Pohala Clinic - A Place of Healing

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7477 SE 52nd Ave, Portland, Oregon 97206
Added by Jopie, at 24 August 2019

Pohala – A Place of Healing is a clinic that provides personalized primary care with a holistic approach. We create a bridge between the worlds of health care providers have advanced degrees and years of clinical training.
People come to Pohala for our empathetic nature and thoroughness. As a Primary Care Family Medicine clinic, we can offer you an ongoing relationship with a medical provider. We want to get to know you and your health. We want to listen to you and be there for you over time. We can provide ongoing medications and counseling for most medical problems. We can hold the "big picture" of your health and help you navigate through the sometimes daunting medical system.


Pohala's Founder: Julie E Foster, MSN, FNP
Julie is a fully licensed and board certified Family Nurse Practitioner who Integrates Mainstream and Anthroposophic medicine to achieve optimal health and well being. Patients are pleased with Julie's expert skills in assessing and treating illness while offering holistic perspectives and options for her patients. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Nursing with Science Honors from Linfield College in 1991 and her Master's Degree in Nursing, specializing in Family Medicine, from Gonzaga University in 1998.

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• Anynomous

  03 November 2019

  There is no one just like YOU 💠💮💠

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• Anynomous

  01 November 2019

  Happy Hallow’s Eve from Pohala clinic.🍂🍁

  We have our very own vampire to draw your blood today. 😃

  Love our crew here!!!

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• Anynomous

  23 October 2019

  I liked seeing how we can transform potentially toxic emotions into something of HEALING ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Can we get there?

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• Anynomous

  21 October 2019

  SOMETIMES IT IS IMPORTANT TO GET SICK🤕🤢

  I had felt something coming on the week before I left. I was not on track with listening to myself and getting my remedies in. The day I left should have been a day in or slowly paced. Instead I woke at 3am against natural rhythms. After arriving in Denver, Colorado I had agreed to wait for colleagues. The day ended up extending even longer when we had to pick another colleague up on the way and missed turn-offs more than once. I was t...

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• Anynomous

  14 October 2019

  Leaving to Crestone, Colorado for my Anthroposophic Medicine yearly study.

  For travel and management of the higher altitude I

  1. Drink plenty of water throughout the day. ... 2. Apply Aurum Rose Lavender cream to my chest. 3. Do some Kundalini movements and breathing. 4. Fast for the day 5. Magnesium And Cordiodoron tabs 6. Dress in layers 7. Fresh Air aromatherapy to base of my nose 8. I will drink the Tonic Water with minerals and Quinine once I land.

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• Anynomous

  11 October 2019

  💠❤️💠

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• Anynomous

  04 October 2019

  I agree with my warm-hearted ❤️ colleague about trauma!

  I speak to patients everyday with varying degrees of perceived trauma. For one, your trauma is yours and impacts you. You cannot compare if it’s less or more than another’s. The point is how are you healing, moving through it and lifting it out and up vs. as Satya Sardonicus DC says ‘bracing or splinting yourself’ and staying in the trauma or having it set up house in you?

  Ongoing trauma festers and over time reveals i...tself in almost any kind of illness. We are living in traumatic times. Everyday we can identify a traumatic event and within our own selves our body and soul informs us each time we are triggered and responds with a flight/fight/freeze response.

  How can we loosen these chains? How can we develop resilience to bend with the winds and deflect the debris thrown at us?

  I witness Healing all the time and have a strong conviction in Human Resiliency. 💠🙏💠

  I like how Satya has dedicated her life to teaching others to find ways to move the trauma and heal.

  How are you moving through and healing your trauma?

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• Anynomous

  18 September 2019

  Vegan veggie soup for our September Birthday 🎂Potluck tomorrow. I join the 5-0 ranks. Whoop Whoop!

  Onions Celery Zucchini ... Cauliflower Carrots Red Potatoes Tomatoes

  Veggie broth

  Herbs: Bay leaf Thyme Basil Parsley Turmeric Paprika Himalayan Salt Cayenne

  Coconut Milk

  Top with Cilantro

  It will simmer all day and be so delicious for tomorrow.

  Add Spinach salad

  Or Rice

  Or Tabor Bakery Fermented 🍞 Bread.

  🌸🎂🌸🎂🌸🎂🌸🎂🌸

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• Anynomous

  15 September 2019

  A definitie task of mine!!! Great piece of advice for Health and Healing!!!

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• Anynomous

  15 September 2019

  Pohala Clinic would like to introduce our newest addition for Healing to our patients!

  We are excited Joy Cleaver, LMT has joined our collective.

  Here is a message from her:

  ...

  'I believe yoga and massage therapy improve lives through awareness and balance. When we feel our best, we live at our optimum potential for experiencing life to it's fullest.

  I have been a licensed massage therapist since 2003. My original 1200 hour program was completed at The Hawaiian Island School of Massage and focused on medical treatment massage. I also have training in Thai massage, prenatal massage, Hawaiian lomi lomi, reflexology, infant massage, and yoga therapy.

  I have been practicing yoga asana since 1997. At first yoga was a way for me to recover from a back injury due to a car accident. At the time I was a gymnast and I needed a way to maintain strength and flexibility during my recovery. Yoga became an important tool for me as a young adult. I struggled with the transitions of life and my own anxiety. Today, yoga remains a key part of my lifestyle, helping me to maintain balance and awareness in both my body and mind. Yoga plays a large role in my self care, which helps me in all aspects of my day to day life.

