The point Kidney 7 - KD7, Recover Flow; is located on the lower leg above the medial malleolus.
KD7 is an incredible point to tonify the kidneys. In particular is it really good for nourishing Kidney Yang. This point helps to cultivate our ming men or root fire, stabilizing and supporting our core energy levels.
Acupressure point for Calming and Grounding
The point Kd 1 - Kidney 1, Gushing Spring is located at the base of the foot. This point is not commonly needled due to its location.
Massaging this point can be very beneficial.
It calms the spirit, grounds you, clears heat, stops nosebleeds and helps with insomnia.
What is Transpersonal Crystal Healing?
Transpersonal Crystal Healing is a supportive combination of energy work and Spiritual Psychology.
Photo credit: Violaine Fiset
Crystals hold many fascinating healing properties and can be used to address many types of conditions such as; anxiety, low self-esteem, insomnia and grief. They can also be used to enhance and attract many wonderful things like; self-worth, love, abundance and prosperity. Both the human body and crystals have a "Base Resonance Frequency", the only difference is that our BRF is constantly changing whereas the crystals’ remains the same. Therefore, when we place crystals on the main energy points (Chakras) of the body, the strong and constant vibration of the crystal can pull an overactive or weakened chakra back into its steady rhythm. This helps to balance the chakras and can bring the body back into alignment.
These sessions are "Transpersonal" in nature as this type of healing works on an emotional, psychological and soulful level.
For the session, Tesla creates a custom crystal body grid for you that will be placed on your Chakras throughout the session. Before placing the crystals, you will discuss what is currently present for you and set an intention for your session.
Crystal grids can be created to focus on physical ailments such as pain and headaches, emotional issues such as anger, depression, anxiety and stress, or they can be created to balance the chakras, promote happiness and joy, health and wellness, clarity and focus or spiritual awakening -to name only a few different types of grids. Each session is unique and your grid will be determined by what you are currently experiencing.
The session will begin with an Aura assessment and a guided meditation to help you relax within the space. Tesla will then work with your customized grid utilizing crystal wands to move through your Chakras, cleansing and charging your system.
The energy work is followed by a soothing sound bath and a secondary Aura assessment, finishing off with a Selenite shield.
LED Light Therapy + Acupuncture
Dr. Rose is now offering LED Light Therapy as a treatment option.
In the same way that plants use chlorophyll to convert sunlight into energy, high intensity light emitting diodes (LEDs) utilizing specific, proven wavelengths of light that can trigger a natural biostimulatory effect in human tissue. Research has shown that LED light therapy can increase circulation, accelerate tissue repair, decrease inflammation, ease muscle and joint pain, stiffness, spasm, and pain associated with arthritis.
Using Celluma, the only FDA approved LED medical device, the beauty of acupuncture is amplified with the use of LED light therapy.
2 treatment options are available:
1.) Acupuncture + Light Therapy
This is particularly effective for those dealing with chronic or acute pain or wound healing such as stubborn scar tissue. Light therapy in combination with acupuncture has shown to expedite the rate of healing significantly.
2.) Acupuncture + Light Therapy - The Longevity Edition.
This treatment combines the magic of LED light therapy and facial needles for that anti-aging, longevity glow. This treatment can be great for fighting acne, evening out skin tones, reducing redness and inflammation and generally seeing more youthful looking skin post-treatment.
Note - you an also add on light therapy for your TCM Consult.
Herb to treat the Kidneys
Huang qi (astragulus) is one of the most used herbs to treat any kidney condition.
Some of the many benefits of this herb are:
It helps to stabilize and secure yang qi
Tonifies qi and blood
Reduces edema
Supports immunity
Clears infection
Frankincense Essential Oil
This magic resin has been used for centuries all around the world. Rich in use for ceremony, topical healing and internal tinctures.
Frankincense (Ru Xiang) helps with blood flow and can help with circulation of blood in cardiovascular conditions or menstruation issues. It can help treat acute pain caused by blood stagnation. Frankincense is considered to be warming in nature and is particularly beneficial for those with too much "cold" in their bodies.
Rub the essential oil along the Kidney meridian and Kidney3 (located between the Achilles tendon and the ankle bone on the inner side of the foot.)
