Nourishing Life: Where Health Meets Consciousness

Episode 10: Holistic Gynecology: The Root of Healing

Healing is a constant process, and it will be different for everyone. New issues will arise at all different parts of your life.  It can cause frustration , and uncertainty, if you know what you need to do but you can’t start.  The first step is dominating your Qi, or wanting to feel more balance in your life. We need to discover what’s important to us and start at our root, finding out core values.  All of the ways that one person may experience stress comes down to only THREE things:  Un...

Episode 13: Get pregnant Easily by doing this…

To achieve a healthy pregnancy, you have to begin by being a healthy person. My feeling is the need to treat the person holistically. Holistic doesn’t really have anything to do with alternative medicine, looking at how all of the systems are working together. One of the more useful concepts that Daoism uses is that everything is holographic. This is why Chinese medicine uses a lot of metaphors and also how diagnostic techniques evolved. Coincidentally, t​his ancient view of the universe is...

Episode 9: Holistic Gynecology: Yoga for Women

Today’s Yoga session is about creating whole body balance by harnessing the energies of Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang are reflected both in the body, and in nature. It’s one through line from the cosmic (macrocosm-in nature) to the molecular (microcosm in body.) If energy is not circulated well, it gets gathers and becomes blocked and stagnant in the upper part of your body creating an imbalance between the upper and lower body.  This practice is aimed to activate pelvic blood flow in the lo...

Episode 8: Breath Practice for Hormonal Balance

I want you to imagine something right now. There is a mechanism inside your body, a process that is free, quick, and simple- that can slow down the aging process, including reproductive aging; that can work towards preventing neurological degenerative diseases like dementia and Alzheimer's disease. This process is called Yogic Breathing.  Yogic Breathing: **Increases Vagal Tone activating the relaxation response.  **Suppresses tumor function,  specifically brain tumors.  **Neutralizes the i...

Episode 11: You can’t force fertility.

Today, Dr. Saraswati brings you through the Dao and feeling alone in the universe. If we can align ourselves with the dao, it can result in harmony and ultimately, fertility. 

Episode 12: Are you Ovulating?

Is your menstrual cycle irregular? Are your menstrual symptoms all over the place? Are you not getting pregnant? Taking your Basal Body Temperature consistently for at least 3 cycles, might be able to help you find the answers to some of these questions.

Episode 3: The Key To Healthy Aging

In this first video of Dr. Saraswati's Healthy Aging series, her and her "Partner in Healing" and Operations Director at Nourishing life, Amanda, have a conversation about many interesting Healthy aging topics. They connect about personal stories, what Yang Sheng means, the cycles of 7 and how things can change with your body from stress, and about your body's resources and their top core values. They also talk about quick reaction and some quick practices on how to distract yourself from th...

Episode 1: How to Calm Down Feeling Overwhelmed by Life

~When Health Meets Consciousness~ Hormonal Balance Series #1 Did you know that hormones drive just about everything meaningful in the whole female experience? In this video, Dr. Saraswati Robin talks about women's hormones being in balance, and having the right relationships with each other.  All the things that take you out of balance take you away and causes you to act in ways not connected to your true nature: of being confident, authentic, easy-going, generous, loving, open, true to you...

Episode 2: Fertility Healing 4 Best Massage Techniques

In this session, Dr. Saraswati discusses some of the underlying conditions that lead to fertility challenges. She describes how in Chinese medicine, how health is reflected in flow, and describes how the lower abdomen is not protected by boney processes and therefore is designed by nature to have free flow. Learn in this session how to vitalize and develop easy circulation through self-massage, to open all the different layers and energies needed to support robust fertility. 

Episode 4: Lion’s Gate

The outer potency of this rare cosmological confluence bridges to our inner landscape as the rising visibility of sirius imbues the 3rdeye to awaken and claims synchronicity and alignment with the great pyramid in Giza, as the solid sovereign tripod base of our own being. May we plant new seeds on this newmoon -the intentions of leo - a quiet gentle confidence, with radiance onto everything in its field, a commitment to a living resonance of heartful, generous, compassionate energy that love...

