Illuminate Your Life: a chinese medicine blog
Cupping - Why we love it!
Cupping is one of our favorite forms of bodywork! It involves momentarily placing fire into glass cups so that the heat creates suction when they are subsequently placed on the skin. We love performing this service in conjunction with acupuncture, or as a stand-alone treatment.
Acupuncture for Better Sleep
To us Chinese Medicine practitioners, it is such a travesty that anyone should go without restorative sleep at night. This is the time for your body and spirit to cleanse, heal and recharge. In our stress-laden society, the need for adequate hours of sleep is all the more important.
Essential Oils for Immune, Stress + More
Some of our favorite essential oils to diffuse, spray or inhale these days:
Essential Oils for the New Year
To be used alone or together; diffuse, smell, or place a diluted drop on the chest.
Meet Sarah Dufresne
We are so excited to welcome Sarah to our Blue Heron family! Sarah just moved here from Massachusetts in order to be closer to the ocean. She is a licensed acupuncturist with a mixed background in all things relating to finding balance in the body.