As you are all aware, the situation regarding COVID-19 is constantly changing on a daily basis. We are updating our statement and hoping to ensure all of you that The Pacific Wellness Institute takes the COVID-19 threat seriously, and we are taking all reasonable measures to prepare for and mitigate the risk of COVID-19 to our clients, staff, and practitioners.
As per recommendation from our health professional regulatory colleges, we are currently only serving clients that required our treatments for their urgent, essential health issues.
We will continue to keep you updated as the situation changes.
Stay safe and healthy!
What We Ask You:
Please help prevent the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19). Please review the following list. If any of the following apply to you, please reschedule your appointment and seek medical attention:
1) You are experiencing fever, chills, cough, difficulty breathing, or have been in close contact with someone with those symptoms within the last two weeks.
2) You have traveled to foreign countries within the last two weeks.
3) You have been in close contact with someone who has gone to the high-risk areas* within the last two weeks.
4) You have been in contact with someone who has been diagnosed with Covid-19 within the last two weeks.
We also ask that if you are not feeling well, no matter what your symptoms are, please let us know via phone call or email as soon as possible. We are waiving any cancellation fees related to health issues.
Please practice the best hygiene and social distancing as you have been hearing many times recently. Wash your hands frequently, use sanitizers, no hugging, no handshakes.
For individuals who are not applicable to the situation listed 1)-4) above and having urgent, essential health issues needed to be addressed, you are welcome to visit our clinic. (Please Note: For the safety of our staff and other clients, you will be asked to sign a waiver form confirming items 1) to 4) upon your arrival. Thank you for your understanding)
Since our clinic is serving the limited number of clients now, we are able to provide our clients with a sanitary, low volume, and calming environment in this time of concern.
In light of recent events and in the interest of our clients, staff, and public, we are limiting our services at the reception, so that there would be no lineup at the front desk. All transactions including appointments, payments, receipts are made online or over the telephone. In order not to create a crowd in our waiting area, we are asking clients to come shortly before their appointment, and leave the premises promptly.
Our Commitment and Procedures
We want to be fully transparent about our operation:
Our Chiropractor has just returned from a short trip from Arizona. He is not exhibiting any symptoms, however, he has been self-quarantined for 14 days.
We can assure you that all other staff members have not been to traveling to foreign countries including the high-risk regions (e.g., China, South Korea, Iran, Italy, Japan, France, Egypt, Washington State, California, NY, and also on Cruise ships) in the past several months.
As always, all staff members are required to follow a rigorous hygiene practice, including frequent and thorough handwashing, disinfecting treatment tables, door nobs, equipment, and other areas). We have elevated these hygiene and disinfectant practices to the highest level.
For a limited time, we are offering some of our consultation services via telephone.
Acupuncture Consultation: Usually, all new acupuncture patients (or existing patients with a new condition) are required an initial consultation appointment first, before they are able to schedule the treatment appointments. For a limited time, we are offering the initial appointment via telephone and a video session.
Kampo Herbal Medicine (Chinese Medicine) Consultation: Available via telephone
Naturopathic Telepractice Service
Current clients: We welcome clients to continue on their track towards wellbeing. We understand that your non-emergency health goals are a long-term priority and feel that taking feasible steps to achieve them during this uncertain period of time may also help to alleviate some of the stress that can arise from placing them on an indefinite pause.
During a Telepractice appointment, your ND will be able to review your current treatment plan, evaluate your progress, and determine whether any modifications or new recommendations should be made based on the changes to your health, as well as any changes influenced by the current state of affairs.
New clients: If you would like to consult with our ND for an initial appointment, please note that, as briefly stated in our expressed consent for Telepractice Service, initial and follow-up sessions will have limitations due to the vital importance of the in-person intake; these limitations can not be listed as a result of their infinite and case-by-case event probability. That said, we imagine that there are a number of individuals who would like to use this time to receive helpful guidance around nutrition and/or lifestyle measures during this time.
The Pacific Wellness Institute takes the COVID-19 threat seriously, and we are taking all reasonable measures to prepare for and mitigate the risk of COVID-19 to our clients, staff, and practitioners.
Please help prevent the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19). Please review the following list. If any of the following apply to you, please reschedule your appointment and seek medical attention:
1) You are experiencing fever, chills, cough, difficulty breathing, or have been in close contact with someone with those symptoms within the last two weeks.