Episode 6: What is Chinese Medicine?

Have you ever felt that alternative medicine is "woowoo" and based in something you don't understand? How in the world can an acupuncture needle do anything to heal you? Do you have a condition that is too deep or too strong to actually really rely on alternative and integrative medicine?  Let me show you how Chinese medicine and alternative therapies operate and work, how they are a full system of medicine and truly a doorway into healing.

Episode 5 An Introduction to Yoga with Dr. Saraswati

Many of us feel alone on our paths and think everyone else is on track.  Do you feel lost in your head?  Do you feel practicing yoga is physical exercise and no more than that?  I am here to teach you and yoga and the potency of healing. We will also go over the importance of feeling greater than yourself. Yoga is a path step by step slowly to connect to your resources to start to feel comfort, healing stress.

Episode 7: Vagal Tone with Loving Kindness Meditation

Offering yourself Loving Kindness is NOT easy.  This Loving Kindness meditation (METTA) cultivates feelings of safety, health, and peace.  Take a moment, and extend love and kindness to yourself, those around you, and the world. Dr. Saraswati explains how this practice can stimulate your Vagus nerve and what stimulating the Vagus nerve can do for you!

Ram Dass "Be Here Now" Practice for 50th Anniversary

Today in memorial, Saraswati brings us through a tribute to Ram Dass celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of his iconic book Be Here Now in 1971. This video contains Ram Dass' teachings on holding presence, moving energy into balance using concentration (dharana) and breath (prana). "Be Here Now, Ram Dass’s monumentally influential and seminal work, still stands as the highly readable centerpiece of Western articulation of Eastern philosophy, and how to live joyously a hundred ...

Unpacking Dao Flow Yoga

Today Dr. Saraswati brings you through a Dao Flow Yoga practice, for women's health. How does yoga actually help women's bodies and bring hormones into balance? This practice will show you some of my favorite healing techniques while energizing your body and leaving you with more energy than what you started with!   Movement is the most important thing for your body. We want to energize and stimulate blood flow into your pelvic bowl  because hormones are released into the blood and when t...

Get Pregnant Easily by Doing This...

To achieve a healthy pregnancy, you have to begin by being a healthy person. My feeling is the need to treat the person holistically. Holistic doesn’t really have anything to do with alternative medicine, looking at how all of the systems are working together. One of the more useful concepts that Daoism uses is that everything is holographic. This is why Chinese medicine uses a lot of metaphors and also how diagnostic techniques evolved. Coincidentally, t​his ancient view of the universe is...

Are you Ovulating?

Did you know that Basal Body Temperature is one of the easiest way to predict ovulation? Is your menstrual cycle irregular? Are your menstrual symptoms all over the place? Are you not getting pregnant? Taking your Basal Body Temperature consistently for at least 3 cycles, might be able to help you find the answers to some of these questions. To learn more about Basal Body Temperature and more about preparing your body for pregnancy check out our 9 module online course: www.nourishinglife...

You can't force fertility...

The Dao, The Divine Feminine, and feeling alone in the Universe.  If we can align ourselves with the dao, it can result in harmony and ultimately, fertility.  The feminine allows for time, she waits.  She holds space, like a womb.  And bring empathy as a presence in the world. No longer self-critical or ashamed of her connection to her emotions, she walks through the world open-hearted.  She is a healing container and provides the space for wholesome action and growth to take place. She ...

Holistic Gynecology: The Root of Healing

Healing is a constant process, and it will be different for everyone. New issues will arise at all different parts of your life.  It can cause frustration , and uncertainty, if you know what you need to do but you can’t start.  The first step is dominating your Qi, or wanting to feel more balance in your life. We need to discover what’s important to us and start at our root, finding out core values.  All of the ways that one person may experience stress comes down to only THREE things:  Un...

