Entry pointTwo Minutes
FreeShort videos from Maurice on Instagram and YouTube, one small practice at a time.
Maurice Werness, ND · Naturopathic doctor · Durham, NC
The body is talking.
Under the noise of the day, the body never stops speaking. Most of us were never taught how to listen. Take three minutes and hear what yours is saying.
[ The thesis ] 001
We stopped listening to the body.
For most of our lives we have treated symptoms like noise. Tired after lunch, awake at three in the morning, tight in the jaw by noon. We silence the signal and keep going.
But the body was never malfunctioning. It was communicating. Every symptom is information about how we eat, rest, move and feel, and about the people and places we live with. Health is not something we force. It is something we learn to hear, then answer one small decision at a time.
Read about Maurice
01 · Watch
Begin with the film
Under a minute now. The full thirteen-minute episode premieres October 22.
02 · Check inThree minutes to hear your body
Seven plain questions. See your loudest signal and the first small step.
03 · Sit downA conversation with Maurice
Twenty minutes about your whole week, alongside the care you already have.
Background
- Bastyr University
- Institute for Natural Medicine
- Akea
- 30 years in practice
[ Film ]
Listening, in motion.
A first look at Ecology of Health. Under a minute with Maurice on the year his body said stop, and what it taught him. Episode one premieres October 22.
Teaser · 55 sec · Episode 01 premieres Oct 22
[ The 3-minute check-in ] 002
Hear what your body is saying.
Seven plain questions about an ordinary week. Your answers draw your five signals, find the loudest one, and give you the first small step. Everything stays on your screen until you choose to share it.
Your signals0 of 5 heard
Whole‑body health starts with listening.
Entry point
One to oneSit with Maurice
FreeA twenty-minute conversation by video, or at his office in Durham.
Small groupsThe Practice
Opening soonA guided season with a small circle, live sessions with Maurice, and a rhythm you keep.
Every path begins free. Maurice works alongside your own doctor and never asks anyone to change a medicine on their own.
What a consultation looks like[ The method ]
Ecology of Health
Ecology of Health gathers thirty years of naturopathic practice into one simple idea. Maurice trained at Bastyr University in Seattle and was a founding board member of the Institute for Natural Medicine. At twenty-seven his own body broke down. Learning to listen to it, and to answer with small, steady changes, became the work of his life. Today he teaches from his office in Durham, North Carolina, and online.
- The body is always talking.
- Health is a thousand small decisions.
- Nature doesn’t negotiate.
[ How it works ]
Three steps back into listening.
01
Notice the signal
Begin where you are. Pay attention to what your body is already telling you after meals, at night, under stress.
02
Answer with one decision
Move through the teachings at your own pace. Change one small thing, then the next. Get outside. Sit down to eat. Call someone.
03
Let the body respond
You do not need to force the body into health. Give it different conditions, and pay attention to what it begins to show you.
[ Signals ]
What your body may be saying.
After mealsTired after you eat
Heavy, foggy, ready for a nap an hour after lunch.
Read the signal →
Often points toA large or fast meal, a plate heavy on refined starch, or eating on the run.
One small decisionSit down for every meal this week and put the fork down between bites.
The body is always going to give us information.Read the article
NightAwake at 3 a.m.
Wide awake in the dark, mind already running.
Read the signal →
Often points toA busy mind with nowhere to put things, a late heavy dinner, alcohol, or screens in bed.
One small decisionKeep paper by the bed. Write the thought down, then breathe in for five and out for six.
When you wake up, bring your awareness into your body. See what you’re feeling.Read the article
All dayWired but tired
Running on coffee, exhausted, and still unable to switch off.
Read the signal →
Often points toToo little daylight in the morning, too much light at night, and a day without a pause.
One small decisionTen minutes of morning daylight before any screen, every day this week.
The entire body is a brain.Read the article
