Transform Your Life with Gratitude by: Shanti Medina

Over the past recent years, neuroscience has been sharing what the ancients have known for centuries: Our thoughts shape our reality and inform our destiny. Where our attention goes is literally where energy flows. Feeling and sharing our gratitude is one of the healthiest ways we can pump up our joy and uplift our mood. […]
Brain Training New Pathways: Waking up the Paralyzed Body Part III by: Shanti Medina

This is Part III of a 3-part Neurosculpting® Institute Video Blog documenting the transformational journey of one woman’s choice and courage to use Neurosculpting® brain training to enrich her life and look beyond her limitations to know grace in the human condition. Part I and II of this amazing journey can be found here: Brain […]
Brain Training New Pathways: Waking up the Paralyzed Body Part II by: Shanti Medina

This is Part II of a 3-part Neurosculpting® Institute Video Blog documenting the transformational journey of one woman’s choice and courage to use Neurosculpting® brain training to enrich her life and look beyond her limitations to know grace in the human condition. Part I of this amazing journey can be found here: Brain Training New […]
Get Ready for Transformation as Neurosculpting® and Body Current® Return to Kripalu

Join Neurosculpting® founder, Lisa Wimberger, and Body Current® founder, Shanti Medina, August 14 – 19, 2016 at iconic Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, for Neurosculpting® Through the Body Current, where you’ll awaken your innate mind-body intelligence in life-changing ways. Lisa and Shanti teach simple and straightforward practices rooted in the ancient arts of meditation […]
Pump Up Your Vagal Tone: 3 Simple Practices by Shanti Medina

The vagus nerve is an important part of the parasympathetic nervous system, also knows as the “rest-and-digest” system. The word vagus means “wanderer,” because it branches out and wanders all over the body connecting to the brain, the intestines and stomach, and major organs such as the heart, kidney, lungs as well as the ears, […]
Hum Into Health

It’s no surprise that recent psychological studies and neuroscience research have shown that humming a happy tune can impact our health and well-being. Take 30-60 seconds right now to hum your favorite tune or simply hum any sound that naturally comes through you. Hum loud our soft with your lips closed and jaw relaxed. Notice […]
Wait Until Your Father Gets Home!

Remember that statement when you were a kid, and how it filled you with a sense of dread when you were in trouble? The insula is important in our social brains. It’s involved with processing events in the future based on our current body states, and it deals specifically with pride and disgust. Studies published […]
Raising Your Sword to Battle an Illusion

Our nervous system is a miraculous and complex network of information and control mechanisms. Our SNS (sympathetic nervous system) readies us for action, to mobilize, to activate, charge, fight or flea..among many other things. Our PNS (parasympathetic nervous system) calms us down, soothes, relaxes, and regulates…also among many other things. So when we get stressed, […]
Thoughts influence Matter
Dr. David Perlmutter and Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. note in Power Up Your Brain that Neural networks are created by focused, engaged stimulation. . .the choices you make actually do influence the physical structures, the neural networks, in your brain. ‘Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and functioning of the nervous […]