Chinese Medicine

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Facial Massage & Acupuncture for Jaw Tension

How Acupuncture Helps Jaw Pain, TMJ and Locked Jaw

Jaw pain has a sneaky way of disrupting life. It affects how you eat, how you sleep, how you speak, how you concentrate and, let’s be honest, how patient you feel with the world around you.

Nov 252 min read

The Stress Cycle: How Your HPA Axis Impacts Health (And How Acupuncture Can Help)

tress. It’s basically the unwanted roommate none of us asked for: always hanging around, eating your snacks, and leaving a mess behind....

Oct 153 min read

Signs Your Hormones Are Imbalanced (That No One Tells You About)

Hormones: tiny chemical messengers running the whole show in your body. When they’re balanced, you feel like Beyoncé on a good hair day....

Oct 92 min read

Bone Broth as a Daily Ritual: A Nourishing Tea for Women’s Health

Bone broth has been making a serious comeback in wellness circles but it’s more than a trend. For women looking to nourish their bodies,...

Aug 213 min read

It all starts with the egg: Why we work with women for a minimum of 3 months for fertility

If you’re trying to conceive or thinking about it in the near future, one of the most powerful things you can do is give yourself time.

Aug 142 min read

Discovering that your baby is in a breech position: meaning their buttocks or feet are positioned to come out first. This can be concerning as you approach your due date.

Turning a Breech Baby: How Traditional Chinese Medicine Can Help

Discovering that your baby is in a breech position: meaning their buttocks or feet are positioned to come out first. This can be concerning as you approach your due date.

Jul 312 min read

Moxibustion is a Traditional Chinese Medicine technique that involves burning a dried herb called mugwort

What is Moxibustion? The ancient art of warming, nourishing + reigniting your Qi

if you’ve ever walked into our clinic and noticed a subtle smoky scent or seen someone blissed out under a heat lamp with a glowing herb nearby - you’ve met moxa.

Jul 243 min read

How to unfurrow your brows with facial gua sha + cupping

You know those days where your forehead feels like it’s carrying the weight of your to-do list, your inbox, and your emotional baggage...

Jul 243 min read

What if your energy, cravings, moods, and creativity weren’t random but part of a beautiful, rhythmic cycle that mirrored nature herself?

Your menstrual cycle and how it corresponds to the seasons.

What if your energy, cravings, moods, and creativity weren’t random but part of a beautiful, rhythmic cycle that mirrored nature herself?

Jul 173 min read

You’re unique. Your body, your history, your cycle, your energy, they tell a story no trend or protocol can fully understand.

Why one-size-fits-all wellness doesn’t work: Understanding your constitution in Chinese Medicine

So what’s the missing piece? Why may your friend get such awesome results from smoothies and you feel hungry and irritated an hour after having one?

Jul 103 min read

To sweat or not to sweat? The truth about saunas in Chinese Medicine

We all love the idea of a good sweat, You step into the heat, your pores open, stress melts off your skin, and you walk out glowing. But...

Jul 34 min read

Propaganda We don’t fall for here at Meraki: 10 wellness trends that eastern medicine isn’t clapping for

Let’s be real. The wellness world is full of trends. Every scroll on Instagram serves up another "must-do" routine, supplement, or...

Jun 263 min read

But where yin asks us to soften and receive, yang asks us to rise. To move. To express. To shine.

The Nature of Yang: how to embody this empowered, fiery force in your life

If yin is the exhale, yang is the inhale. If yin is stillness, yang is movement. If yin is the moon… yang is the sun.

Jun 193 min read

When you understand yin, you begin to see it not only as a concept but as a rhythm that lives inside your body, your cycles, your emotions, your creativity… and your deepest sense of self.

The Nature of Yin: How to Embrace This Deep, Restorative Force in Your Life

When you understand yin, you begin to see it not only as a concept but as a rhythm that lives inside your body, your cycles, your emotions, your creativity… and your deepest sense of self.

Jun 123 min read