Podcast 196: Interview with Nathan Oxenfeld

Nathan Oxenfeld joins the EyeClarity podcast today! He is a Natural Vision Teacher, and founder of Integral Eye Sight Improvement.  He teaches people natural alternatives to glasses, contacts, and surgeries and how many common vision problems can be prevented and decreased with simple and natural practices that retrain the eyes and mind to function more optimally.  Nathan, combines the Bates Method, Yoga, Meditation, Breath Work, Emotional Work, Diet & Nutrition, and other vision training techniques to explore a more holistic approach to eye health.  He teaches classes, also is very active on social media.  He completed a documentary in 2020 on Natural Vision Improvement. Link: Vision2020movie.com    To contact Nathan, go to: https://integraleyesight.com Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, palming, bates, eyes, bates method, vision, teaches, eyesight, sunning, documentary, light, natural, world, teachers, pandemic, nathan, glasses, screens, yoga, broaden Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey folks, it's Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast where we have an interview today with a really special person His name is Nathan Oxenfeld. And he teaches something called integral eyesight improvement. So he's kind of in the same sphere is as me. He teaches people natural alternatives to glasses, contacts, and surgery, you know how we can prevent, be proactive in healing our eyesight and vision. And Nathan has a great background, the Bates method, love the Bates method, yoga, meditation, breath, work, emotional work, diet and nutrition, and many other techniques to support people in their eye health. He actually created a documentary, which I'm going to talk to him about today. If you want to check him out, you can do so on his website or on his YouTube videos. I love his videos on YouTube, by the way, check those out. So, Nathan, I want to bring you on. I want to thank you for joining us today. And my first question is, who have been your biggest influences in terms of your current teachings? 01:23 Yeah, thank you so much, Dr. Sam, it's really really special to be here with you. I, I've been influenced by several people, but since you mentioned the name of my practice, integral eyesight improvement, that first word integral is very inspired by integral yoga. So I definitely want to share the inspiration I got from Swami Satchidananda, who actually founded the ashram in Virginia where I did my yoga teacher training Satchidananda Ashram or yogaville, sometimes I call it like, your, like summer camp for adults Yoga Camp. And, yeah, that that definitely was a huge influence in the direction of my life in general to kind of shift gears and go down the route of natural healing and in alternative health and stuff. And then you also mentioned that I teach the Bates method. So obviously, I've been influenced a lot by Dr. William Bates. And it's been showing up a lot in my teachings lately because I've been going through the better eyesight magazines that Dr. Bates published monthly from 1919 to 1930. And in 2018, we're coming up on that 100 year anniversary so I came up with this plan to create a podcast where I read me and other vision tea...