Introduction to Breathwork
Breathing and its potential effects on our lives, positive and negative, are enormous.
You will breathe about 670 million breaths in your life, but forty percent of today’s population will be taking those breaths using dysfunctional breathing patterns like mouth breathing. This type of dysfunctional breathing sets us up for chronic ailments, disease, lower quality of life, and mortality. Efficient breathing can create functional breathing habits and transform our health and our lives.
This self-guided video series will introduce you to the concept and importance of breathwork and features several different breathing techniques designed to promote relaxation, build greater resilience to stress, and support many body systems.
Our goal is to provide you with tools that can be used any time, anywhere to help relax the nervous system and help you become more resilient to everyday challenges.
Stressful Times Toolkit
We all experience stress -- now more than ever -- and have been trained to think of it as “bad.” But, it doesn’t have to be. At CCFM, we find that one of the most powerful tools for our patients and ourselves is to learn to recognize, manage, and transform stress. This practice is critical for long-term wellness, recovery from illness, and optimal function.
This 6-week program will provide a "tasting menu" of many powerful tools and practices that can be used to navigate stress. It includes sessions led by CCFM clinicians, as well as globally recognized guests who are teachers, authors, and educators in their fields.
Topics will include:
- Breathwork
- Vagus nerve support
- Neuroplasticity
- Movement and exercise
- Meditation
- And more!
Our goal is to give you tools, education, and support to help you live a more balanced life.
Sleep Mastery
Are you in search of sleep? Fifty to seventy million Americans have a chronic sleep disorder. Poor sleep undercuts cognitive and brain function affecting your memory, problem-solving, decision-making, and emotional well-being leading to increased rates of anxiety and depression. Poor sleep also takes a toll on immune and metabolic function, increasing risk of obesity, diabetes, heart attack, stroke and cancer. Simply put, sleep deprivation can cause seriously harmful health consequences and shorten your lifespan.
CCFM’s Sleep Mastery program provides a deep dive on the physiology of sleep and focuses on identifying sleep disruptors. You’ll receive key lifestyle hacks, apps, and wearable technology to optimize your sleep and wake up feeling refreshed. Join our Optimal Sleep program today!
Love Your Gut
You may have heard the saying, “all disease begins in the gut”, but did you know that there is a mountain of scientific evidence supporting this theory? The gut is a complex system and is the center of your body's immune system. Gastrointestinal imbalances can lead to pain and inflammation, autoimmune activation, depression and anxiety, sleep disturbance, hormone imbalances, nutrient deficiencies and so much more.
This 6-week program will emphasize the key areas affecting your gut health:
- Gut healing and repair
- Nutrition and food as medicine
- Stress management
- Sleep
- Key dietary supplements
- Community support
This program also provides comprehensive guidance for our 30-day Paleo template reset diet with our nutritionist and health coach. Want to build a solid health foundation for years to come? Start by Loving Your Gut!
Qigong
Qigong is a mind-body-spirit practice that improves your mental and physical health by integrating movement, breathing, posture, mindfulness, and self-massage. This practice opens up the flow of “Qi,” or energy, through slow, gentle movements.
- Benefits of Qigong:
- Healthy circulation of body fluids and lymph
- Strengthen vital organs and connective tissues
- Nourish tendons, ligaments, and muscles
- Stress reduction and nervous system balance
There are thousands of Qigong styles, and our program provides structured morning and afternoon routines along with condition specific exercises. Join our Qigong program to learn this simple yet powerful practice that will be an important support to your overall health, wellbeing, and recovery.
Smoke Exposure Support
Wildfire activity continues to increase in many parts of the world due to changes in temperature and climate. Wildfire smoke contains many harmful air pollutants and toxins that have a significant impact on public health. Exposure to smoke has been known to affect mental and perinatal health, cause respiratory and cardiovascular disease, and lead to increased all-cause mortality. Do you live in an area at risk for wildfires where you are increasingly exposed to smoke?
Our Smoke Exposure Support course will provide you with the necessary tools needed to mitigate harmful exposure to wildfire smoke, alleviate symptoms caused by potential exposure, and best protect your overall health during these challenging times. Join our Smoke Exposure Support program today!
Understanding and Mastering Metabolic Disease
Metabolic syndrome, characterized by hypertension, hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance, and abdominal obesity, has become one of the greatest health challenges of our time, and patients with metabolic syndrome are five times more likely to develop diabetes or “diabesity”. The entire spectrum of metabolic syndrome and diabesity are downstream symptoms that result from problems with nutrition, lifestyle, and environmental toxins interacting with our unique genetic makeup.
Our metabolic program is designed to guide you through the foundational topics and keys to successfully reversing and preventing metabolic syndrome. Sessions will focus on these core topics:
- Blood sugar
- Weight and nutrition
- Cardiovascular health
- Stress
- Sleep
- Movement and Exercise
Our goal is to provide each participant with a new understanding of their unique health picture and concrete steps they can take to find healing and optimal health.
Women's Health
Women have dynamic and fluctuating hormone levels and they change through their lifespan. These hormone levels are impacted by many internal and external factors and there cannot be a one-size-fits-all approach to addressing imbalances.
Our highly requested women’s health program is designed to help women understand and address their unique hormone needs through a functional medicine approach. This course will focus on:
- Hormone imbalances
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Birth control
- Hormone testing
- Functional medicine approach to hormone regulation
- And more!
Our goal with Women’s Health is to help women feel empowered and equipped to make the best possible decisions for their health and longevity.
