Chinese Medicine
The Chinese have developed a system which helps regulate the body's energy to bring it back into balance so that it can heal. It includes several modalities to accomplish this:
- Acupuncture - use of thin hair-like needles placed in specific points on the body.
- Herbal Formulas - herbs or powders to make a tea or pills taken with prescription.
- Cupping - cups are placed on the muscles to pull out cold, heat, and toxins from the body and release muscles and fascia
- Gua Sha - a method of scraping to pull out heat and toxins from the body
- Ear Seeds - small seeds that are placed on points on the ear (a microcosm of the body) and pressed by the patient each day.
- Qigong Tuina - pulses joints and energy gates in the body and light touch spiraling fascial work
- Medical Qigong - energy techniques used on and exercises given to the patient.
- Xiao'er Tuina - Pediatric massage consisting of gentle & rhythmic, rubbing, kneading, tapping to treat newborns to about 12 years old.
The Cherokee have developed a complex, comprehensive body therapy and energy healing system that uses an alternation of deep tissue massage and gentle rocking with breath and non-contact energy work to release contraction and blockage. There is also a narrative component in which we dialogue with the body to find the cause of the problem and empower you in your healing process.
Cranial Sacral Therapy (CST)
CST is a light touch therapy that gently frees up fascial tissue, diaphragms, and the menages which surround the spinal chord and brain. It releases nerves and improves the movement of cerebral spinal fluid to help with a variety of issues including but not limited to stress, pain, fibromyalgia, migraines, Parkinson's disease, TMJ Syndrome.
