STUDIO QI  - Winter 2006 Newsletter

Helena

Will be joining the massage staff in August. Many of you will already know her from her work with us on reception.

She has now completed her Certificate IV in massage at ACNM and will compliment Craig’s remedial style of massage with her own relaxation techniques.

    If you’re feeling stressed or want to treat yourself, make an appointment with Helena, you’ll walk away feeling great! 

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NADIA

For the month of August we are welcoming Craig and Helena and offering a couple’s special.
Receive a massage for you and your partner for $90, usually $132. So book now to take advantage of this amazing offer.
Turn to our specials page for more great specials to benefit you in August.

Massages with Nadja are available one day a month. 

 If you miss her treatments or would like to experience one of her fantastic sessions, call the clinic to arrange a time.

Are you interested in having our massage therapists come into your workplace?
Give us a call to find out about our package deals to suit your business.

07 5535 8054

 Many women find it difficult to conceive and elect for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to aid them in falling pregnant. As acupuncturists, it is exciting to see research studies focusing on acupuncture as a support to IVF.

 An initial German study found that acupuncture increased the success rate of IVF from 26.3% to 42.5%. Clinical pregnancies were documented in 34 of 80 patients in the acupuncture group, where as only 21 out of 80 patients in the control group fell pregnant.

 Adelaide University followed this with a recent media release of their findings; that acupuncture improved pregnancy outcomes for people undergoing IVF treatment. It clearly showed that when their study was combined with findings from three other acupuncture trials, involving a total of just under 800 women,  that pregnancy was twice as likely to occur in the acupuncture group compared to the control group.

 It was also found that the benefit of acupuncture use in fertility therapy is not affected by age, meaning all age groups showed the increase in IVF success rates.

Results show that acupuncture is an effective treatment not only for IVF but for many other infertility related conditions. This includes both women and men who have been diagnosed as infertile. 

 One of the key effects of acupuncture is to increase ovulation, crucial in the conception process. Acupuncture has also been shown to increase the blood circulation to the ovaries and uterus, increasing the capacity for conception.

Obesity affects nearly a fifth of children, triple the prevalence in 1980. Juvenile diabetes is up 104% since 1980. Autism, once regarded as purely genetic, has increased more than 1000 fold in a generation.
Incidence of asthma is up 75%. Almost 1 in 10 children have been diagnosed with ADD. The occurrence of life threatening food allergies have doubled in the past decade.
We at Studio Qi feel that it is time to reverse the trend.

The information that follows is some of the most important knowledge about metabolism, digestive function and long term health that you may ever read. From our experience it cannot be underestimated. It is not commonly known, but needs to be shared. If you are interested in long-term health this is the best diet plan you will ever receive. You may be surprised how simple it is but we feel that it is time for it to become common knowledge, so as to turn around our future health. We’re going to give it to you, so share it if you like.

Some diets may be beneficial short-term. This is great, especially if you are feeling better for it, but what we are really interested in is your long-term health and a diet plan that is going to keep you well throughout your entire life, without causing any damage, which some short term diets can do.

The greatest advantage to our system is that it has been researched in a different way to any other that we know. Many diets in the past look at food in isolation outside the body. This is interesting, but it is really far more important to look at food in relationship to you and your system. A great example of this may be dairy. We can isolate this outside the body and identify a high calcium value, for example. But if you do not digest dairy well, it is irrelevant the amount of calcium in the product. If you can not digest it, you will not only not benefit from the high calcium content, but actually do yourself harm. We therefore have to look at how food is process by the body. Chinese Diet Theory has the advantage of thousands of years of observing how the body process different foods.

What research tells us about acupuncture and the digestive system! 

• Increases and decreases the motility of the stomach (way food is processed), depending on what you need
• Increases and decreases gastric acid, depending on what you need
• Increases the peristalsis of the small intestine
• Increases the peristalsis of the large intestine
• Increases immune function

the advantage

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, we  use the analogy of  fire to describe the digestive system.

Just like any fire, it needs to be supplied with the right fuel. The right fuel changes for each individual seasonally.

This is especially important in the cold winter months, when you should be eating mostly warm, nourishing food. Soups, stews, broths and stir fries make a perfect foundation. These types of foods support healthy digestion.

You may notice that you tend to prefer these types of foods in the colder months. Water should be room temperature or warmer and if you are eating fruit make sure it is well out of the fridge.

Taoist philosophy, a process of thought that dates back over 2000 years, centres its focus on our natural environment and how we as individuals and as a collective can live and function within our natural cycles; how we can live in harmony with our environment.

