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Hot Yoga, Pilates, Functional Medicine, Physical Therapy
Healing as many people as possible inside and out utilizing the most creative and progressive proprietary blend of research based techniques and nutraceuticals to promote healthy, functional, and vibrant lives.
10/25/2025
The True Practice of Ahimsa (Non-Violence)
You’ve learned that Ahimsa is not just about being kind to others, but about being kind to yourself. Improper alignment is a form of violence to the self—it forces the body to compensate and suffer.
The Teaching: Extend Ahimsa (Non-Violence) to your own body. Practice impeccable, functional alignment as an act of self-respect and self-preservation. This is the deepest form of care.
To Remember: Honor your true edge, never push past it.
10/24/2025
Finding the Balance (Sthira Sukham Asanam)
Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra on posture teaches us to find balance between effort and ease. Sthira is steady, alert presence (the necessary engagement). Sukham is comfortable, relaxed presence (the necessary release).
The Teaching: Your healing practice is finding the sweet spot: the minimum effective dose of effort. Do not over-effort into tension (too much Sthira), and do not collapse into sloppiness (too much Sukham).
To Remember: Where are you over-efforting in your life? Find the ease within the stability.
10/23/2025
The Wisdom of Non-Attachment (Vairagya)
Often, the efforting and chaos we create come from being attached to an outcome: a perfectly still mind, a specific aesthetic shape, or being completely pain-free. This attachment is the source of stress.
The Teaching: Cultivate Vairagya (Non-Attachment). Do the work of conscious alignment without being attached to the immediate result. The healing is in the process of showing up fully and mindfully, not in the destination.
To Remember: Practice for the joy of being, not the stress of becoming.
10/22/2025
Healing is an Inside Job
You may seek healing in a new studio, a new doctor, or a new routine. But the principles of functional alignment and synergistic muscle activation are simply tools. The real healer is you.
The Teaching: The journey of Svadhyaya (Self-Study) is realizing that you don’t need to be fixed; you need to be remembered. Stop looking for the cure outside yourself; the deepest wisdom is already home.
To Remember: Listen to the body’s whispers today, so you don’t have to hear its screams tomorrow.
10/16/2025
💡In this powerful episode, Dr. Connie Cheung sits down with Neal K. Shah, founder and CEO of CareYaya, to explore how personal caregiving experience and tech innovation collide to reshape home health and insurance advocacy.
Neal’s journey—from caring for his wife and grandfather to leaving finance and building a compassionate startup—led him to create CareYaya, which pairs pre-health college students with families needing home care for elderly loved ones and medically vulnerable children. CareYaya’s model improves service quality, supports student caregivers’ clinical hours, and compensates them well.
Additionally, Neal co-founded Counterforce Health, an AI-powered platform that assists families in overturning insurance claim denials, achieving an approval success rate of over 70% with customized appeals.
In this episode, we dig into:
The origin story and emotional motivation behind his ventures
How CareYaya matches students and families, ensuring accountability and compassion
The mechanics and impact of AI in reversing denials
The broader vision for equitable, tech-enabled caregiving
📚 Book:
His new book is Insured to Death: How Health Insurance Screws Over Americans — And How We Take It Back. CareYaya+1
📱 Find Neal on Social Media:
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10/14/2025
Stress, mindset, and emotional well-being are powerful drivers of gut health and autoimmune conditions. When we’re constantly stressed, anxious, or mentally overwhelmed, our bodies go into fight-or-flight mode, which can trigger inflammation, disrupt digestion, and weaken the immune system. These emotional and mental states can directly affect our gut health and lead to chronic conditions, especially autoimmune diseases. I worked with a client who had been struggling with autoimmune flare-ups and gut issues for years. Despite trying various diets and medications, nothing seemed to work. During our sessions, it became clear that her stress levels and unresolved emotional trauma were playing a massive role in her physical health. Once we focused on mind-body alignment—by incorporating stress-reduction techniques like meditation, breathwork, and emotional release work—she saw a remarkable improvement in her symptoms. It wasn’t just about changing what she ate; it was about addressing the underlying emotional triggers that were fueling her flare-ups. This experience reinforced that true healing happens when we address both the body and the mind. By healing the emotional and mental layers, her physical symptoms began to improve as well. When we’re in balance mentally and emotionally, our bodies can finally start to heal and thrive. Your body holds the answers you’ve been seeking. It’s time to listen to it.
Book your session now and start your journey toward true healing.
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We must support our body to maintain “HOMEOSTASIS” by doing OUR part to actively “Create Health”. Our lives in the last century creates lots of advancements in technology, however, such evolutions created unhealthy environments for our body.
As a result, we are not facing an unprecented “epidemic” of Autoimmune, Cancer, Cardiometabolic, PCOS, and various Symptoms that cause havoc in our lives.
Most of us are living our lives under suboptimal health conditions. Meanwhile, there’s an overabundance of “Health Gurus” giving you advice for just about EVERYTHING!
What happens? Overwhelm=Paralysis. We succumb, consume the information but so busy consuming information that most of us don’t put them into ACTION.
What’s worse is that much of the information can be contradictory so everyone who’s and expert go against each other by creating “dogmas” on the internet space without regard to the consequences. It’s become a “self serving” competition for ATTENTION and ultimately SALES.
Our mission is to empower you through education and applied knowledge to translate into everyday habits that will not only maintain homeostasis, but create optimal health for an optimal life.
By focusing the fundamentals of Brain Health, Gut Health, and Physical Health, we believe you can’t go wrong following a tried and true but more importanly, SIMPLE life habits that can set you up for success.
