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The Power of Practice

August 28, 2026  by Dr. Suki Munsell

What are Best Practices? 

Completing my 8th decade of life brings new challenges. I feel a greater need for best practices and consistency in using them. Poor health choices, like a heavy meal close to bedtime, affects my sleep and robs my energy for the next day. 
 
When I was younger, I wanted every day to be a surprise, with more creative flow than structure. I didn’t want to be told what to do, I wanted to discover everything for myself. I once lived in a house where the roof leaked badly. I couldn’t do anything until I got it fixed. I realized that it's the structure that allows creativity to flow freely - in my home, in my life, and in my body. A friend helped me to reconcile these polarities.  He suggested that I “Live my life as an art form and study it as a science.” 

Developing a Meditation Practice

July 27, 2026  by Dr. Suki Munsell

Developing a Meditation Practice - just for the health of it. Meditation is an ancient art, a rich practice with potential benefits for happiness, health, and sleep. Perhaps you already mediate, perhaps for years, or perhaps, like me you've found it difficult to develop. Over the years, people have suggested that I might benefit from a meditation practice. 

Secrets of Longevity

August 25, 2021  by Dr. Suki Munsell

Could the secrets of longevity be based in simple truths? Can best practices that have endured culture to culture and through time guide us?
A calm and quiet place lies within us,
a place of clarity,
the counterpoise to the crazy information-driven complexity
swirling around us.
From within that center we ... 
exhale, and ask…

Your Wisdom Years

March 25, 2021  by Dr. Suki Munsell

If you are noticing age related decline, then your initiation into your later years has begun. It is an invitation to rethink your life. Perhaps this re-think began during the pandemic, as mine did. Being forced to slow down, I realized how tiring it had been to keep my life in constant motion, staying up with the lifestyle a younger me had chosen.

Longevity Is Low Tech…and self-care benefits all

April 23, 2019  by Dr. Suki Munsell

...And self-care benefits all.

We have the power to delay our aging process - from the inside out.  Research continues to prove that people who exercise grow biologically younger. Senior exercisers can appear 30 years younger than their non-exercising peers.

THE 'MAGIC PILL' ISN'T A PILL AT ALL