Sending out a Newsletter - technological frustrations, one after another  - just want to get the News OUT,

Seasonal Treatment is a principal in Five Element Acupuncture.  Bring the power of each season to help keep you in balance.   The Preventative power of acupuncture.  Don't leave it until you are unwell.  Come when you are well and you need to come less as you stay well.  Our health is so important, too obvious to say but  abused by many of us.  My New Leaf for Spring:  "hot" yoga and more raw food.  And being empowered action.

Warmth (at last), cat curled up in the garden or luxuriating on the wall.  Green Growth and a feeling of possibility in the air.  So many peoples favourite season.   Showing the power of the "Wood Element" .  Spring in your step?  I have just begun a new "hot yoga" practice as part  of  a detox and getting strong for the current year.  Also of course having a Seasonal Acupuncture Treatment this very week... get it all working together... How about you?...   And next weekend doing very appropriate course on Liver and Gall Bladder with Respected Japanese practitioner - looking very much forward  to both that and bringing new techniques to my practice...! 

So, New Year, New Page, always the time for "fresh starts" and "new beginnings",,, Why now, we all know, don't we, that every single moment contains this possibility but...


I think that the Symbolism of New Year can support us, act as a slip stream to ride until we are able to take the reins.  But why are we so keen on the New Year Resolution...  Why are there always so many things we want to change.   Is it even true?  A good friend of mine once said "You do what you do.... an that's it..." 

So the important thing is to question just why we are not already doing all those things on our list, and perhaps look at what it is we are doing.  And be curious,  as the answer will be there.

I had to think about this as I had been going to run a "Fresh Start" group myself but things have not played out that way, see "Events" for more details.

This blog is going to start backwards - if there is anyone reading this.  I was due to begin this endeavour in March, Had just to learn how to use the system and ....  I was flooded by a burst water main at 1pm on the 4th of March.  A torrent of toffee coloured water pouring down my steps and into my flat! 

Could have been much worse, of course.  But this was quite enough.  It is over now but it did take a lot of my energy and was a real lesson in the Power of the Water Element.  The effect of it.   Cleansing but disruptive causing chaos at first, then reorganisation.  I am working hard at getting clear.  Clear of Clutter, Clear of old patterns.  There is always some change.  Change is good.  Inevitable.  How so many of us - all human beings resist change and yet it is one of the only things we can be certain of. 
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An article in the Times-online said.Acupuncture improves the chances of IVF success.  It must be remembered it is still a small %.  The support of Acupuncture treatment makes the whole process more manageable and less stressful.   When you are stressed and you have a treatment the calm returns and you are back to yourself.  

The benefits of acupuncture in all areas of womens health are many:   from regularising periods, to supporting pregancy, to lessening the symptoms of menopause.  

More to come on these topics.