Interview with Sarah Clark, LAc, by Lindsay Wilkinson, ND, LAc Lindsay: Winter can be a tough season for a lot of people. Can you speak to that from a Five Element perspective? Sarah: Winter is the most yin time of the year. We’ve gone through the deathing season of fall, and now everything is in […]
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By Sarah Clark, LAc In Classical Chinese medicine, the element associated with fall is metal. Think of the sensual experience of metal: hard, cold, sometimes sharp, often heavy. The heaviness of the metal season can leave us feeling bereft. The leaves fall with abandon, the rain keeps coming. The sun seems to have walked
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Image by Leela Longson 2016 Pain and the Heart as Compass Addressing the Emotional Component of Health Are you aware that there is an emotional component to your pain or illness, but you don’t quite know what to do about it? For me it’s frustration. I know frustration is linked to my tight shoulders
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Interview by Kellyn Adams Kellyn: How did you make your way to practicing acupuncture? Sarah: My first introduction to acupuncture was through being a patient and experiencing a profound opening through receiving it. Kellyn: And you taught writing before you became an acupuncturist, right? Sarah: Yes, I was a writing teacher at the time, working
Five Simple Ways Acupuncture can Boost your Mental Health What does it take to go from walking to bicycling or dancing, from tapping your fingers to painting or playing the piano? There is a whole symphony of coordination among muscles and joints, senses and reflexes, tendons and ligaments. There’s also endurance, tenacity, curiosity, and
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Sarah: Tell me about your Five Element acupuncture practice. Leela: What’s always struck me about Five Element acupuncture is the way it’s got many levels to it. People tend to get better from the most obvious thing they’re coming in for–like menstrual pain, or headaches, or say chemotherapy support. And then they notice other
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Recently I had an opportunity to sit down with Dr. Whitney Hayes, who specializes in treating gastrointestinal disorders. She talked about the causes and the mechanism of small intestine bacterial overgrowth, healing the gut through antimicrobials and dietary changes, and the reality of how gut dysbiosis affects our mood. Here
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Recently, I had an opportunity to sit down with Joanna Present Wolfe, LAc, at Kwan-Yin Healing Arts Center. She told me about the joy she takes in the creative process of being a healer, about the way she perceives and moves blocks in the meridians, and about the fulfillment she
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc. Last week, I sat down with D.A. Wiley, LAc at Kwan Yin Healing Arts. She told me about how the ancient practice of sound healing can reach deeply into the heart in a way that no other form of healing can, how obsidian stones can help us to ground, and
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Recently, I had an opportunity to sit down with Classical Five Element acupuncturist Kimberly Klingele at Kwan Yin Healing Arts. She told me about how her own healing journey led her to become an acupuncturist, how she uses Five Element acupuncture to restore balance and health within her patients, and how to live in
Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Last week I spent some time with Dr. Meghan Larivee, ND, LAc, at Kwan Yin Healing Arts. We talked about the body as landscape, how honey bee venom therapy and neural therapy can help to re-establish balance within that landscape, and the importance of doctor patient rapport. Here is what
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Melissa Kuser, ND, LAc at Kwan Yin Healing Arts. We talked about her experience of “docere”, or doctor as teacher, and how she teaches her patients about the heart. Here is what she had to say. Sarah: How did
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Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc. Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Helen Henry, MD, LAc, to talk about her journey to become both an MD and an acupuncturist, and to understand how she combines these approaches in her healing work. Here is what she had to say. Sarah: Tell me about
Interview by Sarah Clark, LAc Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Gibran Ramos, ND, LAc about how autoimmune disease originates in the body and about the way the body can heal from it. This is what he had to say. Sarah: Gibran, how did you decide to become a
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by Joanna Present Wolfe, LAc WELCOME YEAR OF THE HORSE! The classical Chinese New Year begins on the first new moon of the calendar year, which is coming up on January 30, 2014. The lunar cycle of 12 animal years corresponds to the cycle of the seasons, the hours of the day, and the organs