Five Element Acupuncture

ROOT DEEPLY INTO YOUR HUMAN, SELF-HEALING, NATURE.

by Alison McEvoy

I had been carrying certain emotional/energetic baggage from my recent past. It was only getting heavier, the longer I held it. I began to feel physical symptoms of stress and unwellness. I knew the root was emotional but I had no idea where to go or what to do to shift it. Nothing in my repertoire of self-healing was working.

I found Emilia’s five element acupuncture practice by pure chance –synchronicity, really. It was an answer to my seeking. When we call, the universe answers – it’s a beautiful thing.

Emilia’s treatment was dynamic and involved. She was constantly reading me, reading my pulse, my body’s signals (skin tone and the sound of my voice, for example) and the treatment kept going in new directions, led by the body.

Emilia works with new clients by first doing an energy cleanse, removing any “polluted energy” that may be circulating in the body. This is a set of needles placed down the back, targeting the yin organs which, by themselves, have no excretion routes for unwanted energy.

“In the past year I’ve seen so much polluted energy showing up to be drained. In general, clients who’ve had Covid or long Covid have had it worse than most. Once the treatment gets going we will be moving things around a lot and we want only good energies being passed around the body,” explained Emilia.

A major car wreck on a Colorado highway at 20 years of age, leaving Emilia in constant pain, was the catalyst for her own eventual discovery of five element acupuncture. She spent five years searching for relief, down both traditional and alternative medicine routes. At times, the hope of living pain-free slipped from her grasp. She was eventually referred to a five element acupuncturist. Six sessions later, she was transformed.

“It was mind blowing…something so physical but all my physical explorations didn’t work. And this person sticking needles in me nowhere near the pain site was actually helping me.” Not only did Emilia’s pain shift but she felt an emotional, energetic and spiritual awakening inside of her. “It was a light and a lift. The light came back in. I was 25 years old and I got my zest back and I didn’t even know it was missing. I was filled with energy.”

“We service our cars yearly. We fix what gets broken, rather than just keep on driving, but we don’t always do the same for our body – we can bring ourselves to the brink before taking action. Five element acupuncture is a way of looking after yourself, a lifestyle, a way to stay well.” vitala.ie

Emilia meets you where you are at, on the brink, or wanting to stay well. I can’t recommend this lady highly enough.

CHOOSE

The Road Away

For many of us, the road away from the home of the body is a gradual one. We can stop noticing quite early in life how our body feels about things – the people we are with, the food we eat, our tiredness, thirst, true sentiments about something or someone… The body’s language of sensation gradually stops being felt, the soul’s language of intuition stops being heard.

My journey away from the body went to the extreme very early in life. By the time I was 13 years old I was utterly and completely disconnected from my body. I had suffered years of not being seen, heard, held, felt, connected to by others and thus had no thread to follow back to myself. I felt so deeply uncomfortable in the world. So out of place and isolated from life and myself.

My relationship to my body – my body which encompassed my true feelings, my desires, my needs, my truth – was shut down in favour of my mind which could plan a safe path through each day, without revealing ME to myself or others. A day of controlled eating and fervent exercise. A pattern too many young people know.

Although it looked from the outside like I was starving myself, I was dying to come to Life. I was simply unable to sustain living in a body overwhelmed by feelings of pain, hurt, anger, loneliness and isolation.

How many of us are still running day by day - from our pains and hurts, our feelings, our griefs, our anger? The temptation is always there, for those of us who haven’t received the gift of connection and attachment early in life, to run away. The good news is that so many of us have found a way to walk home each time turmoil hits us in life. To walk home rather than flee. To turn back, when we have started to flee. So many of us loving humans want to walk each other home. Yoga Nidra was, and is, my way home. I’d like to share it with you, if it resonates.

The Road Home

Yoga Nidra entered my life when I was 14 years old via an unused CD my mother had lying around. I finally received training in Yoga Nidra directly after my degree in English literature and Philosophy, at the age of 24. I have been teaching Yoga Nidra in groups, workshops and schools for a decade.

The shape and style of the teachings have changed and morphed with me on my journey. There was the Yoga Nidra I did starting off. Then the one that kept me connected to my body during intense periods of research and study. The one that comforted me through my first heartbreak. The one that kept me grounded when I was living far away from home for the first time. The one that gives me inspiration when I need to write. The one that prepared me to give birth to my son. The one that held me as a new mother.

As we spiral through life, the winds of change are constantly whipping up around us. Sometimes they are a tender breeze while other times they are cold, furious and harsh. We spiral through our own personal stories and paths, as well as spiralling through the changing seasons and weathers of the natural world. As we enter spring, soon to bloom into summer, I’d like to offer you a Yoga Nidra for this hopeful, magical season of new growth and new beginnings.