Ashtanga Yoga
Classes
Ashtanga (8 Limbs) Yoga combines Breath, Asana (posture), and Dristi (gazing or looking place) to create a moving meditation. The breath is essential to the practice and individual needs are taken into consideration. Anyone can practice! When practiced consistently, with correct method; physical, mental, and spiritual transformation can occur.
Ashtanga Mysore
A guided exploration of self discovery where each student is taught individually and practices independently through the sequence of asanas (postures) according to their own breath and needs.
Hawaiian Shores Community Center
Thursdays Ashtanga Mysore 8:15-9:45
Donation Based
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a technique in which specific acupuncture points on the body are stimulated by inserting a thin needle through the skin. It is used for treatment of various symptoms and diseases and dates back over 3000 years. There have been extensive studies conducted on acupuncture; however, researchers are only beginning to understand the effects of acupuncture and how it works from a biomedical perspective. Acupuncture is considered a safe therapy when performed by an experienced, well-trained practitioner using sterile single use needles.
Common Conditions that Respond to Acupuncture:
Mental-Emotional
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Stress
- Insomnia
- PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Addictions
Upper Respiratory Tract:
- Acute sinusitis
- Acute rhinitis
- Common Cold
- Acute Tonsillitis
Respiratory System
- Acute bronchitis
- Bronchial asthma (most effective in children and in patients without complicating diseases)
Disorders of the eye
- Acute conjunctivitis
- Cataract (without complications)
Disorders of the mouth
- Toothache
- Post Extraction Pain
- Gingivitis
- Acute and Chronic Pharyngitis
Gastro-intestinal disorders
- Spasms of the esophagus
- Hiccough
- Acute and chronic gastritis
- Gastric hyperacidity
- Chronic duodenal ulcer (pain relief)
- Acute duodenal ulcer (without complications)
- Acute and chronic colitis
- Acute bacillary dysentery
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- IBS
Neurological and Musculo-skeletal Disorders
- Headache and migraine
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- TMJ
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Meniere’s disease
- Shingles
- Neurogenic bladder dysfunction
- Nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting)
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Frozen shoulder
- Tennis elbow
- Sciatica
- Low-back pain
- Osteoarthritis
AND SO MUCH MORE!
Moxibustion
Moxibustion is a traditional East Asian Medicine technique that involves the burning of the herb, Artemisia vulgaris, to facilitate healing. It can be applied indirectly, directly on the skin, or on top of an acupuncture needle. It has a warming, moving, and nourishing effect. Moxa stimulates the immune system, decreases pain, promotes circulation, and reduces inflammation.
Herbal Medicine
Herbal Medicine can treat a wide range of symptoms and disease processes. Chinese Herbal Medicine is one of the great herbal systems of the world with an unbroken tradition going back to the 3rd century BC. Throughout its history it has continually developed in response to changing clinical conditions.
Bodywork
Tuina and Shiatsu are bodywork (Eastern Medical Massage) techniques (pushing, pulling, pressing, and percussion) used to facilitate the movement of stagnations in the body to promote healing.
Cupping
Cupping is a technique that uses small glass cups as suction devices that are placed on the skin to disperse and break up stagnation and congestion.
“Where there’s stagnation, there will be pain. Remove the stagnation, and you remove the pain.”
About
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, DEDICATION, DEVOTION, AND DHARMA
I earned my Master of Science from Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder, Colorado in 2010 and began private practice including Community Acupuncture in Islamorada, Florida. I practiced there until 2016. From 2016-2021, I had a private clinic on our homestead in Cooper Landing, Alaska. I moved to Opihikao, Hawaii in July of 2023 with my husband and three children. I am nationally board certified by the NCCAOM in Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine and licensed by the state of Hawaii.
Prior to becoming a practitioner of East Asian Medicine, I earned a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from the University of South Alabama. I worked in the areas of cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, corporate fitness and wellness, and physical therapy.
My clinical experience includes specialties in Women's Health (OB/GYN), Pain Management, Complementary Oncology Care, and Pediatrics. I practice a gentle style of Japanese Acupuncture combined with Moxibustion, therapeutic bodywork (Tuina & Shiatsu) and Chinese Herbal Medicine. I am attuned as a Reiki Master in the lineage of Mikao Usui.
I was first introduced to Yoga in 2002. I played around with various methods of yoga for years before becoming a dedicated Ashtanga practitioner in 2010. I was drawn to Ashtanga from the beginning and had the opportunity to learn from several great teachers. I am grateful to have been able to travel to Mysore, India to practice at its source with the Jois family. Since December 2015, I have made 4 trips spanning 7 months of study with both Saraswathi and Sharath. I have received Sharath’s blessing and level 2 authorization to teach. I continue my home practice and self study.
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