Hi! Welcome to Innovations to Wellness!
Creating balance and harmony within helps to facilitate recovery from any condition, improving quality-of-life and facilitating healing for even the most difficult conditions like autoimmune diseases, COPD, Long Covid, chronic fatigue and chronic pain.  Creating an environment that fosters inner peace can reduce anxiety, enhance joy, and encourage you on your path to your highest good.  Focus on empowerment and health education fosters participation and active involvement in your own excellent self-care, providing tools that you can use at home to enhance your optimal health outcomes.

Variety of modalities utilized including:
  • Japanese contact needling by Teishin - non-inserted topical placement used with techniques of sedation, tonification, or even methods applied.   (no acupuncture needles inserted, completely painless)
  • Moxibustion - heat therapy with AiYe, or Mugwort root.
  • Tuina - a Chinese therapeutic massage technique for an injured area.
  • Medical QiGong - Certified in the energy medicine technique of Medical Qigong, similar to Reiki, but based on Chinese medicine principles.
  • Guided Meditation - a tailored visualization for your specific health needs may be given during your session.
  • Chinese and Western herbal recommendations, Herb/Drug Interactions, Cautions, Contraindications.
Free self-care videos available on Innovations to Wellness Youtube Channel.  Please like and subscribe to the channel for future content.  Past videos on each of the five elements, how they affect a person within each season, along with a short-guided mediation can be found here.
To Book: Please text 510-907-9TCM - Please specify remote session or request for in-person.
Cost $300 - New Clients: ​New client visits go into detailed health history, full intake of chief complaints, assessment of the ten questions in diagnostic Chinese medicine, tongue diagnosis and Chinese medicine pattern diagnosis.  These visits include tailored health recommendations in the relevant modalities including: acupressure with specific point prescription and location information, moxibustion (and training), herbal recommendations, guided meditation, and lifestyle guidance.  Please save 1.5 hours for this appointment.
Cost: $175 - Return Clients: ​Follow-up client visits assess the previous treatment plan and progress, response to herbal or lifestyle recommendations and tailor new point prescriptions and herbal recommendations accordingly.  Up to 50-minutes in duration.
Cost: $150 - I Ching (Yi Jing) Reading: Do you have a burning question or uncertainty in your life?  Targeted I Ching readings based on the ancient Chinese divination method provided.  This session includes: helping you to frame your question to ask the I Ching, pulling and writing the I Ching hexagram(s), and a reading of the hexagram(s) obtained.  Assistance in helping you to interpret for yourself will be provided as time permits. 30-minute duration.
Cost: $220 - Teaching you to do I Ching (Yi Jing) readings: Do you want to learn how to perform I Ching divination for yourself?  This training session will help you learn how to formulate appropriate questions, pull and draw the hexagram lines, locate the correct hexagram, and interpret changing lines.  Several translations will be recommended based on the style you like best. For example, one version is more psychological, one is esoteric, one is medical, another is based on the guidance of proper sage conduct for a happy, balanced life.  1 hour duration. 
Highlighted Free Self-Care Videos 
Performing moxibustion safely at home is an excellent form of self-care, easily accessible.  Supplies purchased using the following link will benefit a Lupus Warrior who  doesn't let limitations from Lupus stop her from providing support to others with the condition.  
Performing moxibustion on Stomach 36 (ST 36) acupoint is one of the single best self-care strategies available in Chinese medicine.  For more details and research links, please see: http://www.innovationstowellness.com/blog

Applying moxibustion to the acupoint St 36 reduces inflammatory cytokines, interleukin 1β, interleukin 6, and improves quality-of-life measures (like debilitating fatigue) that are correlated with chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and Long Covid.  Reducing innate and adaptive cytokines, monocytes, macrophages, regulating immune system, increasing white blood cell production and blood flow, movement, and oxygenation,  one study even showed that applying moxa on ST 36 helped to reduce inflammatory and interleukin response in the hippocampus in the brain.  Other studies on rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis demonstrated a marked decline in joint pain after applying moxa to ST 36.  
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Performing moxibustion on Kidney 3 (Kid 3 - Tai Xi - Great Ravine) acupoint is an excellent self-care strategy.  Can strengthen your system and enhance longevity.  Tonifies all four aspects of the kidney: Kidney Qi, Yin, Yang, and Essence.  Indications for Kid 3 include: low-back pain, fatigue, weakness, lethargy, depression, tinnitus (usually low-pitched, high pitched is often liver channel), cough, wheezing, insomnia, impotence, frequent urination, calms fearfulness, calms fight/flight response.  Addresses energy levels and destiny.  Also a good point to strengthen the energy that goes to the bones.
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Together Ren 4 (Origin Gate) and 6 (Sea of Qi) help to regulate Yin and Yang, tonify all four aspects of the kidney: Kidney Qi, Yin, Yang, and Essence (Jing), as well as strengthening Source Qi (Original Qi).  Indications for Ren 4 and 6 include depression, all kinds of abdominal issues, women's and men's health concerns, prolapse,  and bowel disharmony (diarrhea or constipation). 
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