Here and Now Acupuncture and Healing Arts

Here and Now Acupuncture and Healing Arts Jessica is offering new acupuncture-fascia treatments in her spaces. Hello dear clients of Here and Now Acupuncture! I have new spaces I'm working out of and new training as well: How are you? The seasons are changing once again in our Gunnison valley, and we are all feeling it. Our bodies change too - our pores start to close up, we get a little less movement generally, and our energy starts to descend and go inward from all the o

Another mystery to Westerners in the realm of Chinese medicine is the notion of acupuncture channels. These channels, called "jing luo", in Chinese have been sought out in the West through the study of anatomy' and many have concluded they did not exist or if they did they were mysterious "energy" lines on the surface of the body. This made it easy to discredit or disregard this aspect of Chinese medicine. If you've read my previous post about "qi" then you know that the an

You've probably heard the mysterious word "qi" used when talking about Chinese medicine and related modalities including acupuncture, qi...

Does Jessica do "dry needling"? Yes! Actually, Dry needling is acupuncture in which an acupuncture point that has become exquisitely tender, commonly known in the West as a trigger point, is punctured with an acupuncture needle to cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent disease or other conditions, especially musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, including musculoskeletal pain [1]. An acupuncture point that has become exquisitely tender is identified by a flinch reactio