Acupressure point for regulating sleep, energy level + more
One of the most commonly used points to support and tonify the kidneys is Kidney 3; KD3, Tai Xin, Great Canyon.
Located between the Achilles tendon and the ankle bone on the inner side of the foot.
It tonifies kidney yang, yin, Jing and qi. = massive support to the body. It can help with sleep, energy level, body temperature, water metabolism, back and knee pain, and hormonal imbalances.
What is Craniosacral Therapy?
Craniosacral is a light-touch technique that addresses fascia/soft tissue to help release tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction, helping to improve whole body health and well-being. Craniosacral can provide relief from a variety of symptoms including headaches, neck pain, chronic pain and in some cases it may help ease anxiety.
This technique is based on supporting the craniosacral system – the fluid and soft tissue that surround, protect, and nourish the brain and spinal cord. Our body works to compensate for stresses and strains that it absorbs in our daily lives and these changes can cause body tissues to tighten. Unfortunately, this can compromise the performance of the central nervous system, as well as other body systems, muscle, and fascia.
By supporting the environment around the brain and spinal cord and enhancing the body's ability to self-correct, Craniosacral works to alleviate stressors and pain, enhancing one’s well-being and health.
Kidney Season
As of the winter solstice we are now in Kidney season. The kidneys are responsible for our structural body, our endocrine system, white blood cells (immunity) and our adrenals. They are the element of water.
In what ways are you supporting yourself at this time?
The kidneys like stability, routine and grounding. Take a look at your day to day, can you introduce more stability into your routine? Do you have any favourite grounding practices, like breathwork or meditation, that you can do more of as part of your daily or weekly regimen?
What makes you feel the most supported? Connect to those movements and exercises.
This season encourages us to sleep more, enjoy peaceful rest and move when it feels aligned.
Tap into what your body is craving.
Esoteric Acupuncture
Esoteric Acupuncture combines Traditional Chinese practices with energetics. Working with the chakra system, needles and sound vibrations are used to harmonize the energetic + physical bodies. Dr. Cejaye incorporates her knowledge of the elements of nature, the traditional meridian system and the extraordinary vessels - the vessels that hold stored trauma.
This modality is great for anyone wanting to take their healing deeper, working with unresolved emotions, stress, tension and pain.
By harmonizing the physical and energetic bodies, the session can create a deeper sense of safety within the body and a deepened sense of presence within your physical being.
Tune Up Tea
Are you feeling a little sluggish, post-holiday bliss? We’d like to share with you the ultimate remedy for over indulgences - Tune Up tea.
Created by our very own Dr. Rose Galikas. It has a blend of Chinese herbs; Chen pi, huang qi, fu ling, rose buds, and chrysanthemum, that help to relieve headaches, clear bad bacteria, support digestion and calm the mind.
Put it in a tea pot and drink throughout the day to feel some relief. It tastes like a light herbal rose water tea.
Available in person and online.
Seasonal Affective Disorder + Traditional Chinese Medicine
With the winter solstice on December 21st, the days will finally begin gradually getting longer. As the daylight slowly increases, you may find you are still experiencing the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Symptoms of SAD include feeling hopeless, sad or depressed most of the day, lethargy, difficulty concentrating, difficulty sleeping, anxiousness or restlessness.
Did you know that Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture are an effective treatment for SAD? TCM addresses the imbalances in your body and will help alleviate the symptoms of SAD.
If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, or just need a little bit of extra care during the darker part of the year, consider booking in for a Traditional Chinese Medicine Consult.
Give the Gift of Self Care
If you are looking for a special gift for a loved one or a way to treat yourself this holiday season, we have a retail shop both online and in person. Many of our products are made by the collective team or by local businesses.
We are delighted to offer packages to help you take the goodness of a treatment home with you:
The Body package includes a Body Guasha tool, silicone cup, carefully curated body oil + linen carrier.
The Facial package includes a Face Guasha tool, 2 silicone facial cups carefully curated face oil plus rose face spray and linen carrier for convenience + cleanliness.