2) You have traveled to the highly affected regions* within the last two weeks.
3) You have been in close contact with someone who has gone to the high-risk areas* within the last two weeks.
4) You have been in contact with someone who has been diagnosed with Covid-19 within the last two weeks.
We can assure you that all of our staff members have not been to the high-risk regions in the past several months, including (e.g., China, South Korea, Iran, Italy, Japan, France, Egypt, Washington State, California, and also on Cruise ships).
As always, all staff member is required to follow rigorous hygiene practice, including frequent and thorough handwashing.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
The Pacific Wellness Institute Management
Most affected areas and regions have been changing frequently. Please visit WHO and other sites for updates.
In 2020 there is no way of going back to not knowing.
The human consciousness has reached a sufficient level not to choose pain and suffering. As we are entering a new decade of more knowledge, wisdom, and light, we have faith and trust that regardless of how the external world is struggling with mess and chaos, we are on the right path.
More discoveries, more magic, and more wonderment are ahead of us. More clarity in our intentions, more creativity and joy are in store for us. We wish you a blissful and healthy New Year and a fantastic decade of unbelievable changes.
The elimination diet:
Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.
Then watch your health and life, improve
Charles F. Glassman
How to Most Effectively Manage your Insurance Benefits?
If your employee benefits are renewed early this year, it is a good idea to explore all available options to you. You can access your online account with your insurance provider, and check under paramedical benefits which treatment modalities are covered under your plan. The following types of practitioners are frequently covered:
Schedule your appointments in advance to book the times you need and to avoid the rush at the end of the year. If you wish to have as many treatments as possible within your insurance coverage, you can consider our discounted treatment packages that we offer for certain modalities. For more details check with our front desk assistants.
How to Take Advantage of Our Online Booking and Instant Pay System?
Thanks to our new online booking system, you can bypass line ups at the front desk.
In addition to having the convenience of booking and modifying your appointments, you can also take care of your payments. Whenever you need to pay a co-payment for your insurance claim, want to buy a package or gift card or simply want to pay the treatment fee, we can charge your credit card on file and email you the receipt.
How to Register:
You can register your credit card information if the system is asking you to do so when booking your appointment. If not, you can ask our front desk assistant to help you over the phone or in person.
How do you store my credit card information?
We do not store your credit card information in our database — neither the Jane Appointment Scheduling System where you input your credit card information. The Jane system uses the Stripe in a backend to process payments. Stripe, as you probably heard of, is a widely known PCI Complaint online payment processing company, used by major brands such as Amazon, Expedia, Uber, and Nasdaq.
You are a dream and a dreamer. You are an artist who weaves life patterns on the vast tapestry of this planet.
May your intentions be guided by your highest consciousness and be harmoniously aligned with the highest version of yours.
May you be reminded each morning that you are everything you need. May each day of the New Year provide you with an opportunity to practice courage, forgiveness and vulnerability.
Trees have lost their leaves and revealed their dramatic shapes of curled branches pointing to the gray skies.
Squirrels are looking for edibles among rusty leaves on the ground and the sun prefers to hide behind the clouds. The chilling wind is making it hard to believe the world is still beautiful. How can you see any beauty in such misery and emptiness? How can your body deny the fatigue and stop emotions from floating down the spiral of sadness? “What are my choices?” You are asking this question while looking up to heaven and waiting for answers.
The universe has responded: “Remain in purity. If you wish, you can dress it up with Christmas glitter and lights. You can fill yourself with sweets, caffeine and alcohol. You can put on a pretty face and costume and you can pretend you are on holiday for life. And how long will this last?” The universe suddenly throws a question. You come up with a quick answer: “Until the holidays are over. Then detox and back to reality.” “Do you know anything better than this?” You are shooting another question. “Remain in purity” is a persistent answer.
“Remain in your essence. Your essence is made of energy, energy turns into light with the help of love. Light crystallizes and becomes matter. And voila, here you are. Wrapped up in the matter, you, pure loving energy and light. With one thought you can sparkle like diamond dust and emanate the joy of creation. You are what you create. You are all knowing and all inclusive. You are complete. You are everlasting and constant. You are eternal peace and harmony. You are all aware and all knowing. You are timeless and you can disguise yourself in many forms of creativity and choose to play in billions of dimensions. You can play with your creations in any way you like and you will always be you. In the end you always return to your essence.”
