Write Your UnPrescription 28 August 2021 10a PST

Dear Friends,Write Your UnPrescription
As part of Beyond Holistic’s UnPrescription program, I will be a guest facilitator on Saturday 28 August 2021 at 10am PST for Dr. Laurel Braitman’s Writing Medicine program hosted by Stanford University’s Medicine and the Muse Program. These are reflective writing sessions for anyone in or related in any way, shape, manner, or form to anyone practicing in the healing professions. There is no cost. Please join us and so many others from all around the world. Please sign up here for the log in information.When do you want to resume yoga and qi gong practice?
If you haven’t already done so, please let me know the times and dates you’d be able to resume our personal practices through this very easy, very short form. Please respond by August 31 so we can start again sometime in September. I look forward to cultivating our well-being and resilience together with Beyond Asana (yoga poses, guided meditation, discussion of foundations of yoga) and Ji Juju (qi gong).As always, I welcome your support for any of our efforts.Humor is Good Medicine
Inspired by my dear friend Kathy Sartori of Fiscal Fitness, and because humor is good medicine, even “Dad humor”:Q: What do you call a can opener that doesn’t work?
A: A can’t opener!Q: Where do spiders seek health advice?
A: WebMDI invite each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.Looking forward, staying present,

Dear Friends,A Walk Around the Block
I’d like to extend a warm welcome to Wana Shue who joins Arundhati Vyas on team Ready, Steady, Go! Wana is a folk artist and folk medicine worker exhibiting through this website. Their medicine of patience, presence, and sacred intuition saturate their birthwork and ceremony support. With Beyond Holistic they write to promote rituals of reflection, collective contribution, and cross pollination.In their own words:

It’s with sweet pleasure that I am writing my first piece with Beyond Holistic. Recently introduced to the Ready, Steady, Go! team I appreciate the approachability of the suggestions, scaling focal impact from the individual level to reach global systems. May this progression aid depth in our awareness and in our agency.As seasons are changing, winter shifting into spring for the northern hemisphere, I invite a pause to notice adaptation through our ecosystems. Wherever you are, in whatever climate, time evolves our landscape. Relationships between flora and fauna change to uplift new life and in the lengthening days the older become wiser. With the forward momentum of spring, I will offer some practices to engage a new or remembered mindfulness.”This week’s Ready, Steady, Go! action item is to engage your health and heart by simply taking a walk around the block with your senses alive and alert for what surrounds you. Please let us know your experience with it as a comment on the post, Facebook, or Twitter with the hashtags #ReadySteadyGo and #WalkAroundTheBlockAs always, we welcome your support for any of our efforts.Stay tuned for Writing Your UnPrescription next Saturday, 23 April 2022.Because Dad Humor is Good Medicine*What do bees do if they need a ride? Wait at the buzz stop!*Fun fact: Australia’s biggest export is boomerangs. It’s also their biggest import.I invite each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.Looking forward, staying present,

JayshreeJayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine