June is LGBTQ Pride Month! Blue Ova joins the LGBTQ community in celebrating gay pride in San Francisco and throughout the country. We love supporting LGBTQ families on their family building journeys. We support with the fertility and conception process and throughout pregnancy and postpartum through acupuncture, massage and nutrition.
Traditional Chinese Medicine cupping has been gaining popularity in the news this past week — you may have seen many US olympics athletes with purple cupping marks on their back and shoulders. They are using cupping therapy to speed up their recovery time after performing. But the therapy is hardly new to Chinese medicine, and has been used for thousands of years. Sometimes it takes a little popular culture to remind us of ancient ways of healing!
Emily Huffman is a local artist, massage therapist and energy healer. Her vibrant paintings reflect the abundance of Springtime and the creative relationship between fertility and growth. In honor of Mother's Day, her art will be showing as part of Blue Ova's open house on Friday, May 6th from 5-7pm. Blue Ova is focused on supporting women with their journey into motherhood, from fertility and pregnancy to postnatal health.
This month’s nutrition for fertility recipe is a hearty, delicious, and nutritious Lamb Stew. As we approach the end of winter, there is still time to stir up a warming, wholesome, bowl of stew to enjoy on those cozy winter nights. In Chinese medicine, the Kidneys tend to be the organs that complain most during the winter season, but thankfully this stew can provide immense support to your Kidneys and make your body less susceptible to aches and pains during the cold winter weather
This month’s nutrition for fertility recipe is a warming and nutritious chicken liver dish. This is a great winter dish to cook at home when things have been hectic and we need a reminder to slow down and savor whats in front of us. Winter is a time when many great nutrient-rich and fertility-friendly foods are in prime season.
Forget everything you've been told about posture. Stand up straight. Stick out your chest. Suck it in. Actually, don't! Welcome to Posture Rebellion: defiant posture classes that retrain your body to be pain-free, naturally strong and agile, with the added bonus of a leaner, taller look. We re-teach you to sit, stand, bend, walk, carry and more -- all without pain. Get in here and let's do this thing.
Blue Ova is proud to have been named Best Acupuncturist in San Francisco by the Bay Area A-List 2015! This is the fifth consecutive year that Lead Acupuncturist Robin Sheared, LAc, has been named a Top Five Acupuncturist in the Bay Area, and the second time she has been named Best in San Francisco.
This month's fertility recipe was crafted by Health Coach, Nicolle Payne, and is a prefect nourishing meal for these cold winter evenings. The beauty of this soup is its simplicity and bare ingredients, plus it provides a fertility packed boost from the sunny orange sweet potato. Rich in vitamin A and beta-carotene, vitamin C, calcium, iron and antioxidants, the sweet potato offers excellent benefits for enhancing fertility.
