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Ep. 111: Stand For What You Believe, It’s Time To Challenge the Status Quo
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - June 14, 2022 21:12 - 26 minutesMany practitioners today are frustrated due to the limits of the healthcare system. But they continue to abide by the ineffective, systemic strategy that binds their ability to think outside the box to help better serve their patients. Many are afraid of opinions, judgements, and ridicule that m...
Ep. 110: This is What’s Missing in Most Holistic Wellness Certification Programs
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - June 07, 2022 21:05 - 29 minutesThere exists a dogmatic tendency in each and every respective field of health, wellness, and medicine. This creates a fragmented and broken system that ultimately leads patients astray. Dr. Connie’s personal experience as a patient and a clinician led her to create the most comprehensive metho...
Ep. 109: Key Missing Ingredient That’s Preventing You From Getting Your Patients the Results They Want
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - May 31, 2022 21:18 - 19 minutesMany practitioners tend to focus on their expert domain, which results in them defending their limitations. This is because each expert domain, or specialty, is only a piece of the bigger puzzle. Without the ability to see the big picture (complete puzzle), you’ll only end up providing increment...
Ep. 108: Your Clinical Knowledge is Only as Effective as Your Ability to Empower Your Patients to Help Themselves
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - May 25, 2022 04:28 - 18 minutesMany practitioners overly emphasize tangible, scientific knowledge when it comes to patient care. But oftentimes they're met with disappointment and frustration due to patient non-compliance. You have to remember that your knowledge is only as effective as your ability to elicit, in your patie...
Ep. 107: Understanding the Psychology of Chronically Ill Patients
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - May 17, 2022 20:47 - 27 minutesChronically ill patients struggle to get through their day. Many of them have lost their ability to perform basic functional daily tasks. This creates a complex psychological struggle that keeps them from having the will to help themselves get better. Despite well intended treatment approaches...
Ep. 106: Why You Need This Essential Skill to Improve Patient Compliance
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - May 10, 2022 20:47 - 16 minutesYour knowledge is only as good as your coaching skills. The ultimate goal is for the patient to buy into their own health, which will improve their compliance in working with you. In this episode, Dr. Connie talks about the importance of transformational coaching as the fundamental layer in pa...
Ep. 105: There is No “One Size Fits All” Treatment Protocol For Your Patients
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - May 03, 2022 20:39 - 13 minutesIn any given specialty in the field of medicine, there tends to be a "one size fits all" approach for specific conditions and ailments, whether it be through diet recommendations, medication prescriptions, or surgery. The one size fits all approach makes sense when we treat with the specialty ...
Functional Yoga Medicine Show Ep. 105: There is No “One Size Fits All” Treatment Protocol For Your Patients
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - May 03, 2022 20:39 - 13 minutesIn any given specialty in the field of medicine, there tends to be a "one size fits all" approach for specific conditions and ailments, whether it be through diet recommendations, medication prescriptions, or surgery. The one size fits all approach makes sense when we treat with the specialty ...
Ep. 104: Alignment Principles for Injury Prevention
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - April 26, 2022 21:47 - 53 minutesWhile Yoga is a healing practice for many, there is a potential for repetitive injury if muscle activation and proper alignment of joints is not kept in mind. We want you to begin to mindfully engage with your muscles to safeguard your joints. In this episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Sh...
Ep. 103: The Difference Between The Disempowering Health Practitioner and the Empowering Health Mentor
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - April 19, 2022 20:57 - 14 minutesThe medical system is failing both the patients and the practitioners. With its tendency towards specialization, practicing within the scope of practice, and depending on third party payer systems, the very foundation of the medical system has its many flaws built within it. This creates disempo...
Ep. 102: Gain Powerful Results for Your Patients Through Functional Yoga Medicine
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - April 12, 2022 19:50 - 13 minutesIn the name of holistic health, many practitioners are busy looking for different ways to treat and heal their patients. However, there lacks a truly integrative approach that aligns and connects the ancient wisdom with the modern medicine; the yin to the yang approach where all the pieces of th...
Ep. 101: Why Yoga is a Powerful Antidote to Disease
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - April 06, 2022 12:15 - 13 minutesWhile Yoga is a popular "exercise" trend, it's much more powerful as a healing modality that shifts our patients from sickness to health. It enables patients to become self empowered to move, eat, and feel better than ever before. Connecting movement with the breath allows the patient to connect...
Ep. 100: Why Theory is Dead and Application is Everything
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - March 29, 2022 20:51 - 15 minutesMost practitioners get hung up on theoretical understanding of their expertise. With flimsy data points that are sometimes referred to as "evidence based medicine", we often fail to take into account the miraculous ability of our bodies to heal themselves. This places emphasis on the practitio...
Ep. 99: Why the Medical System is Failing
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - March 22, 2022 22:10 - 11 minutesWhile the conventional medical system was regarded as the standard form of care, the efficacy of the system is now being questioned. This is because what was widely believed to be the "best" way in healthcare, many are finding that its actually perpetuating disease. This opens up doors for patie...
Ep. 98: Common Sense Approach to Healing
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - March 15, 2022 20:36 - 8 minutesWe often think healing is complex, scientific, and evidence based. But in truth, health and healing should be common sense in order for us to implement with success. In today's episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Show, Dr. Connie discusses a no BS, common sense approach to healing, and makes...
