Five Stones Healing Arts & Wellness Center

09/12/2023

Learn to incorporate fresh, seasonal eating into your weekly routine​​​​​​​​​Find new ways to increase strength and flexibility through balanced movement​​​​​​​​​Learn tools to manage everyday stress and maintain more calm, even when things are chaotic

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09/01/2023

Lives get chaotic and messy, but that doesn't mean you need to feel chaotic and messy. Mindfulness practices help us to respond to life rather than react - there is a profound difference. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​If you're looking to feel more centered in life, take the Virtual Mindful Way. This is a self-paced 4-week course to help you tap into the energies of fall and find calm within yourself so that you can approach life with a full cup.

If you purchase before Sept 16th, get $20 off with code MINDFUL

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08/28/2023

Are you keeping up with your health care? ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​As we head back to school and vacations slow down it can be a great time to check in with your health care team - be it a doctor, acupuncturist, massage therapist, nutritionist, etc.

Here at Five Stones we have a great health care team - and when you sign up for our membership you get the support you need to reach your health goals. Whether you are looking to heal from a chronic illness, lose weight, or balance hormones, we are here to help you reach you best, most healed self.

Give us a call today - 703-669-6118

08/23/2023

Dr Martha Calihan is so honored to once again be voted Loudoun's Favorite Alternative Medicine Provider! Thank you to all who voted, and for all who put their trust in Dr Calihan to help them on their journey to wellness. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

08/14/2023

The Functional Medicine Timeline has really transformed my practice. I am so honored to be featured on The Institute for Functional Medicine's page talking about it.

The functional medicine timeline is a cornerstone of the patient-clinician relationship. This tool allows practitioners to capture the patient’s important life events, family history, and genetic information from in utero to present day. In particular, the tool helps pinpoint antecedents, triggers, and mediators (ATMs) to help identify any role they play—past or present—in the patient’s disease. In the following video, Martha Calihan, MD, IFMCP (Five Stones Healing Arts & Wellness Center) describes the clinical connections that can be made using the timeline: https://hubs.la/Q01-DqCW0

08/11/2023

Take a deep breath and send your awareness down into your feet. Where are they? Inside a shoe, on the floor, hanging in the air? Are they comfortable?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Take another deep breath and send it down to your toes. How are you? Where are you? Feel the breath fill your body, then empty.

We live so much in our heads, not noticing the body we carry around. Our bodies hold so much - pain, happiness, stress, joy, anger. When we learn to listen we understand better what they need to be in balance.

Find your balance with Five Stones at our Mindful Morning on September 30th. Head to our webpage (link in bio) to sign up!

08/09/2023

Functional Medicine digs deeper: WHY are you experiencing symptoms? Simply medicating the symptoms doesn't solve the problem, it places a band-aid over it. And eventually that band-aid gets old and falls off and the original wound is still there. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Optimize your lifestyle, diet, and how you handle stress and you will eliminate symptoms as your body heals from the underlying imbalance, or cause of the disease.

Functional Medicine is a journey to a healthier you, and you are worth it.

08/04/2023

Do you find meditation impossible? Are you trying to "think nothing" and instead thinking of EVERYTHIG? Maybe your thoughts seem to race and make you anxious when you even think about meditation. You are not alone, and this is actually very common. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​One misconception about meditation is that you must sit still and empty your mind and you will find bliss. This may work for monks in Tibetan monasteries, but it rarely works for people with busy lives.

The facilitators for Mindful Morning will create a safe space for you to explore what is coming up in mediation and teach how to meditate when you are busy with a busy mind. Because everyone can meditate!

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08/01/2023

Summer foods are best eaten raw, and have a high water content to aid in hydration during the hot months. Salads, hummus platters, and lighter proteins such as fish and beans offer cooling energy to balance the heat of summer. Curries and spicy foods are also energetically cooling, as they stimulate sweating. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Enjoy the bounty of the season by shopping at local farms or farmers markets and creating delicious meals to share with friends and family al fresco.

07/31/2023

I have been thinking a lot these past few days about a conversation I recently had with a friend about healing. We were talking about the need for strength; strength to heal, both physically, emotionally and spiritually, and strength to stay well. This is very much the message we receive culturally;...

07/28/2023

Does it feel like you're racing around from commitment to commitment, from event to event, with no time to breathe? Are you grabbing convenient food to race back out the door and onto the next thing? ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​This September, give yourself time to breathe. At Five Stones Institute's Mindful Morning half-day retreat you will enter a safe, calm space in which you can let go. You will be rejuvenated with a gentle yoga practice, centered with meditation, and nourished by local foods.

Join us on September 30th and refill your cup.

07/26/2023

Are you tired of going to the doctor just to be given a prescription for your symptoms? Or even worse, told there's nothing wrong? ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​I became frustrated by this practice, both as a physician and patient, and that frustration led to my discovery of Functional Medicine. Functional Medicine is root cause medicine - it is looking deeper into what imbalance in the body is causing the symptoms. It is getting curious about how diet, lifestyle, stress, and history of trauma are showing up physically, and looking for the changes we can make to bring the body back into balance, thereby eliminating the symptoms.

These changes don't happen overnight. Much as we'd like to eat healthy one day and feel great the next, healing takes time, commitment, accountability.

Call us today to begin your healing journey!