 It is then our goal to study and follow what may be seen as our own nature. To allow life to move us effortlessly and deepen these experiences! Life in these moments seems to pursue a natural flow. We jump into the stream of life and ride it with gentle ease, enjoying life’s ebbing tides and unfold its mysteries and gifts. A fluid relationship with life and its challenges, allows us to change and adapt to each and every moment, rather than live out experiences in a reactive manner. How is it that we can support ourselves more fully and completely to unfolding our own unique path?

  Some of those that have explored these ideas are Tai Qi practitioners, a group that have delved into our relationship to the natural world. They experience the natural states and forms of movement that our bodies can acquire, mimicking nature’s flow, like that of a river or the flight of a bird. The skilled practitioner then brings forward this newfound information and translates it back into our daily life.

  Following and trusting our natural experience can then become a path, a way. We search for an environment that empowers us, a spot that is uniquely ours. Castanade wrote that there is always a place and a direction that is more powerful for each individual. It is therefore important that we, in any given moment find and trust this place, this point of power that exists for each of us.

  At times we do follow ourselves, our graceful nature, but there may also be moments that we find life is not so effortless. We feel we are swimming upstream, fighting for every inch, while making little ground, if any. 

Our  life does not  flow; its tough and we feel frustrated, exhausted and lost. Though this might be painful, it may also be just as important in understanding and unfolding  your individual life process or myth, that is the experience that has always been in the background of your life. How is it that we can  unfold and explore these experiences more fully?

              We may begin by viewing life in a way that acknowledges the importance of our life as a mythical experience and re-orientates our awareness to deepen our experience.

  We may choose to observe our daily emotions, to experience our ups and downs. Depression is often felt as a state of disempowerment, a lack of control over life’s situations, or an inability to change present circumstances. While this is true, how is it that we can  gain from these experiences in a way that  benefits us? Could our depression be taking us into deeper parts of ourselves? Parts that are unknown or we avoid or do not wish  to see?

  Life flows at times and at others it does not, but what we discover about these experiences can become important if the information can give us new found knowledge and awareness of our experiences.

  If we are to find solutions to many of our problems we need the momentary ability to drop our rational mind and allow ourselves the time to explore other parts. Parts of our self that we may not have previously had ready access to, that may contain solutions to challenges that our everyday self cannot reach. The rational mind is important and serves us well but we also need tools to find different solutions to complex problems, new tools necessary to unfold our own situation. Exploring life through the arts and music can deepen our sense of feeling and give access, if allowed, to creative solutions for the self as well as world issues. If we find a problem that is difficult for us to solve, then perhaps it is time to activate a different part of our self that holds a new solution.

  If parts of us have been asleep, do they belong to our dreams? Do our dreams at night work on us through the day? Does the mood that is left when first awakening, carry forward, imprinting on our day’s experiences? Can we follow these experiences left from the night? Should we follow these experiences or push in other directions?

  If we awaken tired should we force ourselves against our feelings of fatigue?

Do we recognize how it is that we are feeling and give our dreams time to influences us?
 

It may not be so important whether we follow these experiences or not, but rather become aware of the experiences and how it is that we are feeling. Just the fact of observation may allow for facilitation and change. Science tells us that the act of pure observation changes the result. The observer cannot be taken out of the equation but rather becomes part of the equation.

Do we push or wait? Are we pushing and driving ourselves up stream to a point of complete fatigue, or is the pusher rather an external figure, a social identity hungry for achievement?

In future articles we will continue to ask questions and play with ideas using Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, combined with other ancient and modern health and healing techniques that facilitate the question of how to live a full, healthy and happy life.

Facilitation techniques used in conjunction with acupuncture theory and practice unfold how we can better understand ourselves, and how to follow our natural way. Our own path of heart.

If you are interested in using these techniques of Acufacilitation, the combined use of acupuncture with facilitation, we can set you a time to work more deeply. Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine contains tools that allow you to unfold and follow your own individual path.

  Let reception know that you read this article and are interested in combining Acupuncture with facilitation techniques.

  Good health is made up of many components and we feel that these ideas may stimulate thought to improved health and wellbeing. 

  We hope you enjoy and benefit from the information provided in this newsletter.

 May your dreams continue to work on you!

 Kind regards,

Brad, and all the team at Studio Qi.

To welcome our new massage staff, we are offering you some amazing deals.

Take advantage of these special offers and call the clinic on
5535 8054

to arrange your appointment.

Print out and bring the coupon you’d like to use.

Use as many as you like. All offers are only valid for August 2006, so make sure you secure your appointment now!