Are you looking to feel better this year?

Do you wish you had more control over your health and wellbeing?

Join me for an innovative program that gives you the keys to creating and maintaining health.

In January 2025, we will be launching an exciting program at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health called Foundations 360. This is a truly unique experience that combines naturopathic medicine with group medical visits into a comprehensive 10-week program designed to restore health in a manner that can be sustained for a lifetime. One part class and one part individual appointment, here are some highlights about the program:

• Group medicine. For over 20 years now, research has consistently demonstrated that group medical visits are more effective than conventional 1-on-1 visits for chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, autoimmunity and many others. Regardless of your personal health challenges, being a part of a group helps adults to learn better and also provides social connection and support that helps inspire and maintain essential lifestyle changes.
• Health-focused. Conventional medicine focuses on diagnosing and treating diseases. As such, it has revolutionized our ability to address acute conditions – never before have we been able to address things like physical traumas and infectious diseases so successfully. While naturopathic medicine also acknowledges the essential practice of diagnosis and treatment of disease, it also recognizes that, in addition to fighting diseases, we also must cultivate health. Part of healing comes from within and this simple truth is often overlooked. Foundations 360 begins with exploring what health actually means, and then focuses on activating our innate healing capacity to restore it.
• Comprehensive. Restoring health requires that we first understand what determines health. In this 10-week exploration we will use a holistic lens to examine mind, body and spirit. We begin with the basics of diet, movement and rest, and then continue to explore our thoughts and beliefs, stress and environment, communities and relationships, and what brings meaning and purpose to our lives. Week after week, we will provide resources, tools and support to identify opportunities to support our wellbeing in new and powerful ways. You can see a brief schedule of weekly topics at here  and click on Program Details.
• Traditional + modern. Scientific evidence for all types of therapeutics has never been greater, and it grows continually. In addition to such modern therapeutics, we will also be integrating helpful time-tested modalities as well where the research is only recently catching up – such as hydrotherapy, herbs and food as medicine. Hydrotherapy has been a cornerstone of naturopathic medicine for over 100 years now and was utilized extensively by luminaries such as Dr. John Bastyr himself to help stimulate the self-healing response of the body.
• Time together. One of the most common complaints about medicine is how short the visits are and patients are sometimes dissatisfied because they don’t get their questions answered. Foundations 360 is different. Each three-hour meeting includes both group learning and a one-hour individual appointment, so there’s time to fully understand what’s happening with your health. We will meet from 1:30-4:30pm every Tuesday afternoon for 10 weeks, beginning on January 14. Research indicates that it takes about 10 weeks to establish a new habit, and one of our goals is to get to know each patient well enough that we can help them establish healthy habits and a healing relationship with their body that will last them a lifetime.
• Individual time. Group visits are not a replacement for individual appointments and so each week will also include a full individual appointment with you and a student clinician, under the supervision of a licensed naturopathic doctor – just like in Team Care that you might be familiar with at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health. This will give you time to confidentially share the specifics of your case in order to get a truly individualized plan.
• Value. Even though we will be meeting for three hours, the cost will be the same as a typical medical visit, including any applicable cash discounts, and the appointments are eligible for insurance coverage. Meeting in a group setting allows us to keep the cost very low, making this perhaps the best value available in medicine, anywhere.

Every year, rates of chronic disease increase in the US – even despite spending more per capita on healthcare than any other nation in history. Unlike simple infections, chronic diseases have no singular cause to treat – they have complex causes that are often related to multiple lifestyle factors. That’s why there is still is no pill to treat heart disease (the leading cause of death in the US since 1950) and the same is true for other chronic conditions as well.

Ultimately, there is no pill for health. Health is cultivated in the way a gardener tends to the soil, sunlight, water, drainage, pests and myriad other factors beyond even the plant itself in order to ensure that it will thrive. Foundations 360 seeks to fill in the gaps in healthcare by focusing both on addressing disease and also building health. That’s why this isn’t a diabetes group, or an asthma group, or a chronic fatigue group – it’s a group for anyone wanting to reclaim their health.

I hope you can see why I’m so excited to be offering Foundations 360! I’m hoping that you will join me if this vision calls to you. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the program – I’d be honored to hear from you. To register or for more information, please go to https://bastyrclinics.org/seattle/foundations-360 or call the Bastyr Center for Natural Health at (206) 834-4100 and select Team Care from the options menu. The group will be limited to only 10 participants so act now. Let’s thrive in 2025!

Sincerely,

Greg Yasuda, ND [email protected]