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Claire Dabreo. Five Element Acupuncturist. Co-founder of The Harmony Principle. Mentor. Teacher. Doula. London practices in Holborn, Brixton and Crystal Palace.

Experienced and curious five-element acupuncturist. Specialist expertise in fertility, pregnancy & birth. Creator of products.

28/07/2025

🌿 Have you ever been in love... with a place?

This Summer, as the Fire Element begins to hand itself over to Earth, we’re invited to consider the relationships that sustain us. Not just with people. But with place. With land.
 To love the land is to know it, to attune to its moods and shifts, to care for it like a beloved.
And in doing so — we begin to know and care for ourselves.
 Since moving to Arran, I’ve realised I was falling in love — not just with this island, but with a new way of being in my own body, my own rhythms.
 What is your relationship with the land where you live? Do you feel at home — in your place, in your body?

🌾 Let this season open that door.
 💌 I’ve written a deeply personal reflection & included journaling prompts to explore your own connection to land & self.
🌿 Read now on Substack  (Link in bio)

15/07/2025

My latest Substack is all about the health benefits of camping. From sleep to metabolism and hormone regulation, you might be surprised just how good a few nights under canvas is for you.

And crocs.

Link in the bio.

25/06/2025

I took my dis-ease to a wild place today.

This dis-ease is held in the pit of my stomach, a nausea generated by the consumption of news and inhumanity. Do you know the Stomach digests everything, all that we consume, not just all we eat? And sometimes it doesn’t want to stomach what it sees. I feel that too much these days.

And so as I walked and began to energetically discharge this feeling I felt my Stomach rise up as if to be sick, retching out the horrors of the days, rejecting this reality. Another way to discharge the emotion without swallowing it whole. I did this a lot as a child who lived in the middle of a lot of other people’s big emotions.

I felt myself return.

My eyes look to the ground for the rocks and shells that would offer me comfort in being held.

An egg of a stone, deceptively light and palm-sized. A smooth, speckled pebble, a nippled shell, and stone offering a colour scheme for a room I’d like to live in. The shapes and textures bring me back into my body, into perspective, anchoring me to steady and hold shape, even as the world tries to wear me away.

If you can’t find a wild place, find a stone and let it take your disease from you. I promise it works.

12/06/2025

I feel conflicted, posting such ‘silly’ things but I am offering this in case it helps you find some peace, some courage, some light. In a world where technology is trying to tell us it has all the answers, I invite you to remember the plant allies and all they can offer us. The old world crumbles, a new world will emerge and make no mistake there is a war being fought about what will emerge from its ruins. Will love rule, or will fear and hate triumph? We get to choose what we fight for, and stand for. Don’t let them get you down. Shine your inner sun, baby, and make some noise!!!!

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09/06/2025

🌞 As we approach the Summer Solstice—the peak of yang, the height of light—what within you is ready to be seen? What needs to be offered up for illumination... and transformation?

This season invites truthful expression and loving evolution. But how do we keep our hearts open in a world that feels so heavy?

I’m sharing a simple but powerful practice from The Harmony Principle’s Immerse program: a three-oil, three-point protocol to tend your Fire Element, soothe the Heart, and transmute pain into purposeful action. 💗

Because your light matters. Your love matters. And this world needs both.

✨ Subscribe to my substack for the full practice, going out later today. Link in the bio.
 

20/05/2025

Over on Substack. I’m moving my words off this platform as I don’t want to share my heart with Meta, so if you’re interested there’s a link in the bio and you can subscribe if you’d like to.

06/05/2025

Book via if you need a treatment top up, a seasonal adjustment or something else.

24/04/2025

Meet the Wendigo, a mythological evil spirit said to possess human beings. Wendigo psychosis is a real diagnosis in modern psychiatry, used to describe those who crave human flesh but in some First Nations communities symptoms such as insatiable greed and destruction of the environment are also thought to be symptoms of Wendigo psychosis.

Lately I have been having the skin-crawling feeling that Trump, Netanyahu, the whole broligarchy and their colluding government wonks are in the grip of a mass Wendigo psychosis.

Lately I have reached the conclusion that what is happening on these social media channels simply feeds them, rewards their psychosis as they whip up more hatred, more division. They play with our reality, lie, twist, warp, encourage trolls and the proliferation of bots, while monetising our discomfort and playing us like sad, addicted puppets. We may as well offer up our bodies to their blood lust.