Holistic Gynecology: Yoga for Women

Today’s Yoga session is about creating whole body balance by harnessing the energies of Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang are reflected both in the body, and in nature. It’s one through line from the cosmic (macrocosm-in nature) to the molecular (microcosm in body.) If energy is not circulated well, it gets gathers and becomes blocked and stagnant in the upper part of your body creating an imbalance between the upper and lower body.  This practice is aimed to activate pelvic blood flow in the lo...

Breath Practice for Hormonal Balance

I want you to imagine something right now. There is a mechanism inside your body, a process that is free, quick, and simple- that can slow down the aging process, including reproductive aging; that can work towards preventing neurological degenerative diseases like dementia and Alzheimer's disease. This process is called Yogic Breathing. Yogic Breathing: **Increases Vagal Tone activating the relaxation response. **Suppresses tumor function,  specifically brain tumors. **Neutralizes the i...

Vagal Tone with Loving Kindness Meditation

Offering yourself Loving Kindness is NOT easy. This Loving Kindness meditation (METTA) cultivates feelings of safety, health, and peace. Take a moment, and extend love and kindness to yourself, those around you, and the world. Dr. Saraswati explains how this practice can stimulate your Vagus nerve and what stimulating the Vagus nerve can do for you! You may use this practice as often as you need! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK COMMUNITY!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/37988... VISIT OUR WEBSITE!: ...

What is Chinese Medicine?

Have you ever felt that alternative medicine is "woowoo" and based in something you don't understand? How in the world can an acupuncture needle do anything to heal you? Do you have a condition that is too deep or too strong to actually really rely on alternative and integrative medicine?  Let me show you how Chinese medicine and alternative therapies operate and work, how they are a full system of medicine and truly a doorway into healing. I want to introduce to you what Chinese medicine i...

An Introduction to Yoga with Dr. Saraswati

Many of us feel alone on our paths and think everyone else is on track.  Do you feel lost in your head?  Do you feel practicing yoga is physical exercise and no more than that?  I am here to teach you and yoga and the potency of healing. We will also go over the importance of feeling greater than yourself. Yoga is a path step by step slowly to connect to your resources to start to feel comfort, healing stress. JOIN OUR FACEBOOK COMMUNITY!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/37988... VISIT OU...

Lion's Gate 8/08/2021

The Key to Healthy Aging

**Note!: First 15 seconds is Dr. Saraswati and Amanda dancing in their chairs!! Head to YouTube to see it in action :p** In this first video of Dr. Saraswati's Healthy Aging series, her and her "Partner in Healing" and Operations Director at Nourishing life, Amanda, have a conversation about many interesting Healthy aging topics. They connect about personal stories, what Yang Sheng means, the cycles of 7 and how things can change with your body from stress, and about your body's resources a...

Fertility Healing: 4 Best Massage Techniques

*NOTE* The first 40 seconds of the audio sounds a little crazy because we recorded outside and you can hear cicadas! It will go away within 40 seconds! Thank you for Listening! In this session, Dr. Saraswati discusses some of the underlying conditions that lead to fertility challenges. She describes how in Chinese medicine, how health is reflected in flow, and describes how the lower abdomen is not protected by boney processes and therefore is designed by nature to have free flow. Learn in ...

Season 1 Episode 1

In our latest episode, Dr. Saraswati Robin talks about women's hormones being in balance, and having the right relationships with each other. All the things that take you out of balance take you away and causes you to act in ways not connected to your true nature: of being confident, authentic, easy-going, generous, loving, open, true to yourself, connected to yourself and the people around you, and offering your unique and needed gifts out into the world. Come with Dr. Saraswati on this jou...

How to Calm Down Feeling Overwhelmed by Life

In our latest episode, Dr. Saraswati Robin talks about women's hormones being in balance, and having the right relationships with each other. All the things that take you out of balance take you away and causes you to act in ways not connected to your true nature: of being confident, authentic, easy-going, generous, loving, open, true to yourself, connected to yourself and the people around you, and offering your unique and needed gifts out into the world. Come with Dr. Saraswati on this jou...