Perimenopause to Power: A 3-Month Awakening
Honour your body's natural wisdom. Embrace the transition with clarity, strength, and grace. Year of the Wood Snake 2025.

In the intricate world of Chinese medicine, shiatsu and acupuncture form a powerful healing duo. While acupuncture is often in the spotlight, shiatsu plays a crucial supporting role, preparing the body's canvas for the precise brushstrokes of acupuncture needles.

As women approach their perimenopausal and menopausal years, they stand on the threshold of a profound life transition. This natural shift, often viewed with apprehension, can actually be a gateway to deep personal growth and renewal. Enter the transformative power of retreats.

As winter descends, the world undergoes a transformation—a shift towards stillness, introspection, and the cultivation of yin energy. In Chinese medicine, winter represents the pinnacle of yin, the feminine, receptive, and nourishing aspect of existence. Understanding and embracing these yin qualities during winter can profoundly benefit our health and well-being.

Embracing Change: Chinese Medicine and Menopause

Menopause, one of many significant life transitions for women, marks the end of a woman's reproductive years and heralds the beginning of a new chapter.

While it can bring physical and emotional changes, it also presents an opportunity for profound growth and self-discovery. In the realm of Chinese medicine, menopause is viewed through a holistic lens that emphasizes the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit. This unique perspective offers invaluable insights into navigating this transformative journey with grace and empowerment.

Nurturing Tranquility: Qigong's Profound Impact on Anxiety Relief

In our fast-paced world, stressors lurk around every corner.
Finding effective avenues to alleviate anxiety is paramount for our well-being. Anxiety can manifest in various forms, from mild unease to debilitating panic attacks, and its prevalence underscores the importance of proactive self-care practices.

Amidst the plethora of techniques available, one approach stands out for its profound impact on the nervous system: Qigong.

We may underestimate the biological need we have for another. With enhanced digital capacities all around, it’s easy to feel we’re connecting by phone, text, across all the digital platforms. What though of the warmth, the sensations of how a room feels different with the presence of others. Positive or negative. That we can feel this is one of the most human happenings.

From any perspective, gut health is key.

Chinese medicine sees the gut through many lenses. This post will focus on the organ systems most related to the digestive process. Stomach, Spleen and Pancreas. Biomedicine doesn’t mention the function of spleen all that much, more pancreas and digestive organs of stomach, gallbladder, liver and intestines both small and large.

People commonly report after receiving acupuncture treatment how they feel better able to “deal with the world”.

Whether the issue is grief, depression, frustration, anger or even feeling numb, acupuncture treatments can help.

How is this so?