encompassing dance. The...