Your mind is catching up and agreeing with your heart. “ If I am complete, I am missing nothing. If I am all knowing, I do not fear because nothing is unknown. If I am timeless, I never cease to be. I only play differently each time I want to explore a different way of being, so, I think differently and see differently whenever I choose to create something different”. Although trees have lost their leaves, their naked shapes turn into marvelous sculptures, squirrels gracefully nibble on their edible finds, the skies turn from gray to silver and the sun lights an empty spot between the clouds. And did I mention the wind? It turned into a soothing breath.
Recently I became a Yoga instructor because Yoga is a field that I have been passionate about since adolescence. Studying to do so was an incredible journey that I will never forget. Yoga is so much more than just the postures (Asanas) that one might practice at a studio, gym or with a video. Yoga is a philosophy. It is a meditation, a healing art, and a lesson in breathing. It is said that if you are not breathing with focus and awareness (Pranayama) during the Yoga practice, you are actually just stretching. How often does one breathe deeply, continuously for at least an hour? Imagine the possibilities related to doing so. In Yoga practice, breath is directed to certain parts of the body depending on the position you are in. On a philosophical level, Prana (or breath) is thought of as an ethereal energy source that flows through all beings.
Yoga originated thousands of years ago in India, and some have speculated that it was being practiced as far back as the time of the Indus Valley. It is interesting to note that the original one was not allowed to practice the postures, or exercise component until he had completed at least 10 years of philosophical study. In this instance I’d like to emphasize the ‘he’; because in fact, until only recently, women were not allowed to practice Yoga. Ironically, and especially in Western culture, the majority of people now practicing are women.
Yoga, as a general practice, has proven it’s staying power on this planet and it’s not hard to see why…
When I first began studying to be a teacher, all the students went around in a circle to talk about how, as well as why, each had come to be in that class. How had we come to this point in our lives where we wanted to have a deeper understanding of Yoga? I was amazed to discover that more than HALF the class had fallen in love with Yoga after it helped them recover from an injury, health condition or even emotional pain. Car and sports-related injuries, arthritis, cancer, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder were just a few of the examples given. Whatever the reason, a common understanding was evident among the students: that breathing deeply, giving oxygen and stretch to your organs, goes a long way in the healing process. This is only one of the many benefits of Yoga – remembering that adequate oxygen supply to the tissue is crucial for healing.
Resultant through Yoga, and also crucial for healing, is relaxation. Relaxation is our power to reduce stress; thereby enabling the body, mind, and the whole being to be balanced and to thrive. It is generally estimated that between 70-80% of disease is related to stress. Reducing stress seems to be a useful priority. Relaxing during a Yoga practice is the meditation component. Usually included in the practice immediately before and also following, meditation is a mostly silent introspective component that is done in either a comfortable seated position or lying down. It can be an excellent method of heightening awareness, relaxing the nervous system, slowing the heart rate, and calming the mind.
Something interesting that I learned during my studies, is how similar all the benefits of yoga are to those of massage therapy. Whether being in a relaxed state on a massage table or in a deep stretching yoga posture, both are equally encouraging of introspection and body awareness. The more aware we are in regards to our body, the more we tend to care for it before it needs to become serious health issues. As in yoga, relaxation and deep breathing during massage therapy help to slow the heart rate, and increase oxygen in the body. Again, oxygen helps our bodies heal. Both massage and yoga also encourage healthy circulation. This stimulates the vital organs to maintain homeostasis or balance in the body. Overall yoga, much like a massage, helps in healing from health conditions and injuries.
Even if I had thousands of pages to fill, I could not fully describe the depth and beauty of Yoga. It is experiential and open to everyone. There are many different forms available to explore including but not limited to “Hatha”, a more creative and sometimes gentle type; “Ashtanga”, a more methodical, rhythmic and intense type; “Bikram”, a type practiced in an extremely heated room to encourage sweating and detoxification as well as gaining more length during stretching; and “Kundalini”, a more spiritually focused type which often includes chanting. I sincerely encourage you to look into this incredible, ancient, healing art form.
Namaste (The light within me, salutes the light within you)
My name is Rahel. I am a