Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture
Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture is a unique tradition stemming from Classical Chinese Medicine that is thousands of years old. In treatments, we work together to discover your Constitutional Element as it relates to the Wu-Xing / 5 Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water, as they manifest in our inner and outer nature. We all have 5 Elements, but there is a predominant one that speaks to how we show up in the world authentically, as well as how we may trip up sometimes. The more we learn about our authentic home so to speak, the more easily we may learn how to maintain its health, peace, and balance, or whatever makes your home feel like home!
In these sessions, Symone is in the treatment room for the duration of the session, selecting points based on your working element’s associated meridians, which means overall less needles than a typical Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) acupuncture session. These needles are typically not left inserted (aside from clearing treatments, usually the first few) and instead are paired with burning a tiny bit of moxa on each point prior to needling. Moxibustion creates an overall euphoric and elated feeling people often refer to as “Acu-Stoned.” Symone may also incorporate Acuforks, guided meditation, lifestyle and herbal recommendations.
Overall, in the treatment sessions, we are looking to integrate a sense of wellness and wholeness, despite any suffering or dis-ease. We are looking to strengthen your home and its security measures, so that any unwanted visitors naturally leave, or do not enter to begin with— versus kicking them out, which takes a lot more resources, stress, and energy. Symone’s offer is to light the way for people to come home to themselves. An invitation to explore our raw, wounded, unseen, unheard aspects of ourselves and let them be known. So that we can feel our most whole, authentic, and liberated selves, letting life flow through us, for us, unconditionally.
Symone also offers Sound Healing. In Chinese Medicine, the Kidneys open up to the ears, housed by our Water Element. Sound Healing works by re-tuning the waterways of our body, mind, and spirit from the disruptive sounds of modern-day living. Similar to acupuncture, this modality really helps bring us back into homeostasis. By stimulating our parasympathetic nervous system, we can begin to make our way out of a chronic state of fight/flight— a hard place for healing to thrive. This modality is a great invitation for those who have a deep connection with sound and music, subtler forms of therapy, and/or curious about acupuncture but may be hesitant of needles.
In these sessions, Symone will utilize a variety of instruments to heIp guide you on a journey, including but not limited to Acuforks, Solfeggio tuning forks, Meridian forks, 5 Element chimes, Tibetan singing bowls, guided meditation and breathwork.