Ep. 97: Is Yoga Causing Injury To Your Body?
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - March 08, 2022 21:46 - 19 minutesThere is an increase in Yoga injuries today. As mentioned in last week's episode, not all Yoga certifications properly prepare Yoga teachers with necessary knowledge of the human body. With a surge of sedentary lifestyles today, many people struggle with proper posture and alignment in normal li...
Episode 96: Not ALL YOGA Certifications are the Same
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - March 01, 2022 21:16 - 16 minutesYoga teachers are a dime a dozen. To be an effective teacher, one must consider the implications of each pose when it comes to the anatomical and physiological capabilities and limitations of the student. Truth is that not all teacher certifications emphasize anatomy and physiology. In fact, m...
Ep. 95: ENCORE - The Power of Meditation
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - February 22, 2022 21:38 - 12 minutesThis episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Show is an encore of one of our most popular episodes. Meditation is the most powerful way we can cultivate self healing and self awareness to tap into our full potential. By altering our brain waves, we can promote endogenous healing chemicals to b...
Ep. 94: Y-O-G-A as a Powerful Healing Modality
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - February 15, 2022 22:13 - 13 minutesDespite what many think, Yoga is not a religion, making shapes with your body, or an exercise that requires flexibility. It's a powerful self empowering practice that allows our bodies to heal. In this episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Show, Dr. Connie redefines what YOGA is and what it is...
Ep. 93: Key Ingredient For Success
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - February 08, 2022 21:51 - 17 minutesAs practitioners of health and wellness, we are misguided by our education or certifications that keep us "limited" in our scope of practices. This is for liability as well as to respect the "compartmentalization" that exists in the name of "specialties" in the medical and health fields. In th...
Episode 92: Are You Empowering Your Patients or Clients, or Are You Disempowering Them?
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - February 02, 2022 16:04 - 19 minutesAs health and wellness practitioners, we are constantly focused on the well being of our patients and clients, but there's also theoretical and evidence based knowledge that we are responsible for. With increasing evidence toward intangible variables which affect our outcomes, it's important to ...
Episode 91: The Link Between Your Myofascia and Psychology
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - January 26, 2022 20:05 - 21 minutesDid you know myofascial pain is connected to your psychological state? Your myofascia responds to your mental and emotional state, so it would behoove you to recognize its role in musculoskeletal pain and the benefits of mindful meditation to create harmony within the body to help your body get ...
Episode 90: ENCORE: Education is Making You Broke
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - January 19, 2022 09:28 - 15 minutesThis episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Show is an encore of one of our most popular episodes. Education is highly dogmatic and highly bureaucratic. Nobody in primary, secondary, or even advanced education asks who you are at the core. Our individual viewpoints are completely ignored and ...
Ep. 89: Are You Postured For Optimal Health?
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - January 12, 2022 16:11 - 21 minutesMost health and wellness practitioners tend to have a microscopic view when searching for solutions for their clients, and this view tends to be limited to their area of expertise. This is a common mistake that practitioners make that prevents them from truly making a serious impact in the lives...
Episode 88: Why The Alkaline Method™ Was Created
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - January 05, 2022 11:47 - 26 minutesThere are so many options when it comes to holistic living, from various diets, a plethora of exercises, meditations, supplements, etc. Science is constantly reviewing, researching, and progressing new and improved ways to achieve optimal health. But the truth is that science alone does not prov...
Episode 87: Obstacles are Opportunities in Disguise
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - December 28, 2021 21:26 - 13 minutesIn this episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Show, Dr. Connie shares about the health struggles she's experienced this year and her first hand experience with our current healthcare system. She believes that our healthcare is really "sick care", and through her experiences has learned the val...
Episode 86: ENCORE - How to Apply Modernized Functional Medicine in Your Health and Wellness Practice
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - December 22, 2021 14:34 - 20 minutesThis episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Show is an encore of one of our most popular episodes. Getting to the root cause of disease is the motto for Functional Medicine. While there's some truth to this statement, Dr. Connie feels at times it's over complicated and over compartmentalized ...
Episode 85: ENCORE - Finding Your Purpose In the Work You Do Is Key To A Successful Life
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - December 14, 2021 22:16 - 13 minutesThis episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Show is an encore of one of our most popular episodes. Humans are driven by the motive to serve. But we can only serve when we are "full". When we ourselves are full of doubt, lack confidence, and are in constant self betrayal, we become very egocen...
Ep. 84: ENCORE - You've Been Programmed To Be A Technician
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - December 07, 2021 22:13 - 12 minutesThis episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Show is an encore of one of our most popular episodes. In school we’re taught exactly what to do and how to be. We are taught to follow the rules and are discouraged from thinking outside the box, especially if you are a trained healthcare practitio...
Episode 83: Why Your Career Is DOOMED For Failure
Functional Yoga Medicine Show with Dr. Connie Cheung - December 01, 2021 14:00 - 11 minutesFollowing the rules and defending the limits of your profession is a sure way to fail in your career. For many people, their career is likely a big part of their life's purpose. If this is the case for you, you must be willing to ask better questions to enable yourself to succeed in your career ...
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