Our Offerings
Nourishing vitality, transforming stagnations, reclaiming heart radiance
Treatments & Pricing
Initial Consultation — 90 minutes
$150 — Acupuncture
$125 — Herbal Medicine (no acupuncture)
On the first visit we make a thorough 90 minute assessment of your vitality and health goals, far longer than most clinics, as this deep understanding sets a solid foundation for treatment. We ask lots of questions, take your pulse, look at your tongue, palpate acupuncture channels and the body for diagnostic information. We agree on our treatment goals, ways to measure progress, and treatment expectations.
We form a Chinese medicine diagnosis and then provide acupuncture as well as whatever services are indicated such as herbal medicine, nutrition and lifestyle guidance, and manual therapies. Depending on what is needed for your healing, we send you home with herbs, exercises, life practices, and education. We love what we do and are devoted to quality patient care.
Followup Treatment — 60 minutes
$100 — Acupuncture
$85 — Herbal Medicine (no acupuncture)
Follow-up visits begin with a check in about the previous session, we explore your progress and address anything else that has come up, and continue with the treatment plan.
During this stage your health goals often continually shift as you improve, and how long this takes depends on both the nature of the condition and your vital force. Consistent and stronger treatments during this time are essential to make the changes necessary to shift the pattern. During the critical initial stages, a brief period of more regular treatments are typically more effective than prolonged and infrequent treatments. We continually check in to ensure there is improvement and that your health goals are best served by working together, we want to see you thrive.
Shorter Follow-ups, Maintenance, and TeleMedicine — 30 minutes
$45 — Life Guidance or Herbal Medicine (no acupuncture)
After the larger changes that we initiated take root, more energy is often spent on nutrition, movement, and lifestyle guidance. Here we offer shorter appointments both in the clinic and via TeleMedicine. This is ideal for continuing treatment and checking in.
Once you have attained your health goals through treatment, it is important to follow up with infrequent but routine visits to maintain your thriving vitality. Preventative efforts are essential to stay resilient in the face of new challenges, health is far more than simply the absence of symptoms.
Now knowing our unique offering of empowerment and connection we can also explore more specifically with the plants you are taking, share a meditation, Qi Gong exercises, movement practice, or further explain nutrition ideas.
Energy Healing — 60 minutes
$100 — Energy work (may include minimal acupuncture)
We create a sacred container which holds the opportunity to see what is needed to be transformed for your heart to be in full radiance. Thomas utilizes Medical Qi Gong as well as listens to the subtle energies through hands on touch to encourage the body’s ability to reestablish balance physically, mentally, and emotionally. Smoke cleansing may be used to help clear stagnant energy and to restore balance.
Acupuncture
Smooth flowing energy (qi) in the body is central to health, and Traditional Chinese medicine uses acupuncture to restore balance, alleviate pain, and prevent disease. Qi flows through specific channels in the body which transport energy and fluids to every tissue and connect to the internal organs, they regulate our entire physiology as well as all pathological process. Acupuncture is the insertion of fine, sterile, and disposable needles into specific locations which influence the flow of qi within the channels, and thus elicit a therapeutic response.
Herbal medicine is the vast and beautiful art of understanding the pattern language of nature, of seeing the root imbalance in a person, and matching custom formulated remedies that work with the vital intelligence of a person which brings about true healing. When it’s all in alignment herbal medicine can offer powerful healing that goes where no other medicine can touch, it can be used for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
Herbal Medicine
The choices we make each day deeply influence our vitality and resilience, and the art of living is cultivating a relationship with the body, mind, emotions, and the world we live in. Health is the result of balance, and symptoms express in patterns of disharmony. Holistic medicine understands the connections between seemingly unrelated issues and illuminates the path to return to wholeness. Diet, sleep, emotions, the seasons, movement, relationships, home, work, these are all foundations that must be in alignment for health to radiate.
Lifestyle Guidance
Nutrition
Food brings the slowest but greatest changes, and every food has unique properties that can be used like medicine to restore harmony. The holistic lens of Chinese medicine offers simple and intuitive ways to understand the nature of food, guiding how we can use it as our greatest medicine. We can nourish ourselves with exactly what we truly need in each moment, and this beautiful relationship with our food creates healthy bodies full of vitality that can overcome as well as prevent illness.
Cupping — We use glass cups under suction to release muscular tension and pain, move stagnant fluids, improve circulation and encourage healing, or to relieve flu symptoms.
Gua Sha — A Chinese medicine technique that relieves musculoskeletal pain and releases tension anywhere there is restriction, it improves circulation and reduces inflammation.
Tui Na — A Chinese massage style, Tui Na utilizes the acupuncture channels and is characterized by techniques like pressing, rolling and rubbing muscles. Acupuncture often begins with a bit of Tui Na to help settle into presence and to prepare the acupuncture points.
E-Stim — An electrical current is run through acupuncture needles causing increased stimulation. It’s most commonly used in sports medicine acupuncture, E-Stim improves circulation and aids recovery and healing to an area.
Cupping, Gua Sha, Tui Na, & E-Stim
Moxibustion (moxa) is the burning of the herb Mugwort to stimulate acupuncture points and infuse warmth, and other herbs may be burned to move energy or create a healing container. The Chinese character for acupuncture is actually the combination of an acupuncture needle and moxibustion, historically moxa is equally as important as acupuncture, though it’s typically used less in most clinics today. Moxa does far more than simply warm the skin, its profound healing powers results from the combination of heat, unique infrared frequencies that stimulate cellular activity, and it’s penetrating essential oils.
Moxibustion & Smoke Clearing
Medical Qi Gong & Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST)
Qi Gong is the ancient Chinese art which promotes the prevention of illness, health maintenance, and the healing of illness. It is a beautiful merging of a movement practice with breathwork, body awareness, and meditation. ”Qi” is the energy and “Gong” is the practice of training the Qi.
BCST is a healing art that is rooted in Osteopathy, it supports the nervous system and guides the healthy regulation and redistribution of tension in the muscles and fascia. This process allows for the resolution of unresolved obstructions, injuries, stress, trauma, and unserving patterns that lie hidden.
TeleMedicine
We also offer convenient distance services, best for follow up visits, herbal medicine, nutrition, and lifestyle guidance consultations. No we cannot perform acupuncture virtually, but it’s actually only one small part of our holistic medicine services.
Have Questions Before Getting Started?
Connect with us for a complementary 20 minute phone consultation and explore if Heart Radiance holistic medicine is the best fit for your unique needs and health intentions
