Health Topics
Week of August 13, 2022
Got Free Flowing Qi?
Once the umbilical cord is cut, we are responsible to make and maintain our energy and prevent it from stagnating. Let’s chat strategies for optimizing our Qi.
Be a good Sherlock Holmes in the lab of you!
Everything is information/instruction to our body/mind field. And then there is the biofeedback from our body/mind with various symptoms and signs giving us clues that what we are doing is working or asking us to make changes. Let’s make sense of the instructions and the feedback.
Then and Now…wisdom from all the ages.
One size does not fit all. Ancient wisdom traditions knew this and so do modern-day biohackers. Wisdom is everywhere, both old and new, and often they’re saying the same things. Lifestyle tips from Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and modern medicine.
Erin E. Raskin, DACM, L.Ac. has been involved in various aspects of Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, nutrition, lifestyle and Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM) for over 40 years.
Erin’s eco-friendly office is in San Diego where she has been in private practice since 1992. In 1993, she piloted acupuncture for pain management at Kaiser Permanente. She joined the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine faculty in 1995 and was a clinical supervisor at San Diego Hospice and the Institute for Palliative Medicine, Seniors Clinic and Veterans Clinic.
In 2014 Erin joined UCSD’s Center for Integrative Medicine creating inpatient acupuncture and massage for hospitalized patients. She also provided TEAM at UCSD Student Health Services. She recently was part of a national research study providing acupuncture in the Emergency Department.
For decades she has been a health and wellness educator to her patients, students and the public on various topics; a host for the Death Café and during Covid led many online Self Care with Self Massage workshops.
Erin is a lifelong student of ancient Eastern healing arts and modern science, blending wisdom from different healing traditions. Erin cultivates her own Qi with many self-care activities including yoga, meditation, cooking, ceramics, singing, art, reading, solitude, nature, walking, time with hubby, family and friends.