  I love to share my knowledge of asana (poses), pranayama (breath work), and mindfulness. I often call yoga "self massage". Yoga is a tool which will build body awareness as well as calm your nervous system and create a general sense of balance in your entire being.

  I have studied many styles of yoga including vinyasa, restorative yoga, and yoga therapy. I have studied with Baron Baptiste, Joseph LePage and SarahJoy Marsh. In my teaching I integrate an active flow with alignment and breath awareness, offering plenty of modifications, enabling each student to find the power of subtlety in their practice.

  My teaching and massage utilize an eclectic blend of my years of practice and study. I approach yoga and bodywork with a holistic view, aiming to treat the entire person to create balance and health. I look forward to being a part of your journey towards optimal health and well-being.'

  If you would like to schedule with Joy Cleaver visit her website at www.joycleaver.abmp.com.

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• Anynomous

  09 September 2019

  Are you curious about nourishing the flame and soul within you? See what Paresh H. Shelat ND, L.Ac has to say below in his latest instagram post: @doctor.phresh

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• Anynomous

  02 September 2019

  This is a Tobacco plant dated from 700 year old seeds found in a burial cave near the islands off of Washington. I was gifted 1 plant about 4 years ago.

  In my time and experiences with indigenous ceremonies I have come from despising this plant (my upbringing and medical training taught me how bad it is) to earning a greater respect to the actual being of the plant.

  I don’t believe it is the Tobacco that has harmed the people. I think it is what they did to the Tobacco out o...f greed and ignorance that does.

  I was instructed to get to know the plant. The natives taught it is a gift for the people to be used in Ceremony as a way to pray and find one’s place in the tribe for instance. The word Tobacco can also mean a general term for various plants that can be used to pray with.

  Tobacco contains nicotinic acid which is also a neurotransmitter in our brain. It helps us to relax at first and then creates an anxiety for motivation to get going. Think about when it is over used, day in and day out? That is overkill and sets up a disconnect with the real purpose. It is not to say that the 100+ toxins added to keep people addicted is a tragedy.

  This plant being has sticky thick leaves, shoots up towards the sun ☀️. It then concentrates it forces to clusters of small cupped shaped yellow flowers. When it goes to seed the seeds are the size of a pinpoint and grossly abundant.

  The natives have coveted this plant for hundreds of years for a good and sacred reason.

  I think it is important to look past the usual knowledge of our times. Your life or situation may not be exactly what you think it is. Step back and give it a chance to teach you something more. This is what Tobacco has taught me.

  I am in a much better relationship with it now and this plant being deserves my awakening to its true nature.

  What a 🎁 gifting!!!!

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• Anynomous

  01 September 2019

  Health is not an endpoint.

  Every person has their own health. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

  Health is not the absence of disease. It exists on a spectrum. Because a person is born of hereditary we reflect the 7 generations above and below us. ... In essence we are born ill. If made possible as a child we live through childhood illnesses like fevers and burn through our genetic karma and lay a new foundation for our life and though still carry our past. We also have the goodness of our ancestors in spirits reach.

  Health is between the places of building up/(making new) and breaking down (killing off). Because if there were too much of either we would be sick. We are fine tuned instruments. Even in illness you can find health as not everything falls to ill health at once.

  Steiner mentions the following:

  ‘One hears it quite often said, that there is only one health, but a multitude of diseases. This statement, which many believe to be correct, cannot be upheld in the light of a genuine knowledge of the human being. Because each human is so individual, so particularly formed, that everyone, every child, already has a very specially suited health. We can therefore say that there are as many states of health and diseases as there are people. This reminds us of the necessity to continually focus on understanding the individual nature of the human.’

  Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 303 – Die gesunde Entwickelung des Menschenwesens -Eine Einführung in die anthroposophische Pädagogik und Didaktik – Dornach, December 28, 1921 (page 100)

  One size does not fit all for health care. Humans do exihibit patterns but each illness is slightly different. Even in each particular person we are always metamorohisizing so one form of illness or transformation shows itself different each episode. You really cannot step into the same river twice.

  Exploring how each person comes to health is essential for improving our world.

  A small thing is to observe yourself and how your physical has processed various illnesses and comes back to health. Look to your biography and patterns will emerge. We change when our thoughts change, when something significant happens in our lives and so on. Illness too is not a bad thing. When it comes hold on for the ride and see what it has to teach you. See what it is that you have wanted to change is working through you. It may not be easy but can bring meaning.

  How wonderful and what magnificent beings we are with such ability to heal! 🌟🌎🌟

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• Anynomous

  31 August 2019

  Saw this last night.......

  Grandmother Ocean 🌊🌊🌊🐚🐚🐚

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• Anynomous

  31 August 2019

  Have you heard of Seed Cycling to Balance Hormones and Ease PMS and Menopause Symptoms?

  It involves eating flax, pumpkin, sesame, and sunflower seeds at different times of the month to balance certain hormones.

  Seed cycling is a nutritional and naturopathic remedy that is claimed to balance hormones by regulating the hormone estrogen in the first half of your menstrual cycle and the hormone progesterone in the second half.

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