Community Acupuncture: healing is not an isolated act
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The remedy for busy
Many health problems can be greatly alleviated or eradicated with acupuncture, but what we find as practitioners is that most people are “too busy to get better”, meaning, they are too busy to come for regular treatments that are close enough together that they can achieve and maintain lasting results. Community Acupuncture can remove the…
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Wing Chun: Insights from a Community Acupuncturist
“What’s Wing Chun? Oh, you mean its a type of Kung Fu? Oh really? I thought acupuncturists were all mellow and Zen and stuff. So you mean you don’t do yoga?” As a community acupuncturist, my work is intentional, carefully calculated, supportive and oh so vewy, vewy quiet. I spend my week using my inside…
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Wants & Want Nots
Acupuncture is NOT: Magic. Thought it might seem like it is and I have witnessed some pretty miraculous results, but it is a traditional medicine deeply rooted in experiential results and the natural world. After 2000 yrs, I think they’ve got a handle on it. Culturally afixed. The practice of acupuncture is not limited to…
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Yin and Yang – Using the Force
I sometimes like to imagine what life was like for folks a hundred years ago, even 200 years ago. I romanticize that times then were perhaps simpler in many ways than they are now, but history shows that every era has had it’s hardships as well as benefits. Acupuncture has been around longer than recorded…
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Chaos, controlled.
A large open space filled with bodies seemingly levitating off the ground. Its warm, almost a little humid and the light is soothingly dim. A low grade humming permeates through the room, flecked with mysterious, yet comforting music lulls people to sleep. Everyone’s movements are purposeful, gently entering and leaving the room abiding by unsaid…
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Believing in acupuncture – a Story for the Disdainers
Hello, this is my first contribution to the Heart & Hands newsletter, and I have of course waited to the last minute to write something. I didn’t feel inclined to give Health Advice, and was wondering, what to write about? Summer is finally here, a time for Fun and Relaxation. Advice never seems to come…
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More to healthy life than diet, exercise
Even more unfortunately, the relationship between loneliness and ill health is well established…Read more about this article in the Vancouver Sun. The collective energy of each individual helped to fill the space with a palpable calmness, something that many of us don’t engage in often enough. It was these experiences that motivated me to utilize…