In addition to Chinese Herbs, we offer TCM herbal teas created by our very own Dr. Rose Galikas, as well as ear seeds that can be applied at home.
You will also find pain relief ointments, salves and even homeopathic remedies for ailments such as joint pain, allergies, difficulty sleeping + acute anxiety relief created by collective member + homeopath, Kylie Ward.
Our self ritual boutique includes items such as candles, artisan soap, eye masks, bracelets, and earrings and The Way swag.
We offer gift cards both in person and online, so you can treat your loved one to a session with any of our collective members.
To purchase a gift card online, visit our booking website on janeapp, log in to your account and scroll down to find the "gift cards" option.
You will be able to specify the amount you would like, and the card can be emailed to your recipient.
Herbology
The two main pillars of Traditional Chinese Medicine are Acupuncture and Herbology. Where acupuncture focuses more on the meridians and their flow, Chinese herbs help to balance the internal organ itself. The combination of them together is when the body heals the quickest and most efficiently.
All Chinese herbs are native to China and can be the root, bark, flower, tuber, skin of that plant. Each Chinese formula prescribed is for the individual patient and their unique makeup.
A lot of commonly used formulas are over 3000+ years old making this medicine tried and tested for centuries.
Moxibustion
Moxibustion is the burning of Moxa (mugwort) along meridians or on acupuncture points.
The most common use for Moxa is for deficiency conditions (digestion, genecology) or for cold pain syndromes (ie, arthritis, injury)
Moxa helps to internally warm these areas to relieve the deficiency.
Our practitioners may send you home with a Moxa stick to wave over a certain acupuncture point or meridian for 10-15min per day.
Cupping
The traditional form of cupping involved heating glass cups with fire and using the heat to suction them on to the body.
Instead of pushing down on the tissue like massage, the cups actually pull up on the tissue. This helps to break up stagnation in the body and pull it to the surface to release the toxins. The more stagnation the more pain or discomfort in the body- this is where the bruising can occur. The more stagnation the deeper purple in colour the skin can turn.
The cups can be left stationary on the body or moved along the meridian lines, which is called moving cupping.
Acupuncture
How we see acupuncture has evolved.
The original Chinese pictographs for acupoints indicated that there were holes in the skin through which qi energy could flow. Helping to manipulate and harmonize this energy flow is how we heal.
A western view is that Acupuncture points are believed to stimulate the central nervous system. This, in turn, releases chemicals into the muscles, spinal cord, and brain. Through this release of chemicals acupuncture helps to naturally stimulate your bodies own innate mechanisms of healing.
In the newest research for acupuncture we have been able to actually see electrodermal activity at the acupoints. This has shown us acupuncture affects not only on the CNS but also the circulatory system and endocrine system.
Acupuncture Points
Almost all acupuncture points are located on the meridian pathways (outside of the extra points.) Each acupuncture point is a cluster of more concentrated blood and qi along the entire meridian.
Over acupunctures 3000+ year history different points have been proven over time to work at healing different imbalances in the body.
Our body starts to show disease when there is too much or too little going to these important organs and pathways in the body.
Acupuncture helps to regulate and correct this for normal smooth flow.
By Design Day
Accessible care is important to us.
We are delighted to share that our next By Design Day will be on Sunday, November 6th.
On By Design Day, members of our Collective offer treatments on a pay-what-you-may basis.
Available practitioners this coming Sunday are:
8:30-11:30am: Rose (TCM + Acupuncture)
9am-12:45pm: Cyndi (Reiki), Hailey (TCM + Acupuncture, Massage), Khym (Akashic Records + Celtic Reiki)
1:15-5pm: Leslie (Bowen, Craniosacral, Breathwork + Reiki), Tesla (Crystal Healing)
Booking will open up at 10am on Friday, November 4th. Space is limited.
Meridians in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Meridians are energy pathways that run through out the body. If you want to conceptualize them they are similar to our circulatory system or nervous system.
Each meridian is connected to a different organ. (Ie, Kidney, heart, liver, etc.) Most of the acupuncture points are located on these meridian pathways.
When we instruct you to use essential oils on an acupuncture point we always tell you to rub before and after the point. This is to further stimulate more of the meridian for some extra help for that organ.