Joe Lavacca introduces us to the impact that Community can have on our overall health.

Joe Lavacca wraps up our Movement Month with alook at the many benefits movement has in regards toyour stress. Nice!

Joe Lavacca continues the movement conversation this week to include sleep. Learn about how exercise shifts us on a physiologic level to help support faster and deeper sleep.

This week – Joe continues the conversation of movement, the endocannabinoid system, and pain. In our brains – we have many receptors for the endocannabinoid system – that can also create new memories, ideas, thoughts, and emotional responses in regards to pain. Dive deeper and watch the video! 

This week we’ve got a video from Joe Lavacca highlighting how important movement is to the health of our ECS

In this week’s video our Joe shares with us the positive impact that touch can have on heart rate variability (HRV) to help our bodies maintain a healthy homeostasis.

Joe breaks down how sleeping close to someone can positively impact your sleep (snoring aside).Touch can have a multitude of benefits – sleep included. It’s all about connecting and bonding with one another. Joe takes a quick dive into how research has shown positive effects of being near one another even while dozing off.

Joe shares some thoughts with us on how touch helps modulate the pain response in our body. Pain depends both on the strength of the stimulus, the emotional state, and the setting in which the injury occurs. When pain messages arrive to our brain, the brain can process them differently depending not only on the strength

From our first moment in this world until the very last, we find ourselves seeking the comfort and connection of touch.   When harnessed correctly touch has the amazing possibility to heal our bodies and minds while creating a bond to our environment and others. Touch releases one of our body’s endocannabinoids, anandamide (AEA) that is

Want to start the new year off with a new habit to benefit the body and mind? Learn from Joe about how you can easily incorporate meditation to your wellness routine – no fancy pillows or incense needed.