I don’t want any part of this. I don’t want to collude in this. I am not complicit. I am furious.

These channels, the ones owned by those who are themselves by association and cooperation war criminals, are not a place to be open hearted and no longer feel like a place where I want to share my work. BUT, it’s where we all are, right? So, I am late to the party here, but I am going to be part of the migration - one I hope will be a mass migration. The one that sees Instagram and Facebook simply become a shop front for posters, that signpost the way to other platforms where the authentic, true, non-AI generated content lives.

But for now, I’m going to stop feeding this beast. It’s too powerful, too ugly.

15/04/2025

So, everyone’s all up in their Spring energy, bouncing with plans and Tiggerish enthusiasm - and you’re not feeling it. The energy of the season and the starting of things and the agreeing of plans is all, well, it’s all a bit much.

The transition from Winter to Spring can be a tough one, I see you. In clinic I often see blocks around this time, it’s a big shift in energy and if your inner Water / Wood elements are out of whack, well it’s gonna be harder.

What can you do?

Change your diet. More leafy greens, dressed with lemon juice, less red meat and fats.

Use a body brush before you shower and get your lymphatic system moving.

Move your body a bit more. Even if you don’t want to. But make it fun, not a punishment! If you like dancing, dance more. If you hate running, don’t make yourself do Couch to 5k and then bomb out, swim instead. Or walk.

Acupressure on Kidney 1 / Liver 3 - one of my favourite combinations to help you get up and go. Potential meets action at these two points, which energetically sit on top of each other, one on the sole of the foot and one on the top. Amazing, together, to help you get off the starting blocks.

Go get ‘em tiger.

09/04/2025

Happy birthday to me! 52 years of figuring s**t out, making mistakes, having all the fun, loving, dancing, gig-going, dreaming, learning, practicing, sharing, trying, touching, seeing, connecting, studying, practicing, growing and being a tiny part of the universal whole. What a huge and beautiful privilege this life is for me. I wish it were so for all of us.

07/03/2025

Quite enjoying Chat GPT…even the AI is calling it.

08/01/2025

It is said that to learn a new language when you are older is good for the brain, helps keep the synapses firing.

I have chosen the language of the life at the shoreline.

Oyster catcher.
Sandpiper.
Bar -tailed Godwit
Black Guillemot.
Rock Pipit and White Wagtail
Heron, whooper swan and cormorant.
Diver, dipper and gannet.
Sea otter.
Barrel jellyfish.

I love this new lexicon, my brain welcoming this mother-earth tongue back, an antidote to the language of the time we are in.

Ghosting.
Cancelling.
Deep fake.
Fake news.
Drones.
Trafficking.
Small boats.

Words that should be resigned to the history books but are alive and kicking.

Apartheid.
Genocide.
Trafficking.
Slavery.
War crime.
Extinction.

Learning the language of the natural world is not just a way of keeping the brain active and alive but of keeping the Spirit, the Soul, alive to our own humanity and our own connection to everything and everyone around us.

The brain is a sea of marrow, an expression of the Kidneys, the yin aspect of the Water element. The language of violence, oppression and othering creates fear, impacting our Kidneys, affecting the health of the brain.

Change the chemistry within by connecting with the natural world without.

Replace fear with awe and wonder and joy and love.

If you’d like to join me in community, in teaching, or maybe in person there’s a link in the bio.

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Claire Dabreo is a Classical Five Element Acupuncturist with practices in Brixton, Holborn and Crystal Palace. She works with people across a wide range of issues, from musculoskeletal problems, high blood pressure, stress, digestive issues, skin problems and immune-system disorders, to general wellbeing, anxiety, and depression.

From conception to birth. Claire specialises in working with men and women facing fertility issues, taking a whole body and mind approach to help create the optimum conditions for conception, whether a natural conception is the goal, or assisted fertility treatment is being undertaken.

She offers acupuncture to support a healthy, happy pregnancy and is experienced in working with pregnancy related issues. In the final weeks of pregnancy, pre-birth acupuncture, moxibustion for breech babies, and acupuncture for ‘late’ arrivals are also offered.

Claire is happy to offer a free telephone consultation – just email her on Claire@thelondonacpuncturist.co.uk to arrange a convenient time, or to find out more.