East Asian Medicine honors the dynamic forces and polarities that support, generate, and create life. All that is within a being also exists without, and life is a continual evolution of relationships between energy and substance both within the body and between internal and external.

External and internal forces can put strain on particular organs, tissues, or functions of the body, and the balancing process involves identifying what has become overburdened and why and then working to redistribute or supplement energy for recovery. Balance points continually shift, change is a constant. Acupuncture can support the body in finding equilibrium so that body systems can continue to support change and growth. There is no returning to a previous state, but a graceful inhabitance of the present.

Each element of the body is part of an integrated communication system, and needles are a tool to stimulate change in the body as a whole by affecting the pitch and flow of those conversations.

Acupuncture improves movement of energy, blood, and fluid throughout the entire body by activating electrical conductivity via access points in the skin, muscles, and connective tissue to send the brain information about what’s occurring in a particular area and priming the body to receive messages from the brain. Different needling techniques may be used in order to soothe and lengthen areas of constraint and activate less responsive areas to promote optimum function.

Acupuncture isn’t really something that happens to you, it’s a therapy that taps into your own resources and your body’s ability to adapt and change.

Treatment can allow for expanding awareness by altering perception of pain and limitation, loosening constraint to open more space for your experience, and calming inflammation. It can also create a smoother connection with your sense of self beyond your body, allowing you to access the deeper wells of regenerative energy.