In the months after my mother-in-law passed away in 2015, my wife developed a strong desire to adopt a dog. Her search led to Wilbur, a 1-year old French Bulldog whose owner was preparing to move to the States and couldn't take Wilbur along. Read more
When our Mom graduated from a Seoul area high school in 1963, her family didn't have the money to send her to university. Thankfully, she had a friend whose father hired our Mom to do secretarial work for a local hospital. She saved what she could from that job and ultimately put herself through a 2-year college program to earn her diploma. Read more
As a young child of immigrant parents in Canada, I didn't speak much English when I began kindergarten. I was the only East Asian child in my class, and my Mom tells me that I had terrible separation anxiety over the first few weeks of school. Read more
Much of society teaches that our value is tied to tangible things such as our physical looks, what school we went to, how much money we make, the home we live in, and our mode of transportation. Read more
To open up tight hips and shoulders, this is a movement worth doing daily.
Be sure to note the position of the back leg - the foot of the back leg is swung closer to the front foot to create more external rotation within both hips. Read more
One of the key discoveries I stumbled upon during my years of private practice is demonstrated in the clip above.
The idea is to take our joints through their natural range of motion while holding some weight that encourages healthy elasticity of the ligamentous capsule surrounding the joint we're working on. Read more
