A Nature-based way of creating Health, Balance & Self-Renewal
– With Dr. W as your guide!
I’m Dr. Howard Walsdorf, or Dr. W. as my patients call me. I’ve created GH to help people find
a practical, natural, and scientifically-based method of renewing their physical health and
mental-spiritual wellness.
It’s a method that is based on an ancient wisdom that served our humankind well for over 4000
years.
And here it is, the essence of this ancient wisdom relates to understanding and applying to
your life – what the Ancients called “Fire, Air, Water and Earth” – in that order, mind you;)
At Growing Holistically you’ll be discovering that Fire is expressed by nature’s Sun. Fire, the sun of nature is up top; the solid ground of Earth is below our feet. Air is lighter than Water, right? Easy peasy, then, remembering that order, eh?
I’m going to teach you, like I have my patients, the power of a good heel strike while walking to
strengthen the Earth force’s life-positive work within you.
At Growing Holistically, you’re going to learn that Water relates to your blood and the foods – the nutritional components of living. I’m going to teach you and guide you with nutritional understanding of what you need to do to help yourself (and your family, perhaps) in the Water element part of the whole-person equation for health, wellness and balance.
I’m going to guide you to a new and exciting way to draw these four life-building, life-renewing
holistic energies into you through a new kind of yoga I developed, called 4 Element Yoga.
GET RENEWED – BODY-MIND-SPIRIT
You’re going to discover and utilize the power of Air – creating what the ancients often would
call “chi”. Every cell, organ, and musculoskeletal part of you needs its “chi”, this Air energy,
which in many ways can be thought about as its elbowroom, its level of self-empowerment.
In many ways the “Air part” of this self renewal program is my greatest offering to you. Instead
of needing to always focus on taking expensive nutritional supports, I’ll teach you how to draw
Air's life positive energies into your painful or otherwise dis-eased parts.
Here’s the key concept: Muscular movement generates chi, Air’s life-positive energies that all
your body tissues need to be healthy and resilient against stressors.
I’ve helped thousands of patients in this movement-based manner over my 35 years as a
holistic chiropractor. It’s been a privilege that I’ve had in renewing this ancient wisdom and
applying in this whole-body way.
4E YOGA
What if there was a way of exercising (and moving) that helped you “translate” the power of each of those four principles into you? And being able to somatically feel it, too? A way of recharging weak areas with a health-building vitality. That’s what 4 Element Yoga will help you to do. It’s called 4 Element Yoga because like yoga, it incorporates three important things:
- Focused Breathing
- Slow, Mindful Movements
- Developing a Spiritual Sensibility
Dr. W likes to say that yoga helps the practitioner to be more “somatically alive”, to feel their body in ever more positive ways. The 4 Element Yoga he devised over 35 years one even more of this somatic, full body awareness capability.
These videos contain many of the exercises Dr. W gives his patients – for improved joint function, decreased stiffness and pain, as well as greater positive body (somatic) awareness.
4 ELEMENT MIND BODY AND SPIRIT CARDS
Here’s something we created to make the four elements fun as you apply four element wisdom to your personal goals.
Draw a card daily and integrate its message throughout your day, or return to this deck as needed for specific guidance.
Either way, enjoy the process and begin to integrate the sacred knowledge of the four elements into your daily life!
The 4 Element Self-Renewal System includes:
This 3 minute wellness check will give you a way to assess how healthy and wholesome your life currently is. The higher the score the better you probably feel about your life and the healthier you probably are.
Your 4 Element Personhood Score
Dr. W has created a quick (5 minute), FREE, & fun way for you to see your unique balance of nature’s four elements!
Dr. W’s Life Balance Scorecard will help you gain a great life as you develop a set of good routines. You’ll discover, as you use it, where your life may be out of balance. The scorecard requires nothing more than a few minutes each day reviewing the various activities that a holistic lifestyle would optimally include.
Here’s some words from Dr. W
With my Four Element Self-Renewal System you’re going to learn how to master your life in a deeper, holistic way – so you can gain the insights, the health, the happiness, and the well-rounded success you seek.
The secret to this holistic self-improving program is that it reaches deep into the core of an ancient wisdom. Unfortunately, it’s a wisdom that few people know much about today.
I’ve been working within this holistic four element way of thinking, living and healing for over 30 years and have discovered some very practical things we can each do to draw into ourselves the life-positive energies of Nature. I’m going to teach you how to do it.
So, for example, the good posture and sense of being strong and sturdy that you want? You’re going to learn about the power of a good “heel strike” to bring the life-positive energies of the Earth Principle into you.
In the process you’ll walk better, gain better posture and become “sturdier” as a person. You’re also going to discover the benefits of breathing and moving in ways that channel other life-positive forces into any of the weaker parts of your body to make them healthier.
Over the course of my years in practice I’ve discovered that people are hungry for a doctor who can give them a deeper, even spiritual way to appreciate their body – and the food they eat, too.
You’ll be able to prepare tasty and healthy “four element meals” as I show you how to see the distinctive characteristics of different foods and spices in terms of a particular balance of “natural principles”.
Together, we’re going to use Nature’s four elements to understand the four main building blocks of our life. Why is it worth you learning this? Because it will help you to recalibrate and renew your life mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
Sadly, while this foursome of natural principles-forces-energies were so well appreciated for literally thousands of years by the wisest of people, no one is talking much about them today.
I’ve come to realize that if people don’t get this important information from me, they probably won’t get it at all.
Dr. W's collection of videos
Dr. W’s Holistic Learning Program
A series of 20 minute videos where Dr. W uses nature’s four elements to understand the how and the why of important dimensions of your life
The Self Renewal System covers topics such as breathing, neural competency, nutrition, and body alignment.
Short, often fun and useful four element concepts applied to the problems of our day
Learn more about the philosophy of the four elements and tips to live more holistically by listening to some of the podcasts Dr. W has been a guest on.
These contain many of the exercises Dr. W gives his patients – for improved joint function, decreased stiffness and pain, as well as greater positive body (somatic) awareness.
Holistic Advise for Your Pain or Health Issue series
Helpful videos taking advantage of Dr. Walsdorf’s 30 years of experience in using the four element holistic context to resolve his patients’ problems.
