Women’s Health Circle - Happening Monthly
Come together in community, heal together in community, and explore pillars of health and wellness.
Next circle: October 27, 2024
2-4pm
Location: at Healing with Intention Integrative Medicine, 507 Garfield Ave, Loveland CO, 80537
Limited to 8 participants
Join us as we take a deep dive into circadian rhythms in our October circle… we’ll look at our daily schedules and how we can use our daily schedules to set us up to feel better. We all know the perfectly healthy schedule is practically impossible to make happen in real life… so together we’ll explore what is and isn’t working for you and how we can tweak your schedule to improve your health and help you feel better.
As always, we’ll spend some time in guided meditation and reflection and so that you can reconnect with yourself and leave feeling nourished and empowered to make changes that you know are important for you.
What you’ll get:
2 hours in a small group workshop with Dr. Sonny Miles, MD
Guided meditation and practice to reconnect with yourself and ground deeply into who you are
A deep dive into circadian rhythms and how we can adjust our schedules to feel better and sleep better.
Your Instructor:
Dr. Sonny Miles, MD
Dr. Sonny Miles, MD, is board-certified in integrative medicine, internal medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine. She has a special interest in traditional healing systems such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine which tell us that are own health and well-being are deeply intertwined and interconnected with the elements and the seasons and the ways that we live. She also strongly believes that we connecting deeply to ourselves, over and over, is one of the most essential pieces of healing and in our modern world, requires ongoing intentional reconnection. So in any work that she does, she offers us a chance to reconnect to ourselves and our wisdom as part of our own healing and well-being.
This is my story
“My interest in traditional forms of medicine has led me to explore spiritual healing and plant medicine in Paraguay, meet Mayan healers in Belize, and learn about folk medicine in Mexico.”
I fell in love with the mystery of the human body and healing when I was young. I read and listened to those in complementary medicine and to physicians who bridged the world of conventional medicine with these other ways of healing, such as Andrew Weil, MD, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, and others.
I understood that healing was both science and art and required intention and participation and that the body could sometimes heal in amazing ways.
As a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in Paraguay, I saw what a lack of modern healthcare meant and how important and necessary it is (and miraculous at times). On the other hand, I also witnessed spiritual healers and people using all sorts of indigenous plants for common ailments which helped them live better.
I started my medical career as a hospitalist, taking care of patients sick enough to be admitted to the hospital. I became disillusioned with what I called, the “revolving door” where we would get someone well enough to go home but then days or weeks or months later, they were back with the same problem.
I knew that our toolbox in conventional medicine was limited and I wanted to help people more comprehensively - body, mind, and spirit - and with a much more individualized and comprehensive toolkit. So I returned to my earlier interest and completed a fellowship in integrative medicine through the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.
I also saw how sometimes the care in the hospital was mismatched with a patient’s goals. I felt we needed to do a better job communicating with patient’s about what our care could and could not do and what patients actually want when they are ill. I found it incredibly meaningful to have these difficult and yet important conversations when someone is very sick or dying. So, I returned to medical training to complete a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine.
I spent several years caring for those with serious illness, talking to them about what mattered and how they lived their best possible moments with illness, and sometimes about the challenges of living when a person knows they are dying.
Meanwhile, I have been on my own journey of healing and have utilized many different modalities including acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, shamanic healing, breathwork, herbal medicine, vitamins and supplements, psychotherapy, internal family systems, coaching, reiki, Rossiter, yoga, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and craniosacral therapy.
I founded Healing with Intention to bring all of these together – conventional medicine with the important conversations of palliative care and the tools and understanding of integrative medicine – in order to assist you on your own journey of healing and living what matters most.
More about Dr. Miles
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University of Arizona, Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Fellowship, Integrative Medicine, 2017
University of California San Diego and Scripps Medical Center
Fellowship, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2017
University of California San Francisco
Residency, Internal Medicine, 2013
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Medical School, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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Hospice and Palliative Care
Palliative Oncology
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Whole Health Medical Institute
Founded by Dr. Lissa Rankin, author of “Mind over Medicine and Sacred Medicine”
Medical Acupuncture & Functional Medicine
Academy of Pain Research
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Traditional forms of medicine, spiritual healing, plant medicine, folk medicine
Acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine
Shamanic healing, breathwork, herbal medicine, vitamins and supplements
Psychotherapy, internal family systems, coaching, reiki, Rossiter yoga, mindfulness-based stress reduction, craniosacral therapy
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She is a mother of two young boys, a wife, a caretaker of dogs and horses, and a lover of the beauty of the outdoors.
