Wellness By Helen

12/01/2025

Lab and Leaf is live! 🍃

I love formulating herbal medicines, it is truly my calling and creating personalized medicine is something I’ve enjoyed deeply for the span of over a decade that I’ve been in practice.

As a clinical herbalist, transitioning to formulating for the public has been a new challenge, but it’s also been so rewarding. The parameters, research, and safety considerations might be different, but the goal remains the same – to help people feel their best through small daily rituals that have science and nature at their core. One of my new formulas even won an award at the International Herbal Symposium in Cincinnati in September!

Catch my new herbal medicine line at upcoming pop-ups and winter markets.

Malibu Wines on Dec 7th is up next followed by Claytivity on Sunset Dec 13th.

The website is almost ready, but in the meantime I’ll be at a couple more events in the LA area. I bring tea, samples and seed packets for your garden. 😊 I’d love to see you!

Follow for updates and sneak peeks of what’s launching soon! And to browse my herbal extracts and tea collections online when they’re ready too- let me know what you’d like me to add to the shop. I have a few formulas macerating but I’m always happy to add what you’re missing from your wellness rituals. 🙂

11/16/2025

We’re popping up at Bloom Loft Yoga today! 🧘🏻‍♀️

My herbal medicine line Lab and Leaf will be showcasing new tea blends, a special yoga oil, a 100x washed ghee cream, the popular Sleep formula, and our award-winning Restorative Tonic, among a few other goodies.

Join us for treats and good vibes until 3:30pm!

Bloom Loft Yoga
4004 W. Riverside Drive
Toluca Lake, CA.
12:30-3:30pm

🧘🏻‍♀️✨🍃

11/12/2025

Don’t call it a comeback if it never left!
It was just on pause. A very, very long pause.
Happy to say that: The Yoga Oil is back. 🧘🏻‍♀️

This medicinal oil was a favorite in my past formulating days back when the clinic was a physical space in the SFValley. I always intended to bring it back - and since I’m doing a Pop-up at this Sunday with my new herbal medicinal line , it felt like the perfect moment to re introduce it.

This small batch herb oil is an extraction of 7 Ayurvedic herbs all chosen to comfort aching muscles and support a post practice recovery, whether it’s yoga, Pilates, an iron pump sesh, a good run or any movement that calls for a little extra attention to yourself afterwards.

Comment below if I should save one for you this weekend! 🍃

P.s. I always think about the yoga off the mat. The everyday things we do that ask us for poise, posture, balance, flexibility, patience, grace. The actual things we balance both in our internal and external. In this way, everything is yoga. I’m sheepishly proud I was able to balance these garden rocks for the web picture. Silly but important bc rebuilding and rebranding is a lot, it takes a lot. Yoga is essentially the practice of everything and anything, and I think that the yoga that is off the mat is just as if not more important than the balance we find in the mat. So.. check out my rocks! 🙃

08/03/2022

Oatly recalls some of its milk products due to contamination

Lyons Magnus LLC announced a voluntary recall of nutritional and beverage products due to the potential for microbial contamination.

06/24/2022

Science!

A Cancer “Kill Switch” Has Been Found In The Body – And Researchers Are Already Hard At Work To Harness It

04/08/2022

Very cool!

Did you know you have tiny tunnels in your head? That's OK, no one else did either until recently! But that's exactly what a team of medical researchers confirmed in mice and humans in 2018 – tiny channels that connect skull bone marrow to the lini

04/01/2022

Exclusive: The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs

02/09/2022

A new study investigates how SARS-CoV-2 infections may turn into long COVID. The answer likely lies in abnormal immune system activity.

02/02/2022

A good breakdown of false negatives, and why false positives aren’t really a thing

Can you test negative for COVID but still have it? This is why it seems to take so long for a rapid test to turn positive.

01/18/2022

The USPS is sending 4 free COVID tests.
Here is the link:

https://special.usps.com/testkits?fbclid=IwAR1LSAxaR4mAHe5p5dLdorebYyJ3PLn0UFW9wLh9dfAdiOHtUurea-wrjvU

COVID Home Tests | USPS

11/13/2021

Worth reading if you order fast food.

Some of these are not so fast food too!

"Grilled chicken" is almost always a no-no.