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What is acupuncture?
- The insertion of very thin, sterile needles at specific points on the body to therapeutically balance the patient's body, mind & feeling
- A holistic medical paradigm based in physical and energetic anatomy and physiology
- A safe, reliable, drug free way to spark the bodies' natural healing response.
- A deeply restorative way to reset or maintain your emotions, energy, immunity and much more.
What type of needles?
Acupuncture needles are sterile, single-use, stainless steel and are about the thickness of a shaft of human hair. When when placed into the a salty, bio-electric medium like the body, natural currents of electricity are created, amplifying energy and dispersing stasis. We never reuse needles and maintain a clean field for each patient to prevent the cross contamination of germs.
What does it feel like? Does it hurt?
When done correctly by a professionally trained acupuncturist, most people find it does not hurt. Depending on your reactivity and the point being treated, you may or may not feel the insertion of the needle and subsequently the “qi sensation.” This sensation can range from a dull ache to a wave-like feeling of fullness near the insertion point. This sensation can move up or down the body and limbs or reach to other parts of the body farther away. These are all normal sensations. Most people describe the feeling of being very relaxed and centered at the end of treatment.
Where do the needles go?
Needles are most commonly inserted into the arms, legs and back and may be placed at or near the site of pain, but do not necessarily have to be. Depending on a person’s condition, acupuncture points on the back or front of the body, as well as the head and face may be used. Needles are typically retained for about 20-30 minutes, during which time one will feel very relaxed and may even fall asleep. Needle retention time varies according to the patient and their condition — as some people need more time, some less. The same principle applies to the number of needles used, which vary from person to person and from treatment to treatment, depending on an individual’s condition and constitution at the time of treatment.
Types of Acupuncture Appointments
Initial Visit
Initial Visit
Initial Visit
90 minutes - $125
Our initial visit includes a review of your health history, a conversation about your chief and secondary complaints, traditional examination and treatment with acupuncture. Integrative therapies may also be applied and then considered for subsequent visits.
Follow-up
Initial Visit
Initial Visit
60 minutes - $85
Our follow-up appointment applies acupuncture along with the appropriate integrative therapies for your specific needs. Techniques like cupping, guasha, essential oils, medicated herbal liniments and qigong are offered to support the chief and secondary complaints.
Nei Tsang
Nei Tsang
Nei Tsang
75 minutes - $100
Our Nei Tsang appointment combines hands-on abdominal therapy with acupuncture. Half of your treatment time is dedicated to breaking up organ and meridian restrictions with Chi Nei Tsang. The other half of your time deepens the transformation of emotions and energy with acupuncture.
Express
Nei Tsang
Nei Tsang
45 minutes - $65
Reduced rate for Fridays & Saturdays. Come in for a quicker treatment by skipping the additional integrative therapies in our traditional follow-up session. Enjoy a private acupuncture appointment on our crystal, far infrared heated tables and feel great for the weekend and beyond!
Integrative Therapies for Follow-up Acupuncture
Cupping
Electroacupuncture
Cupping
Cupping is a therapeutic practice that involves creating suction on the skin using a glass or plastic cup. Cupping can be applied stationary on dry skin or as sliding cups with an emollient that allows the cups to glide along the skin.
Cupping leaves temporary marks on the skin that can look like bruising. In cases of wet cupping, where lancets are used to puncture the skin along with cupping, the marks may be darker. The marks themselves typically do not hurt and will resolve within days of treatment.
Gua Sha
Electroacupuncture
Cupping
Gua sha is a therapeutic technique in which the surface of the skin is stroked using a round-edged tool. This is typically performed along the neck and back, but can also be used on the arms, legs, and even the face
As the gua sha tool moves over the body, small capillaries may break and create bruise-like markings. These markings will diminish in the days following treatment. In Chinese medicine, we refer to those markings as "sha" or sand, as it resembles grains of sand coming to the surface of the skin.
Electroacupuncture
Electroacupuncture
CranioSacral Balance
Electroacupuncture uses two needles in each meridian point, or acupuncture point, and then connects to a machine that passes a small electric current through the needle.
When you get electroacupuncture, it activates your sympathetic nerve fibers. By activating these fibers, your body releases endogenous opioids such as endorphins, which help to reduce inflammation. The activated nerve fibers may also help to reduce feelings of persistent pain. This makes it a good treatment for chronic pain and stress.
CranioSacral Balance
Herbal Medicated Liniments
CranioSacral Balance
CSB is based on ancient applied qigong called, "zheng gu neitsang". This practice focuses on the gentle placement of hands to help release tension in your body’ bone energy, meridians and connective tissue. It relaxes tension in your organs, glands, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, brain and spinal cord.
Manipulation of the spinal tide to positively support, conditions like dizziness, vertigo, migraines, stress, headaches, eyes problems, hormone imbalances plus much more.
Essential Oil Therapy
Herbal Medicated Liniments
Herbal Medicated Liniments
Smell gets directly processed by our limbic brain, skipping our higher areas of thought and logic. It is therefore understood to be directly linked with our emotional life.
By seeing such positive results over many years of therapy, we incorporate essential oil therapy on specific acupuncture points in our Follow-up and Nei Tsang acupuncture sessions .
Our essential oils are organic when possible and are primarily purchased through Snow Lotus. These botanicals are of the highest quality allowing for deeper penetration and less side effects.
Herbal Medicated Liniments
Herbal Medicated Liniments
Herbal Medicated Liniments
Our topical products are very high quality medicinals which are chosen when the practitioner feels that it suits the treatment principle and needs of the patient.
Our herbal liniments, lotions and oils contain real herbal formulas that penetrate deep into the muscles and meridians rather than simple nerve blocks. These high quality, ancient formulas have been used for hundreds of years and have proven themselves over time to be safe, effective and have little to no side effects.