Mission
Our current health care paradigm
The western medical model is reductionist and materialist, meaning it focuses mainly on that which can be directly measured/observed and divides the body and human experience into smaller parts, in order to better understand it.
While it is incredibly powerful in acute, surgical and trauma medicine, this limited view poses a challenge when we shift to better understand our health over time, and all chronic conditions. It is not designed to evaluate nor recognize the subtle energy of the body. It does not have a framework to consider our spiritual experience, nor does it adequately integrate our emotional experience into our physicality.
Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine (IM) on the other hand recognizes the deep, interwoven connectivity between the mind, body and spirit.
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Functional Medicine
The functional medicine model is an individualized, patient-centered, science-based approach that empowers patients and practitioners to work together to address the underlying causes of disease and promote optimal wellness. It requires a detailed understanding of each patient’s genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors and leverages that data to direct personalized treatment plans that lead to improved patient outcomes.
By addressing root cause, rather than symptoms, practitioners become oriented to identifying the complexity of disease. They may find one condition has many different causes and, likewise, one cause may result in many different conditions. As a result, functional medicine treatment targets the specific manifestations of disease in each individual.
Return to Holos
HOLOS is based on functional integrative medicine and recognizes the whole person, by honoring your deeply interconnected complex experience within and withinout. Our multi-disciplinary approach blends western, integrative, functional, psychospiritual and psychedelic assisted medicine. It draws upon both modern and ancient healing traditions.
Holos is an invitation to re-member:
- our true nature
- our connection to one another
- our connection to our Earth
- our connection to Self
Holos recognizes that each of us is not separate from life. Instead we are deeply connected to our natural world, and to one another.
Who needs this medicine
Our central nervous systems are trying their best to navigate our human experience, but each of us has a limit. Many of the clients we work with are expressing symptoms of systemic dysregulation” (loss of BALANCE). This can often be expressed as fatigue, myalgia/pain, insomnia, digestive disturbances, chemical sensitivities, headache, and low stamina. Often we simply feel there is a loss of power, libido, hope and creativity.
These are all symptoms of a system which has lost fundamental balance.
We believe the root cause of much of our systemic stress is our experience of separation.
We are swimming in an epidemic of disconnect, and a global love deficit. Our busy lives have separated us from nature, from our natural sleep wake rhythms, from the cycles of life, and now within our global pandemic, one another. In addition, many of us have forgotten how connected our body systems are, and thus we are no longer connected within ourselves, and we may have low awareness of how our individual mind body and spiritual experiences are indeed connected.
Our intuitive selves know things are off kilter, but we cannot seem to find our center, and very little in our collective experience is guiding us back.
Holos is our path to rediscover our HOME BASE.
We have forgotten, and yet every day, our bodies – our temples – are trying to remind us.