Sylvie Martin Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine

10/02/2025

09/24/2025

Some concise info to help you make good choices

Protecting your liver, guts and arteries....one e-mail at a time

03/31/2025

It’s more often rejection, abandonment, failure, discomfort, embarrassment or a whole host of other historical things that we’re afraid of - not the actual thing in front of us.

Emotional resilience is learning how to sit with the discomfort that comes along with putting yourself out there (or being in relationship, or being vulnerable, or, you know, just being a human), and learning how to meet those sensations safely in the present moment.
It comes from updating the history stored in the body that tells us we won't be safe.
It's letting those sensations come up, being with them, and letting the energy move through you.
Recognizing that discomfort itself isn’t inherently bad; in fact, its presence often paves the way to deeper growth and greater joy.

Learning to be present with discomfort is an enormous part of developing self trust. When you begin to believe that you can handle it when things don’t go perfectly (and the more often this is actually true), the more you’re able to trust yourself to let things happen without trying to control them. And the narratives you have about yourself and others can begin to shift.
And the more self-trust you have, the more likely you are to try new things!

The key is to start noticing and meeting the sensations in your body safely - that’s the only way.
Be present to fear and allow it to exist.
Be present to anxiety and meet it with compassion.
Be present to anger and honor its message.

I’m not saying it’s not hard,
I’m saying it’s how we become resilient.

If you're working in this direction, I highly recommend joining the 6 week Self Awareness Workshop beginning April 22. It's 6 weeks of small group, connective learning for cycle breakers who are learning how to love themselves and enter into healthier relational dynamics.
This is the only time I'll be teaching this workshop in 2025!
Only a couple of spots left in the 10am pacific workshop!

https://theeqschool.co/self-awareness-sign-up

03/15/2025

Who DOESNT have neck and upper back stiffness sometimes… here’s a useful solution- jump on this opportunity!

Free Preview of the Qi Gong for the Upper Back and Neck Workshop available from March 13th to March 15th.

03/15/2025

A glimpse into research focusing on womens brains in relation to repriductive hormones.

As always, making helpful lifestyle choices is our most immediately constructive path to good health: healthy food, sufficient quality sleep, adequate exercise, and stress reduction. Acupuncture can help with many of these, as can mindfulness meditation

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02/13/2025

Medical Qigong Certification Online: Qigong Awareness offers Medical Qigong Certification Online. Acupuncture Continuing Education CEU Courses and training. California, Texas, Florida & NCCAOM Approved.

02/04/2025

Join this meditation series with Jack Kornfield, with music by East Forest, to help cultivate ease and spaciousness within you.

02/03/2025

11/04/2024

Neuro-orthopaedic acupuncture can help regulate and balance those tight shortened muscles that get stuck from sitting too much. When not working correctly, those muscles switch off and other muscles have to pick up the load, creating further problems.

In Canada, we sit an average of 5.7 hours every day and a lot of Canadians spend too much of the day sedentary