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Healing body and mind with Classical Five Element theory and practice.

22/04/2025

People often react to the mention of acupuncture needles with fear and apprehension. There is nothing to be fearful about as they are so much finer than the needles we are used to.
A hypodermic needle needs to be hollow to allow fluids to pass through it. The needle most commonly used for this is 0.8mm wide.
Acupuncture needles function to stimulate Qi or energy, they are not transferring anything. Consequently they are solid and a lot finer.
The most common needle size I use is 0.2mm wide. A quarter of the width of a hypodermic needle.
To put that in perspective, a human hair is approximately 0.1mm.

30/01/2025

Happy Chinese New Year! 🎉
This is the year of the snake, a symbol of wisdom, adaptability and renewal.
Watching this gorgeous, sinuous snake weaving its way through the deep blue sky over Clifton Downs made me aware of how we all weave through our lives, adapting to new circumstances and occurrences.
A snake sheds its skin, demonstrating the powers of transformation and renewal that lie within each of us.
Wishing everyone wisdom, adaptability and renewal in the coming year. 🙏

29/01/2025

Gorgeous Medicine Buddha thangka at the Kailash Centre in London. I and other acupuncturists had gathered for an inspiring day with Judy Worsley and the healing power of Five Element acupuncture.

04/12/2024

Winter is here! Loved meeting this old man of the forest in Leigh woods today. ❤️

17/10/2024

In Five Element acupuncture we talk about the power of nature to heal. Today at Tyntesfield I stumbled across this poem by Hannah More which reminded me of the need to slow down and allow nature in, to let her elegant delight soothe our troubled body and agitated mind.

02/10/2024

The season of autumn is related to the Metal element in traditional Chinese medicine. A time of year when the life-force diminishes and our environment enters a slower and more inward phase. It is a time to let go like the trees, to exhale and allow ourselves to slow down. In that more reflective state we can more easily see the transitory nature of our life and come to a deeper appreciation of just how precious it is.
(These photos were taken at the gorgeous arboretum in Westonbirt 😍)

03/09/2024

The Tao is like a well:
Used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
Filled with infinite possibilities.
Tao Te Ching
(Trans: S Mitchell)

18/06/2024

The Chinese character for Fire is huo. It shows flames dancing upwards and comes from a time when people used fire for cooking and warmth. The hearth would have been where people gathered for nourishment, warmth and contact. The fire in the hearth was the very heart of the home.
The Heart is one of the four Officials of the Fire element and lies at the very core of our being. The heart houses our spirit or shen, it is the home of the Divine light within each of us.
The scholar Lorie Dechar explains it is this Divine light '...that gives us the capacity to know ourselves, to "see" our way and to shine the light of our own unique self - our own divinity - out into the world.' Taoists regarded this spark of divinity as '...the most precious, the most potent, yet also the most vulnerable, aspect of our being.'

10/06/2024

🌞 Summer has arrived! The Fire element season which manifests in us as the emotion of joy.
😍 Hanging out with our friends and family, enjoying each other's company, helps generate and maintain this inner fire within each of us.
🌺 Being in the flowering beauty of nature, in sunshine, held in the warmth of the season also nourishes our own Fire, keeping us balanced and healthy.
✨ Acupuncture can also help to strengthen your Fire element and improve your ability to connect with others.

16/05/2024

Peonies in the Chinese garden at the Bristol botanical gardens. Known as mu dan in China, they symbolise honour and riches, and are often given to evoke wealth and success.
The root of the herbaceous peony is large and fleshy to store energy. This energy store is used in a major Chinese herbal remedy known as bai shao to tonify the blood. So much ancient wisdom! 😊

09/05/2024

🙂 I was delighted to find the Chinese herb garden at the Bristol Botanical Gardens. The different sections have herbs to correct deficiencies in the body (e.g. tonify energy, move Blood, warm coldness, move Qi) and to reduce excess in the body (e.g. to resolve phlegm, drain damp, cool heat).
🔥 My favourite was herbs to resolve fire poison which arises from intense heat (fire) with infection (poison) as with boils and other acute infections. Many of these herbs are antibiotics.
🌿 Using these herbs a Chinese doctor seeks to correct the balance of yin and yang in their patient, much like a gardener seeks to find a balance of warmth and cool, moisture and dryness, sun and shade.

01/05/2024

Happy Calm is one of the names for the acupuncture point Liver 3. It hints at the profound effect this point can have in easing tension, calming the mind and freeing the spirit. It is particularly calming for those who are easily frustrated.
Together with Joining of the Valleys (LI4) it is known as the Four Gates and is used for intense anxiety and to ease muscle spasms.

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Bristol

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Monday	9:30am - 6pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 3pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 3pm
Thursday	9:30am - 3pm
Friday	9:30am - 3pm

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+447709237109

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http://www.blueskyacupuncture.co.uk/

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