by Andrea Trank | Dec 28, 2021
What is Toning and How Can It Improve Your Health? Toning is nothing new. Many ancient healers understood that sound has healing properties. When retired corporate executive, 68-year-old Eric Knouse discovered it, he was experimenting on himself using the HeartMath...
by Andrea Trank | Dec 5, 2021
Understanding and Changing Behaviors are not the Same What works when you are trying to change your autonomic nervous system’s reaction to events and situations? As I pointed out in part 1 of this series, (see earlier blog post here) there is a reason your...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 28, 2021
Finding New Ways to Heal through Understanding our Biology! “A symptom will persist until it is understood, not pathologized”. These words struck me as incredibly wise as I was attending the Polyvagal Institute’s Many Voices of Polyvagal Theory Virtual...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 21, 2021
Looks Can Be Deceiving When You Have Hashimoto’s On Monday last week, I was looking and feeling great as I had new professional photos taken of me. By Tuesday morning, I felt sick as a dog. This, unfortunately, is quite typical for people with chronic health...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 7, 2021
What’s the Difference and Why it Matters! Thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes– I think we all confuse these terms a bit. Having studied and practiced yoga for many years, and learned about HeartMath tools and the Polyvagal theory most recently, I...
by Andrea Trank | Oct 31, 2021
Halloween Scares Me a Bit because it Starts the Sugar Craving Season! Confession Time: When I was a child, I loved sugar. My favorites included TastyKake Butterscotch Crimpets and at Halloween, Kit Kats. My memories of Halloween include counting the stash of candy...
by Andrea Trank | Oct 17, 2021
What Does Normalcy Feel to You? Stop reading for a moment and close your eyes and sense this in your body. For me, it feels energetic and relaxed at the same time. This weekend I got a taste of normalcy having one of my children, Daniel, and his significant other,...
by Andrea Trank | Oct 10, 2021
Why Bottom-Up not Top-Down May Work for Mental Health! Today is World Mental Health Day. Perhaps we should rename this as “The Role of the Nervous System World Mental Health Day.” Here is what I have learned through my own mental health healing journey. When I was in...
by Andrea Trank | Oct 3, 2021
What Brought You to the Yoga Mat? If I took a poll at my yoga classes that I teach in person or online, I would guess that 60 percent of the students want to feel better in their bodies and 25 percent want to feel better in their psyche including mental, emotional and...
by Andrea Trank | Sep 26, 2021
Recipe of the Month Blog Best Blueberry Muffins Adapted from Paleo Running Mom This recipe does have a touch of coconut sugar for the crumbs on top. Otherwise, no sugar, no grains, and you can make it egg-free as well! For the crumb topping 5 tbsp Super-Fine Natural...
