Five Element
Acupuncture
Five Element Acupuncture is a powerful and transformative system of medicine dating back to Ancient China. Passed down for over 2,000 years, this enduring tradition is designed to restore and maintain optimum levels of health and wellbeing across the mind, body and spirit.
Beyond easing and preventing symptoms of pain and illness, Five Element Acupuncture has the power to reconnect us with the natural world and forge a path back to our true selves.
By rekindling our ability to live with authenticity, integrity and an awareness of our place in nature, this system enables us to make the most of every day and embrace life as a gift to be cherished.
Rooted in Daoism, Five Element Acupuncture
takes nature as its guiding principle. It recognises that we, like everything else in the natural world, are made up of five elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood. When our energy (or ‘qi’) is balanced across these elements, they work together harmoniously and enable us to flow through life with confidence and ease. When our qi becomes imbalanced, however, the elements struggle to collaborate efficiently, our energy flow becomes interrupted, and we find ourselves developing symptoms that affect our health and happiness.
In the Five Element tradition, these symptoms are seen as welcome messengers, which manifest to let us know that the balance of our internal landscape has gone awry. Rather than try to silence these messengers, this system seeks to identify, correct and support their root cause. The focus is on treating the person rather than the problem, for it is only by strengthening an individual’s unique constitution that we can succeed in bringing about profound and lasting change.
Holistic and Empowering,
Five Element Acupuncture treatment is for anyone who wants to see how much better they can feel. You may be struggling with health issues, pain or fatigue; be feeling disconnected or stuck in a rut; or simply be yearning for brighter energy and a renewed appetite for life.
Acupuncture works by facilitating the body’s innate ability to self-heal. Everything we need exists within us, but when we lack balance, we struggle to follow our natural instincts towards health and happiness. Balance can be difficult to achieve, especially given the ever-increasing disconnect between modern life and nature’s cycles. Five Element Acupuncture works by balancing the mind, body and spirit, so that your system – the expert – can get back to healing and maintaining itself.
Although Five Element treatment focuses on treating the root cause of all imbalance rather than directly targeting individual symptoms, it can be useful to read about some commonly treated conditions in order to understand what this style of acupuncture could help you with. It’s important to remember, however, that the nature and cause of each person’s symptoms is entirely unique to them, and that treatment plans will always be specifically tailored to the individual.