Educational Webinars and Resources

HIV Matters

HIV is an incredible area of innovation in medicine. The medical community’s constantly evolving understanding of infectious diseases has rendered a previously fatal disease, a manageable chronic condition. There is so much work to be done on deconstructing the stigma around this condition. The more awareness, compassion & knowledge we can inspire, the more HIV infected patients will get the care they deserve.

Sexual Health & PrEP

The liberation of sexuality and all of its different guises is a tightrope balancing act. While the stage is set for everybody to explore, not all explorations are safe for your health & future wellbeing. The ramifications of one unsafe sexual encounter can affect the rest of your life.

Managing Mental Health, Depression & Anxiety

We are facing a scourge of mental illness, burn out and autonomic dysfunction. It underpins and feeds into the overwhelming burden of chronic diseases of lifestyle, insomnia, divorce and anxiety in children.

Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle

Chronic diseases of lifestyle are in the top five leading causes of death worldwide. Cigarette & alcohol consumption, poor long-term dietary choices, physical inactivity & inadequate sleep has led us to develop a lengthy list of ills. Through the power of education and informed reform, we can equip people with the tools to stave off disease & operate at their optimal capacity.

All In A Good Night’s Sleep

As with exercise, sleep is medicine. This pillar of wellness enables your memory to organise itself, your brain to detoxify the debris of the day and it enables your sympathetic nervous system to rest & replenish. Sleep is anti-aging, anti-stress & necessary for your immune system to function optimally. More than 10% of people suffer from chronic insomnia & more than a third have bouts of struggling to sleep when experiencing stress.

Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction – A Balancing Act

Our autonomic nervous system is made up of a sympathetic (”Fight or flight”) and a parasympathetic (“Rest and digest”) system. It is becoming normal to live in a state of stress and constant sympathetic overdrive. After periods of intense stress, our physiological stress response often lingers for days, weeks or even years after an experience. We need to actively & mindfully unclench our fists from tension. Relax your face & jaw as you read this.

Food is Medicine: Feed or Fight Disease with Diet & Nutrition

Our bodies are designed to heal themselves. Our cells have the capacity to replenish & regenerate. Historically, we believed our genes to be our fate, a blueprint of what was to come. Now, with the field of Epigenetics opening up a world of possibilities, we understand that our genes load the gun, but our lifestyle choices pull the trigger. What you eat communicates with your genetic material. You can switch predilections on & off like lights.

Hormonal Dysfunction & How to Heal it

We are cyclical beings, our bodies run like clocks aligned with the moon & the sun, day & night, light & dark. You can have an impact on these cyclical rhythms by maintaining a healthy weight, optimising your sleep, diet & your stress levels. Empower yourself to make changes to improve your fertility, your PMS, understand menopause & andropause.

Women’s Health & Screening Through a Lifetime

Speaking to women of all ages, this talk is a journey from puberty to menopause with stops at every poignant moment in a woman’s reproductive & sexual health journey. We’ll be learning about every decade’s necessary screenings, the changes one can expect & the care needed to thrive at all the cyclical stages of life.

Weighty Matters

Who likes climbing on the scale? No one right?! We invite you to throw your scales away and focus on a healthy lifestyle and waist circumference instead. Healthy weight management is so much more than a “diet” or “program” and involves good sleep, reduced stress, regular physical activity, low levels of inflammation and hormonal balance.

Microbiome

Our bodies are made up of 70 trillion cells. Multiply that number by 10 and that is how many bacteria live on and in you. Not to mention the number parasites, fungi and viruses. So you are not one organism, but actually an ecosystem of organisms, living symbiotically in harmony. If these organisms wanted to kill you, they would have a long time ago. But they don’t! These organisms are our precious microbiome and are paramount to making vitamins, controlling our immune systems, assisting brain function as well as our metabolism and weight.

Just Breathe…

In a world of over stimulation and excessive stress we forget to do the one thing that is most natural and central to our being. Join us for an introduction into this practice and how it improves lung capacity, supports your immune system and reduces your anxiety. Breathwork is starting to be recognized as one of the most relevant and necessary health tools of our time.