True wellness starts with the small, intentional choices we make each day. In this blog, Dr. Marina shares how daily self-care rooted in presence, hydration, movement, rest, and mindful nourishment can transform your energy, regulate your nervous system, and support long-term healing. Whether you’re beginning again or deepening your routine, this guide will help you return to yourself one grounded step at a time.
Read MoreThe future of medicine is here, and it is an individualized, patient-centered, science-based approach to addressing the underlying causes of disease. Functional Medicine is your pathway to health, well-being, and longevity.
Read MoreThe average American spends 90% of their time indoors! Practicing red light therapy is a critical step to health and wellness. At Awaken Now, our Joovv red light therapy session can assist with reduced inflammation, pain management (including from arthritis), reduced recovery times after training or an injury, healthier plumper looking skin, AND more…
Read MoreWhat if I told you there was a way to capture your fitness, health, and wellness journey in 3D? As in really seeing precise, sophisticated data and measurements taken from a 3D full-body scan completed in just seconds? A 3D body scan that will enable us to track real changes in your body as it responds to exercise and nutritional guidance…
Read MoreYour gut, along with everything in life, relies on balance. Acupuncture points are believed to stimulate the central nervous system. This, in turn, releases chemicals into the muscles, spinal cord, and brain and stimulating the body's natural healing abilities and, in turn, helping to restore balance. You can help heal your gut with acupuncture at Santa Monica’s Awaken Now.
Read MoreDo you suffer from fluid retention or cellulite? These could be signs that your lymphatic system is not functioning optimally, and your body could benefit from Endospheres Therapy.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever felt like you need to give your body some extra TLC to get rid of puffiness or swelling, then a lymphatic massage could be just what you’ve been looking for.
Read MoreQi is defined as the energy of the body, it is the vital force. It functions to protect, warm, hold organs and fluids in their proper places, transports substances and transforms substances into energy. Qi can become weak and deficient with poor nutrition, chronic illness, severe disease, insufficient natural endowment or old age.
Read MoreIf you come in and tell me that you have a cold I can’t just give you a pill, not even an herbal formula or a point combination, because you may have very different signs and symptoms to the next person that comes in with a cold. If you have a runny nose with clear, watery mucous, chills, sneezing, and dizziness, I would prescribe an acupuncture point combination and an herbal formula for you.
Read MoreToxic heat is usually the result of fevers and infectious diseases. Toxic heat is distinguished from heat by the presence of pustular lesions, such as sores. These sores are warm to touch, redness, swollen, painful and often combined with pus.
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