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What is Community Acupuncture?
In many countries,
acupuncture usually occurs in a community setting. In fact, the most famous acupuncturists overseas often needle patients
in the waiting room, because their clinics overflow with 80 – 100 patients per day! Treatments are very simple
and repeated frequently. At our Clinics, patients remain fully clothed, lying in comfortable recliners in a quiet, soothing
community room. Needles are inserted below the elbows and below the knees. With this more traditional style, we spend less
time talking; the tongue and pulse and abdominal diagnoses guide your treatment. This allows more patients to be seen in an
hour, so that prices stay down for you. The soothing atmosphere in the community room exists because patients create it by
relaxing together. This kind of collective stillness is a rare and precious thing in our rushed and busy society.
Community
acupuncture is an international movement based on the ideals that health care is a right, not a privilege. Instead of paying
fees of $60-$180 per treatment, fees at community clinics stay on a sliding scale affordable to the majority of people. This
way you can get the treatment you need as often as you need. Clinics are staffed by fully qualified, registered, professional
acupuncturists who's main goal is to be of service to their communities and to help you get well quickly.
What Is It Like?
Your first visit will include a private assessment
with the acupuncturist. This will take no more than half an hour. Each session will begin with a private assessment before
you go into the community room for treatment.
Treating patients in a community setting has many benefits beyond
just affordability and convenience. Friends and family members can more easily come in for treatment together. Many
patients find it comforting. A collective energetic field becomes established which actually makes individual treatments
more powerful. As with any kind of intentional group endeavor, such as meditation or prayer, when you do something with
other people it raises the energy for everyone. The same event occurs with acupuncture: receiving treatment in a room with
others raises the Qi dynamic, and healing is enhanced.
The community setting requires some flexibility from
you. You may have a favourite chair. When we are busy, someone may be sitting in yours. Please wear loose,
comfortable clothing, allowing access your elbows and knees. Please refrain from wearing colognes or strong scents, as many
patients have chemical sensitivities.
If you need to leave by a specific time, let us know when you arrive so that
you can relax during your treatment without worrying about the clock.
Please take all personal belongings with
you into the community room, and turn off your cell phone.
"It
is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community
- a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important
thing we can do for the survival of the earth."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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