Health Grooves

Ed Marshall has spent the last twenty years as the production and stage manager for Devo. From 2013 until 2016 he was on the road with Blondie and before that with TSOL. He is a veteran of many years on the road from touring  in a van to high end rock festivals. As part of a series on musicians health and healing, Ed and Ricky talk about life on the road, its effects on musicians both physically and emotionally, and how one cares for ones body, mind and soul under what can be some rough conditions. Ed describes the less glamorous life behind the stage and how he has successfully coped with the stresses of the “road life.” Ed still tours and plays in his own band, “The Ooks of Hazzard.”

Links:  www.linkedin.com/in/ed-marshall-59b81732/

www.facebook.com/ooksofhazzard/

Dr. Ruchi Puri is a San Francisco based Ob/Gyn who teaches clients holistic approaches to transforming their health. She is a graduate of George Washington and Duke Universities with additional education in Ayurvedic Medicine, Five Element Acupuncture, Trauma and Modalities of Spiritual Healing. She has an integrative women’s wellness platform with on-line courses and groups to support women embody their wellness potential and regain their vitality. Her blog: Unveiling Being on www.ruchipuri.com helps readers redefine their understanding of many of the modern challenges to health we are facing today.

In this conversation, Ruchi describes the evolution of women's health care over the past century and how she practices holistically, taking into account the significance of the physical, chemical, emotional and spiritual dimensions of health. Ruchi is practicing on the cutting edge of modern medicine.

Rik Center is the author of the new book, “If You Can’t Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind ~ mindful reflections toward self-discovery.” Rik is co-founder of the Mindfulness Care Center, through which he teaches and develops a variety of mindful classes and how to work with unresolved traumatic anxiety. Rik is a Mindful-Somatic Counselor, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, and has served as a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain at San Francisco General and CPMC Hospitals. In this conversation we discuss Rik’s new book and the nature of mindfulness practice.

You can reach Rik at [email protected]

415-786-5456
Websites: mindfulnesscare.org

rikcenter.com

Nancy Myrick is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and has been the director of San Francisco Birth Center since 2015. She has practiced home birth midwifery since 2003 with Rites of Passage Midwifery. Nancy began attending births as a doula in 1993, received her RN in 2000, and completed her training in midwifery in 2003 through the UCSF Nurse Midwifery Education Program. She has attended hundreds of births in homes, birth centers, and hospitals and believes that choice in childbirth helps parents begin the long path toward building great humans! In our conversation we will discuss the history and the current state of midwifery in the United States, and particularly in the Bay Area.

Links
www.sfbirthcenter.com

Dr. Mark Schillinger is a writer, community leader, public speaker, family mentor, and an expert on stress management in family dynamics. He’s the creator of the parenting method, The RIGHT Way for Family Unity®, which provides a clear roadmap to help families achieve their true potential.

Dr. Schillinger’s wisdom draws upon the sciences of personal growth, neuro-plasticity, positive discipline, stress management and Western psychology, as well as from the insights of Eastern philosophy and ancestral tribal wisdom.

Dr.  Schillinger is the founder of the non-profit, the Young Men's Ultimate Weekend, a wilderness, non-religious rite of passage event that shows adolescent young men how to successfully handle the challenges of the adult world. He’s also the founder of Challenging Teenage Sons, which shows parents and their sons how to enjoy more caring and cooperative relationships.

Dr. Schillinger teaches a continuing education course for health care practitioners called, Adjusting the Mind Seminar. This course explains the neuro-science of stress management and shows practitioners how to teach their patients effective mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques that lowers stress hormones levels in 15 seconds.

After working in the nonprofit human rights sector and overseeing advocacy travel programs for two decades, founder Malia Everette recognized the power of travel to increase intercultural understanding, forge peaceful dialogue, transform consciousness, and inspire the agency of the traveler. She simultaneously recognized the economic power of travel, when the experiences and the tourism dollars were directly benefiting local communities and the host economy. Thus AltruVistas was founded upon core ethical values as well as the pragmatic financial strategy of deeply examining our travel “supply web.” In this conversation Malia describes the relationship between travel, health and healing, on a personal, social, and global level. Travel, she believes is much more than checking off boxes on a wish list.  Rather, it is a way to heal and transform the world and ourselves.

Altruvistas Travel: altruvistas.com/

Ethical Traveller: altruvistas.com/

Talal Khan is a physician delivering personal primary care by fusing modern medicine and lifestyle management. In this conversation, Dr. Khan describes his journey from idealistic resident to corporate MD, where his work was overseen by administrators in back offices far from where he was seeing his patients. He finally made the bold transition to private practice where he has been able to practice medicine in the way he envisioned, and taken control of his professional life. Too many practitioners today are suffering burnout, or what is becoming known as “moral injury,” because of the corporatization of medicine. Dr. Khan provides insight into why.

Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD, Professor of Bioethics at UC Berkeley, is the co-founder of the Berkeley Group for the Ethics and Regulation of Innovative Technologies.  Her work brings together psychiatry, philosophy and behavioral economics. Her first book, From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice was called a “seminal work” by JAMA. Halpern’s most recent research projects address innovative health technologies, including genetic engineering, AI and VR. 

She speaks internationally, including at Davos in 2018 and 2019 (and she has been invited back now for 2020). Jodi’s research focuses on the role of emotional beliefs in bioethics and how biased and unrealistic expectations create barriers to empathy and respect for autonomy. Her work lies ate the intersection of philosophy, psychiatry and psychology. In this conversation we discuss her ground breaking work on empathy and her new emphasis on the ethics of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

Links:

jodihalpern.com

https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/people/jodi-halpern/